(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump said Friday he believes he has influence to rally Republicans around stronger federal background check laws as Congress and the White House work on a response to last weekend’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. At the same time, Trump said he had assured the National Rifle Association that its…
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(ORTON, Miss.) — Mississippi residents rallied around terrified children left with no parents and migrants locked themselves in their homes for fear of being arrested Thursday, a day after the United States’ largest immigration raid in a decade. A total of 680 people were arrested in Wednesday’s raids, but more than 300 had been released…
(GARDEN GROVE, Calif.) — A gang member who killed four people and wounded two others in random stabbings across two Southern California cities has a violent past, police said Thursday, and court records show he was free on bail for a charge last month of carrying a concealed dagger. Zachary Castaneda “could have injured or…
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Thursday named Joseph Maguire, the nation’s top counterterrorism official, as acting national intelligence director, part of a leadership shake-up at the agency that oversees 17 U.S. spy agencies. Maguire will become acting director on Aug. 15, the same day that National Intelligence Director Dan Coats’ resignation takes effect. It’s…
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‘I Just Have to Quit Equinox.’ Fitness Instructors and Influencers Are Furious Over a Trump Fundraiser
by News 24When Bec Donlan, an Instagram fitness influencer who teaches a strength training class at a New York Equinox, learned about a Trump campaign fundraiser being held by a billionaire with ties to the gym, she felt “disgusted.” “As an immigrant myself, who is loving living here and wouldn’t want to live anywhere else, it just…
By dramatically changing the food we eat as well as the way it is grown and produced, humans can help stop the devastating impacts of climate change according to the latest report by the United Nations body on climate science. More than 100 scientists from 52 countries put together the report, which was published by…
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El Paso Suspect’s Mother Called Police With Concerns About His AK-Style Rifle, Lawyers Say
by News 24The mother of the El Paso shooting suspect called Texas police weeks before the shooting to relay concerns about the semi-automatic rifle her son had acquired, according to reports. The call, to the City of Allen Police Department, was passed to a public safety officer who told the mother of Patrick Crusius, 21, that he…
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‘We Are Being Eaten From Within.’ Why America Is Losing the Battle Against White Nationalist Terrorism
by News 24When you think of a terrorist, what do you see? For more than a generation, the image lurking in Americans’ nightmares has resembled the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks: an Islamic jihadist. Not a 21-year-old white supremacist from a prosperous Dallas suburb. But long before that young man drove to El Paso, Texas, on Aug.…
Just a few hours after President Donald Trump visited with first-responders and people wounded in a shooting that claimed nine lives in Dayton, Ohio, he lashed out at the city’s mayor and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, claiming they “misrepresented” what happened during the trip. Confusingly, neither seem to have criticized the President’s hospital visit, with…
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Mistaking Motorcycles Backfiring as Gunshots, Crowds Flee Times Square In Mass Panic
by News 24At least 12 people were injured after a large crowd in New York City’s Times Square fled in panic on Tuesday night, when they mistook the sound of backfiring motorcycles for gunshots. The confusion brought Tuesday night’s Broadway performance of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Shubert Theater to an early end, as people both…