A group of congressional Democrats is urging credit card companies to track suspect firearm and ammunition purchases as a means to identify and stop gun crime, according to a letter obtained by CBS News Thursday. The letter, drafted by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania …
Read More »Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was the target of a swatting call — a call designed to unnecessarily lure a large, armed police presence to a particular home — on Wednesday morning, police said. The Rome Police Department said in an incident report that police received a call from a …
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For the past three decades, South Carolina lawmakers have chipped away at abortion access, requiring ultrasounds, parental consent and 24-hour waiting periods, and banning the procedure early in the pregnancy: first after 20 weeks, then after six. But now that the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared a path to ban …
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Amber Heard notified a Virginia court Thursday that she will appeal the $10.35 million judgment she was ordered to pay ex-husband Johnny Depp during a high-profile defamation trial that exposed the inner workings of their troubled marriage. Heard’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal in Fairfax County Circuit Court, where …
Read More »Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. candidate John Fetterman shared a Cameo video Thursday in which “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi appears to highlight the New Jersey ties of Fetterman’s Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz. Fetterman, who has previously slammed Dr. Oz for recently moving to Pennsylvania after living in New Jersey for …
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New York lawmakers approved a sweeping overhaul Friday of the state’s handgun licensing rules, seeking to preserve some limits on firearms after the Supreme Court ruled that most people have a right to carry a handgun for personal protection. The measure, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul after passing both chambers …
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Once prominent and soon-to-be disbarred South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been indicted again, this time prosecutors saying his crimes extended to an eight-year money laundering and painkiller ring with a friend and former client charged with trying to help him commit suicide. Murdaugh wrote 437 checks worth $2.4 million …
Read More »A California judge found Monday that there is enough evidence against a man once briefly married to Britney Spears who showed up uninvited at the pop star’s wedding to go to trial on a felony stalking charge. After a two-hour preliminary hearing, Ventura County Judge David Worley ruled that 40-year-old …
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Facing a Friday deadline to certify results from the recent primary election, officials in Nevada’s least populated county were planning another hand count as a way to prove to residents that their votes count and that the voting process works. Several other county commissions also were scheduled to certify their …
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Police investigating a hit-and-run that wounded two cyclists in Evergreen, Colorado, on Sunday morning. One of the cyclists, identified as a woman by local authorities, suffered critical injuries as a result of the crash. A 2018 Ford Escape registered to 39-year-old Alan “Haley” Mill allegedly swerved onto the shoulder of an …
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