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The football super-agent Kia Joorabchian has built a big string on the Flat and has high hopes of victory at Del MarThe football super-agent Kia Joorabchian has built a three-figure string on the Flat in the last couple of seasons and will have hopes of seeing his purple colours record their biggest success to date on Friday, when his runners on day one of the 2021 Breeders’ Cup meeting at Del Mar include Go Bears Go and Hello You in the Juvenile Turf Sprint and Juvenile Fillies’ Turf respectively.Joorabchian’s list of clients includes Philippe Coutinho, whose €142m transfer fee to join Barcelona from Liverpool in January 2018 was the second-highest in history at the time, and his Amo Racing Club operation has been investing heavily in bloodstock ever since. His three-year-old colt Mojo Star finished second behind Adayar in the Derby at Epsom in June when still a maiden, while both Go Bears Go and Hello You have registered Group Two wins this season, in the Railway Stakes and Rockfel Stakes respectively. Continue reading...

Centrist Democrats may use electoral setbacks to try to water down the party’s legislative plans. That would be a big mistakeDemocrats this week suffered a stinging rebuke in elections up and down the country. The damage was most notable in Virginia, where Republican Glenn Youngkin won a state that Joe Biden carried by 10 points just a year ago. But there were warning signs elsewhere, too – from the party’s eroding support in the southern suburbs of New Jersey to its still-declining fortunes in Hispanic areas of south Texas, where Republican John Lujan flipped a heavily Hispanic state legislative district which Biden won by 14 points last year.Although depressing, these results are not entirely surprising. Even as Biden triumphed in the 2020 presidential election, there were ample signs that the suburban voters who propelled him to victory were keeping their options open. Democrats won the presidency, but declining suburban support nearly cost them the House of Representatives. In the Senate, they fought Republicans heroically but unsatisfyingly to a standstill, splitting the chamber 50/50. Voters rejected Trump, but they seemed not to want to pass complete control of government to his opponents, either.Andrew Gawthorpe is a historian of the United States at Leiden University, and host of the podcast America Explained Continue reading...

Corporate influence and corruption defines American politics. No wonder most think the country is headed in the wrong directionIn 2014, Northwestern and Princeton researchers published a report statistically documenting how lawmakers do not listen or care about what most voters want, and instead mostly care about serving their big donors. Coupled with additional research documenting the discrepancy between donor and voter preferences, they bluntly concluded that the “preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically nonsignificant impact upon public policy”.Seven years later, America is witnessing a very public and explicit illustration of this situation in real time – and the country seems pretty ticked off about it, in the lead-up to Tuesday’s off-year elections and in advance of the upcoming midterms next year.82% of registered voters support adding dental and vision benefits to Medicare – and this is voters’ “top priority” for Democrats’ social spending bill, according to survey data from Morning Consult. Conservative Democratic senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have pushed to keep these benefits out of the bill, following an aggressive lobbying campaign by health insurers who enjoy massive profits from the privatized Medicare Advantage program.Another top priority for voters is allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, with 72% saying they support the idea, according to Morning Consult. Sinema and a few House Democrats backed by the pharmaceutical industry managed to block the party’s original drug pricing measure from being put into the reconciliation bill. On Tuesday, Democrats announced they had reached a deal on a drug pricing plan, which Politico described as “far weaker” than Democrats’ promised legislation. One industry analyst said the deal “seems designed to let legislators claim an achievement while granting pharma protection”.The poll also found that 70% of voters support including paid family and medical leave for new parents in Democrats’ spending bill. Manchin has demanded this item be cut.After railing against the Republicans’ 2017 tax law for years, Democrats have largely refused to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy, and their final bill may even end up being a net tax cut for the rich. This, even though Biden’s own pollsters found that raising taxing on the wealthy was “the most popular of more than 30 economic proposals” they tested during the 2020 presidential campaign.David Sirota is a Guardian US columnist and an award-winning investigative journalist. He is an editor-at-large at Jacobin, and the founder of the Daily Poster. He served as Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign speechwriterAndrew Perez is a senior editor at the Daily Poster and a co-founder of the Democratic Policy CenterThis article was originally published in the Daily Poster, a grassroots-funded investigative news outlet Continue reading...

