One House Democrat has a novel idea for curbing sales of semi-automatic weapons like AR-15s, the type of firearm used by both shooters in the massacres in Uvalde and Buffalo last month. The proposed bill places a 1,000% excise tax on any type of semi-automatic firearm, pushing up the price …
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Two men are in custody and have been charged in connection with Saturday’s shooting in Philadelphia that killed 3 and wounded 11 others, authorities said Monday. One of them, Quran Garner, is facing multiple charges, including two counts each of aggravated assault and aggravated assault on law enforcement officers, …
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The U.S. announced new sanctions Thursday on Russian oligarchs and elites, including some of the richest men in Europe and their families, as well as penalties targeting more Kremlin officials, businessmen linked to President Vladimir Putin and their yachts, aircraft and firms that manage them. The latest U.S. penalties imposed …
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday revised the financing plan for his proposed $44 billion purchase of Twitter, raising investor hopes that the unpredictable billionaire still intends to pull off a deal. The news comes as Twitter has been roiled by market turbulence and Musk’s not-entirely-explicable concerns about the number …
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A convicted murderer who escaped from a transport bus last week got out of his restraints and a caged area before stabbing the driver, authorities said. Gonzalo Lopez, 46, is still on the run. Lopez, who was serving a life sentence, was being transported to a medical appointment on May …
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Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday invalidated a provision of federal campaign finance law capping the amount of money a candidate can be repaid for personal loans made to their campaign, siding with GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in his challenge to the restriction. The 6-3 ruling from …
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It was about three hours after sheriff’s officials in Alabama realized a capital murder suspect and a senior jail official who had taken him for a mental health evaluation had disappeared when Sheriff Rick Singleton called in the U.S. marshals. At first, law enforcement officials believed the suspect, Casey White, …
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Taylor Miller can’t allow even a drop of baby formula go to waste. With empty shelves across the country and some retailers limiting baby formula purchases to prevent hoarding, the Texas mother is having to ration formula. “Never did I think I would ever be rationing formula,” Miller told CBS …
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A man was arrested Tuesday morning after he climbed the 61-story Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. The San Francisco Fire Department tweeted a picture of the man, who appeared to be high up the tower, the tallest in the Bay Area. Police identified the climber as 22 year-old Maison Des Champs …
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A late rally in big technology stocks erased an afternoon slump on Wall Street and left major indexes moderately higher, following a brutal April in which widespread technology sell-offs dragged down major benchmarks. The S&P 500 rose 0.6%, accelerating in late-afternoon trading to close at 4,155. The Dow Jones Industrial …
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