
Opinion: The Senate's framework on guns isn't politics as usual. It's a sea change
CNN
A bipartisan framework has been agreed upon in the US Senate that could help reduce the number of senseless firerarm deaths in the United States. Kris Brown, head of Brady -- the group formerly known as The Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence -- writes that the development is a major breakthrough on an issue for whiich even token advances have been so hard to achieve.

Trump orders ‘total and complete blockade’ of sanctioned oil tankers coming to and leaving Venezuela
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was ordering a “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers coming to and leaving from Venezuela, ratcheting up pressure against leader Nicolás Maduro’s regime and suggesting an economic motive to the US’ military campaign in the region.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday that would reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification — a move that would ease federal restrictions, though it would not mean full legalization, according to a source familiar with the planning and a senior White House official.

The House Judiciary Committee is demanding interviews with four current and former Department of Justice officials who were involved in subpoenaing phone records for several members of Congress around the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, the day before Republicans interview former special counsel Jack Smith.










