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  Supreme Court ready to tackle climate, immigration and gun rights. Here are 5 cases to watch

  Oct 2, 2026 ·PBS NewsHour(Lean left)

  When the U.S. Supreme Court returns Monday, the justices will kick off a new term featuring cases on climate change, gun rights, immigration and religious liberty.

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  Trump shrugs off South Korea's uncertainty on $54B Alaska energy investment

  Oct 2, 2026 ·The Hill(Center)

  President Trump brushed off questions Friday over whether he jumped the gun in announcing that South Korea would fund a natural gas pipeline in Alaska, which South Korean officials have said is still under discussion. "Well, I didn't jump the gun. I mean, they were there, and they were represented," Trump told reporters before departing...

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  A New Trump Rule Could Transform Gun Sales. The President’s Son Is Poised to Profit.

  Oct 2, 2026 ·Mother Jones(Left)

  The Trump administration has spent much of this year rewriting the federal government’s approach to guns. Just last month, the Justice Department concluded that the ban on selling handguns to 18-20-year-olds is unconstitutional and would no longer be criminally enforced . But amid dozens of changes to federal firearms regulations is one you might have missed. If finalized, it could fundamentally t

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  Newly released video shows Luigi Mangione’s arrest

  Oct 2, 2026 ·BBC News(Center)

  The bodycam footage also shows a police officer finding a gun in Mangione's backpack, days after the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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  Mom Murders 4-Year-Old Daughter After Lindsay Clancy Case Rocks The Nation

  Oct 2, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  A Texas mother shot and killed her 4-year-old daughter after losing a custody battle with the child’s father earlier this week. Cibelle Savella was supposed to hand over her daughter, Vivian, to her ex-husband, Aaron Savella, Tuesday night, but instead, she killed her little girl before turning the gun on herself. Cibelle died from the injuries a day later. “There was a custody hearing earlier tod

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  Women Are Better Armed Than Ever

  Oct 2, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

  At least as far back as the 16th century, the powers that be fretted that firearms grant those of lesser physical strength and lacking martial training the ability to defend themselves—even against the state's professional enforcers. Women have particularly benefited from weapons that work independent of muscle mass. Despite that equalizing power, gun ownership long remained a largely masculine pu

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  The Supreme Court Will Be Drawing Lots of Lines

  Oct 2, 2026 ·RealClearPolitics(Lean right)

  Climate litigation, religious liberty, gun rights, and election administration highlight the term ahead.

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  A cop’s toddler brought a gun to daycare in Michigan, renewing debate about parental responsibility

  Sep 30, 2026 ·Straight Arrow News(Center)

  A Michigan toddler brought a firearm to their daycare, sparking alarm and debate if their parents will be held criminally liable.

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  US spends hundreds of millions to stop cartel gun trafficking but can’t say what works: GAO

  Sep 30, 2026 ·Straight Arrow News(Center)

  The government is spending millions to stop the southward flow of firearms, but a watchdog warns there’s no measure to say if it’s working.

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  Second Amendment Roundup: Bruen's Footnote 9 Not a Carve-Out from Text and History

  Sep 30, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

  Having found the carrying of a handgun in public to be encompassed textually in the right to "bear arms," the Supreme Court in Bruen added that the historical record compiled by New York failed to demonstrate a tradition of broadly prohibiting the public carry of commonly used firearms for self-defense or of requiring citizens to demonstrate a special need for self-defense. It then inserted footno

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  Grandparents-Turned-Hitmen: In-Laws Gun Down Trans-Identifying NYT Exec

  Sep 29, 2026 ·The Daily Wire(Right)

  In an execution-style hit, an elderly couple allegedly took turns riddling a trans-identifying New York Times executive married to their daughter with bullets in broad daylight in Dublin, California. On Saturday afternoon, Jonathan McKinsey, 40, the newspaper’s director of engineering for its Games division, was gunned down and killed in the parking lot of the Dublin Sports Grounds. McKinsey, who

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  Why I'm finally giving Meta AI a chance

  Sep 28, 2026 ·Axios(Lean left)

  Meta is finally promising the one feature that has long kept me away from its AI services: Privacy . Why it matters: In a world with many models capable of meeting my needs, knowing how my data will be used is a key factor, especially with sensitive information. Driving the news: The Facebook-parent, which once called dibs on nearly any data one shared with Meta AI, has in recent months begun to s

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  JTN Exclusive: Rep. Cloud urges White House action on 1.4 billion gun records on Americans

  Sep 28, 2026 ·Just the News(Lean right)

  "No one in their right mind can look at ATF's digital, searchable 1.4 billion record database of firearm transactions and tell me that isn't a gun registry," says the Gun Owners of America's Federal Affairs Director. The DOJ has been asked to look into use of the ATF's database, and now Second Amendment advocates are knocking on Trump's door.

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  The October term heralds another 'big year' for the Supreme Court

  Sep 26, 2026 ·The Hill(Center)

  The Supreme Court is set to begin a landmark term featuring significant cases regarding climate change, firearm regulations, religious discrimination in education, parental rights, and various constitutional amendments.

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  Renée Good's Mom Wanted Trump to Protect Her Family. Her Daughter Was Killed by ICE.

  Sep 25, 2026 ·Reason(Center)

  The killing of Renée Good, who was gunned down on a Minneapolis street in January by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, was a tragedy. The fact that Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed her, has not faced any accountability for his actions— firing his gun wildly through the window of Good's vehicle as she tried to flee a confrontation that ICE officers had initiated and escal

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  Federal regulators start review, permitting of two major Texas LNG plants

  Sep 25, 2026 ·Just the News(Lean right)

  Federal regulators have begun the review and permitting process for two large-scale liquefied natural gas export projects on the Texas coast, one a proposed expansion of an existing plant located near the Louisiana border and the other a potential new build.

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  In one of their last votes before November, Senate GOP blocks effort to end Iran war

  Sep 24, 2026 ·NPR(Lean left)

  The vote on a war powers resolution introduced by Democrats came at a moment when some Republicans have begun to distance themselves from President Trump over the ongoing conflict. (Image credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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  Illegal alien allegedly grabs school police officer's gun, shoots him in femoral artery: DOJ

  Sep 24, 2026 ·Fox News (Politics)(Right)

  A Mexican national accused of grabbing a Dallas school police officer’s gun and shooting him after the officer stopped to help him has been indicted on a federal firearms charge, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Jose Santiago Pantoja-Morales, 27, allegedly shot the uniformed Dallas Independent School District (DISD) police officer during an Aug. 6 struggle after the officer encountered him near th

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  Fed probing executors of Jeffrey Epstein estate: WSJ

  Sep 23, 2026 ·Just the News(Lean right)

  New York-based federal prosecutors have begun investigating Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, who served as Epstein's lawyer and accountant, respectively. Both currently serve as executors of the Epstein estate.

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  DOJ Restores 2nd Amendment Rights to Millions

  Sep 22, 2026 ·RealClearPolitics(Lean right)

  The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) delivered a major victory to law-abiding Americans in September after concluding that the federal government cannot constitutionally enforce a handgun purchasing ban on adults ages 18 through 20.