Handguns, suicides, mass shootings deaths, and self-defense: Findings from a research report on gun violence. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Background checks are back.
Last week, Vice President Joe Biden said that five U.S. senators—enough to change the outcome—have told him they’re looking for a way to switch their votes and pass legislation requiring a criminal background check for the purchase of a firearm. Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who led the fight for the bill, is firing back at the National Rifle Association with a new TV ad. The White House, emboldened by polls that indicate damage to senators who voted against the bill, is pushing Congress to reconsider it.
Politics & Business. Let states legalise marijuana, Eric Holder: you know it makes sense. Every once in a while, an opportunity arises to do the right thing, the common sense thing.
Right now, US Attorney General Eric Holder has such an opportunity. He is "reviewing" the federal government's options for dealing with the nettlesome fact that two US states have now enacted laws legalizing and regulating the personal use of marijuana. Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us. BBC iPlayer - Storyville: 2012-2013: The House I Live In.