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HARRISBURG - State lawmakers gave their final approval to new restrictions on fireworks Friday but the rules will not be in place as July Fourth weekend fireworks light up Pennsylvania skies.The House voted 163-37 to send the legislation to the desk of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, whose spokeswoman said he plans to review it.

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DOVER, Del. - While protesters chanted outside his door, Delaware Governor John Carney signed six new gun reform measures Thursday including a ban on the sale of assault weapons.Carney, surrounded by legislators, gun reform advocates and people who have lost loved ones to gun violence said, "it’s about providing sensible gun safety legalization within the context of the Second Amendment rights and the limits imposed by our legislators."The bills, worked on throughout June in Dover, ban the sale of assault weapons, raise to 21 the age when certain guns may be purchased, make gun dealers and manufacturers liable in certain gun crimes and ban the use of devices that make firearms fully automatic.MORE LOCAL HEADLINESGun rights advocates, who filled an area outside the Governor’s second floor office, promised a stiff court challenge."Tyranny has a face and it’s John Carney", said Mitch Denham of Delaware Gun Rights. "Guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self defense taking guns away will hurt more than help."The package of bills emerged in Delaware after a wave of mass killings in the country.

A student eats a vegan meal served for lunch (with milk as a drink) at Yung Wing School P.S. 124 on February 04, 2022 in New York City.

Walmart logo is seen at a store in Mountain View, California, United States on Tuesday, November 19, 2019. Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday shopping season has begun in the U.S.

Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in jail Tuesday for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.U.S. District Judge Alison J.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A proposal to require Pennsylvania's four state-related universities to promise they are not conducting research or experiments with fetal tissue from elective abortions was added to a state budget bill by House Republicans on Monday.The chamber voted 108-92, with three Republicans crossing party lines, for the amendment to legislation that will send more than $597 million combined next year to Penn State, Lincoln, Temple and Pitt.The target of the measure is the University of Pittsburgh, which is in line to receive $155 million in the coming year.The sponsor, Rep. Jerry Knowles, R-Schuylkill, said his goal was to stop the research."My goal is not to stop the funding," Knowles said.

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has directed its determination on the bill titled the 21st Amendment to the Constitution to the Speaker of Parliament.The bill was challenged in the Supreme Court in terms of Article 120 (1) (1) of the constitution.The following determinations were made by the Supreme Court:1. Clause Number 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, and 36 of the bill contain provisions inconsistent with Article 3 read together with Article 4 (B) of the constitution and such may be enacted only by the Special Majority required by Article 84 (2) and upon being approved by the people at a referendum by virtue of Article 83.2.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school."Lives will be saved," he said at the White House. Citing the families of shooting victims, the president said, "Their message to us was to do something.

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AUDUBON, N.J. - People may have seen folks with metal detectors on the beach at the shore. One man participating in this hobby is kind of a hero after he found a class ring in the ocean and he reunited the ring with the family it belongs to.Bill Busarello found and returned four wedding rings with his treasure hunting hobby last year."I was fishing and never caught a fish," Busarello said.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Thursday easily approved a bipartisan gun violence bill that seemed unthinkable just a month ago, clearing the way for final congressional approval of what will be lawmakers' most far-reaching response in decades to the nation's run of brutal mass shootings.After years of GOP procedural delays that derailed Democratic efforts to curb firearms, Democrats and some Republicans decided that congressional inaction was untenable after last month’s rampages in New York and Texas. It took weeks of closed-door talks but a group of senators from both parties emerged with a compromise embodying incremental but impactful movement to curb bloodshed that has come to regularly shock — yet no longer surprise — the nation.The $13 billion measure would toughen background checks for the youngest gun buyers, keep firearms from more domestic violence offenders and help states put in place red flag laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people adjudged dangerous.

Justin Trudeau says his office did not interfere in the investigation into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting.Earlier this week, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and the former public safety minister pushed back on suggestions they interfered in the probe into Canada’s worst mass shooting in order to push gun control measures.“Absolutely not. We did not put any undue influence or pressure.

House of Commons passed the Liberal government’s “extreme intoxication” bill today after agreeing yesterday to rush its passage.The Senate can now move at any time to follow a similar process and pass Bill C-28 at all stages by way of a unanimous motion.But during a committee of the whole Tuesday evening to study the substance of the bill, several senators raised serious concerns with Justice Minister David Lametti, expressing uncertainty about their willingness to rubber-stamp it without further scrutiny.

