NH's Formella joins other Republican AGs challenging background check rule N.H. Attorney General John Formella has joined 20 other Republican attorneys general in a lawsuit against a new federal rule intended to tighten the background check requirement for firearm sales. 05/3/2024 - 6:25 am | View Link
Republican AGs sue to block Biden gun show background check rule Gun control advocates have long pushed for closing the so-called gun show loophole and have praised the new rule on background checks. "If we don't update our national system by closing these ... 05/2/2024 - 3:09 am | View Link
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ’s Kristen Clarke Testified She Was Never Arrested. Court Records and Text Messages Indicate She Was. The DOJ's Kristen Clarke was allegedly involved in a violent domestic dispute with her ex-husband that ended in an arrest, records show. 05/1/2024 - 12:50 pm | View Link
Tennessee's gun background check system has a massive backlog. Now there's an effort to modernize it. Before you can ever pull the trigger on a new gun purchase, you have to pass an instant background check. In Tennessee, the problem has become it's not always up-to-date and accurate. 05/1/2024 - 11:46 am | View Link
Gun control groups call on Congress to undo background check change for veterans Congress has created an “enormous threat to the safety and well-being of veterans” by blocking Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reports of mental incompetency from entering the ... 05/1/2024 - 11:01 am | View Link
“The presidential election may come down to a city in the Midwestern prairie that is home to Warren Buffett — a prospect that is raising hopes among some Democrats that the once-prolific political donor will come off the sidelines to try to power President Joe Biden to reelection,” Bloomberg reports.
“Back in 2016, the Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
“The U. S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine, with the massive outlay being repaid with the windfall profits from sovereign Russian assets that have been frozen – and are accruing interest — mostly in Europe,” Bloomberg reports.
“Republicans have launched more than 30 investigations into the State Department since taking power in 2023, an unusually high number that is fueling partisan tensions,” Politico reports.
“Democratic lawmakers and State Department officials say this particular chapter of the growing partisan rancor on Capitol Hill is affecting U. S. foreign policy: It distracts U.
Nevada Independent: “The lawsuit alleges that the four-day period for mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received violates federal law because it does not conform to the Election Day deadline established by the federal government.”
Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters.
In South Dakota, organizers have submitted 55,000 signatures in support of the ballot measure granting a limited right to abortion—far more than the 35,000 required.