Lucy McBath, an activist for gun reform, is running in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for a U.S. House seat in Georgia’s 6th District. She is the mother of Jordan Davis, the black teenager who was shot in the back seat of a friend’s car by a 45 year-old white man who said the music they were […]
Houston Chief of Police Art Acevedo warned Sunday that “inaction of elected officials” against gun violence means there will be more school shootings like the one that killed nine students and a teacher last week in Santa Fe, Texas. Two days after his Facebook post that he had “hit rock bottom” with respect to gun-rights supporters […]
President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed a New York Times story detailing meetings that Donald Trump Jr. allegedly had with an emissary for two Arab princes who offered to help the Trump campaign a few months before the election. In a flurry of tweets early Sunday, Trump slammed the “failing and crooked” New York Times, and […]
Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump and his former Washington lobbyist, expects he may be indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But, he cautioned, any such indictment would be for an “extraneous crime,” not for any involvement in Russian collusion in 2016. On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd noted that two of Stone’s […]
Vista Outdoor, a major manufacturer of assault weapons, is complaining that school shootings, particularly the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead, is having an adverse impact on its profits. The complaint was buried in a filing that was made with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. The filing, called a […]
One of the 10 people killed by Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17 year-old student, at a Sante Fe, Texas high school was a girl who reportedly rejected his repeated advances. The shooter went into his high school on Friday morning and allegedly used his father’s shotgun and .38 revolver to shoot at students and teachers. Pagourtzis is in custody. […]
The Santa Fe, Texas school where a gunman killed nine students and a teacher on Friday was a highly secure facility, with award-winning security preparations and two armed guards patrolling the hallways. But the National Rifle Association’s new incoming president, Oliver North, does not think it was secure enough. And he thinks the underlying problem is […]
All 34 of Chile’s Catholic bishops have submitted their written resignations to the Vatican in the latest fallout from a major child sex abuse scandal rocking the South American nation. The unprecedented move puts the bishops’ fate in the hands of Pope Francis, who can either accept the resignations or reject them. The clerics announced their […]
Donald Trump Jr. held a meeting at Trump Tower in August 2016 with an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes, who offered to help his father win the US presidential election, The New York Times reported on Saturday. The newspaper wrote that the two crown princes were from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Playing […]