The US Supreme Court has upheld a major gun control policy enacted by the Biden administration to regulate so-called ghost guns – largely untraceable firearms that can be assembled at home using kits. The rules require manufacturers to include serial numbers on the kits and to perform background checks on those who purchased them. Advocacy
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld federal restrictions aimed at curtailing access to kits that can be easily assembled into homemade, nearly untraceable firearms. In a 7-to-2 decision, written by Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, one of the court’s conservatives, the justices left in place requirements enacted during the Biden administration as part of a broader
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a federal ban on the sale of parts kits that permit unlicensed gun owners to make firearms at home which cannot be traced by the police. In a 7-2 decision, the justices agreed these homemade weapons, often referred to as “ghost guns,” qualify as firearms under federal law. “Today,
California has the authority to ban large-capacity ammunition magazines, a federal appellate court ruled Thursday, reversing a previous decision that found the state law unconstitutional under the strict, history-minded limits on gun control measures recently established by the Supreme Court. Writing for the 11-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Circuit Judge
Last Updated:February 02, 2025, 13:56 IST The puja was conducted as per rituals, with Sourendro-Soumyojit, along with their students, offering ‘Sangeet Anjali’ Saraswati Puja event at the music school. (News18) As Bengal celebrated Saraswati Puja on Basant Panchami (Sunday), musician duo Sourendro-Soumyojit went the traditional Gurukul way for the event at their music school. The Saraswati Mandap was designed by students, all
A federal appellate panel said on Friday that Iowa could not enforce a Republican-backed law that made it a state crime for some undocumented immigrants to enter the state. The ruling keeps in place a lower court’s injunction that blocks, at least for now, Iowa’s attempt to change how immigration crimes are policed in the
Last Updated:January 17, 2025, 20:59 IST The decision came against the backdrop of unusual political agitation by President-elect Donald Trump, who vowed that he could negotiate a solution The dispute over TikTok’s ties to China has come to embody the geopolitical competition between Washington and Beijing. The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal
The US Supreme Court has upheld a law that bans TikTok nationwide unless its China-based parent company ByteDance sells the platform by this Sunday. TikTok had challenged the law, arguing it would violate free speech protections for the app’s more than 170 million users it says it has in the US. But that argument was
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that calls for the shutdown of the U.S. operations of social media app TikTok due to privacy and security concerns related to its Chinese owner. The justices in a unanimous opinion said the 2024 law does not violate the 1st Amendment or its protection for freedom
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury’s verdict finding Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s—delivering a blow to the president-elect, and leaving him on the hook for the $5 million payout ordered by the jury. A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for