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Joe Biden · CharlottePresident Joe Biden, who heads to Wilmington, North Carolina Thursday to talk about the economy, is detouring to Charlotte to meet with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job — just a week after he sat down with the grieving relatives of two cops killed in Upstate New York.See the Story
Biden adds stop to North Carolina trip to visit with families of fallen law enforcement officers
75% Center coverage: 47 sources
Veterans · United StatesCongress has created an “enormous threat to the safety and well-being of veterans” by blocking Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reports of mental incompetency from entering the federal background check system, gun reform groups said in a letter to lawmakers this week.
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Gun control groups call on Congress to undo background check change for veterans
100% Center coverage: 1 sources
Joe Biden · United StatesTwenty-six Republican attorneys general filed lawsuits Wednesday challenging a new Biden administration rule requiring firearms dealers across the United States to run background checks on buyers at gun shows and other places outside brick-and-mortar stores.See the Story
26 Republican attorneys general sue to block Biden rule requiring background checks at gun shows
79% Center coverage: 53 sources
Crime · Mount HorebPolice shot and killed a student outside a Wisconsin middle school Wednesday after receiving a report of someone with a weapon. The incident sent children fleeing and prompted an hourslong lockdown of local schools.See the Story
Police killed student outside Wisconsin school after reports of someone with a weapon, official says
51% Center coverage: 102 sources
Joe Biden · North CarolinaLaw enforcement officers with an arrest warrant demanded that a man come out of a house in North Carolina before four were killed by gunfire, the victims unable to survive shots coming from inside the dwelling, a witness and officials said Tuesday. Still reeling from Monday’s attack — the deadliest against U.S. law enforcement officers since 2016 — investigators in Charlotte said they weren’t sure whether there was a second shooter and that more work was needed to determine a precise timeline of events.See the Story
4 officers killed in North Carolina were at disadvantage as shots rained from above, police say
82% Center coverage: 34 sources