Gun control advocates and lawmakers have reacted strongly to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision overturning the Trump-era bump stock ban. The ruling in Garland v. Cargill was criticized for allowing the accessory, linked to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, back into circulation. Congress members, like Rep. Rashida Tlaib, condemned the move citing ...
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a ban on bump stocks. It was enacted by the Trump administration after a 2017 deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas. By a 6-3 vote the justices found the Trump administration had exceeded its power when it prohibited an attachment that enables a semiautomatic rifle to fire at […]
A 17-year-old Muslim boy was fatally shot by an off-duty security guard while attempting to return a malfunctioning toy gun at a Big 5 store in Renton, Washington. The guard, Aaron Myers, faces a second-degree murder charge. The teenager, Hazrat Ali Rohani, had come to the store to return a replica gun. Myers claims Rohani […]
Wilmington, United States – AFP A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday of federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president. The 54-year-old son of President Joe Biden was convicted on all three of the counts facing him, CNN and other US media reported. Hunter […]
BERLIN (AA) – Former German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel has urged the government to negotiate with Afghanistan’s interim administration for the deportation of Afghan nationals who have committed serious crimes. In an article written for German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, former Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Gabriel said G...
Berlin, Germany — AFP German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that serious criminals should be deported, even if they come from Syria or Afghanistan, after an Afghan asylum seeker allegedly stabbed a police officer to death. He also said that glorifying or celebrating acts of violence was “against all our values”, and could in...
South African police have arrested a man for attacking a family because of their support for Palestine. Grayson Beare appeared before the Durban Magistrate on charges of killing Halima Hoosen-Preston and critically injuring her husband. In a social media video, Beare admitted using a knife in the attack, claiming Hoosen-Preston mocked his fa...
A security guard at Qarabughra Prison in occupied Eastern Turkestan in northwest China fatally shot two Uyghur brothers. The killings of 35-year-old Sidikjan Ablikim and 33-year-old Ablehet Ablikim occurred during a confrontation in a vegetable field where the brothers were working. Chinese police and prison officials claim the guard interv...
More than 40 people were shot in overnight shootings across Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, with three people reportedly killed on Sunday morning. Twenty-eight people were hit in a mass shooting at a party Sunday morning in Akron, Ohio. According to a police statement, 25 people were injured, one was killed and at least two victims […]
Stockholm, Sweden – AFP Sweden has alleged that Iran was recruiting members of Swedish criminal gangs, some of them children, as proxies to commit “acts of violence” against Israel and other states and groups in Sweden that Tehran considered a threat. These claims were made by Sweden’s intelligence agency on Thursday. T...
