A voter-backed California law requiring background checks for people who buy bullets is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in a blow to the state's efforts to combat gun violence. In upholding a 2024 ruling by a lower court, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the law violates the Second Amendment. Voters passed the law in 2016 and it took effect in 2019. Many states, including California, make people pass a background check before they can buy a gun. California went a step further by requiring a background check, which costs either $1 or $19 depending on eligibility, every time someone buys bullets.
Hulk Hogan, a professional wrestling icon, has died, TMZ Sports reported on Thursday. He was 71. Hogan suffered a possible "cardiac arrest" event at his home in Clearwater, Florida,, according to the outlet.
The US president said Japan would "open" its markets to American cars and rice, which had been sticking points during negotiations between the close allies. "We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform late on Tuesday. "Japan will open their Country to Trade including Cars and Trucks, Rice and certain other Agricultural Products, and other things. Japan will pay Reciprocal Tariffs to the United States of 15%." On Wednesday he added: "Our businesses will make a fortune. Likewise Japan!"
The Obama administration "manufactured and politicized intelligence" to create the narrative that Russia was attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election, despite information from the intelligence community stating otherwise, Fox News Digital has learned. On Friday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents revealing "overwhelming evidence" that demonstrates how, after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, then-President Barack Obama and his national security team laid the groundwork for what would be the years-long Trump"Russia collusion probe.
Just 19% of voters questioned in a new national poll give Democrats in Congress a thumbs up on how they're handling their duties, with 72% disapproving. That's an all-time low since Quinnipiac University first began asking congressional approval questions in their surveys 16 years ago. The Democratic Party has been in the political wilderness since November's elections, when Republicans won back control of the White House and the Senate and defended their fragile House majority. And Republicans made gains among Black, Hispanic and younger voters, all traditional members of the Democratic Party's base.
I will agree, Trump just needs to put this to rest and release everything the government knows. If his name is there, then so be it, he will have to answer for whatever is there.
Just my opinion though.