Author: News Desk

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld an Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons, keeping in place a law passed largely in response to a deadly Independence Day parade shooting. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturns a lower court decision that found the ban unconstitutional. The 2-1 appellate decision found that the Illinois law does not violate the Second Amendment, and its restrictions are “consistent with the principles that underpin our Nation’s tradition of firearm regulation.” “Whether to adopt them is thus a decision reposed in our elected representatives, and we reverse,” the appeals…

In its quest to build a 250-foot arch near the National Mall, the Trump administration is arguing that a longstanding law restricting building heights in D.C. does not apply — to the project or to any federal structures at all. The topic resurfaced at Thursday’s meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission, the second federal body tasked with reviewing the arch. The first, the Commission of Fine Arts — an aesthetic-focused panel packed entirely with Trump appointees — quickly approved the administration’s incomplete design in May. The National Capital Planning Commission, in contrast, focuses on urban planning issues such as…

Summer House and In the City star Lindsay Hubbard has quite a mouth on her and is not afraid to use it. She has been clearing up a bunch of falsehoods regarding timelines and the cast. Now, she is slamming fans who feel that it is okay to bully Bravolebs. Keep reading for more details on what she had to say. Lindsay Hubbard Is Done With Bad Behavior For years, Summer House fans have watched Lindsay Hubbard say and do whatever she pleases. Of course, they felt bad when her engagement to Carl Radke was abruptly called off. However, she…

Mark Bradford didn’t walk straight from school into an art career. He spent years in his mother’s hair salon in Leimert Park, a neighborhood in South Los Angeles with a rich history in Black art and culture. He enrolled in formal arts education at age 31. That backstory matters, friends. It shaped everything about what Bradford makes and why he makes it. His most ambitious work yet is now on display inside the Museum at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. It’s a monumental painting covering the entire three-story west wall of the Our Story Atrium. The Obama Foundation released…

Susan Thiele says the emergency closure of the hospital six blocks away from her home in Dauphin, Man., is scary.”I’m terrified,” she said Thursday. “I have had to rush over to the hospital a few times, to emergency.”Thiele, who has melanoma and heart issues related to long COVID, is one of the people calling for a temporary field hospital in Dauphin after its hospital was closed indefinitely following flooding just over a week ago.”I know it sounds crazy, but if the military can set up a hospital … there are empty buildings here. There’s halls that could be used. It…

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García, the Sinaloa Cartel leader who last year pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court, needs — and deserves — to be incarcerated in a prison where he can receive adequate medical care for his various health issues. That’s the crux of a letter Frank A. Perez, Zambada’s lawyer, sent this week to Brian M. Cogan, federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Frank Perez, El Mayo’s attorney, made the unusual argument to the presiding judge that his client not only deserves to be incarcerated…

Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft was replacing some of OpenAI’s software with its own in-house models in an effort to cut costs. Those in-house models, known as MAI, were increasingly being used to power apps like Word and Excel, the outlet noted. The story raised an increasingly common question about the two companies, which were once seemingly inseparable, and have recently sent mixed signals about the status of their situationship: Were the two companies drifting apart? Now, OpenAI is attempting to put any insinuations of such a break to rest. During OpenAI’s launch of GPT 5.6 on Thursday,…

The Royals have been one of the more disappointing teams in MLB. They’re alongside the Angels as the two worst teams in the American League, the only AL clubs completely buried in the playoff picture. That theoretically positions them as deadline sellers. However, as explored on the MLBTR podcast this week, Kansas City doesn’t have a lot of obvious trade candidates. Most of their impending free agents are either injured or have been ineffective. They’re not likely to kick off another full rebuild with Bobby Witt Jr. in his prime. That mostly leaves them to decide whether to deal a couple…

In the lead up to the SpaceX IPO, there were dozens of stories about early employees and investors who stood to make millions of dollars for betting on, or working for, Elon Musk. But thanks to Musk’s work with DOGE, his public comments on X, and the infamous gesture he made at Donald Trump’s inauguration that looked a lot like a Nazi salute, someone realized there was money to be made by avoiding him. An exchanged-traded fund creator with the appropo name of Subversive Capital has found a way to tap into that negative sentiment with two new anti-Elon exchanged-traded funds. The ETFs, which are similar to mutual funds, except they are…

A 911 call and police bodycam footage from the night that late Storage Wars star Darrell Sheets died have been released, shedding new light on his death. Emergency dispatch audio obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, July 9, offers key details on the initial investigation into Sheets’ April death. Police were first alerted to distress at Sheets’ Lake Havasu City, Arizona, home on April 22 during a 911 call from a woman whose name was redacted but identified herself as his “girlfriend.” (TMZ was the first to report the news.) “I think he just killed himself,” the caller tells an…