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Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill pressed MORE (D-N.Y.) contend that the most effective prescription for reining in shooting deaths is to expand background checks prior to the sale of firearms. A pair of House-passed measures, they argued, would do just that. "Countless lives have been saved since the passage of background checks legislation," Pelosi said in a statement, referring to the screenings required of licensed gun dealers since 1994.

MORE and his advisers are adopting a familiar mantra when it comes to mounting concerns about the economy: It’s all fake news. Trump has dismissed concerns over a possible recession and accused the press of manufacturing a crisis and “doing everything they can to crash the economy” so he doesn’t win in 2020. “I don’t think we're having a recession. We're doing tremendously well. Our consumers are rich.

The left side of her conference, run by the so-called “Squad” of socialist Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) is ascendant as Pelosi’s top deputies–several committee chairs–face primary challenges similar to one Ocasio-Cortez used to wipe out longtime Pelosi ally, former Rep.

The New York Daily News quoted King saying, “They are weapons of mass slaughter.” He added, “I don’t see any need for them in everyday society.” The Democrats’ “assault weapons” ban is sponsored by Rep.

In May, the Tuberville campaign announced that it had hired consultant Rob Jesmer — Zuckerberg’s chief GOP aide for FWD.us, the billionaire’s cheap labor lobbying group that advocates giving amnesty to illegal aliens, as well as allowing Silicon Valley tech giants to have an unlimited supply of w

This month, ICE agents conducted the largest workplace raid in more than a decade across five food processing plants in Mississippi, netting the arrests of 680 illegal aliens. That same day, however, ICE officials said they released about 300 of the illegal workers back into the U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter says it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were linked to the Chinese government and a disinformation campaign targeting the protests in Hong Kong. Facebook officials similarly said on Monday they have removed a small number of accounts involved in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” targeting the Hong Kong protests. The number of accounts affected was much smaller than those of Twitter: Just five accounts, seven pages and three groups.

NEW YORK (AP) — Planned Parenthood said Monday it’s pulling out of the federal family program rather abide by a new Trump administration rule prohibiting clinics from referring women for abortions. Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s acting president and CEO, said the organization’s nationwide network of health centers would remain open and strive to make up for the loss of federal money.

WASHINGTON — Senator Edward Markey on Monday refused to criticize Representative Joseph P.

White House officials have begun preparing options to help boost the American economy and prevent it from falling into a recession, including mulling a potential payroll tax cut and possibly reversing some of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, according to people familiar with the discussions. Trump and his top advisers continue to insist the economy is “doing tremendously well” and publicly dismiss any notion of an impending recession.