After father’s plea, Texas board recommends clemency for death row inmate
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Death row inmate Thomas “Bart” Whitaker, convicted of hatching a plot that left his mother and brother dead and his father with a gun wound to the chest, received a unanimous clemency recommendation on Tuesday after his father…
Supreme Court snubs challenge to California gun waiting period
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a blow to gun rights activists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away a challenge to California’s 10-day waiting period for firearms purchases that is intended to guard against impulsive violence and suicides.
Seventh grader shoots himself in Ohio school, prompting lockdown
(Reuters) – A seventh-grade student shot and wounded himself inside a school bathroom in Ohio on Tuesday morning with a gun he brought to school, but no one else was injured, police said.
Virginia judge rejects Volkswagen bid to delay first U.S. diesel emissions trial
FAIRFAX, Va. (Reuters) – A Virginia state court judge on Tuesday rejected a request by the U.S. unit of Volkswagen AG to delay several of the company’s trials over excess emissions because it fears “inflammatory” comments made by a lawyer representing…
Survivors of Florida school shooting launch gun control push
PARKLAND/TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) – Dozens of students and parents from the Florida high school where 17 teens and staff members were slain last week in a shooting rampage arrived in the state capital of Tallahassee on Tuesday to lobby for a ban on …
Republicans will sue to block court-drawn Pennsylvania congressional map
(Reuters) – State and national Republican officials will file a federal lawsuit as soon as Wednesday seeking to block a new Pennsylvania congressional map released on Monday by the state’s high court, the party’s congressional campaign arm said on Tues…
Top court snubs challenge to California gun waiting period
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a blow to gun rights activists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away a challenge to California’s 10-day waiting period for firearms purchases that is intended to guard against impulsive violence and suicides.
Florida teens travel to state capital demanding action on guns
PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) – Busloads of Florida students headed on Tuesday to the state capital Tallahassee to call for a ban on assault rifles, pressing on with protests after a shooting rampage at a high school that killed 17 teens and educators.
U.S. top court rejects challenge to California gun waiting period
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a blow to gun rights activists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away a challenge to California’s 10-day waiting period for firearms purchases that is intended to guard against impulsive violence and suicides.
U.S. top court rejects investor appeals over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revive litigation in which shareholders accused the federal government of overstepping its authority when it restructured mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac following t…
