WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden would like some divine help on his gun control agenda, but his ask might be surprising. And firearm makers warn the results could be dire for their industry. During remarks announcing new executive actions to curb gun violence Thursday, Biden’s speech took a detour as he imagined being ableContinue Reading
Roberta Jacobson, the White House’s southern border czar, will step down from her post at the end of the month in a surprising move but one the administration said was pre-planned. Jacobson, who was U.S. ambassador to Mexico under former President Obama, agreed to join the administration as a borderContinue Reading
Myanmar’s ambassador to the UK Kyaw Zwar Minn speaks to a police officer outside the embassy in LondonContinue Reading
President Joe Biden is set to unveil six executive actions aimed at curbing gun violence on Thursday, following a string of mass shootings that has put pressure on the administration to act the president’s long-held campaign promise to tackle gun control. The president also is expected to announce his nomination of David Chipman as the director of the JusticeContinue Reading
WASHINGTON — A once-secret unit within the Guantanamo Bay detention center that had fallen into disrepair has been closed and the prisoners moved to another facility on the American base in Cuba, the U.S. military said Sunday.The prisoners at Camp 7 were transferred to a facility adjacent to where the other detainees on the base…Continue Reading
Justice minister Naomi Long points finger at UK ministers after four nights of street violence in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland’s justice minister has said the government’s “dishonesty” over the consequences of hard Brexit fuelled has contributed to the anger felt by loyalists, as police counted the cost of 41 officersContinue Reading
MIAMI — Seeing her father’s body with gunshot wounds was one of the most traumatic moments for former Florida congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell as she grappled with the shock and grief of losing him to gun violence in 1996. The former Democratic lawmaker, who was the first South American-born member ofContinue Reading
Silva was taken into custody by ICE in 2019 and has been held for 20 months.Continue Reading
The highly-coveted wipes and sprays may not be necessary in “most situations.”Continue Reading
President Cyril Ramaphosa and former president Jacob Zuma. Picture: GCISContinue Reading
By most conventional measures, President Biden should be riding pretty high.He is about to score his first major legislative victory, pumping nearly $2 trillion—a staggering figure—into the economy to deal with the pandemic. A new ABC poll shows 68 percent of those surveyed approving of his approach to the crisis, a figure that includes 35…Continue Reading
