Gun Control
Detachable magazines that hold more than 10 rounds are still banned in the state.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a landmark case next month that will have huge implications for more than domestic violence.
A faculty member was recently shot and killed on the same Chapel Hill campus.
More gun sellers would have to put their buyers through background checks as a result of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
“I know there’s big personalities. There’s also dead kids and grieving people looking for solutions,” said the mother of a school shooting survivor.
Male and Black children and adolescents are more likely to die by “pediatric firearm deaths.”
“You know what back to school season brings us? Memories that our children died a gruesome horrific death and you did absolutely nothing except tell us that ‘it could have been worse.'"
The Friday ruling overturns a lower court decision that attempted to halt the ban of assault weapons after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed it into law earlier this year.
State Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones reclaimed the seats they'd lost in April, when Republicans briefly ousted them from the chamber.
The rom-com star considered a run for governor of Texas in 2021 but ultimately decided against it.