Back in New Hampshire, Trump focuses on Biden rematch Politics > Elections Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) Charles Krupa Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign event Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) Charles
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TOPEKA, Kansas — Republicans controlling the Legislature continued to use their supermajority to push through laws curbing transgender and abortion rights on Thursday. Lawmakers overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto to pass a law that bans transgender women from women’s bathrooms and other public places preserved for women. That could make Kansas the state with
Show Caption Hide Caption President Joe Biden announces 2024 reelection bid US President Joe Biden formally announced he’s running for reelection in 2024. The announcement was made in a three-minute video where Biden spoke about protecting freedom and said “Let’s finish the job.” (April 25) AP El Paso will play a prominent role in President
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Contrast these events with Tuesday’s bill-signing ceremony in the state reception room at the Capitol building and you’ll see just how much the conversation around guns has changed in Washington. Flanked by dozens of advocates and Democratic elected officials in a Capitol closed due to security cautions, Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law shortly before
Tuesday was the deadline for bills to pass from their chamber of origin. Three anti-gun bills have met this deadline and will continue on. Because the Judiciary Committees of both chambers have already held a joint hearing for these bills, they will likely not receive additional policy hearings and instead are eligible for votes when
MANCHESTER, N.H. – Former President Donald Trump is returning to New Hampshire on Thursday for his first campaign appearance since President Joe Biden launched his own reelection bid, heading for a potential 2024 rematch. The appearance at a downtown Manchester hotel, expected to be a smaller event than Trump’s typical large rallies, also marks his
A string of perplexing shootings across the United States has revealed a fearful society where firing first and asking questions later has become, for some, acceptable if not always legal. The incidents involve people, including children, who have been shot at for seemingly mundane acts and mistakes: ringing the wrong doorbell, pulling into the wrong
Topline Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is trailing former President Donald Trump by a stunning 46 points in a hypothetical 2024 GOP primary race, according to a new Emerson College survey, marking the worst poll numbers for DeSantis since Trump announced his candidacy in November. Key Facts DeSantis netted 16% support from voters in a hypothetical
KENNEWICK — The ink was barely dry from Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s signature on a ban on sales of certain semi-automatic weapons, when lawsuits to halt the new law were filed Tuesday. The Silent Majority Foundation based in Pasco asked the Grant County Superior Court for an emergency temporary restraining order to stop the ban
The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman used a flimsy pretext to ‘hold over’ S.109, the Constitutional Carry bill, at yesterday’s committee hearing. Despite the thousands of messages sent by NRA members and second amendment supporters in support of the bill, the Senate continues to stall and drag their feet. Multiple members of the committee voted to allow
OLYMPIA, Wash. (OSV News) — Washington state enacted a new law April 25 banning the sale, manufacture and import of assault weapons, or military-style semi-automatic firearms such as the AR-15, a weapon that has been used in some of the recent mass shootings in the United States. The legislation, House Bill 1240 does not ban
Photo Credit: Marc Gronich Caitlin Halligan sits in Senate gallery watching her confirmation hearing. Unlike the contest between two candidates for chief judge of the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, there was no rancor confirming the governor’s nominee for an associate judge to fill the seat vacated by Rowan Wilson, who became the
The pandemic inspired a gun-buying surge. Americans purchased approximately 60 million guns between 2020 and 2022, according to The Trace, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that tracks gun violence. Gun deaths reached historic highs during this period. This is a distinctive type of gun ownership, according to John Roman, a senior fellow at NORC, a
The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), along with the NSSF, filed a lawsuit in Washington state on Tuesday challenging the ban on commonly owned semiautomatic firearms signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee. “This new law is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court long-ago ruled that states cannot ban firearms that are in
Your immediate action is needed! Please contact your lawmakers and urge them to support House Bill 2304 and override Governor Kelly’s veto. This bill establishes grade-appropriate curricula guidelines for firearm safety education to students of all ages, using the tried-and-tested NRA’s Eddie Eagle GunSafe® program and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism’s existing
Regarding “Tennessee Legislature wraps up; will reconvene on gun reform,” (April 21): The governor of Tennessee announced he would call a special session of the Tennessee Legislature to consider a highly diluted effort at a red-flag law because a woman who was a friend of his wife was killed in the Covenant School shooting in
Tennessee State Rep. Justin J. Pearson and March For Our Lives co-founder David M. Hogg ’23 discussed the dynamics of state politics, gun reform, and right-wing criticism at a Wednesday evening Harvard Institute of Politics forum. Wednesday’s event comes three weeks after Pearson and Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones, both Democrats, were expelled from and