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The Texas student charged in the school shooting at Santa Fe High School posted an image on Facebook of a "Born to Kill" shirt and used his father's shotgun and pistol in the attack that left at least 10 dead and 10 wounded, authorities said yesterday. The suspect, 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, was held without bond in the Galveston County jail on charges of capital murder, said the county sheriff, Henry Trochesset.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott shares information about the Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas with media at a press conference on May 18, 2018. Hours after the most recent mass killing in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott went to the city where it happened just outside of Houston and said that unity and faith might not be enough to curb the shootings in his state.
Environmental groups and the lead developer of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline were at odds Wednesday over what happens now that a federal appeals court has vacated a key permit for the multistate project. A spokeswoman for Dominion Energy said construction on the 600-mile natural gas pipeline will go on as scheduled.
A spokeswoman for the lead developer of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline says a federal court order vacating a key permit does not mean work on the multistate project has to stop. Jen Kostyniuk is director of communications for Dominion Energy.
The kids are marching, and the officials who once served as human barricades for the NRA seem unable to stop them. A few weeks ago, suburban Minneapolis Republicans introduced two gun control bills in the Minnesota House.
I cover news and people in New Jersey, focusing on cannabis issues, court rulings that have an impact on everyday life, profiles of unusual folks and the disappearance of open spaces in the Garden State. Shortly after Jim Florio was sworn in as governor of New Jersey in 1990, he enacted a ban on assault weapons that remains one of the strongest in the nation.
Oklahoma's Republican Governor Mary Fallin vetoed a bill that would have allowed adults to carry handguns without a permit and signed another that permits religious organizations to exclude same sex couples from adoptions, managing to anger both gun and gay rights groups on the same day. The twin actions announced late Friday were among more than a dozen decisions on legislation taken by the term-limited governor as she clears the decks in her waning months in office.
Oklahoma's Republican Governor Mary Fallin vetoed a bill that would have allowed adults to carry handguns without a permit and signed another that permits religious organizations to exclude same sex couples from adoptions, managing to anger both gun and gay rights groups on the same day. The twin actions announced late Friday were among more than a dozen decisions on legislation taken by the term-limited governor as she clears the decks in her waning months in office.
A Democratic congressional candidate in New Mexico used an expletive in a television ad Friday to condemn the National Rifle Association and inaction by U.S. lawmakers on gun control, beginning a 15-second spot with the words "F--- the NRA." In the ad, Albuquerque City Council member Pat Davis goes on to the say that NRA policies have "resulted in dead children, dead mothers and dead fathers," and that "if Congress won't change our gun laws, we're changing Congress."
Oklahoma's Republican Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed a bill late Friday that would have authorized adults to carry firearms without a permit or training, dealing a rare defeat to the National Rifle Association in a conservative state. The veto comes after opposition from the business community and law enforcement authorities, including top officials with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation who have said it could erode public safety.
The news that the National Rifle Association has chosen Oliver North as the organization's next president left NBC "baffled" on Tuesday. Both the Today show and CBS This Morning focused heavily on the "controversial" figure's connections to the Iran-Contra scandal from 30 years ago.
The California primary is a month away, but Democratic front-runner Gavin Newsom is already slamming Republican rival John Cox. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom aired a television ad slamming Cox's support for gun rights, noting "John Cox stands with Donald Trump and the NRA."
The California primary is a month away, but Democratic front-runner Gavin Newsom is already slamming Republican rival John Cox. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom aired a television ad slamming Cox's support for gun rights, noting "John Cox stands with Donald Trump and the NRA."
The National Rifle Association has chosen as its next president Oliver North, a retired Marine Corps officer whose convictions in the late-1980s Iran-Contra affair were overturned, the group said in a statement. North, an author and conservative commentator, is resigning from Fox News immediately and will take on the new role "within a few weeks," as soon as his business affairs are put in order, according to the statement issued Monday.
Demonstrators on both sides of the gun debate filled the streets Saturday outside the National Rifle Association's annual convention. As reported by Reuters, approximately 200 protesters - many dressed in orange, a pervasive color of the gun control movement - comprised Rally4Reform, a group demanding greater restriction on the sale of firearms.
A student-led protest is planned for 10 a.m. at Dallas City Hall, during the NRA Convention at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center. Three protests were planned for Saturday during day two of the National Rifle Association Convention at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum during the NRA annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, U.S., on Friday, May 4, 2018. Trump'delivered a strong sign of support for the National Rifle Association at its annual meeting on Friday, as gun-rights advocates regroup in the wake of the mass shooting at a Florida high school.
The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a pastor missing since a boating accident Wednesday in Plaquemines Parish. Officials say 85-year-old Rev.
Months after the horror of the Parkland school shootings in Florida, President Donald Trump stood before cheering members of the National Rifle Association and urged them to elect more Republicans to Congress to defend gun rights. Trump claimed that Democrats want to "outlaw guns" and said if the nation takes that drastic step, it might as well ban all vans and trucks because they are the new weapons for "maniac terrorists."