Oroville’s city council adopted a resolution stating it would oppose state and federal orders that it deems to be government overreachA northern California town has declared itself a “constitutional republic” in response to Covid-19 health restrictions imposed by the governor, in the latest sign of ongoing strife between the state’s government and its rural and conservative regions.The city council in Oroville, located at the base of the Sierra Nevada foothills about 90 miles from the capital of Sacramento, adopted a resolution this week stating it would oppose state and federal orders it deems to be government overreach. Continue reading...

The pandemic has worsened childcare issues in terms of their expense, the low pay for workers and lack of accessibilityThe high costs and lack of access to childcare is preventing many thousands of women from returning to the workforce in the United States despite a widespread labor shortage.Childcare systems in America were already facing significant problems in terms of their expense, the low pay for workers, and lack of accessibility for families before to the pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened these issues as childcare centers were forced to shut down, and many closed permanently, have yet to reopen, or have lowered enrollment. Continue reading...

In states such as Virginia, Michigan and Ohio citizens managed to take redistricting out of partisan control, but new panels have had a shaky startGreta Harris had enough.The 16-person panel she was co-chairing was on the verge of a meltdown after months of trying to draw new boundaries for districts in the Virginia state legislature. The deadline for submitting maps had arrived but there was no plan. Continue reading...

Concern over role Rahul Gupta played in shutting down West Virginia’s largest syringe service program in the state’s capitalJoe Biden is on record as the first US president to embrace a concept known as “harm reduction” – a public health approach that aims to mitigate harm done by drug use instead of the traditional just-say-no-ism of past administrations.Administration officials have said last week that the federal government will now support harm reduction concepts – like giving sterile syringes to people who inject drugs – in an effort to curb the transmission of infectious diseases. Continue reading...

NFL teams are obsessed with building slowly for long-term success. But in Los Angeles, they’d much rather win nowThe Los Angeles Rams’ commitment to bucking orthodoxy is admirable. Rather than following the regular old blueprint of slowly and methodically building through the draft, the Rams are instead looking to microwave success year in, year out. They do not care for the recent fetishization of draft picks. They want good players, not high-value picks. And they want them all right now.On Monday, the Rams shipped out a second- and third-round pick to acquire former All-Pro pass-rusher Von Miller from the Broncos. For any other franchise, it would represent a seismic move: a pair of valuable draft picks in return for what is effectively a 10-game (they hope) rental. For the Rams, the Oprah of draft equity, it was a humdrum Monday. You get a draft pick! And you get a draft pick!Round 1: Traded to the LionsRound 2: Traded to the BroncosRound 3: Traded to the Broncos; own a compensatory pick via Brad Holmes hireRound 4: Traded to the TexansRound 5: OwnRound 6: Traded to the PatriotsRound 7: Own plus the Dolphins’ pick Continue reading...

Actor bans real guns in movies made by his company after the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna HutchinsHollywood action star Dwayne Johnson, known as The Rock, has promised to not use real guns in his movies anymore after a fatal shooting incident involving actor Alec Baldwin on a film set in New Mexico last month.Johnson, who was in Los Angeles attending the world premiere of his new Netflix blockbuster, Red Notice, with co-stars Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot, said on Wednesday films made by his company, Seven Buck Productions, would “not use real guns ever again”. Continue reading...

Opening arguments are set to begin Friday in the trial of three white men accused of murdering the 25-year-old Black manOpening arguments in the trial of the three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery are set for Friday, as members of Arbery’s family described the decision to impanel an almost entirely white jury as “devastating”.Gregory McMichael, 67, his 35-year-old son Travis McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, have pled not guilty to murder and other offenses in a case laced with allegations of racism. Continue reading...

Ex-acting head of DoJ civil division was proponent of Trump’s false claim that Joe Biden’s election victory was result of fraudA former senior Department of Justice official will testify on Friday before the congressional committee investigating the Capitol insurrection by extremist supporters of Donald Trump, a congressional aide familiar with the inquiry has said.Last week, the House of Representatives select committee delayed testimony by Jeffrey Clark because he had retained a new lawyer. Continue reading...

