A woman in North Carolina who became enraged by another driver after water splashed onto her car on the highway was shot in the face during a road rage incident – and a suspect has since been arrested. Emergency responders rushed 43-year-old Angela Mischelle Duncan of Gastonia to a hospital after a bullet entered the […]
A federal appeals court on Monday blocked a judge’s ruling that overturned California’s 30-year assault weapons ban. Driving the news: U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez ruled earlier this month that the ban was unconstitutional and likened the AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife, but the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has now granted a […]
An Asian American college student in San Diego ended up at the hospital after being attacked by “older and larger” individuals over beach space last week. What happened: Kobe La, who suffered serious injuries, was out with his friends at Ocean Beach on June 15 when the attack happened just after 9 p.m. In an […]
California will pay off the accumulated unpaid rent that has piled up during the COVID-19 pandemic, the AP reports. Why it matters: The move would fulfill a promise to landlords to help them to break even, while giving renters relief, the AP writes. Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for […]
For the people act. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Over the last decade, Democrats in key states have relinquished control of redistricting to “independent commissions … free of partisan interference,” a decision made for the sake of “good government” that could, however, affect the left’s ability to hold onto their majority in 2022, Politico writes. Despite agreeing […]
President Joe Biden will travel to Raleigh on Thursday, visiting the state capital as part of his continued efforts to encourage people across the country to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The visit comes as part of Biden’s “National Month of Action,” a nationwide sprint in June to get 70% of adults at least partially vaccinated […]
A theory embraced recently by conservative media personalities and politicians who support former President Donald Trump, which alleges that the violence that took place at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was somehow orchestrated by the FBI, appears to have originated with an article on a right-wing website run by a fired Trump White House […]
A Minnesota judge who, former colleagues and friends say, has no penchant for publicity will again find himself in the media spotlight this week when he sentences the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd. Judge Peter Cahill, who has served on the bench in Hennepin County for 14 […]
Welcome home, Mr President Joe Biden returned from his sojourn to the UK and Europe to face a growing list of domestic headaches as his big-spending policies stalled and were also blamed for rising inflation. Mr Biden’s initial “American Jobs Plan” called for a record $2.3 trillion in infrastructure spending. Republicans fought hard to stop […]
Former Obama-era Office of Government Ethics Chief Walter Shaub called the Biden administration’s hiring of multiple relatives of senior staffers a disgraceful repudiation to the mission of restoring ethics in government. “I’m sorry, I know some folks don’t like hearing any criticism of him. But this royally sucks. I’m disgusted. A lot of us worked […]