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Millions of Americans did, and I'm pretty sure that those of us who support gun rights were paying closer attention than most regular Joe's. The question is, just how close were you following? Trump missed some great opportunities, not only when it came to shredding Clinton about cyber security and her emails but also when she turned the conversation to "gun safety.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., asked the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday to open an investigation into whether Yahoo "fulfilled its obligations under federal securities laws to keep the public and investors informed," about a massive security breach revealed last week. The company revealed that a "state-sponsored actor" stole data associated with some 500 million accounts from its servers in late-2014.
The centerpiece of President Barack Obama's climate change strategy faced a key test on Tuesday as conservative appeals court judges questioned whether his administration overstepped its legal authority under an air pollution law to make sweeping changes to the U.S. electric sector. Twenty-seven states led by coal-producer West Virginia and industry groups are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan rules before 10 judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
With time growing short and the abolition of capital punishment guaranteed if Hillary Clinton is elected to place justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, death penalty supporters are wasting their energy and resources. Despite the fact that substantial majorities of the American people have consistently favored capital punishment, it is on the verge of complete abolition .
New York State's Department of Labor recently made headlines with its rules mandating that employers paying their workforces with prepaid debit cards ensure that employees have "unlimited, free withdrawals" from at least one nearby ATM. This must be the case even if the employees have no bank accounts.
In this Nov. 30, 2006, file photo, people watch through glass as a killer whale swims by in a display tank at SeaWorld in San Diego. A former manager of SeaWorld was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison for embezzling more than $800,000 over a period of eight years while he was working there.
Protesters who have filled the streets to push for the release of video of a fatal police shooting could see their task get much harder if Charlotte authorities do not share the footage within a week. A North Carolina law that takes effect Oct. 1 will declare that the video is not a public record and that only a judge can release it, potentially making the issue far more complicated than if police simply shared the footage on their own.
Three Virginia police officers will not be charged with federal civil rights crimes for repeatedly using a stun gun on a black man who died soon after he was taken into custody, a prosecutor said Thursday. Investigators found insufficient evidence to prove that the officers violated federal law by willfully using unreasonable force against Linwood Lambert Jr. in May 2013, U.S. Attorney John Fishwick Jr. said in a statement.
The district attorney of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has filed manslaughter charges against officer Betty Shelby in the death of Terrence Crutcher six days ago. "We reviewed the facts of the allegations, it is our responsibility to determine if the filing of a criminal charge is justified under the law," District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said.
On Thursday, in a brief order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit announced that all but one of the court's active judges will be participating in the en banc review of the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan regulations. What this means is that the case will now be heard by 10 judges instead of nine.
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, is sworn in before testifying at a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing in Dirksen Building, Sept. 20, 2016, on the company's unauthorized accounts opened under customers' names.
Professor Glenn Reynolds' response to the anarchy in Charlotte - where a criminal mob of hate-filled Democrat voters looted stores, attacked police and white civilians, and shut down a major freeway - was three words of advice to endangered motorists: "Run them down." What are we permitted to say about marauding gangs of thieves and thugs? The owners of Twitter have evidently hired Democrat Party activists to control the narrative on their platform, effectively turning it into a propaganda platform for a violent anti-white terrorist organization .
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, seen here speaking at a University of Chicago Medicine groundbreaking last week, will give his policing speech Thursday night. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, seen here speaking at a University of Chicago Medicine groundbreaking last week, will give his policing speech Thursday night.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been doing its best to protect Monsanto and the entire GMO industry by dragging its feet and hiding information regarding glyphosate content in foods. Glyphosate, the most widely-used herbicide on the planet and an essential component in GMO agricultural methods, has been the subject of increasing concern - particularly since the World Health Organization classified it as a " " in 2015.
Planned Parenthood is asking a federal judge to quickly rule in its favor and overturn a Mississippi law that bans Medicaid spending with any health care provider that offers abortion. The women's health group argues that a judge should make a summary judgment backing its challenge of the Mississippi law, now that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an injunction against a similar law in Louisiana.
On Sunday night, CBS aired the first segment of their two-part docuseries The Case Of: JonBenét Ramsey . Following televised investigations from A&E and Dr. Phil, The Case Of assembled a team of investigators to reexamine key pieces of evidence surrounding the case. Over the course of their investigation, led by former New York City prosecutor and retired FBI supervisory special agent and profiler Jim Clemente and former New Scotland Yard criminal behavioral analyst Laura Richards, the team unearthed never-before-publicized details, many of which cast a suspicious shadow on the six-year-old beauty queen's family: the now-deceased Patricia "Patsy" Ramsey, John Ramsey, and the couple's eldest son, Burke.
The U.S. Department of Justice approved but later declined to pursue federal racketeering charges against Harry Morel, the former St. Charles Parish district attorney who admitted this year to using his influence to solicit sexual favors from women facing criminal charges, according to FBI records released Monday. Federal prosecutors had been planning to charge Morel with "at least 30 racketeering acts," including solicitation of sexual bribes, according to a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Michael Zummer, the FBI's lead agent on the case.
With last week's primaries in the books, the general election is now officially underway. It's obviously felt that way for some time in the U.S. Senate contest between Kelly Ayotte and Maggie Hassan, but now it is the case in all the races.
Lawmakers' European trip shows holes in campaign law Gaping holes in state laws that allow lawmakers to use campaign money for investments Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: An investigation into expelled lawmaker Jeremy Durham's campaign finances revealed loopholes in state laws, including one that allowed a GOP donor to take six lawmakers on a European trip without anyone needing to report the gift.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used a Saturday trip to Houston to address families of victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants - and blast Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as unsympathetic to their concerns. "When Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, the matter of this country refusing to take back their deported citizens came before Hillary Clinton's desk," Trump said.