California animal shelter to require those adopting pets to support gun restrictions
An animal shelter in California will not allow anyone who does not support gun control to adopt their pets. The Shelter Hope Pet Shop in Thousand Oaks, Calif., announced at the end of May that they added the question, "Where do you stand on gun control?" to their standard adoption interview for potential pet owners. "We believe that if we can make our voices heard on how we feel we can make an impact. We do not support those who believe that the 2nd amendment gives them the right to buy assault weapons," Shelter Hope Pet Shop owner Kim Sill
Read MoreWhy controlling inflation should be the Federal Reserve’s primary goal
Early in the pandemic, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell emphasized that the Fed intended to pursue the goals of maximizing employment and allowing inflation to rise above its 2 percent target to make up for past shortfalls below that target. The experience of the past few years should cause us to question this dual mandate. Beginning in March 2020, expansionary monetary policy combined with government stimu
Read MoreWill reversing Roe v. Wade impact midterm election turnout?
Story at a glance Most voters say a reversal of Roe v. Wade will not impact their decision to vote come November 2022, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll. But findings illustrate sharp differences in opinion on abortion access based on party affiliation, gender, and age. Data also show many young female voters did not hear m
Read MoreMondaire Jones says LGBTQ progress 'at risk of being rolled back'
Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that the progress LGBTQ+ people have made in equality over the decades is now at risk of being overturned by the Supreme Court. The congressman pointed to Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion last month that would effectively overturn Roe v. Wade, in which the justice references decisions that expanded LGBTQ+ rights, such as marriage equality. Jones told The Hill’s Julia Manchester during the “America’s Unfinished Business: An LGBTQ+ Summit,” hosted by The Hill for Pride Month, that if the court does overturn abortion, it
Read MoreJonestown survivor Jackie Speier details shooting trauma: ‘Stop shielding your eyes’
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) relayed her own experience being a victim of gun violence in a speech Wednesday in support of a bill that would raise the age to buy a semi-automatic weapon from 18 to 21. The House passed the Protecting Our Kids Act Wednesday largely along party lines in the aftermath of mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas. The Buffalo and Uvalde shootings both were carried out by 18-year-old gunmen. Speier is a survivor of the 1978 Jonestown massacre, in which cult leader Jim Jones oversaw a mass murder-suicide of more than 900 of his foll
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