Beto O’Rourke repeated his pledge to initiate a mandatory buyback of assault weapons if he is elected president. O’Rourke was asked Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, how he would address the fears of some Americans that the government would take away their assault weapons. “I want to be really clear that that’s exactly what we are […]
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Hurricane Dorian Barreling Towards American Coast
As morning broke in the Bahamas on Monday, residents who rode out Hurricane Dorian described buzz-saw-like winds that splintered homes, flooded streets and left them terrified for their lives. Meanwhile, U.S. officials braced for a similar fate as the monster storm’s eye wall set its sight on the coasts of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. […]
Pope Challenges World Powers To Take Climate Change Serious
Pope Francis on Sunday called on world governments to take “drastic” action on climate change. According to Reuters, he said that governments will have a “responsibility” at the United Nations Climate Action Summit later this month to show “the political will to take drastic measures to achieve as quickly as possible zero net greenhouse gas […]
Homosexuality Linked to Genetics
A sweeping new study finds that there is no specific gene that determines one’s sexual orientation, but that genetics do play a part in affecting a person’s sexuality. Researchers for the study, which was published Thursday in the journal Science, studied DNA from hundreds of thousands of subjects and found some genes that are connected with same-sex […]
Brazil Rejecting Help To Fight Out Of Control Amazon Forest
Brazil’s leaders are rejecting a $20 million offer from Group of Seven (G-7) member nations to help fight fires in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil’s ambassador to France said on French TV that the fund was “interference” and was approved without Brazil, according to Politico Europe. “We refuse because we see interference. [It’s] help we didn’t […]
New Poll Shows 3 Way Tie For Dem 2020 Nomination
Joe Biden’s support in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is slipping, according to a new survey from Monmouth University Poll that shows the former vice president dropping below 20 percent. The survey showed Biden with support from 19 percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters nationally, a double-digit decline from Monmouth’s most recent poll […]
Jeffrey Epstein Was Taken Off Suicide Watch By Officials
Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier who died by suicide while in federal jail on sex-trafficking charges, had been taken off suicide watch by a doctoral-level psychologist, the Justice Department said in a letter to Congress. Epstein, 66, died on Aug. 10 in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. His death was ruled […]
State Trooper Murdered While Serving Warrant
An Illinois state trooper died Friday from wounds he suffered hours earlier while executing a search warrant. Illinois State Police SWAT team member Nicholas Hopkins, 33, was shot at around 5:30 a.m. during an exchange of gunfire while he and other troopers were serving the warrant at a home in East St. Louis. Hopkins was […]
California K-9 Officer Dies After Being Left In Hot Car
A California police department is calling the death of an off-duty K-9 left alone in a hot car a “tragic accident.” The Long Beach Police Department officer who worked with Ozzy found the dog dead ten days ago in the middle of the afternoon. AccuWeather reports the high that day in Long Beach was 89 […]
Dow Jones Takes Another Awful Plunge
The stock market fell sharply Friday, after China announced it would slap retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion worth of U.S. goods and President Donald Trump vowed to fight back. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by more than 621 points, a dip of about 2.37 percent, after a series of tit-for-tat tweets by the president […]
China Announces New Tariffs On $75B Of American Goods
China announced Friday it will impose tariffs on $75 billion worth of U.S. goods, the latest salvo in the year-plus trade war between the world’s two largest economies. The country’s State Council said tariffs of 5 percent to 10 percent will be imposed on a variety of American goods in two batches, with the first […]
Judge In Mexico Approves Recreational Cocaine Use
The court said it would allow both claimants to “possess, transport and use cocaine” but not sell it, according to Mexico United Against Crime (MUCD). MUCD, which seeks to end the country’s “war on drugs”, called the ruling a “historic step”. The decision must be reviewed by a higher court before it is enforced. MUCD […]