TRENTON - New Jersey would change the age for purchasing rifles and shotguns from 18 to 21 under legislation an Assembly committee has advanced. The Assembly Judiciary Committee passed bills Wednesday aimed at tightening the state’s already strict gun laws. The measure comes after fatal shootings in Texas and New York in which authorities identified the shooters as 18-year-olds. The fate of the age bill is uncertain because the state Senate has not so far taken up the measure. Under current law, New Jersey requires residents to be 21 to purchase a handgun. The new measure would raise the age threshold to 21 for those seeking to purchase rifles and shotguns.

HUMMELSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - MAY 17: A vote sign is seen at Lower Dauphin High School on May 17, 2022 in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvanians are voting in the primary elections to select candidates from each party for a new governor, lieutenant HARRISBURG, Pa. - Proposals to hold Pennsylvania's presidential primaries in March rather than April and to permit poll watchers to operate outside the counties where they live were advanced Wednesday by a divided House State Government Committee.Both bills had already passed the state Senate and were approved for consideration by the full House.The state's primary during presidential election years would be moved from the fourth Tuesday in April to the third Tuesday in March.

PHILADELPHIA - A new Pennsylvania fireworks bill that could sentence a person to five to ten years in prison for setting off fireworks is receiving explosive feedback from people in the industry. The proposed bill will allow municipalities to place their own restrictions on the type of fireworks that can be set off. It will also place statewide time restrictions on when fireworks can be set off to 10 a.m.

Actor and comedian Bill Cosby departs after the first day of his retrial for his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania on April 9, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / DOMINICK REUTER (Photo credit should read DOMINICK RE SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Jurors at a civil trial found Tuesday that Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.The Los Angeles County jury delivered the verdict in favor of Judy Huth, who is now 64, and awarded her $500,000.Jurors found that Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with Huth, that he reasonably believed she was under 18, and that his conduct was driven by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor.The jurors’ decision is a major legal defeat for the 84-year-old entertainer once hailed as America’s dad.

AR-15 style rifle barrels sit on a shelf waiting to be assembled at Davidson Defense in Orem, Utah on February 4, 2021. (Photo by George Frey/AFP via Getty Images) Senators have moved to the brink of an agreement on a bipartisan gun violence bill, Democrats' lead negotiator said Tuesday, potentially teeing up votes this week on an incremental but notable package that would stand as Congress’s response to mass shootings in Texas and New York that shook the nation.Nine days after Senate bargainers agreed to a framework proposal — and 29 years after Congress last enacted a major measure curbing firearms — Sen.

FILE - US President Joe Biden meets with smoke jumpers and other firefighting professionals during a tour at the National Interagency Fire Center at Boise Airport on Sept. 13, 2021, in Boise, Idaho.

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SANTA MONICA, Calif. - After two days of deliberations in which they reached verdicts on nearly all of the questions put before them, jurors in a civil trial who were deciding on sexual abuse allegations against Bill Cosby will have to start from scratch on Monday.By the end of the court day Friday, the Los Angeles County jury had come to agreement on whether Cosby had sexually assaulted plaintiff Judy Huth at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16 in 1975, and whether Huth deserved any damages. In all they had answered eight of nine questions on their verdict form, all but one that asked whether Cosby acted in a way that should require punitive damages.Judge Craig Karlan, who had promised one juror when she agreed to serve that she could leave after Friday for a prior commitment, decided over the objections of Cosby's attorneys to accept and read the verdict on the questions the jury had answered.

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Sri Lankan Parliament will convene from the 21st to the 24th of this month. Time is allotted from 10.00 am to 11.00 am for questions for oral answers, on all days except the 24th.The Adjournment Debate on the first report of the Committee on Public Enterprises pertaining to the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament, which was tabled in Parliament on March 8, will be held on March 23 from 11.00 am to 5.30 pm, Secretary General of the Parliament Mr. Dhammika Dasanayake said.This was decided at the recent meeting of the Committee on Parliamentary Business chaired by the Deputy Speaker, Ajith Rajapaksa.The Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill and the Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Bill are to be passed without a debate from 11.00 am to 11.30 am on the 21st.Then from 11.30 a.m.

