President Donald Trump has told the head of the National Rifle Association that strengthening background checks for gun buyers is “off the table,” the Atlantic magazine reports. “He was cementing his stance that we already have background checks and that he’s not waffling on this anymore,” Atlantic quotes a top White House official who […]
U.S. President Donald Trump is headed Wednesday to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, where gunmen shot and killed a combined 31 people last weekend, two cities where many residents who blame the president’s rhetoric for fomenting the violence are urging him to stay away. White House officials said Trump’s visits would be similar […]
This image provided by the U.S. District Court in Maryland shows a photo of firearms and ammunition that was in the motion for detention pending trial in the case against Christopher Paul Hasson, whom prosecutors call a “domestic terrorist.” A U.S. Coast Guard officer who federal prosecutors allege stockpiled weapons to launch a spree of […]
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he largest extinction in Earth’s history marked the end of the Permian period, some 252 million years ago. Long before dinosaurs, our planet was populated with plants and animals that were mostly obliterated after a series of massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia. Fossils in ancient seafloor rocks display a thriving and diverse marine ecosystem, […]