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AUSTIN, Tex. — A few hours before a gunman shot up an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, horrifying the nation, Tyler Costolo bought tickets for another big music extravaganza — Austin City Limits Music Festival, the annual celebration that kicked off Friday afternoon. Despite the Las Vegas massacre, which killed 58 and left hundreds injured, Mr. Costolo, 25, a water-polo coach, stuck with his plans.

LAS VEGAS — It was the first overtime shift Detective Casey Clarkson had worked in four years. But he wanted the money and he figured a country music festival would be fun. Just before 10 p.m. Sunday, he and his partner helped a drunk woman stumbling along the Las Vegas Strip get a cab, the kind of task he expected for the night. Then he heard the shots. Sgt. Branden Clarkson was just going to bed at his home a few miles away when he got a call from a friend about an active shooter.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday moved to expand the rights of employers to deny women insurance coverage for contraception and issued sweeping guidance on religious freedom that critics said could also erode civil rights protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The twin actions, by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department, were meant to carry out a promise issued by President Trump five months ago, when he declared in the Rose Garden that “we will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied or silenced anymore.” Attorney

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday moved to expand the rights of employers to deny women insurance coverage for contraception and issued sweeping guidance on religious freedom that critics said could also erode civil rights protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The twin actions, by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department, were meant to carry out a promise issued by President Trump five months ago, when he declared in the Rose Garden that “we will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied or silenced anymore.” Attorney

The National Rifle Association is calling for a federal review of bump stocks, a weapon modifier that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire faster. The NRA, in its first statement since the Oct.

The Trump administration next week is expected to "decertify" the Iran nuclear agreement, telling Congress the 2015 deal no longer serves U.S. national security interests, sources tells ABC News. President Donald Trump’s top U.S. military officials and international inspectors monitoring implementation of the deal have all said Iran is in technical compliance. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis went even further this week, saying the deal is still in the interest of U.S.

Melania Trump posed for a group photo with his senior military leaders and their spouses in the State Dining Room of the White House. "You guys know what this represents? Maybe the calm before the storm," the commander in chief said. "We have the world's great military people in this room," he added, as live classical music played. "What storm, Mr.

U.S. the Pentagon to ban transgender individuals from openly serving in the U.S. military. The directive gave the Department of Defense six months to develop an implementation plan that will go into effect on March 23, 2018.

THE TAKE with ABC News' Rick Klein So that's it, right? A bipartisan bill has been introduced, the gun lobby says it's on board, and the Trump White House wants a seat at the table that will generate the most significant new federal gun safety legislation of the 21st century. That’s a whole lot of movement less than a week after the worst mass shooting in U.S.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories The Trump administration issued a rule Friday that sharply limits the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate, a move that could mean many American women would no longer have access to birth control free of charge. The new regulation, issued by the Health and Human Services Department, allows a much broader group of employers and insurers to exempt themselves from covering contraceptives such as birth control pills on religious or moral grounds.