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CHICAGO — Since Omar Mateen entered a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., earlier this month with an assault-style semiautomatic rifle, killing 49 people, the nation has once again debated whether such weapons should be banned.

In seven states and a handful of municipalities, they already are.

The experience of these states, combined with the limited data compiled during a federal assault-weapons ban that ended in 2004, gives a rough snapshot of how effective such bans are. Читать дальше...

Opposition leaders in Venezuela said they have finished the process of authenticating signatures on a petition to recall President Nicolas Maduro, and have enough to hold a referendum on removing him. "The number of signatures has clearly exceeded the minimum needed," said Vicente Bello, coordinator for the referendum effort. Opponents of the regime finished giving their fingerprints to electoral authorities earlier Friday, wrapping up a key stage in their drive for a referendum to remove Maduro. Читать дальше...

CINCINNATI — The Reds honored their greatest team, then watched the Padres crank out runs like a machine. Wil Myers drove in five runs and Melvin Upton Jr. had a pair of two-run homers on Friday night as San Diego scored in each of the first eight innings of a 13-4 victory, spoiling the start

Apart from bringing in technology enabled education, the civic body plans to make the corporation school campuses safer for students by installing CCTV cameras. They initially plan to set up CCTV cameras at five corporation girls' higher secondary schools.

The city comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, said Friday that the health department falsified records to indicate that water tests were completed.

The city has set up an assistance center and plans to begin distributing $9 million in donations to the victims of the Pulse shootings and their families. An LGBTQ group has raised nearly $6 million.

Hawaii's governor signed a bill making it the first U.S. state to place its residents who own firearms in a federal criminal record database and monitor them for possible wrongdoing anywhere in the country, his office said. The move by gun control proponents in the liberal state represents an effort to institute some limits on firearms in the face of a bitter national debate over guns that this week saw Democratic lawmakers stage a sit-in at the U.S. House of Representatives.

Legislators, pressured by the state Supreme Court, passed a $38 million package for the state's underfunded schools. Justices had threatened to close all public schools in Kansas after this month.

Sydney awoke to a frigid Saturday morning, with temperatures dipping to a brisk 7.3 degrees in the CBD at 7:15am.

The number of millionaires living in Australia grew last year even as the mining boom subsided, helped by rising property values.

Lynx vs Los Angeles at Target Center.

Farmers demanded a judicial inquiry in connection with the death of the wild elephant Maharaj during the grievance meet held at the district collectorate on Friday.

RTO and police have been directed to take stringent action against vehicles that violate rules.

BALTIMORE — Adam Jones homered to ignite a four-run sixth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles defeated Tampa Bay 6-3 on Friday night to extend the Rays’ losing streak to eight games. Manny Machado of the Orioles marked his return from a four-game suspension by hitting his 18th home run in the eighth. Machado received the

Ashley Benson shares a laugh with Jimmy Fallon while playing around with Snapchat during an interview on The Tonight Show on Thursday (June 23) in New York City. The 26-year-old Pretty Little Liars actress talked about how she and her co-stars will often Snapchat at the same time and get into each other’s videos. Jimmy [...]

With world markets losing $2.1 trillion in one day on the Brexit news, Donald Trump arrived in Scotland to re-open his golf course. And then Trump proceeded to talk a lot about that golf course. MSNBC’s Ari Melber talks to Rick Tyler and David Corn.

David Cameron promised to end the party's appetite for strife over Europe, but he has been destroyed by his decision to feed that hunger.

HONOLULU (AP) — As the largest international gathering of coral reef experts comes to a close, scientists and policy makers are moving ahead with plans for action to save the world's reefs, which are being rapidly damaged.

A state of emergency was declared in 44 WV counties.

DETROIT — Jason Kipnis hit two of Cleveland’s four triples and the Indians continued their season-long dominance of the Detroit Tigers with a 7-4 victory Friday night. The AL Central-leading Indians are now 7-0 against the Tigers this season. Detroit had won 16 of 20 at home and was coming off a four-game sweep of

In a daring act of revenge, a 35-year-old woman killed the suspect in her husband's murder in broad daylight near a bus stop at Kallipalayam near Periyanaickenpalayam in Coimbatore district. Her husband K Periyathambi alias Rangasamy, 42, died after his head was smashed with a stone.