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The shooter who killed 12 people in a government office building in Virginia Beach used a firearm equipped with a ‘silencer’ that muffles the sound of gunfire. It’s the nightmare scenario that gun-control advocates have warned about amid efforts in recent years to ease restrictions on the devices, which they say can help shooters escape detection and inflict more carnage. But gun-rights advocates and most law enforcement experts…

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Video Kamala Harris vows to fine companies that pay men more than women Is the 2020 hopeful’s plan to close the gender pay gap a good strategy? Independent Women’ Forum senior policy analyst Patrice Onwuka and youth political strategist Malia Fisher debate. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ star appears to be dimming as other Democrats rise past her while she struggles to gain a footing among likely voters. The junior U.S….

Video Kamala Harris vows to fine companies that pay men more than women Is the 2020 hopeful’s plan to close the gender pay gap a good strategy? Independent Women’ Forum senior policy analyst Patrice Onwuka and youth political strategist Malia Fisher debate. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ star appears to be dimming as other Democrats rise past her while she struggles to gain a footing among likely voters. The junior U.S….

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for June 1 Fox News Flash top headlines for June 1 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com The family of the Virginia Beach shooter taped a handwritten note to their home on Saturday expressing “heartfelt condolences” to the victims of Friday’s carnage. DeWayne Craddock, an engineer with the city’s public utilities department for 15 years, opened fire at the Virginia Beach municipal complex on Friday,…

How the Sackler family became nonprofit pariahs The family behind Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin, has closed down all new funding of nonprofits while it deals with myriad lawsuits related to its role in the opioid… Pharmaceuticalsread more

Matt Zapotosky June 1 at 3:39 PM The U.S. Navy on Saturday confirmed that it received a request to “minimize the visibility” of the USS John S. McCain warship while President Trump was visiting Japan last month — an episode that has raised concerns about whether the commander in chief’s political grievances might be infecting military culture. Rear Adm. Charlie Brown, the Navy’s chief of information, said in a statement…

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said on Sunday that a war with the United States would be a disaster for the world while issuing a warning to Washington not to meddle in security disputes over Taiwan and the South China Sea. China has been incensed by recent moves by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to increase support for self-ruled and democratic Taiwan, including U.S. Navy sailings through…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for June 1 Fox News Flash top headlines for June 1 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com The family of the Virginia Beach shooter taped a handwritten note to their home on Saturday expressing “heartfelt condolences” to the victims of Friday’s carnage. DeWayne Craddock, an engineer with the city’s public utilities department for 15 years, opened fire at the Virginia Beach municipal complex on Friday,…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for June 1 Fox News Flash top headlines for June 1 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com The family of the Virginia Beach shooter taped a handwritten note to their home on Saturday expressing “heartfelt condolences” to the victims of Friday’s carnage. DeWayne Craddock, an engineer with the city’s public utilities department for 15 years, opened fire at the Virginia Beach municipal complex on Friday,…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for June 1 Fox News Flash top headlines for June 1 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com The family of the Virginia Beach shooter taped a handwritten note to their home on Saturday expressing “heartfelt condolences” to the victims of Friday’s carnage. DeWayne Craddock, an engineer with the city’s public utilities department for 15 years, opened fire at the Virginia Beach municipal complex on Friday,…

President Trump has already tried to use tariffs to straighten out what he views as a harmful trade deficit. It hasn’t worked at all. In fact, the overall monthly U.S. trade deficit increased by 17% between March 2017 and March 2019. Even worse, ever since Trump’s new trade war with China, he has had to spend more money bailing out angry farmers hurt by his tariffs than he has taken…

Video Eric Shawn: Mueller, Barr & Schiff, and the new Russia probe Alex Little on what it really takes to prepare a FISA warrant. Former assistant U.S. attorney Alex Little said on Saturday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had messages for both Republicans and Democrats in Congress when he held his first post-probe press briefing on Wednesday. “It’s pretty clear he had two audiences — I think one was congressional Democrats,…

Video Kamala Harris vows to fine companies that pay men more than women Is the 2020 hopeful’s plan to close the gender pay gap a good strategy? Independent Women’ Forum senior policy analyst Patrice Onwuka and youth political strategist Malia Fisher debate. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ star appears to be dimming as other Democrats rise past her while she struggles to gain a footing among likely voters. The junior U.S….

Former FBI Director James Comey slammed Attorney General William Barr for “echoing conspiracy theories” in an interview on CBS. “Bill Barr on CBS offers no facts. An AG should not be echoing conspiracy theories. He should gather facts and show them. That is what Justice is about,” Comey tweeted on Saturday. Bill Barr on CBS offers no facts. An AG should not be echoing conspiracy theories. He should gather facts…

Virginia Beach officials on Saturday identified the 12 victims killed in a mass shooting at the city’s municipal center. Eleven of the victims were city employees and one worked as a contractor at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center. The gunman, identified as a city employee named 40-year-old Dwayne Craddock, died after a long gunfight with police. A local police officer was wounded while confronting the gunman. Chief James Cervera said in…

“Democrats, we have a fight on our hands,” she said, “and it’s a fight for who we are as a people. It’s a fight for the highest ideals or our nation. And Democrats, with this president, it’s a fight for truth itself.”

How the Sackler family became nonprofit pariahs The family behind Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin, has closed down all new funding of nonprofits while it deals with myriad lawsuits related to its role in the opioid… Pharmaceuticalsread more

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12 killed after gunman opens fire ‘indiscriminately’ at Virginia Beach office: Police originally appeared on abcnews.go.com A city worker opened fire “indiscriminately” at the Municipal Center in Virginia Beach Friday afternoon, killing at least 12 people before he was shot dead by police in a “long gun battle,” police said. Eleven of the victims died on the scene and one succumbed to their injuries on the way to the hospital,…