The March 19 primaries in Illinois may seem anticlimactic to those who are only interested in presidential politics. Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican former President Donald Trump sewed up their nominations a full week before polls even opened in the Prairie State. But further down the ballot there are still a number of competitive
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by Jeff Gross, contributing writer I am stunned! Two back-to-back nights at the RI State House of the annual Anti-Gun Follies and Comedy show. At least in 2024 we were out at 8pm on Tuesday and 9pm on Wednesday. This year saw the usual emotion style antics by the anti-gun mob. At the House Judiciary hearings
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — It was a busy day at the State House, as the Senate Judiciary Committee heard a swarm of bills on firearm regulation for nearly four hours. Community members and advocates came out to weigh-in on these controversial issues. Nineteen gun legislation bills were heard during Tuesday’s senate judiciary committee, with a
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Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de Google Translate. Former President Donald Trump promised to provide a live “play by play” via Truth Social to “correct, in rapid response, any and all inaccurate Statements” made by President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address. But we found many of Trump’s alleged corrections
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals hears oral arguments on Monday on a Delaware gun groups’ efforts to halt recently passed gun safety laws. In April 2023, a federal judge denied the Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association’s (DSSA) request for a preliminary injunction against Delaware’s ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines (LCM). In their
Vice President Kamala Harris is coming to Broward County to discuss the gun violence epidemic in the U.S. The White House announced Monday that Harris will visit Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Saturday, March 23, to meet with family members who lost loved ones in the 2018 mass shooting at the Parkland school, where
First lady Jill Biden speaks to the National Governors Association during an event in the East Room of the White House. File/Associated Press Samantha Young, Tribune News Service California lawmakers are weighing a pitch from the White House for states to toughen gun storage rules as legislation languishes in Congress. Even though many states, including
Donald Trump is no fool. “No one will lay a finger on your firearms,” if he’s returned to the White House, he told thousands of members of the National Rifle Association in Pennsylvania last month. He assured them he was “the best friend gun owners have ever had in the White House”. There are more
The two candidates for San Diego city attorney are sparring on gun control, as they enter a second round of campaigning for the general election. Days before the primary, Assemblymember Brian Maienschein announced a pair of gun control bills. This week Deputy City Attorney Heather Ferbert’s campaign blasted her opponent for voting against a 2014
Donald Trump arrives for a rally in Sioux Center, Iowa, on January 5. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images During his State of the Union address on Thursday night, President Joe Biden laced into Donald Trump, criticizing him directly more than a dozen times (though he referred to Trump as “my predecessor” rather than using his name).
During Thursday night’s State of the Union address, President Joe Biden demanded passage of gun controls that have been in place for California for over 30 years and have failed to stop some of the highest profile shootings our nation has seen. Biden claimed his signing of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act was a defeat
President Biden drew a sharp contrast with former President Trump and Republican lawmakers in Thursday’s State of the Union address, using the bully pulpit to harp on issues that will shape the general election campaign and sell voters on his first three years in office. Biden’s remarks, which lasted just more than an hour, could
He’s referred to the sibling of a mass shooting victim in the chamber tonight. “With us tonight is Jasmine, whose nine-year-old sister Jackie was murdered with 21 classmates and teachers in elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. “Very soon after that happened, Jill and I went to volunteer for a couple of days. We spent hours
Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Members of Congress. My Fellow Americans. In January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation. He said, “I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.” Hitler was on the march. War was raging in Europe. President Roosevelt’s purpose was
By the end of City Weekly’s 29th year, we had turned another corner. “In two weeks’ time, I’ll be leaving the building as editor of City Weekly” wrote Jerre Wroble for the May 9 issue in 2013. “But before your mind drops down the rabbit hole of, ‘Yet another journalism defector, another sign of the
Now a medical student at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Austin Vaughan said he always dreamed of being a pediatrician and helping save children’s lives. “But the truth is that no amount of healing I do throughout my career will save more lives than the steps this committee can take starting
Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com To reach a suicide prevention hotline, call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. I am a gun owner and hunter. I support further safe gun legislation in Maine. I am not threatened in any way by these laws
Speaking at the White House on Wednesday on his “actions to fight crime and make our communities safer,” President Joe Biden boasted, “we beat the NRA,” adding, “We’re going to finish the job.” Biden bragged that his administration “made historic investments in proven strategies to interrupt and prevent crime and violence in the first place. These
On Feb. 18, two Burnsville police officers and one firefighter/paramedic were killed in a shooting that started out as an investigation into a domestic incident. Feb. 18 was also the day “The Weight of the Crown” (about the shooting and recovery of former police officer Arik Matson) was shown in Ostrander Auditorium in Minnesota State’s
washington — President Joe Biden brought law enforcement officials from key swing states into the White House on Wednesday as he touted declines in crime in major cities and pressed Congress for more action on policing and gun control. “Murder, rape, aggravated assault, robbery — all dropped sharply, along with burglary, property crime and theft.
Democrats in the Maine Legislature on Wednesday introduced a slate of gun safety bills in response to the mass shootings in Lewiston last fall. The legislation complements parts of a sweeping proposal put forward by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills last week, while another advances a waiting period for firearm purchases that Democrats blocked just last
At a roundtable with local law enforcement officials and public safety leaders on Wednesday, President Joe Biden touted his administration’s efforts to combat crime, making the case that his administration’s “plan is working” and attempting to rebut criticism from Republicans. “Last year, the United States had one of the lowest rates of all violent crime
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 07: Angela Ferrell-Zabala of Moms Demand Action speaksas activists gather outside of the U.S. Supreme Court for a gun-control rally on November 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear argument today for a case about whether domestic violence offenders are protected by the Second Amendment to
A bump stocks make a gun fire by sliding the weapon against a fixed trigger finger rather than moving a trigger finger against the gun. — ABC News (KNOXVILLE, Tenn.) — To gun enthusiasts, Jeremiah Cottle is an American hero and entrepreneurial success story. To his critics, the decorated Air Force veteran, father of four
A decent start. That’s how the state-level gun safety legislation unveiled last week was broadly received, even by those who have long advocated for bigger, harder limits on the supply and sale of guns and other measures that seek to prevent gun violence. “They represent meaningful progress without trampling on anybody’s rights,” Gov. Janet Mills
NEW YORK — The National Rifle Association and its former longtime leader were found liable Friday in a lawsuit centered on the organization’s lavish spending. The New York jury found that Wayne LaPierre, who was the NRA’s CEO for three decades, misspent millions of dollars of the group’s money on pricey perks for themselves. Wayne LaPierre,
Given his often testy relationship with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, the leader of the upper house of the Texas Legislature, it’s understandable that Roland Gutierrez, a Democratic state senator, felt especially uncomfortable when he couldn’t control his emotions in Patrick’s presence. Days after the May 2022 mass shooting in Uvalde, which falls within Gutierrez’s sprawling
There is nothing that saddens and angers me more than mass shootings and gun violence. It’s impossible to go one week without seeing headlines about a shooting happening in Anytown, USA. The latest notable shooting came last week in Kansas City during the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade that left one dead and 22 injured. But
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