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Texas has “gaping loopholes” in its gun laws
Texas has few laws regulating gun ownership and sale at all.
Commercial Drone Pilots Must Undergo Background Checks Under New FAA Rules
They will soon be vetted under the same secret criteria used for airline pilots and airport security, including the US government's terrorist watchlists.
The Senate is finally voting on gun control
More than a week after the deadliest mass shooting in the US, Congress is gearing up to vote on four gun control measures, in legislative efforts that gun regulation opponents, including the NRA, have vowed to defeat.
Which Gun Control Policies Will Actually Work?
An attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence helps us break down the most effective ways of stopping gun violence, from background checks to taking guns away from domestic abusers.
Senate Democrats Are Pushing For Gun Control Laws, Again
Democrats will introduce a host of gun control measures, including one that would prevent anyone on a terror watch list from buying a rifle.
Uber's Drive-By Politics
The fights that Uber and Lyft wage in cities like Austin look like local politics, but their actions often put corporate interests above local ones.
Feds Will (Finally) Mine Social Media for Background Checks
It’s 2016, and only now the US government figures out social media is a thing.
President Obama's Executive Actions on Gun Control, Explained
What to know about the president's push to require everyone "engaged in the business" of selling guns to register as a firearms dealer.
President Obama's Executive Actions on Gun Control, Explained
What to know about the president's push to require everyone "engaged in the business" of selling guns to register as a firearms dealer.
The House of Representatives Is Trying to Block Syrian Refugees with Red Tape
Lawmakers—including nearly 50 Democrats—easily passed a bill that would effectively stall Obama's plans to accept 10,000 new refugees from the war-torn country.