With the GOP set to take over the House next year, the prospects of an assault weapons ban will diminish considerably, given near unanimous Republican opposition to such an effort.
The court on Monday declined to hear another challenge to a federal ban imposed under President Trump on devices called "bump stocks" that enable a semi-automatic weapon to fire like a machine gun.
Consumer prices continued to climb in October as the pace of overall inflation held at the level hit a month earlier and underlying inflation excluding food and fuel slowed.
The Department of Defense (DOD) plans to send millions of dollars’ worth of additional military aid to Ukraine under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), the agency announced on Nov. 4.
The Federal Reserve launched another sortie against the fastest inflation in four decades on Wednesday, approving the fourth straight supersized rate increase and signaling more increases were likely in the months ahead.
The communist government in Beijing has reportedly told state-owned energy-importing companies to cease reselling supplies of natural gas to the energy-strapped European nations and others to shore up domestic stocks before the winter months.
