Texas AG Ken Paxton sues to block rule requiring background checks in private gun sales Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the federal government over a new rule requiring background checks for private-owner gun sales. 05/1/2024 - 4:31 pm | View Link
26 states sue ATF over rule targeting lawful gun owners Twenty-six states sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Wednesday arguing a new federal rule it's implementing targets lawful gun owners and is unconstitutional and illegal. 05/1/2024 - 6:39 am | View Link
New Maine gun laws can help fill troubling gaps to prevent future violence while continuing to respect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners. The action on guns came about six months after a horrific mass shooting rocked Lewiston, and the entire state. 04/29/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Maine governor will allow one final gun safety bill, veto another in wake of Lewiston mass shootings Maine's Democratic governor says she will allow one of a final pair of gun safety bills to become law without her signature while vetoing the other. Gov. 04/29/2024 - 10:46 am | View Link
4 law enforcement officers killed, 4 injured after shooting in Charlotte neighborhood CHARLOTTE, N.C. ( WBTV /Gray News) — Three law enforcement officers were killed, and five others were wounded while trying to serve an arrest warrant in a neighborhood in Charlotte. 04/29/2024 - 5:52 am | View Link
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm. “In the past six days of school, I’ve accumulated seven tardies,” said TikTok user CarterPCS. “I could’ve sworn it was because my alarm wasn’t going off.”
“I was literally late to work the other day because I slept through all four of my alarms that I had set,” TikTok user Charkaylotte recounted.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
President Ronald Reagan warned in 1986 that if Nicaragua’s “Sandinistas” remained in power, “terrorists and subversives” would have sanctuary “just 2 days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.” During the 1980s, Reagan gave more speeches on the Central American country than about almost any other foreign policy issue. Congress voted countless times on his policy of undermining Nicaragua’s Cuban- and Soviet-backed government by arming insurgents known as the Contra.
LOS ANGELES — Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave. Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
The action came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse.
In 2018, we worked with Bill Gates on a special issue of TIME dedicated to the power of optimism. Gates’ view, shared by many of the issue’s contributors, was that people are wired to focus on when things go wrong and when they don’t work. Sometimes this attention distracts us from the moments when progress is being made.
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost.