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Tonia Liddell, a la izquierda, de 414LIFE, consuela a LaQuita Blackmer mientras están en el sitio donde el hermano de Blackmer, Preston, fue asesinado a tiros en la zona norte de Milwaukee en 2005. Preston era el ahijado de Liddell.

En primera línea de la epidemia de homicidios en Estados Unidos: Milwaukee se enfrenta a una violencia histórica

September 21, 2021 at 10:40 p.m.

Jeremiah Hughes estaba cortando el césped un miércoles por la tarde cuando dos hombres irrumpieron en el callejón. Estaban armados. Sonaron disparos. Hughes murió en el patio, fue llevado a...

Armed and Black. How a group of men licensed to carry guns say they are seeking racial justice

September 25, 2020 at 4:31 p.m.

Before he drove to the grocery store parking lot, Romeal Taylor did the same thing he's done every day this summer _ he holstered his 9 mm handgun to the...

The booth of National Rifle Assn. at CPAC 2018 last month in National Harbor, Md.

The NRA used to be a bipartisan campaign contributor, but that changed in 1994

August 22, 2019 at 8:00 a.m.

It may be hard to remember, but there was a time when the National Rifle Assn. was a bipartisan organization. During the 1992 election cycle, the NRA contributed 37% of...

A medical marijuana plant in a growing room at the Thomas C. Slater Compassion Center, in Providence, R.I., in July 2015.

Michigan, Vermont, New Jersey: The states trying to legalize marijuana in 2018

August 22, 2019 at 7:19 a.m.

The marijuana movement is charging ahead. To date eight states — California, Colorado, Nevada to name a few — have legalized weed for recreational use since 2012. And the trend...

An array of guns at Markley's gun range in Watsonville, Calif.

Amid rising gun violence, accidental shooting deaths have plummeted. But why?

August 22, 2019 at 7:12 a.m.

A country music festival in Las Vegas: 58 dead. A Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas: 26 dead. The streets of Baltimore last year: nearly 300 dead. Gun violence has...

At a June news conference in Detroit, Lindsey Hamama cries as family members speak out against the detention of her father by immigration authorities.

In hopes of getting around federal law, immigrants seek governors’ pardons to block deportation

August 22, 2019 at 7:09 a.m.

The two Cambodian refugees living in Northern California had been convicted of crimes years ago and, under the Trump administration’s more aggressive immigration enforcement policies, those offenses had placed them...

Phil Robertson, of the television reality show "Duck Dynasty," received write-in votes in the Alabama Senate contest.

Roy Moore still won’t concede in Alabama. And those write-in votes? Mickey Mouse got a few

August 18, 2019 at 9:36 p.m.

It’s been 10 days and Republican Roy Moore has yet to concede in Alabama’s special Senate race, even as election officials move toward certifying Democrat Doug Jones’ victory in the...

Yaniel Alexis Perez outside his flooded home in Añasco, Puerto Rico. He has not had electricity since Hurricane Maria hit in September.

2 months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico struggles to regain electricity and thousands flee the island

August 22, 2019 at 6:42 a.m.

The lights remain off in bustling cities and in small rural villages. Gas generators, the only alternative to the downed power lines that seem to be everywhere, continuously hum outside...

Police investigate the scene of a shooting at a Wal-Mart store in Thornton, Colorado on Nov. 1, 2017.

Are more guns helpful? In Wal-Mart shooting, armed shoppers hinder police investigation

August 22, 2019 at 6:31 a.m.

Most shoppers crouched behind checkout counters or bolted toward the back exit. But as a gunman fired inside a Wal-Mart store in a Denver suburb, some patrons took a more...

Ocho muertos y un número indeterminado de heridos en el World Trade Center de Manhattan

May 15, 2019 at 4:07 p.m.

El Departamento de Policía de la ciudad de Nueva York dijo en Twitter que el sospechoso salió del vehículo con armas de fuego de imitación después de chocar con otro...

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