Suit takes aim at two specific provisions that deal with providing assistance to voters at the polls and mail-in votingThe Biden administration filed a federal lawsuit challenging Texas’s new voting law on Thursday, saying some of the state’s new restrictions violate key civil rights laws.The suit takes aim at two specific provisions in the Texas law that deal with providing assistance to voters at the polls and mail-in voting, respectively. Continue reading...

Five-page indictment released by justice department accuses analyst Igor Danchenko of lying to FBIA Russian analyst who was the main source for Christopher Steele’s dossier on Donald Trump and Moscow has been arrested by US authorities, the justice department said on Thursday.Igor Danchenko now faces charges as part of the investigation by John Durham, the special counsel appointed by the Trump administration to examine the origins of the FBI’s investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia. Continue reading...

Cops have been on the wrong side of public health for the entire pandemic – and yet they act like they are victimsIn New York City, the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) tried and failed to block the city’s vaccine mandate for all city workers. New York City police officers have been on the wrong side of public health for most of the pandemic. Like other American police unions, the PBA uses its political clout and large coffers to push regressive policies and fight any move towards an even slightly more humane justice system.In an effort to prevent another rise in Covid-19 cases, New York’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, introduced a mandate requiring all city employees to have received at least one dose of a vaccine by 29 October. Seventy-one per cent of all city officials are already vaccinated but, according to the PBA, roughly a third of uniformed police officers are not. Even optimistic assessments of the department’s vaccination rates as a whole lag behind the rates of city residents. Despite the fact that Covid-19 is the leading cause of death among US police officers, the PBA launched a lawsuit against the city to halt the mandate. A judge struck down the suit, but the PBA plans to appeal the decision.Akin Olla is a contributing opinion writer at the Guardian Continue reading...

Attorneys make another bail request and say conditions of detention are ‘reprehensible and utterly inappropriate’The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is subjected to such invasive surveillance in jail that it “rivals scenes of Dr Hannibal Lecter’s incarceration” from The Silence of the Lambs, her lawyer has argued in making yet another request for bail pending her trial.Maxwell is charged in Manhattan federal court for allegedly procuring teenage girls for the disgraced wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. Opening arguments in Maxwell’s case are scheduled to begin on 29 November. Continue reading...

Chris Kempczinski said his comments about fatally shot children in text to Chicago mayor lacked ‘empathy and compassion’McDonald’s chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, has sparked outrage after the emergence of a text exchange with the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, in which he appears to blame two Chicago parents whose children were fatally shot.In the newly publicized texts between Kempczinski and Lightfoot from April, Kempczinski blamed the parents of 13-year-old Adam Toledo and seven-year-old Jaslyn Adams for their deaths. Continue reading...

The Sabres have traded former captain and face of the franchise Jack Eichel to the Vegas Golden Knights, putting an end to a nasty public eight-month feudThe Jack Eichel era in Buffalo is over, with a nasty public eight-month feud reaching a conclusion on Thursday when the Sabres traded their former captain and face of the franchise to the Vegas Golden Knights.The trade ends a stalemate between Eichel and Buffalo over how to repair his herniated disk, which has sidelined him since March. The dispute revolved around the NHL’s collective bargaining agreement giving teams the final say over the treatment of injuries. Continue reading...

The Blackhawks sexual abuse scandal and the NHL’s dismal reaction to it have laid bare a systemic rot at the heart of hockey’s old boys’ clubOn 23 May 2010, “within an hour after the Blackhawks won the playoff game that secured their place in the Stanley Cup Finals,” members of Chicago’s senior management, along with then-head coach Joel Quenneville and team counselor Jim Gary, had a meeting about an allegation of sexual assault involving a coach and player.The story they heard was that then-video coach Brad Aldrich had tried to “get under the sheets” with a Blackhawks player, then known only as John Doe, but who we now know is Kyle Beach. The details, as they’ve been since alleged, are that Aldrich had invited Beach to his apartment, gave him dinner and drinks, and turned on some porn. Aldrich then tried to be physically intimate. Beach, apparently, hit him. At that point, Aldrich allegedly stood up, grabbed a small baseball bat, and told Beach that “if you don’t lay down and enjoy it, I’ll make sure you never play in the NHL or walk again.” Continue reading...

