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He specifically called for Senate passage of H.R. 8, the universal background check bill passed by the Democrat-controlled House in February. Schumer tweeted: Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has already signaled that a background check bill will be part of the discussion once the Senate reconvenes in September.

O’Rourke posted a video in which he said, “We don’t know what the motivation is, we do not yet know what firearms that was used or how they acquired them, but we do know this is f*cked up.” O’Rourke then pressed for universal background checks and reiterated his proposal for a government-mandated buyback of AR-15s and other commonly-owned semiautomatic rifles. He talked about having a conversation with a gun owner who said they own an “assault weapon” but remain willing to give it up because “this is not right.” Earlier on Saturday–when even fewer facts on the Midland-Odessa shootings were kno

Breitbart News reported that multiple people were injured in shooting incidents in West Texas’s Midland-Odessa region. The Odessa Police Chief, Michael Gerka, said the incident began when a State Trooper pulled over a gold Honda around 3:17 pm. The driver allegedly shot the trooper then drove off, shooting at people and creating multiple crime scenes.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mindful of President Donald Trump’s intense interest in space, the Pentagon is declaring U.S. Space Command open for business as part of a broader effort to better defend American interests in space. But there’s still no Space Force. Trump planned to participate in a ceremony Thursday marking Space Command’s official establishment, or to be more precise, it’s re-establishment.

President Donald Trump’s personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, whose office sits in front of the Oval Office and who has served as the president’s gatekeeper since Day 1 of his administration, resigned on Thursday, two people familiar with her exit said. Westerhout’s abrupt and unexpected departure came after Trump learned on Thursday that she had indiscreetly shared details about his family and the Oval Office operations she was part of during a recent off-the-record dinner with reporters staying at hotels near Bedminster, New Jersey, during the president’s working vaca

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are making swings through New Hampshire this weekend — less than a week before nearly all of the party’s contenders are expected to flock to Manchester for the state Democratic Party’s annual convention. Warren is set to attend a house party Monday in Hampton Falls, which is on the coast of the first-in-the-nation primary state.

WASHINGTON — If a White House official wanted to talk to President Trump, it helped to have a good relationship with Madeleine Westerhout, his 28-year-old assistant. She was known for brusquely deflecting officials senior to her both in title and age who wanted a few minutes of face time with the president with one withering question: “Why are you here?” But it was not what some administration officials saw as Westerhout’s overprotectiveness of the president that led to her abrupt and unceremonious departure from the White House on Thursday.