Relatives whose loved ones were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are making an impassioned plea to the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold state and local bans on certain semiautomatic rifles, citing the high body counts and devastating injuries the weapons can inflict. The parents of five of the 20 first-graders killed in
RICHMOND, Va. — The Republican Party of Virginia said a shooting Thursday just outside its offices in Richmond doesn’t appear to have anything to do with its operations. The party said in a statement posted online that a woman was shot around 1:45 p.m. directly in front of the building that houses its offices. Frank
After a brief bidding war, the manuscript map that helped divide the United States into North and South, free and slave states, sold for $950,000 ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The hand-drawn map showing the Mason-Dixon Line that eventually divided free from slave states in the U.S. sold Thursday for $950,000. Forty-five bidders battled just under three
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday set a September 2027 trial date for a man charged with attempting to kill President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner earlier this year. Cole Tomas Allen’s trial is scheduled to start with jury selection on Sept. 7 in Washington, D.C., and is expected to
A death sentence for an Indiana man who killed his girlfriend’s two children in a house fire should remain in place, the state parole board recommended Wednesday, just days before a Nov. 5 execution by lethal injection. Jeffrey Weisheit has a right under Indiana law to seek clemency and ask for a life sentence for
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Wednesday that it is blocking shipments by the Chinese biotech company BGI Group and its affiliates, alleging ties to forced labor in China’s far-west ethnic region of Xinjiang. Starting Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will bar goods by BGI Group, a major biotech company known for its genetic