WASHINGTON - This weekend the nation will take a moment to honor Juneteenth, a symbolic moment in American history.Juneteenth commemorates when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, in 1865, two months after the Confederacy had surrendered in the Civil War and about 2 1/2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in Southern states.RELATED: Juneteenth: What its path to federal holiday status looked likeMary Elliott, a curator of American Slavery with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, spoke to FOX Television Stations and offered a historical perspective about the holiday and why the nation should celebrate and commemorate the day given what Black people endured throughout history."We’re getting to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding. The paradox is that the nation is based on liberty but founded on slavery," Elliot says.

COLOMBO (News 1st); A letter dated the 25th of November 2021 from the now-resigned Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board M. M. C.

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COLOMBO (News 1st); The Ceylon Electricity Board Chairman told the Parliamentary Watchdog that he was told by the President that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was insisting that the energy investments projects be awarded to the Adani Group.Appearing at the Committee on Public Enterprises hearing in Parliament on Friday (10), the CEB Chairman said that following a meeting chaired by the President, he was summoned by the Head of State and was told that the Indian Prime Minister was insisting that the 500 MW wind power plant be given to India’s Adani Group.“I told him (President) that this is not a matter related to me or the CEB and it should be referred to the Board of Investment,” he told COPE.The CEB Chairman said that he thereafter informed the Treasury Secretary in writing, and requested him to look into the matter while noting that there was a government to goverment requirement on the matter.However, he admitted that the agreement can be termed as unsolicited as it is a G2G agreement.In Parliament, Sri Lanka’s Opposition charged that an unsolicited government-to-government agreement to build a 500 MW wind power plant in the northern coast with the involvement of the Adani Group was the main reason to bring forward amendments to the 1989 Act.The main Opposition SJB wanted projects beyond 10 MW capacity to go through a competitive bidding process, but the majority of the government MPs voted against the clause.This Bill, introduced in Parliament on May 17th, 2022 by the Minister of Power and Energy, qualifies a person to apply for a generation license to generate electricity.Accordingly, this amendment will remove the restrictions on the issuance of a power generation license for a person whose generating

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden, who has recently been focused on boosting oil production to reduce rising gas costs, will turn his attention to climate change on Friday when he convenes a virtual meeting of some of the world's biggest economies.Among the participants will be China, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the European Union. Also present will be Egypt, which is hosting the next United Nations summit on climate change, and the U.N.

DOVER, Del. - Delaware state senate appears poised to approve a package of gun reform measures amid heavy opposition from national gun rights groups. The bills, proposed after the massacres in Buffalo and Texas, would ban assault weapons, raise the age to purchase a long gun or rifle from 18 to 21 and expand background checks.Senate President David Sokola told FOX 29's Jeff Cole that he believes the measures would make Delaware streets safer."There are a number of places that have banned magazine capacities the data shows those places typically are safer," Sokloa said. Other bills would make gun dealers liable i they negligently sold a weapon that was later used in a crime. Meanwhile, Mitch Denham, the president of Delaware Gun Rights, called the effort, "disingenuous. He added, "more kids die in school bus accidents than get shot in schools, but they’re not putting seat belts in school busses."The bills are expected to pass and Governor John Carney is likely to sign them.

CAMP PENDLETON, CA - JANUARY 24: (Photo by Kevin Sullivan/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday approved a sweeping expansion of health care and disability benefits for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits.Passage of the bill by a vote of 84-14 sets a course that could help millions who served after Sept. 11, 2001, and caps years of advocacy work by veterans groups and others who liken burn pits to the Agent Orange herbicide that Vietnam era veterans were exposed to in Southeast Asia.The bill is projected to increase federal spending by about $283 billion over 10 years and does not include offsetting spending cuts or tax increases to help pay for it.

BRIDGETON, MO - NOVEMBER 16 : Handguns are seen at Metro Shooting Supplies on November 16, 2014 in Bridgeton, Missouri as the gun shop near Ferguson sees increase in business ahead of awaited grand jurys decision. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agenc DOVER, Del. - House lawmakers have approved a bill raising the minimum age for anyone in Delaware to legally possess or purchase any rifle, or firearm ammunition, from 18 to 21. That's the same age requirement for handguns. The bill cleared the House 27-13 on a mostly party-line vote Tuesday after being amended to exempt National Guard members and to clarify that a person under 21 could still use a gun for self-defense. The legislation is part of a package of gun restrictions that Gov.

