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White House Reportedly Will Announce Bump Stock Ban
Soon after, President Trump said he would stamp out bump stocks , but was soon met with opposition from the National Rifle Association and other gun advocates, including Congresspeople. The Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco, and Firearms under the Obama administration ruled that bump stocks were accessories and therefore the agency did not have jurisdiction to ban them by agency rules. [Full Article...]
El Chapo may be secretly communicating with his wife
Prosecutors are accusing the wife of Joaquin " El Chapo " Guzman of getting a cell phone and making phone calls from within the Brooklyn courthouse where the accused Mexican drug lord is on trial, a move that could put people in danger on the outside. [Full Article...]
Ex-FBI director James Comey files action to quash Republican congressional subpoena
The GOP-run House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees are demanding he appear as part of their probe into decisions not to prosecute Clinton, as well as FBI conduct during the Russian Federation investigation. The Watkins case held that congressional investigations don't have unlimited authority to expose people's private lives. The unusual filing in the U.S. [Full Article...]
Office of Trump tax lawyer Edward Burke raided
Representatives for his law firm said they didn't know anything about what was happening at Burke's aldermanic offices. However, Burke stopped representing Trump earlier this year, citing "irreconcilable differences", according to published reports . [Full Article...]
Scott Morrison not told Julia Banks would quit
When asked by The Daily Telegraph whether she would rule out becoming leader in the future, Ms Bishop said: "I'm on the back bench; I'm preselected to run as the member for Curtin at the next election". Mr Morrison, who wanted the focus of the last Parliamentary sittings on the year to be on the economy and national security, was forced to convince Australians there was no chaos in Canberra. [Full Article...]
Pope laughs as young mute boy tugs on guard sleeve
Pope Francis was addressing the packed hall as the boy freely walked up the marble stairs towards him. The Prefect of the Pontifical Household, Georg Gaenswein, who was sitting next to the pope , turned to him and joked that the boy "is Argentinian, he's unruly". [Full Article...]
Chain reaction of blasts kills 23 in China's latest industrial accident
But a spokesman at ChemChina, the firm that owns Hebei Shenghua, said that the blast did not take place at the factory, Reuters reported . Chinese authorities are now investigating the cause of the explosion. "On-site search and rescue work and investigation of the cause of the accident are still under way", the propaganda department said. Zhangjiakou, a city about 156 km northwest of Beij... [Full Article...]
Angela Merkel's Plane Makes Emergency Landing In Cologne
Dr Merkel was flying on the German government military operated "Konrad Adenauer" Airbus Thursday night which had taken off from Berlin , but looped back over the Netherlands and landed in Cologne, the home base of the German government air fleet, where it was met by emergency services vehicles. [Full Article...]