After being coy about his vaccination status for months, the Green Bay star quarterback is set to miss time after contracting Covid and appears to have been breaking protocol for monthsAaron Rodgers may be a lot of things but stupid he is not. A noted bookworm and fill-in Jeopardy host, Rodgers of all people is keenly aware that words matter. In hindsight this explains why back in August when he was asked about his vaccination status by a reporter, he replied with a cryptic: “I’ve been immunized.”If you’re like me, you thought Rodgers’ response was him being him – eccentric with maybe a touch of arrogance – but you assumed immunized equaled vaccinated. Continue reading...

US private-equity group Carlyle has until 2 December to make formal offer or walk awayShares in Metro Bank surged by almost a third on Thursday after it received an approach about a possible takeover by the US private-equity group Carlyle.The market value of the challenger bank, which did not say how much Carlyle might pay if a firm offer was made, soared by as much as 40% in early trading on news of the deal, valuing the bank at more than £242m, before closing up 29%. Continue reading...

The zoo founder – real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage – is serving a 22-year sentence for a murder-for-hire schemeJoe Exotic, the zoo founder who gained notoriety for his role in the hit Netflix documentary Tiger King, has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, he said in a social media post.In an Instagram post Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, said he had received the news from his doctors. Continue reading...

A debate is raging about what type of policies Democrats should lead with. Simply following the polls is a flawed approachBy the time you finish reading this sentence, a 17-year-old in the United States will have turned 18 and become eligible to vote. And by the time you finish reading this sentence, someone will have died. In this nation of nearly 330 million people, a young person turns 18 roughly every 8 seconds, and someone dies every 11 seconds. This dynamic and fast-paced demographic change is transforming the country’s politics – and is also the glaring analytical hole in the growing school of thought coming to be known as “popularism.”After Democrats under-performed in the 2020 Congressional and down-ballot races, some have taken to arguing that the party paid a political price for supporting policies that were “unpopular,” resulting in disappointing electoral outcomes. The New York Times columnist Ezra Klein wrote a lengthy analysis of the phenomenon, most recently popularized by Democratic data analyst David Shor. Klein summarized the essence of popularism as the belief that Democrats “should do a lot of polling to figure out which of their views are popular and which are not popular, and then they should talk about the popular stuff and shut up about the unpopular stuff.”Steve Phillips is the host of Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips, a color-conscious podcast about politics, and is the author of Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority Continue reading...

‘No one could have anticipated that someone would introduce live rounds’ says Hannah Gutierrez, who was in charge of weaponsThe woman in charge of weapons on the movie set where actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has said she had inspected the gun Baldwin shot but doesn’t know how a live bullet ended up inside.“Who put those in there and why is the central question,” said Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer for the movie Rust in a statement released late on Wednesday by one of her lawyers, Jason Bowles of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Continue reading...

Taxi and Limousine Commission agrees to city-backed guarantee to lower monthly payments of taxi medallion ownersAfter weeks of camping outside City Hall in New York, taxi drivers can finally head home after striking a deal with officials to rescue thousands of workers from crushing loans that had caused misery for their families.The news arrived on the fifteenth day of a hunger strike led by the drivers and their advocates. Continue reading...

