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"The Supreme Court, or at least the Republican appointees, has shown they have a ton of zeal for basically cannibalizing and eliminating common sense gun control regulation." Leah Litman, law professor and co-host of the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast (with Melissa Murray), weighs in on how the justices might rule on semi-automatic weapons bans.
The Department of Justice says it will deploy approximately 1,000 election monitors this November. Arizona’s Secretary of State, Adrian Fontes, says the problem is the bucket of typical issues is now getting fuller: “It's getting full of this Department of Justice crap that they kept throwing at us for no reason whatsoever…We need partners, not adversaries.”
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Roughly 32,000 people in Indiana are still without power, 11 days after severe storms swept through the state. More than half of those people live in the city of Gary, where Black residents make up over 84% of the population. According to the region's electrical utility provider, NIPSCO, residents will have to wait until August 25 for power to be restored.
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On Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said last-minute changes in trade talks with the United States “were uneconomic, unfair, and undermined the net benefits for Canada,” and called into question the reliability of any deal. #cnn #shorts #markcarney #canada #uscanada #tariffs #tradewar
Surveillance pricing hurts consumers. It’s time to combat it with stronger laws on fair pricing.
In its next term, the Supreme Court will hear a major consolidated case on assault weapon bans and whether the Second Amendment protects the right to possess AR-15s and semiautomatic rifles. Semi-automatic rifles are “the weapon of choice” for somebody looking to harm large groups of people, says Mark Barden, whose son, Daniel, was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. Law professor Leah Litman says the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority has shown “they have a ton of zeal for basically cannibalizing and eliminating common sense gun control regulation.”
The power of the song ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ has endured for more than a century. The new documentary, ‘A New Day Begun: The Black National Anthem’ traces the song’s origins in the Jim Crow era and its evolution into a defining anthem of Black life and the civil rights movement. The filmmakers explore what its message of resilience, faith and hope—and its promise of a “new day”—means for America today. Journalist and Director of ‘A New Day Begun,’ Keith Michael Brown says, “a song that started in the segregated South in the small schoolhouse is now on the world stage.”
A tit-for-tat trade fight between the two allies could create new headaches for consumers and businesses already stung by high prices.
Dozens of cities have canceled their contracts with Flock. Some are switching to other companies, but privacy experts say they're no better than Flock.
Elon Musk’s controversial chatbot, Grok, is notorious for polluting the “cloud” with deepfakes and racist content. But in the Memphis metropolitan area, it’s under fire for literally polluting the air. MS NOW's Josh Einiger reports from the Tennessee-Mississippi border, where Grok’s “supercomputer” is located in massive data centers.