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New Orleans Police Chief Wants Ban on Concealed Carry for Self-Defense

New Orleans Police Superintendent Ann Kirkpatrick wants a gun-free zone in the city that would ban carrying for self-defense, even for licensed concealed carryers. 4WWL report Kirkpatrick said he is pushing for the zone in response to the Constitutional Carry Act signed by Gov. Jeff Landry (R) on March 5, 2024. “New Orleans is unique. […]

Ellen Ash Peters, first female chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, dies at 94

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Ellen Ashe, the first woman to serve as Connecticut’s chief justice, wrote the majority opinion in the state Supreme Court’s landmark 1996 school desegregation decision.・Mr. Peters passed away. She was 94 years old. Peters, who was also the first female faculty member at Yale Law School, died Tuesday, according to the […]

Bottom Line: Former Republican chief signs on to guard nutrition programs

Agriculture food insecurity nonprofit Feeding Alabama hired Maynard Nexen PC Advising on Farm Bill reauthorization and advocating for nutrition programs. Feeding Alabama is a national nonprofit organization that has led the fight against Republican-led efforts to cut nutrition programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), during the protracted Farm Bill reauthorization process. is part […]

Who is Margo Martin? Trump’s deputy communications chief spotted at trial

Margo Martin, President Donald Trump’s loyal and stylish deputy communications director, was one of the few members of the former president’s inner circle to accompany him to Manhattan criminal court, where the first criminal trial against him began on Monday. Martin, 27, filmed the former president leaving Trump Tower for “Day 1 of the Biden […]

IDF chief of staff says Israel will respond to Iran missile attack | Israel

Israel’s top commander says the country will respond to Iranian missile and drone attacks, but it remains unclear what form that response will take and what could lead to a worsening spiral of violence into a full-blown regional war. It remains unclear how powerful it will be. U.S. officials said Monday that some kind of […]

UN chief urges Iran and Israel to ‘step back from the brink’

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleaded with Security Council members to avoid a “full-scale conflict” in the Middle East as tensions rise between Israel and Iran. Guterres’s comments came after Israel called an emergency meeting with members Sunday in the wake of Iran’s drone and missile barrage against Israel. Most of the hundreds of drones […]