Tag: Gun Control

"He could've been a beacon of hope ...", former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said of President Obama. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Gingrich names the ‘saddest part’ of Obama’s seven-and-a-half-years in office

Anna Giaritelli · July 12, 2016 3:52 am

National Security

Three dead in Michigan after inmate overtook officers

Anna Giaritelli, Kelly Cohen · July 11, 2016 7:54 pm

According to her prepared opening statement, Loretta Lynch will say her department will continue to give state and local law enforcement officers access to "funding, training, and technical assistance for critical programs and assets like body-worn cameras, de-escalation training, and education in implicit bias." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Lynch focused on ‘bonds of trust’ between cops, communities

Kelly Cohen · July 11, 2016 7:49 pm

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., called House Speaker Paul Ryan "a handmaiden of the gun lobby" because he is refusing to bring up two Democratic-favored gun control bills. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Maxine Waters: Paul Ryan is a ‘handmaiden of the gun lobby’

Mariana Barillas · July 11, 2016 6:59 pm

"Police are having a really difficult time in communities where they know guns are everywhere." (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Obama: Legal guns drive wedge between cops and communities

Joel Gehrke · July 9, 2016 6:42 pm

President emphasizes the underlying unity of Americans, despite the racially-charged violence. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama: This is not the 1960s

Joel Gehrke · July 9, 2016 5:42 pm

Says client who shot black man was reacting to "the presence of that gun and the display of that gun." (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP)

Attorney: Minnesota officer reacted to gun, not race

Keith Koffler · July 9, 2016 3:58 pm

The president must take his focus off NATO to return to a country divided. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Obama returns from Europe to a nation on edge

Susan Crabtree · July 9, 2016 3:37 pm

Americans urged to ‘buy a gun, get trained, carry it always’

Paul Bedard · July 9, 2016 12:54 pm

As the reports came in about the sniper attacks on police in Dallas Thursday night, former Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., called for Obama to "watch out" in a Twitter post, declaring that "this is now war." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House: Walsh, other critics casting ‘aspersions’

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2016 9:17 pm

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, "Too many innocent lives have been claimed because of the easy access people have to guns — in some cases, guns that were never intended to be on city streets." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

White House again calls for gun control after Dallas attacks

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2016 7:41 pm

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton rejected the presumptive Republican nominee's request to speak at a 3 p.m. roll call at the NYPD Midtown North Precinct in the wake of the Dallas attack on law enforcement officers that left five dead and seven others wounded. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Commissioner says he rejected Trump request to address NYPD

Kelly Cohen · July 8, 2016 7:29 pm