U.S. gun sales down 6.1 percent in 2018, extending ‘Trump slump’
U.S. firearms sales fell 6.1 percent in 2018, according to industry data reported on Tuesday, marking the second straight year of declines and extending the “Trump slump” following the November 2016 election of pro-gun rights President Donald Trump.
Explainer: What is the polar vortex and why is it so cold?
Meteorologists have blamed a phenomenon called the polar vortex for the bitter cold that has descended on much of the central and eastern United States this week, forcing residents to huddle indoors, closing schools and businesses and canceling flights…
FBI finds no single motive for Las Vegas mass shooting that killed 58
The FBI has found no clear motive for the slaying of 58 people by a sniper firing down at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas in 2017, the agency said on Tuesday after a year-long investigation of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
After decline, U.S. military’s Mexico border mission to grow again
The Pentagon is planning to send thousands more troops back to the U.S. border with Mexico, acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Tuesday, as Democrats in Congress questioned the merits of a mission that had declined in size.
Suspect in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre faces more charges
Federal authorities on Tuesday added 19 hate-crime and firearms charges to their case against a Pennsylvania man accused of massacring 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue last October in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
Polar vortex delivers Arctic blast to U.S. Midwest
A blast of Arctic air from the polar vortex brought record-setting cold to a wide swath of the United States on Tuesday, stretching from the Dakotas through Maine, with snow expected as far south as Alabama and Georgia.
‘El Chapo’ defense rests after calling one witness
Attorneys for accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman rested his defense after calling a single witness who testified for less than half an hour on Tuesday morning, putting the case on track to go to the jury as early as Friday.
‘We know how to survive,’ but U.S. shutdown cuts deep for Native Americans
The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma used a GoFundMe page and its own money to feed its many members who were furloughed or worked without pay during the U.S. government shutdown.
Assault on ‘Empire’ actor Smollett investigated as hate crime
Chicago police said on Tuesday they were investigating an assault on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett as a possible hate crime after two men yelled racial and homophobic slurs and wrapped a rope around his neck.
U.S. files more charges in Pennsylvania synagogue massacre
A Pennsylvania man was charged on Tuesday with 19 more federal hate crimes and firearms charges for the October massacre of 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
