January 5, 2016
By The Morning News
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- With five months left to do anything, Obama is pushing nearly 4,000 new regulations through bureaucracy.
- Obama's executive actions on guns will expand federal background checks.
- See also: How federal background checks work.
- The process of buying a gun in California, which has some of the harshest gun laws in the country.
- "A state that allows its agents to kill, to beat, to tase, without any real sanction, has ceased to govern."
- Though the press stirred up a frenzy, crime in New York City fell across the board in 2015.
- All crime rose in 2015 in Los Angeles, with violent crime jumping almost 20%.
- Homicides in Chicago rose to almost 470 in 2015, the most in the US.
- The armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge fits right in with other examples of violent Mormon extremism.
- See also: The origins of Oregon as a racist white utopia.
- Over the past decade, legal American guns have killed more Mexicans than Afghan or Iraqi citizens.
- TMN's Melissa Batchelor Warnke profiles a lifelong addict, now sober at 60 for the first time in his life.
- Facebook tested user loyalty by sabotaging its Android app to crash for hours at a time.
- Inside the Facebook algorithm.
- "Nebraska's use and policies regarding juvenile solitary confinement truly shock the conscience."
- What happens when racial hatred intersects with Texas's Stand Your Ground Law.
- Pentagon curbs use of psychologists at Guantánamo following American Psychological Association ethics ruling.
- What did David Bowie do at your age?
