The National Rifle Association (NRA) filed a First Amendment appeal with the Supreme Court on Monday. The appeal was directed at a New York financial regulator who had purportedly convinced banks and insurance companies to cut ties with the gun rights organization.
Read More SCOTUS Investigates How N.Y. Inhibited Insurers From Working With NRA
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told the press that a 22-year-old Lebanese immigrant who was detained on March 9th for entering the country illegally near El Paso, Texas, claimed to be a former member of Hezbollah who was traveling to New York and intended “to make a bomb.”
Read More Lebanese Migrant Detained At Border With Bomb Supplies Admits Ties To Hezbollah
In Minneapolis, the minimum wage for rideshare drivers was vetoed by the mayor, but the city council overrode it. Therefore, Lyft and Uber will no longer operate in Minneapolis, which goes into effect on May 1st.
Read More Minnesota: Uber And Lyft Will Stop Offering Service In Minneapolis, Citing New Minimum Wage Law
In continuing negotiations over a temporary truce and hostage agreement in its conflict with Israel, Hamas has presented a formal counterproposal, raising hopes for the first time in weeks that more Israelis kidnapped on October 7th may be freed and that hostilities may end.
Read More Hamas Issues Counter-Proposal Hostage And Ceasefire Deal, Netanyahu Says Deal Is ‘Absurd’
GOP Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia signed a bill on Wednesday that gives a commission the authority to start removing and penalizing state prosecutors. This could very easily interfere with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s efforts to prosecute former President Trump.
Read More Gov. Brian Kemp Signs Law Reviving Georgia Sanctions Panel That Could Alter Trump’s Prosecution
On Thursday, James Crumbley, the father of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Read More Father of Ethan Crumbley Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter in Oxford High Shooting