Accord offers measured gun curbs, and if enacted would come after years of stalemate as Biden urges lawmakers to get it to his deskJoe Biden has urged US lawmakers to get a deal on gun reforms to his desk quickly as a group of senators announced a bipartisan framework...
Actor and gun owner describes ‘window where real change can happen’ as he reflects on his hometown of UvaldeMatthew McConaughey made an emotional plea for US lawmakers to pass gun control legislation during an appearance at the White House on Tuesday, where he urged...
US Senate back in session after series of shootings over the weekendBiden entered office facing daunting crises – only to be hit with more crisesCapitol attack panel to unveil new evidence against Trump at hearingsDeSantis beats Trump in conservative group straw poll...
The president plans to attend the Summit of Americas, a gathering of western hemisphere nations that the United States is hosting for the first time since 1994....
A small bipartisan group of senators continues to work toward a deal that could include some new gun restrictions, but not the assault weapons ban or other measures President Biden called for in a national address....
Readers react to the president’s speech and suggest smart guns, gun liability, age restrictions and a ban on assault weapons. Also: The Depp-Heard verdict; a Supreme Court ruling; diplomacy to end the war....
Analysis: Joe Biden called for action in a televised address after the mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo but power of the gun lobby and political calculation are likely to prevail“Enough!”Joe Biden repeated that word 11 times during a televised address to the...
The reactions followed familiar party lines: Democrats agree it’s time to act, Republicans call the speech ‘divisive’Joe Biden’s impassioned plea for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in America has met with mixed reactions from US lawmakers, whose...
Biden calls for assault weapons ban in fiery speech: ‘How much carnage will we accept?’US Justice Department could be zeroing in on Trump lawyers, experts saySign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailGood morning and welcome to the Guardian’s live...
President Biden will weigh in on the May jobs report after it is released on Friday morning. Later, Vice President Harris plans to speak about inflation....
President Joe Biden has called for greater gun controls in the US to prevent mass shootings. He made a televised address to the nation following recent shootings at a school in Texas, a medical building in Oklahoma and a grocery store in Buffalo, New York....
President Biden urged lawmakers to stop the sale of assault-style weapons, expand universal background checks and pass “red flag” laws after last month’s massacres in Texas and New York....
Following the third mass shooting in as many weeks, Biden delivers an emotional speech saying the time has come to confront the carnage and tackle firearm use....
President Biden called on Congress to pass new federal gun legislation, including stopping the sale of assault-style weapons, expanding background checks and passing “red flag” laws....
President Biden is expected to urge lawmakers to pass new gun control measures, in the wake of the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., Uvalde, Texas, and Tulsa, Okla....
Talks are centered around background checks and ‘red flag’ laws, to the frustration of gun reform advocatesBiden meets today with formula manufacturers to discuss shortagePolice chief who led response to Uvalde shooting sworn in to councilRussia-Ukraine war: live...
US president welcomes New Zealand’s PM to Oval Office and speaks of devastation caused by mass shootingsNew Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has met US president Joe Biden to discuss shared concerns about China’s growing influence in the Pacific, as well as...
Judiciary panel to discuss ‘omnibus’ package of firearms measures in response to shootings in Buffalo and UvaldeSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailGood morning, and welcome to Tuesday’s US politics blog.We begin with some breaking news,...
The former president’s son, 44, said Salvador Ramos would have killed people anyway with a ‘bat or a bomb or some sort of improvised device or a machete’....
Hours earlier, Cruz took to the stage at the NRA’s annual meeting in Houston, where he joined former president Donald Trump in rejecting proposals for new restrictions and calling instead for more school security or mental health screenings....
The United States is facing a widening gap between the scale of gun violence and what America’s political leaders can agree are the right responses to the carnage....
Speaking at the gun lobby’s convention, the former US president repeated his call to arm teachersDonald Trump has said the recent US school shooting is a reason to arm law-abiding citizens, not disarm them.The former US president was a guest speaker at the National...
The president has long fought for restrictions but deep divisions have often left him hamstrungLess than two hours after returning from a five-day trip to Asia, a visit meant to signal American strength, Joe Biden walked slowly into the Roosevelt Room of the White...
After the deadliest school shooting in a decade, the top Senate Democrat said he would wait to force a vote on gun safety measures the G.O.P. has opposed....
After the deadliest school shooting in a decade, the top Senate Democrat said he would wait to force a vote on gun safety measures the G.O.P. has opposed....
America absorbs horror of attack on elementary school in Uvalde, the worst school shooting since Sandy Hook a decade agoAmerica is absorbing the shock of another bloody mass shooting a day after an 18-year-old man wearing body armour and carrying assault rifles...
This could be the mass shooting that leads to significant change — or it could join the long list of other atrocities that have been followed by policy stalemates....
President asks why US ‘willing to live with this carnage’ after gunman kills at least 19 children and two adultsTexas school shooting- latest updatesPresident Joe Biden has urged tougher gun controls and asked why the US is “willing to live with this carnage” after a...
President Biden has played a central role in the unsuccessful efforts to enact significant gun control legislation amid thousands of mass shootings....
White supremacy is as American as apple pie, as the latest killings in Buffalo show. Biden needs to take a stand against neofascistsLast weekend, just as I finished a live performance in California of Four Questions, the Grammy award-winning jazz collaboration for...
The Democrat from Connecticut, who has spent his decade in the Senate trying and failing to enact gun safety bills, says his party should make the issue the core of its 2022 midterm message....
President Joe Biden Sunday said the Justice Department is investigating the shooting as a hate crime and “racially motivated act of white supremacy.” ...
In Philadelphia, the most comprehensive study in decades found a handful of dealers selling a huge number of guns used illegally. A House panel is uncovering similar patterns elsewhere....
President Joe Biden unveiled new regulations for untraceable ghost guns days before police tied Brooklyn subway shooting suspect to Ohio gun purchase. ...
President Biden unveiled new restrictions to curb the spread of “ghost guns” during an event to announce his nomination of Steven M. Dettelbach, a former federal prosecutor, to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives....
President promises to tackle gun violence and vows prosecution for those who use untraceable guns assembled from kits Joe Biden has announced a crackdown on “ghost guns”, untraceable firearms assembled from kits that have been used in a rising number of shooting...
