The current demand for guns in America is so great that the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Checks System (NICS) is giving a higher number of delays and, in many cases, allowing the sale to be completed because time for the check expires. A NICS check is designed to take only minutes, ideally being “instant.”…
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In one of the crazier news stories (and in 2020, that is saying something), President Donald Trump said today during a media availability event that in order for the U.S. government to sign off on a potential Microsoft/TikTok deal, “a very substantial portion of that price is going to have to come into the Treasury…
The new scenario taking place at dairies and hatcheries is not one of supplying Americans with diet staples but filling manure pits with milk and breaking eggs to keep chicks from hatching after a sharp drop in demand as the coronavirus outbreak and restrictions continue. The Wall Street Journal reported on the development: Farmers and…
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Friday called for Attorney General William Barr to recuse himself from “Trump Ukraine matters” as an impeachment inquiry into the president continues. In a letter to Barr, the panel’s ten Democrats accused the attorney general of having an “appearance of a conflict of interest” and urged him to recuse himself from all…
Democrats in Congress running for president have demanded that President Donald Trump release more transcripts of his phone calls with foreign leaders. “We have got to get to the bottom of this,” Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote on Twitter in response to reports that the Trump White House had secured more phone conversations with world leaders…
As Assembly Bill 5 makes its way through the California state legislature, Uber and Lyft drivers are voicing their demands for better pay, basic workplace protections and the right to organize through unions. Tomorrow, Lyft and Uber drivers will convene outside Uber’s San Francisco headquarters to make their voices heard. As established in Dynamex Operations…