President Trump leaned hard into Second Amendment rhetoric during a rally in Virginia late Friday, arguing Joseph R. Biden will wage the most aggressive war on gun rights in U.S. history. “Your firearms will be confiscated,” Mr. Trump told supporters in Newport News. “Whether you like it or not.” “Only by voting for me can…
The New York Police Department marked a 25-year high in gun busts last week as violent crime continues to plague the city, officials said Tuesday.Commissioner Dermot Shea, the NYPD's top cop, said 160 gun arrests were made between Aug. 31 and Sunday.“We hit a 25-year high in gun arrests last week, the most gun arrests we’ve…
President Trump touted his role in quelling violent unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after he sent in National Guard earlier this week. He also took a shot at the local leaders of Portland, which has been struggling to handle large scale demonstrations and rioters for weeks. Success: Since the National Guard moved into Kenosha, Wisconsin, two…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren – once one of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's fiercest opponents during the primary season – praised the former vice president’s “really good plans” during a speech at the Democratic National Convention.“I love a good plan, and Joe Biden has some really good plans—plans to bring back union jobs in manufacturing and…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…