TOPSHOT - Bill Cosby arrives on the sixth day of jury deliberations of his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse on June 17, 2017 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. The jury of the trial for American actor Bill Cosby suspended its work F SANTA MONICA, Calif. - A lawyer for Bill Cosby told jurors they need to look past years of public accusations against the actor and comedian and consider only the evidence presented by a woman who says he sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was 16 years old.During closing arguments at a California civil trial Tuesday that would devolve into bizarre bickering over the video game Donkey Kong, Cosby attorney Jennifer Bonjean said plaintiff Judy Huth and her lawyers didn't come close to proving "her 50-year-old, he-said-she-said case.""Can you imagine how hard it is to defend a case when you start with the label of sexual predator?" Bonjean told the jurors, reminding them they were chosen because they promised they would be able to consider only the facts presented in court.

(Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) HARRISBURG, Pa. - Supporters of the bill say it would help stem a tide of frivolous requests that can tie up state resources, while opponents say it's unlikely to cure the problem and probably unconstitutional, to boot.The bill passed the House with a 112-88 vote Tuesday and now goes to the Senate. It would amend the state’s Right-to-Know Law by restricting the access inmates have to documents held by governments and public agencies.Agencies would be required to supply public government documents about the inmate only in specified categories, and as long as those records don’t "diminish the safety or security" of anyone or the correctional facility where the inmate is being held.Incarcerated people are regarded as any other requester through current law, said Liz Wagenseller, executive director of the Office of Open Records.Rep.

TRENTON, N.J. - Two million New Jersey property taxpayers and renters will get a tax break worth up to $1,500 under a deal Gov. Phil Murphy and fellow Democrats in the Legislature unveiled Wednesday.The $2 billion program comes thanks to flush state coffers and amounts to lowering the roughly $9,300 average property tax bill for many to $7,800, a level not seen in more than a decade, Murphy said.Murphy, Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin and Senate President Nicholas Scutari spoke alongside one another in South Brunswick and said part of their deal includes an agreement to continue the program in the future, meaning it won't offer relief for only a single year.

The booking photo of Payton S. Gendron (Erie County District Attorney via FOX News) BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - The white gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket has been charged with federal hate crimes, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.Payton Gendron had already faced a mandatory life sentence without parole if convicted on previously filed state charges in the May 14 rampage which also left three survivors — one Black, two white — with gunshot wounds.U.S.

The House passed a bill 396-27 to increase security for Supreme Court justices' immediate families on Tuesday, approving a measure that had already been passed by unanimous consent in the Senate.The bill comes after one man was arrested for allegedly plotting to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh and protesters demonstrated outside the homes of conservative justices following the leak of a draft opinion in a high-profile abortion case.The bill provides for 24-hour protection for Supreme Court justices' families, similar to what is already provided for some members of the executive and legislative branches.All 27 nay votes were Democrats.The Senate bill was introduced three days after Politico published the leaked draft opinion, which suggested that the Supreme Court intends to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Download the FOX 5 DC News App for Local Breaking News and WeatherGiles County Sheriff Department The Perry County Sheriff's Department issued the warning on June 9 after they say two separate incidents of folded money found on the floor at a Perry County gas station were reported.Investigators say one of the bills was found and picked up by a person who reported finding a white, powdery substance inside.An Alexandria man has been convicted on charges linked to a 20-year-old woman’s overdose death in Arlington.SUBSCRIBE TO FOX 5 DC ON YOUTUBEOfficials say the substance was tested and was found to be positive for methamphetamine and fentanyl. Several days later, a third instance was reported in Perry County – this time a folded $10 bill was found with a substance on it that also tested positive for fentanyl.No injuries have been reported at this time. Authorities in Perry County say they do not believe the bills are intentionally being placed in areas around the County and speculate the money was dropped unknowingly."This is a very dangerous issue!" the Sheriff’s Department posted online.

WASHINGTON, USA - JANUARY 9: Assorted pistols on display that customers can rent to use on the range at Blue Ridge Arsenal in Chantilly, Va., USA on January 9, 2015. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) HARRISBURG, Pa. - Republicans used a legislative bill-shuffling strategy Monday to voluntarily relinquish a Pennsylvania House committee's control over four bills that address gun violence.The Judiciary Committee action led the speaker to have another panel take over the bills after Democrats tried to force consideration of the proposals.The vote, after a testy exchange between the two parties during a Judiciary Committee meeting, concerned proposals regarding safe gun storage, an assault weapons ban, a red flag bill and a measure to give local governments power to enact their own protections.All Republicans and about half of the Democrats voted to send the bill package back to Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster, with a recommendation that he pass them over to the Local Government Committee.