Prosecutors believe Giuliani and two others may have violated law over lucrative contracts. Plus, Californians flock to see ‘corpse plant’Good morning.A high-profile federal criminal investigation into Rudy Giuliani has zeroed in on evidence that in spring 2019 three Ukrainian government prosecutors agreed to award contracts valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to the former New York mayor and two other US attorneys as a way to gain political and personal influence with the Trump administration.What evidence do the prosecutors have? They have compiled a list of more than two dozen specific acts by Giuliani, Toesning and DiGenova as to how to advance the personal and political interests of a group of Ukrainian prosecutors.How does this relate to the campaign against Joe Biden’s son Hunter? They have also uncovered extensive, detailed plans devised by one Ukrainian prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, and approved by Giuliani, to promote an investigation into Hunter in Ukraine in order to help boost Donald Trump’s chances of re-election.How unpopular is Biden at the moment? Biden’s poll numbers have slumped to near-historic lows. In mid-August, voters approved of the president by a margin of 50 to 43.8%. Today they disapprove of him by a margin of 51.1 to 43.2%.Why is this? Months of infighting among Democrats over his nearly $3tn legislative agenda on Capitol Hill, a devastating evacuation from Afghanistan and the ever-present threat of coronavirus are all thought to have contributed to his lack of popularity. Continue reading...

This is a crisis that cannot be solved by ‘positive messaging’. The only thing that will help is action from world leadersIf you are anything like me, you think of the climate emergency a lot. Possibly every waking hour. Perhaps you experience the psychological tension caused by feeling trapped between the truth of climate and ecological destruction on the one hand and inaction from world leaders on the other. I feel this tension myself, and as a parent and climate activist, I see it affecting young people especially hard.We are in a growing epidemic of serious climate depression among young people. This is a crisis that cannot be solved by “positive messaging” any more than climate breakdown itself. Ultimately, the only thing that will help the mental and physical safety of every age group, including the young, is meaningful action from world leaders.Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist and author of Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate RevolutionIn the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is at 800-273-8255 and online chat is also available. You can also text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis text line counselor. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at www.befrienders.org Continue reading...

Despite only making up about 6% of the global population, Indigenous people protect 80% of biodiversity left in the world. We speak to six young Indigenous climate activists from the Ecuadorian Amazon, Chad, Alaska, Sweden, Indonesia and Australia about their people and culture – and what we can learn from them about protecting our planet.

Sluggish social equity programs, booming illegal market have left Black entrepreneurs in the cannabis business disappointedHalf a million dollars and nearly four years into his Los Angeles-based cannabis venture, Donnie Anderson had no shop, no prospects and a mountain of debt.With financial help from family and friends, Anderson rented a $6,000-a-month space in January 2018 for his new cannabis retail shop. He kept paying the rent as the city’s permitting process dragged on. He bought cabinets and other equipment as he waited. And waited. Continue reading...

Increase can be attributed in part to the almost 40% of the state population that has not been vaccinatedEvan Faber’s 78-year-old father, Michael, has for the last three years had difficulty walking around his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Fabers hope that a spinal surgery scheduled for late December at a local hospital will help restore his balance and motor function.But now they are worried that the hospital will have to postpone the operation. Continue reading...

What researchers found in the Reyes Ibarras’ home was shocking. What’s worse, the sisters say, is no one’s helpingWhen the letter arrived with the logo of a noted university in the corner, Veronica Reyes Ibarra expected good news. She called her boyfriend, her mom and her sisters over: “You guys, look what I got, I think it’s a scholarship.”But as she scanned the page, she suddenly wasn’t sure she had the courage to read it out to them. Continue reading...

This week’s roundup features jockey punch-ups, Canelo Álvarez’s power and great bowlers v 1970s speed gun tech1) One of the highlights of the racing season is upon us with the Breeders’ Cup. Still arguably one of the greatest races of all time, Tiznow’s win by a nose over Sakhee in 2001 is not a bad place to start. If that was close then there was literally no separating High Chaparral and Johar in the 2003 Cup Turf, not even a flared nostril. Winners rarely come at much longer odds than Arcangues’ 133-1 but Lester Piggott coming out of retirement in 1990 aged 54 to win on Royal Academy in the Mile is arguably the best story in Breeders’ Cup history.Not many will fondly remember the now-defunct Marathon but what about some jockey-on-jockey action? Continue reading...

Joe Biden said "people are upset and uncertain about a lot of things" after Democrats suffered the loss of a gubernatorial seat in Virginia. Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe one year after the party took control of the White House and Congress. Biden won Virginia by 10 points in 2020 before the victory of political newcomer Youngkin.

