The public has purchased at least 14 million guns this year, proving that there is no end to the country’s appetite for firearms and support of the Second Amendment. In November alone, sales hit the high point of the year, fueled by a historic Black Friday and growing concern that foreign-influenced terrorism would spread to the nation. The National Shooting Sports […]
Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs, the artist and entrepreneur also known as Diddy, was accused of rape, sexual assault and trafficking in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, the fourth sexual assault suit against Combs in less than a month as the singer’s legal troubles mount—though Combs has denied the allegations. KEY FACTS The lawsuit, filed in […]
A group of 12 survivors of police abuse or discrimination began receiving $1,000 payments this week as part of a first-in-the-nation programme providing a guaranteed income to victims of law enforcement racism. The programme, which provides the group $1,000-a-month payments for a year, was founded via a $1m donation from Leroy and Gracie Close of […]
The president of the National Women’s Law Center said on Tuesday during congressional testimony that women should “learn to lose gracefully” to transsexual competitors. Fatima Goss Graves spoke during the hearing on “The Importance of Protecting Female Athletics and Title IX” held by the House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services. “Trans […]
Florida voters would get a chance to decide whether to ban reparations for descendants of slaves in 2024 under a joint resolution filed in the Florida Senate. The joint resolution (SJR-582) filed by State Senator Blaise Ingoglia (R-Spring Hill) would prohibit the state and local governments from paying reparations to the descendants of people who […]
Members of the public have until Friday to comment on a Seattle Police Department (SPD) proposal to massively expand its data collection on where people drive their cars. SPD retains this data for three months regardless of whether the owner of the car was connected to a crime. To gather this data, cops use Automatic […]
The Bureau of Prisons is temporarily allowing candidates as old as 40 to apply for corrections jobs to meet its recruiting needs. In a policy statement, the bureau said it granted waivers to raise the maximum entry age to 40 from 37 for correctional officers across pay grades and federal facilities. The policy is in effect for fiscal 2024, which […]
An Orlando man was arrested after he drove a van full of prison inmates off-course and refused to stop while traveling in North Carolina, deputies said. On Tuesday, around 9 a.m., deputies received a call to be on the lookout for an inmate transport van traveling on I-40 in Statesville, North Carolina. The caller was […]
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, celebrated in history books for extending U.S. influence throughout the hemisphere. But few Americans are aware of its lesser-known predecessor – “The Jefferson-Monroe Penal Doctrine” – which first proposed using slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime to establish a national penal colony. At a […]