Editorial: Gun Carnage in the Nation, Groundhog Day in the Capitol

This year, the Connecticut Democrat, sounding even more desperate, tried political candor: "I wish it didn't feel like Groundhog Day - but one day it won't," Mr. Murphy insisted after the Las Vegas gun rampage left 58 dead and many more wounded last month. "There's no great social change movement in this country that didn't have failures before it had success," he said of his perennial proposal, perennially rejected, for tighter background checks on gun buyers.

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Hope Hicks leads in the style stakes again on Trump's Asia tour: Communications director dazzles in a thigh-grazing flower print dress as she arrives at the Presidential Palace in Vietnam Trump greets Filipino President Duterte with a handshake as the two settle down to a formal dinner wearing matching dress shirts - days after the hardline leader confessed to MURDERING a man 'over a look' Almost all NFL players all decide to STAND for the National Anthem on Veterans Day weekend, temporarily putting their kneeling protests aside University of Tennessee head football coach Butch Jones is FIRED as the team fails to win a single game in the SEC this season Yale graduate, 22, promises to get teenagers into Ivy League schools by charging $950 an hour as their life coach Beyond Gitmo: The lonely existence of former Guantanamo Bay prisoners who have been released and shipped to rebuild their ... (more)

FBI’s gun background-check system lacking records of millions of cases

The FBI's background-check system is missing millions of records of criminal convictions, mental illness diagnoses and other flags that would keep guns out of potentially dangerous hands, a gap that contributed to the shooting deaths of 26 people in a Texas church this week. Experts who study the data say government agencies responsible for maintaining such records have long failed to forward them into federal databases used for gun background checks - systemic breakdowns that have lingered for decades as officials decided they were too costly and time-consuming to fix.

Lawmakers take Twitter backlash for offering ‘thoughts, prayers’ after Texas church shooting

Members of the FBI walk next to the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs after a fatal shooting, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas.( When Speaker of the House Paul Ryan posted a message on Twitter after Sunday's church shooting in Texas , he got quite the backlash. The responses slammed the Republican from Wisconsin, essentially saying thoughts and prayers are not enough and calling for action on gun control.

26 killed in church attack in Texas’ deadliest mass shooting

Officials say U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is recovering from five broken ribs after he was assaulted by a neighbor who tackled him from behind at the senator's Kentucky home. Officials say U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is recovering from five broken ribs after he was assaulted by a neighbor who tackled him from behind at the senator's Kentucky home.

The Latest: Catalan 5 cannot leave Belgium before ruling

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017 file photo, ousted Catalan President Carles Puigdemont smiles after a press conference in Brussels. Puigdemont says he is ready to run for re-election in December and would be prep... Kentucky's Republican House speaker has resigned his leadership position after acknowledging he settled sexual harassment claims from one of his staffers last month.

The Latest: Police block off address listed for suspect

Officials say U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is recovering from five broken ribs after he was assaulted by a neighbor who tackled him from behind at the senator's Kentucky home. Kentucky's Republican House speaker has resigned his leadership position after acknowledging he settled sexual harassment claims from one of his staffers last month.

Dem attorneys general unite against concealed-carry gun law

Democratic attorneys general from 17 states are calling on Congress to abandon legislation backed by the National Rifle Association that would allow concealed-carry gun permits issued in one state to be valid in all states. The top prosecutors from states including New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa and California sent a letter to congressional leaders in both parties on Sunday warning that federal reciprocity proposals being debated on Capitol Hill "will lead to the death of police officers and civilians, the proliferation of gun traffickers, and acts of terrorism and other mass violence."

Former NPR Ceo Actually Talks to Conservatives, Has a Change of Heart

A former NPR CEO decided to take a year off from work to surround himself with conservatives, Trump supporters, and Evangelical christians - groups he admittedly only "knew through Jerry Falwell and the movie Foot Loose." In turn, he found a group of people deeply engaged in caring for others, a justifiable dissatisfaction for the mainstream media, and even developed a sense of appreciation for guns.

Bewildered by US Congress’s apathy on mass shootings, Why US…

Bewildered by US Congress's apathy on mass shootings, Why US Congress will not pass gun laws, Myanmar's openness to a Rohingya return is the first step, Saudi Arabia's female driving ban lift is a smokescreen, Catalonia crackdown is democracy's slow death Rifles line a wall above in front of people standing in a gun shop in Seattle. The slaying of five dozen people at a Las Vegas music festival did little to change American opinion about the nation's gun laws, and the country is divided over whether restricting firearms would reduce the number of such mass shootings or homicides, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.