SALT LAKE CITY While the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the Constitution protects the right to carry a gun outside the home, a new Utah law making it easier to pack a concealed firearm in public takes effect next week.
The decision to take up the issue comes as a spate of mass shootings have rocked the country.
In 2008, the court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep a handgun in the home for self-defense. The justices now will consider a challenge to a New York law that requires anyone who wants to carry a gun in the state to show a good reason for doing so.
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âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.
Florida House backs ban on âdisabilityâ abortions
Published: April 25, 2021 2:51 PM EDT
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After an often emotional debate, the Florida House on Friday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would prevent doctors from performing abortions that women seek because of tests showing that fetuses will have disabilities.
The Republican-controlled House voted 74-44, largely along party lines, to approve the bill (HB 1221), sponsored by Rep. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach. The bill addresses what it describes as âdisability abortions,â which would involve situations in which physicians know pregnant women are seeking abortions because fetuses will have disabilities.
Such disabilities could include such things as physical disabilities, intellectual or mental disabilities or Down syndrome. With one week in the legislative session, the Senate has not moved forward with such a bill â making it unlikely that a measure will ultimately pass. But Grallâs bill drew he
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