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Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii law requiring permission to carry guns in stores and hotels

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii law requiring people to get permission to carry guns into stores and hotels on Thursday, in its latest opinion backing Second Amendment rights. The high court’s 6-3 decision means people can carry guns onto privately owned property like shopping malls and gas stations, unless the owners specifically say guns are banned at their establishments. It comes shortly after the court found that marijuana users can’t be completely banned from owning firearms. It’s a win for President Donald Trump’s Republican administration, ...

Supreme Court clears way for Trump admin to revive restrictive policy for asylum seekers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for the Trump administration to potentially revive an immigration policy once used to turn back migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. The justices, in a 6-3 decision, overturned a lower court order blocking the practice that limited the number of people who could apply for asylum each day, first under the Obama administration and then expanded during President Donald Trump’s first term. Advocates said the tactic created a humanitarian crisis as thousands of people settled in unsafe makeshift shelters to ...

Camp Mystic in Texas files for bankruptcy after catastrophic floods killed 28 people

Camp Mystic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Wednesday, nearly a year after catastrophic floods killed 25 girls and two teenage counselors at the all-girls Christian camp in Texas. In paperwork filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Texas in Houston, the camp listed its debt as more than $10 million. The camp along the Guadalupe River said it had assets in the range of $100,001 to $500,000. Families of the victims filed a lawsuit in November seeking more than $1 million in damages, saying the camp operators failed to take the necessary steps ...

PT 109

AP Photo/Don Brinn Actor Cliff Robertson looks over a scale model of PT Boat 109 in Hollywood on June 25, 1962. He was to star as skipper of a full-sized version in the film “PT 109,” in which he had the role of Lt. (then President) John F. Kennedy.

Shooting suspect scoped out library before returning with a shotgun and killing two, police say

The 18-year-old suspect in a shooting at a Northern California library did a walk-through of the building, then went to his vehicle, got a shotgun and fatally shot a man at the main door and another inside, law enforcement said Tuesday. Chico Police Chief Billy Aldridge said gunshots and screams could be heard on a 911 call Monday evening from the Butte County Library’s branch in Chico — a city of about 100,000 people about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco. “From the first 911 call to having him in custody was less than four minutes,” Aldridge said, ...