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Ex-gun exec on root of US gun violence

Ryan Busse once worked for a major gun-maker. He now warns about the danger of radicalization in the industry

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Photos of the week flashback to 2011 - Roll Call

CQ Roll Call photojournalists look back to the summer of 2011 when political wrangling over raising the debt limit gripped Washington.

Roll Call

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Our first slate of this year’s big-name speakers is out, and we’ll have plenty to talk about with them at this year’s event.

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Michigan Senate OKs 'history-making' gun control bills after deadly mass shootings

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Senate responded Thursday to last month's deadly shooting at Michigan State University by approving bills that would expand background check requirements for firearm purchases and allow guns to be taken from those deemed a risk to themselves or others.

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Michigan leaders promise quick action to combat gun violence: 'Now is the time'

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan's other Democratic leaders promised supporters of measures aimed at combating gun violence they would take action "in short order" Wednesday during a rally outside the state Capitol.

Tribune News Service

Advancing Michigan bill would repeal legal protections for gun industry

LANSING, Mich. — Before approving an 11-bill package Thursday aimed at combating gun violence, a Michigan Senate committee changed one of the proposals to remove from current state law legal protections for firearm dealers and manufacturers.

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‘Cancer touches all of us’: In San Diego, first lady highlights cancer screening, military families

SAN DIEGO — On a visit to San Diego to highlight the administration’s “cancer moonshot” and initiatives for military families, first lady Jill Biden toured a Logan Heights health clinic Friday to discuss a $100,000 cancer screening grant, before greeting crew members of the USS Gabrielle Giffords warship based at…

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How a new Tucson memorial found a way to mourn mass-shooting victims

TUCSON, Ariz. — If you were to hover over El Presidio Plaza in downtown Tucson, you might catch sight of an earthen form resembling a point of impact, as if some object from the heavens came careening to earth and displaced several tons of vegetation and rock. Within this crater…

Los Angeles Times

Rose Bowl Official Calls Arizona Senator By Wrong Name

Not the smoothest of starts for the game’s officiating crew.

Sports Illustrated

Rose Parade sees enthusiastic crowd despite rise in COVID, RSV and flu cases

PASADENA, Calif. — Just before 6 a.m., Kelly and Nathan Alexander warmed themselves beside a roaring propane fire pit outside Total Wines & More on Colorado Boulevard as they waited for the Rose Parade to begin.

Los Angeles Times

Arizona election win puts Democrats one seat from Senate control

‘I’m humbled by the trust our state has placed in me to continue this work,’ Democrats Mark Kelly said on Friday.

Al Jazeera

Waiting period is baked into gun ballot measure in Oregon

A waiting and vetting period would be built into gun purchases in Oregon if a measure on the November statewide ballot passes

The Independent UK

Democrats in Florida seek to win over Latinos on gun control

Democrats in Florida are trying to make inroads with Latino voters by focusing on gun safety

The Independent UK

House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump face primaries

Three Republican U.S. House members who voted to impeach Donald Trump over the Jan. 6 insurrection are being challenged in Tuesday’s primary elections by rivals endorsed by the former president

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A gunman tried to silence Gabby Giffords. A new doc shows how she recovered her voice

Ever since a would-be assassin shot her and 18 others during a meet-and-greet outside a Safeway supermarket in Tucson, Arizona, one January morning in 2011, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has struggled to speak. The bullet that entered an inch above her left eye and tore through her brain left…

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Biden awards Medal of Freedom, highest civilian honor, to Biles and others

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to two politically active female athletes — soccer star Megan Rapinoe and gymnast Simone Biles — and to the late Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs as part of his first slate of recipients of the nation’s highest civilian honor.

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Biden medal picks push partisan issues, and bipartisanship - Roll Call

Medal of Freedom recipients include advocates for gun control and civil rights, plus former Republican senators who worked across the aisle.

Chicago Sun-Times

Biden to award Medal of Freedom to Denzel Washington, Simone Biles, John McCain, among others

Biden’s honors list includes both living and deceased honorees from the worlds of Hollywood, sports, politics, the military, academia, and civil rights and social justice advocacy.

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From Gabby Giffords to Steve Jobs: Who’s on Biden’s presidential medal of freedom list?

White House says recipients ‘have overcome significant obstacles to achieve impressive accomplishments in the arts and sciences’

Al Jazeera

Simone Biles, Steve Jobs to receive highest US civilian honour

Denzel Washington, Khizr Khan among 17 people, some deceased, who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

WEKU

Biden will award the Medal of Freedom to Biles, McCain, Giffords and others

The president will present the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, who also include Oscar-winning Denzel Washington, the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and soccer Olympian Megan Rapinoe.

The Independent UK

Biden to award Medal of Freedom to Biles, McCain, Giffords

The White House says President Joe Biden will present the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles, actor Denzel Washington and the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, with whom Biden served in the Senate

The Independent UK

Lawmakers touched by gun violence celebrate bipartisan bill: ‘The NRA no longer has authority’

Mark Kelly and Lucy McBath, whose lives were forever changed by gun violence, talk to The Independent

WEKU

Gabby Giffords is still fighting for gun violence victims, years after she became one

Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot in the head more than a decade ago, but this week threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park as part of its Gun Violence Awareness Day.

The Conversation

US tragedies from guns have often – but not always – spurred political responses

The nationwide call for stronger gun laws in the aftermath of mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde and the over 200 other places where such tragedies took place so far in 2022 is understandable.

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