Illinois governor tells NRA to 'leave us the hell alone'
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker told the National Rifle Association (NRA) in a tweet to “leave us the hell alone” in the wake of a mass shooting that killed seven people in Chicago’s Highland Park suburb Monday. In a tweet on Tuesday, the NRA cited recent research from the nonprofit Crime Prevention Research Center, which found that “Since 1950, 94% of mass public shootings occurred in gun-free zones.” Pri
Read MoreKemp raises nearly $4 million in 2 months in Georgia governor race
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has raised nearly $4 million within a two-month span in his rematch with Democrat Stacey Abrams. Kemp’s campaign told The Hill on Wednesday that the governor raised $3.8 million between May 1 to June 30. According to Axios, a Kemp-aligned PAC, the Georgians First Leadership Committee, brought in an additional $3 million during the same period. Kemp and Abrams won their respective primaries on May 24. Kemp raised some $7 million during his
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Despite rising recession fears, jobseekers did well for themselves in May. We’ll also look at a potential decline in gas prices and new questions over the future of a cap on insulin costs. But first, find out why the White House is ditching
Read MoreWhat laws could have stopped the Highland Park shooting?
The Independence Day shooting in Highland Park, Ill., has put the spotlight on loopholes in federal and state gun laws as well as a lack of robust implementation that limits their effectiveness in preventing gun violence. The 21-year-old man accused of shooting and killing seven people and wounding dozens more on Monday slipped past Illinois’ red flag laws and legally obtained a high-powered rifle similar to an AR-15, raising questions about both the law and those sworn to uphold it. “Illinois has this law on the books and it’s on the books for exactly the scenario that
Read MoreWhy the Supreme Court climate decision is a canary in the coal mine
You cannot kill what is already dead. So, while it is puzzling that the Supreme Court issued a decision on the unlawfulness of the Clean Power Plan — an Obama-era policy to cut climate pollution from the U.S. power sector that never actually took effect — that regulation is not the decision’s primary casualty. Economic trends drove industry to surpass the Clean Power Plan’s goals to burn less coal years ago. The Clean Power Plan was merely a zombie that the court raised to issue a decision. The real wrecking ball in
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