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...BlackRock, which holds nearly 7 per cent of Exxon shares through its massive index fund business, backed the campaign, arguing the oil major was not doing enough to protect its shareholders from “the impact...
...US pressure groups/interest groups NRA to press on with Houston conference despite Texas school shooting US gun control activists hope this time will be different Washington’s revolving door: can Trump...
...He vowed to “end welfare as we know it”, publicly repudiated Black musician Sister Souljah for advocating racial violence and flew back to Little Rock in the middle of the 1992 campaign to reaffirm his support...
...But for Trump, the trial is also an unusual campaign stop in his quest to return to the White House. 4. OpenAI plans to launch a store with custom versions of ChatGPT in the coming weeks....
...An American soldier, the kind you really don’t want to mess with, trains his gun on a pair of quivering, cringing targets....
...The oil company yesterday agreed to buy Pioneer Natural Resources, making it the dominant producer in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico....
...The individual was a member of the Bandidos group, which was founded in Texas in 1966....
...Similarly, the US state has so far retained its monopoly of violence, jailing many of the perpetrators of January 6. Yet Trump continues to contest that monopoly....
...Is there also risk of political violence?...
...He launched his successful presidential campaign in 2016 by gliding down the golden escalator of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue....
...And in the wake of the latest episodes of gun violence and police brutality in the US, Biden felt pressure to show that he was still committed to addressing the issues, renewing his call for an assault weapons...
...Many polls have shown that a majority of Americans support gun-control measures given the severity and frequency of gun violence across the country....
...“I implore, beg, my Republican colleagues to join Democrats in finally making changes to our gun laws to help prevent Americans from reliving this gun tragedy far too often....
...How are you going to prevent a student from saying they were president of the black student association?” The practicalities are irrelevant to Blum....
...Trump told the NRA convention on Friday: “The various gun control policies being pushed by the left would have done nothing to prevent the horror that took place [in Texas].”...
...were killed, was a hoax staged to justify gun control....
...Jones faces two more trials related to his comments about Sandy Hook. One is being brought in Connecticut by the families of eight victims, and the other will also be in Texas....
...O’Rourke interrupted Abbott and other officials at a press conference in Uvalde on Wednesday, accusing the incumbent governor of “doing nothing” to stop gun violence in Texas....
...“red flag” laws to prevent dangerous individuals from acquiring guns....
...to guns; what works to prevent injuries and deaths; and how can successful measures be scaled up....
...Biden said in a statement on Monday that while the law “will save lives . . . there is much more work to do, and I’m not going to give up fighting the epidemic of gun violence”....
...The decision will have consequences for one of the most socially and politically divisive issues in the US — gun control — in a country that has systematically failed to rein in gun violence....
...Brady, the US gun violence advocacy group, says 22 children and teens are shot in the US every day....
...New Yorkers at further risk of gun violence.”...
...The fact that so-called Christians are among the most militant defenders of untrammelled US gun rights tells us all we need to know....
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