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The Second Amendment is not about guns -- it's about anti-Blackness, a new book argues
CNN
In a new book, scholar Carol Anderson argues that the Founding Fathers drafted the Second Amendment to keep African-Americans powerless and vulnerable.
Heston was president of the National Rifle Association in May 2000 when he spoke at the group's national gathering in Charlotte. The actor described gun owners as patriots and said owning a gun was "something that gives the most common man the most uncommon of freedoms." As the crowd cheered, Heston then raised a replica of a Revolutionary War-era flintlock rifle and delivered a warning in his thundering baritone to anyone who would try to take his guns away: "From my cold, dead hands!"![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20250211032809.jpg)
At least 1 dead and several injured after a private jet crashed into another upon arrival in Arizona
At least one person is dead and several injured after a midsized business jet crashed into another jet as it arrived at Scottsdale Municipal Airport in Arizona Monday afternoon.
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The Trump administration’s dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and its sweeping freeze on foreign assistance has made it more difficult to track potential misuse of US taxpayer-funded humanitarian assistance, meaning it could end up unintentionally going to terrorist groups, according to a new report from the agency’s independent watchdog.
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California man finds 525-pound animal under his home after Los Angeles fires. The bear goes by Barry
A Southern California man returned home after evacuating last month’s devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires to discover an unexpected resident lurking beneath it.