Judge acknowledges appearance of ‘intentional discrimination’ in case of three white men who killed Arbery, who was BlackA Georgia judge has acknowledged there appeared to be “intentional discrimination” after a nearly all-white jury was selected for the trial of three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, but has seated the jury nonetheless.A jury comprising 11 white members and one Black member was seated on Wednesday after defense attorneys struck almost all Black jurors from the pool. Opening arguments in the high-profile case are set to begin on Friday. Continue reading...

Governor’s races bring more bad news for president whose domestic agenda hangs in the balanceLess than a year after taking control of the White House and Congress, Democrats were reeling on Wednesday from a shocking defeat in Virginia and a tight governor’s race in New Jersey as Joe Biden’s popularity sinks and his domestic agenda hangs in the balance.In Virginia, a state that had shifted sharply left over the past decade and that Biden won by 10 points in 2020, Republican Glenn Youngkin, a political newcomer, defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe, the state’s former governor. And in New Jersey, the Democratic governor, Phil Murphy, managed only a narrow victory over the Republican Jack Ciattarelli, an unexpected turn of events in a state that is even more reliably Democratic. Continue reading...

The tight race was viewed as a referendum on Murphy’s – and more broadly, Democrats’ – leadership throughout the pandemicThe Democratic governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, has narrowly won reelection, eking out a victory that spared Democrats the loss of a second gubernatorial seat.Murphy, a former executive at Goldman Sachs and ambassador to Germany, became the first Democratic governor to win reelection in New Jersey in 44 years. He defeated Jack Ciattarelli, a Republican and former assembly member. Continue reading...

While Virginia’s gubernatorial election caught national attention, the results of these local votes across four states are worth notingTuesday was a busy day for voters across the country, as millions of Americans voted on local issues ranging from police reform to increasing voter accessibility.While some races garnered national attention – Glenn Youngkin’s win in the Virginia gubernatorial election, for example – other ballot questions remained more local. Continue reading...

Heather Mack convicted in 2015 for working with boyfriend to kill her motherA Chicago woman who spent seven years jailed in Bali for helping kill her mother at a luxury hotel has been has been indicted on murder conspiracy charges and arrested on her return to the US.Heather Mack, 26, was taken into custody on Wednesday when she arrived at Chicago’s O’Hare airport after being freed early on good behaviour from a Bali prison where she had been sentenced to 10 years for the 2014 murder. Continue reading...

Democrats look poised to lose their majority in the midterms. Here’s why, according to our writersBen Davis: ‘Democrats: pass your agenda now. You won’t have another chance’Democrats have just lost an enormous amount of ground since dominating Virginia during the Trump era. The first and most important takeaway of the governor’s race is that this is normal. Without a major crisis like 9/11, the party in power will always lose ground in elections like this. It’s as close to an ironclad law as there is.Ben Davis works in political data in Washington DCSteve Phillips is the founder of Democracy in Color and author of Brown is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American MajorityGeoffrey Kabaservice is the director of political studies at the Niskanen Center in Washington DC and the author of Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican PartyMeaghan Winter is a freelance magazine writer and author of the book All Politics is Local: Why Progressives Must Fight for the StatesCliff Albright is a cofounder of Black Voters Matter Fund Continue reading...

Lawyer for Hannah Gutierrez says ‘disgruntled’ person could have placed live round in box of dummy roundsA lawyer for the armorer who oversaw weapons used on the Rust movie set suggested on Wednesday that someone deliberately put a live round into the gun used by Alec Baldwin when he accidentally shot dead a cinematographer.Jason Bowles said his client, Hannah Gutierrez, had pulled ammunition from a box that she believed contained only dummy rounds that were incapable of firing. He said he thought it was possible that someone purposely placed real bullets, which look similar to dummies, into the box. Continue reading...

Conservative majority expresses skepticism over New York law that largely prohibits concealed weapons being carried in publicThe supreme court appeared poised to ease gun control regulation, after several justices expressed scepticism on Wednesday over a New York law that places restrictions on who can carry concealed firearms.The case could lead to more guns on the streets of New York and California, and affect restrictions on carrying firearms in airports, bars, churches and schools. Continue reading...