YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP | | | | Conservative Supreme Court backs a Biden gun rule. | | | |
The Supreme Court is reinstating a regulation aimed at reining in the proliferation of firearms without serial numbers, called ghost guns. Also in the news: Three men have been charged with assault following a brawl that broke out on a dock in Alabama and went viral. Voters in Ohio rejected a GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights. | | | |
Now, here we go with Wednesday's news. |
Supreme Court backs Biden's tougher federal rules on 'ghost guns' |
A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday backed a Biden administration effort to regulate "ghost guns," temporarily allowing the government to require manufacturers of the untraceable weapon kits to conduct background checks on customers and mark their products with serial numbers. Biden last year required companies selling parts that can be assembled into guns to adhere to the same rules as other gunmakers. The Supreme Court's ruling arrived on its "shadow docket," where such emergency cases are handled. The court did not decide whether the rule is legal. Rather, the court allowed regulation to stand while the case continues. Read more | "Ghost guns" are displayed at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco, on Nov. 27, 2019. Haven Daley, AP |
Voters reject Issue 1 in Ohio special election |
Ohio voters rejected a ballot measure in Tuesday's highly charged special election that would have made it more difficult to change the state's constitution. The vote is a blow to Ohio Republicans who wanted to hamstring a November ballot question on abortion rights. Republicans pushed for the election to try and preempt the ballot question that would enshrine abortion rights in the state's constitution. The higher threshold required would have made it difficult, if not impossible, for the November proposal to succeed, based on polling figures. Read more | People celebrate the defeat of Issue 1 during a watch party Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. Jay LaPrete, AP |
World watches Montgomery riverfront brawl |
A video taking over social media shows an incident on an Alabama dock where an employee argued with several people about a pontoon boat blocking the space needed to park a riverboat. |
The brawl began Saturday night when Damien Pickett, the co-captain of an Alabama River cruise ship, the Harriott II, tried to dock at its designated spot but was blocked by a private boat. | One of the three men charged was in custody and the other two were set to turn themselves in on Tuesday, said Montgomery Police Chief Darryl J. Albert. Storyful |
Thousands of Los Angeles city workers stage a 24-hour strike |
Thousands of city workers in Los Angeles abandoned their jobs Tuesday in a one-day strike, calling attention to their claims of unfair labor practices and what they say is the city's unwillingness to bargain in good faith. The strike is the first work stoppage for employees in America's second-largest city in more than 40 years. About 11,000 city workers for SEIU Local 721, including sanitation workers, heavy-duty mechanics and engineers at the Los Angeles International Airport, custodians at public schools and lifeguards staged the walkout and took to picket lines early Tuesday. Read more | SEIU Local 721, a union representing county and city employees across Southern California, said that more than 11,000 Los Angeles city workers will participate in the strike. Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY |
Tory Lanez sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Megan Thee Stallion |
Rapper Tory Lanez asked the judge for mercy just before he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion. Tuesday brought an end to a dramatic trial that created a cultural firestorm in the hip-hop community, churning up issues including the reluctance of Black victims to speak to police, gender politics in hip-hop, online toxicity, protecting Black women and the ramifications of misogynoir, a particular brand of misogyny Black women experience. In a written statement Monday, Megan Thee Stallion said she has suffered daily since Lanez shot her in the feet three years ago. Read more | This combination photo shows rapper Tory Lanez performing at the Festival d'ete de Quebec, July 11, 2018, in Quebec City, Canada, left, and Megan Thee Stallion at the premiere of "P-Valley," June 2, 2022, in Los Angeles. AP |
Photo of the day: Biden designates new national monument on tribal lands near the Grand Canyon |
President Joe Biden announced a new national monument north and south of Grand Canyon National Park on Tuesday to preserve Native American cultural sites and protect the region from new uranium mining, the administration confirmed. Read more | US President Joe Biden (C) gestures after signing a proclamation to designate Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona on August 8, 2023. JIM WATSON, AFP via Getty Images |
Associated Press contributed reporting. | | | | |
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