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Gun sales can be completed after three days whether or not a background check is completed. The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives must seize thousands of guns each year after they were sold.
The New York Times says the president tried to get an ally to take charge of the probe into his role in silencing women with hush payments. Trump calls the report “fake news.”
Known as “reverse location search warrants,” legal mandates allow law enforcement to sweep up the coordinates and movements of every cellphone in a broad area.
“As long as the status quo remains, where we don’t have a protocol that has been found to be OK, we certainly cannot have any executions in Ohio,” said Gov. Mike DeWine. He already has postponed one execution from Feb. 13 to Sept. 12.
The federal government shares its Terrorist Screening Database with more than 1,400 private entities, including hospitals and universities, prompting concerns that those mistakenly placed on the list could face a variety of hassles in their daily lives.
Stockton, California’s efforts to address police officer’s wellness is a national model. More officers die from suicide than from shootings and traffic accident combined.
The scale of preparedness for an on-campus shooter in schools is out of proportion to the risk. Could the effort be better spent on something else?
Jeffrey Rosen, the No. 2 official at the Transportation Department and a longtime colleague of Attorney General William Barr, was formally nominated as the Barr’s top deputy, replacing Rod Rosenstein.
A bipartisan coalition agrees with financial industry trade groups on a bill that would allow the rapidly expanding cannabis industry to use banks and credit unions if the firms comply with state law.
An appeals court rejected a challenge from New York City’s largest police union that would have blocked public access to body-cam footage of three police shootings.