Google software engineer has claimed one of the company’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) programs has become sentient, complete with its own feelings and desires for mutual respect.According to the New York Times, Google placed the engineer, Blake Lemoine, on paid leave on Monday. The company’s human resources department claimed this was a result of Lemoine violating Google’s confidentiality policy.The Times reported that the day before he was placed on leave, Lemoine shared several documents with the U.S.

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers will present evidence Monday showing that former President Donald Trump "engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information" about a stolen election — despite repeatedly being told by advisers and allies that he had lost, a House committee said. The second congressional hearing examining Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack starts Monday at 10 a.m.

CHICAGO - Whether you’re in a theater or streaming at home, movie choices exist in abundance, with more arriving every week. Here’s our take on what’s new, free, fun or all of the above.(from left) Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), Dr.

PHILADELPHIA - Al Schmidt, the former city commissioner of Philadelphia, is set to testify before the House's Jan. 6 Select Committee on Monday, according to reports.Monday is the second public hearing held by the committee, who are investigating the Jan.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Indian Congress Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi has hit out at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government stating that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s cronyism has now crossed the Palk Strait and moved into Sri Lanka.He was quoting a report where Sri Lanka’s Electricity Chief had told the country’s Parliamentary Watchdog COPE that President Rajapaksa told him that Prime Minister Narendra Modi Insisted that the Wind Power Project be awarded to India’s Adani Group.M.M.C. Ferdinando, the Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board that he mistakenly told the Parliamentary Watchdog COPE that the President told him that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi insisted that a Wind Power Project be awarded to the Adani Group.Speaking exclusively to News 1st, the CEB Chairman said he was very emotional when allegations were leveled at him at the Committee on Public Enterprises session on Friday (10).He said he was under pressure at the COPE session and admitted that he made a false statement.“I have withdrawn that statement,” he told News 1st.M.M.C.

COLOMBO (News 1st); M.M.C. Ferdinando, the Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board that he mistakenly told the Parliamentary Watchdog COPE that the President told him that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi insisted that a Wind Power Project be awarded to the Adani Group.Speaking exclusively to News 1st, the CEB Chairman said he was very emotional when allegations were leveled at him at the Committee on Public Enterprises session on Friday (10).He said he was under pressure at the COPE session and admitted that he made a false statement.“I have withdrawn that statement,” he told News 1st.M.M.C.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has categoriacally denies a statement made by the Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board with regard to awarding a Wind Power Project.“Statement made by the #lka CEB Chairman at a COPE committee hearing regarding the award of a Wind Power Project in Mannar, I categorically deny authorisation to award this project to any specific person or entity. I trust responsible communication in this regard will follow,” the President tweeted. Re a statement made by the #lka CEB Chairman at a COPE committee hearing regarding the award of a Wind Power Project in Mannar, I categorically deny authorisation to award this project to any specific person or entity.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia City Council is debating lowering the city's curfew for all children ages 16 to 18.A bill introduced Thursday would change the curfew to 10 p.m. Any kids caught out after that time would be taken to curfew centers.Currently, 16 and 17-year-olds are allowed to stay out until midnight in Philadelphia.The proposed change comes after a deadly shooting on South Street killed three and inured nearly a dozen last weekend.Council member Katherine Gilmore Richardson, who introduced the bill, says the change will "help us keep more young people safe."Mayor Jim Kenney says amending the minor curfew law would take police officers off the street."I don't think resident of any neighborhood would be appreciative of officers leaving their post to accompany minors to a curfew center," Kenney said.The new curfew would be in effect until September 29, after the school year is in full swing.Under the current curfew, 14- and 15-year-olds are required to be indoors by 10 p.m.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The leaders of the National Governors Association said Friday they're forming a bipartisan working group to come up with recommendations to stop mass shootings following the Texas school massacre.Reaching consensus could be a tall order given that the nation's governors have been divided along partisan lines on how to approach issues of gun control and school safety.Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, the group's chairman, and Democratic Gov.

A Stag Arms retro AR-15 style semi-automatic 5.56mm rifle is displayed during the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center, in Houston, Texas on May 28, 2022.