The 10-provision package will require more gun sellers to be licensed and would force them to conduct background checks on potential buyers, and all federally licensed dealers will have to report any lost or stolen firearms to the authorities.
The expanding rift between Saudi Arabia and its Sunni allies with the Shiite government in Tehran has pushed the region dangerously closer to conflict, prompting alarmed appeals for restraint from powers across the globe.
Officials, urging calm on both sides, believe that forceful U.S. involvement would have little effect and might make things worse.
Donald Trump speaks Monday night at a campaign rally in Lowell, Mass. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)
The bombastic Republican front-runner has brought the debate out of academia and into the political arena unlike anyone before him.
Ever-increasing environmental rules are imperiling a way of life for many rural Westerners. “When frustration builds up, people lash out,” one resident said.
The U.S. military has stopped flying unarmed Reapers from an airfield in Ethiopia as the Obama administration faces pressure to intensify counterterrorism operations elsewhere.
Judging by how cautious and subdued he was during his first solo outing on her behalf, the former president appears determined to prove that he is capable of playing the supporting actor.
The agency appointed a group of independent biosafety experts to review procedures after a series of high-profile lab accidents with anthrax and bird flu in 2014.
The promenade suggested that Cosby — a man who last year completed a national comedy tour in the face of mounting scandal — is fragile and incapable of moving through the world unassisted.
The 441-pound bluefin was the prize catch at the last New Year auction at Tsukiji, the famous, ramshackle fish market in Tokyo that will be torn down this year.
The NFL will have to decide which team, if any, relocates there, and into which proposed facility.
The Australian rapper's mimicry offends some listeners but she's clearly mastered it, according to linguists who analyzed her entire discography.
