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The article focuses on Senator J.D. Vance's controversial 2021 advice to Donald Trump about dismantling the bureaucratic state and disregarding judicial rulings, reflecting broader concerns about radical changes to American governance.

The article focuses on U.S. federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon's controversial decision to dismiss the indictment against former U.S. President Donald J. Trump, challenging established legal precedents on special counsel appointments. Topics discussed include her rejection of Supreme Court and appeals court rulings, arguing Jack Smith's appointment as unconstitutional.

The article highlights Lily Gladstone's rise to fame in Hollywood as an actress, particularly for her role in "Killers of the Flower Moon" directed by Martin Scorsese, where she portrays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman whose family's land is targeted for oil by her husband and uncle.

The article explores the blossoming relationship between Asiah James and Gerald Cannon II, highlighting the significance of numerous small moments that deepened their connection over time.

The article focuses on the premiere of Anthony Braxton's opera "Trillium X" in Prague, highlighting its ambitious nature and the fun and humor infused into the performance, while also noting the lack of interest from major American opera companies in Braxton's work.

The article discusses the experiences of various Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine highlighting Russia's strategy of deploying former prisoners.

Reports the assessment by Atomic Energy Agency Chief Mohamed El Baradei that the nuclear material his agency once monitored in North Korea has been converted into fuel for nuclear bombs. Alignment of the assessment with the private assessment by American intelligence officials; Agency's accumulated knowledge of North Korea's abilities; Satellite evidence that North Korea was preparing to conduct a nuclear test.

Reports on issues facing North Korea's nuclear arms program. Possible nuclear testing of North Korea.

The article reports on the continuous increase in violent hate crimes against Asian Americans, particularly against the elderly, in the Chinatown neighborhoods of California amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article reports on the use of water cannons by riot police officers in Thailand to stop demonstrators charged with violating the arcane law.

The article reports on how the incidents of shootings by children can be reduced only if the guns are stored properly by their keepers, that the kids could not get hold of them.

The article focuses on the report by the U.S. Federal Commission on School Safety, released on December 18, 2018, which concludes the little role of guns in school violence and suggests the need to improve mental health services and to arm and train school personnel on using firearms.

The article reports on five children in Kabul, Afghanistan killed by an explosion caused by a piece of stray ordnance that they had stumbled on while playing cricket.

The article offers February 2016 news briefs related to the U.S. which include approval of the legislation by the State General Assembly in Virginia that allows concealed-weapon permits to people to carry guns in the state, and cancer treatment of senator Claire McCaskill.

The article reports that the U.S. interagency Nuclear Weapons Council has plans to announce in January 2007 approval of a new nuclear weapon to be produced to replace the existing nuclear arsenal. The new missiles are considered a hybrid - they use new safety and security features with existing tested nuclear designs. If the project is approved, it could cost the U.S. in excess of $100 billion.

The article reports on the move of the government of Syria that aims to contain a rapidly expanding insurgency in the country. The government resorted to one of the dirty tricks of the modern battlefield by salting ammunition supplies of antigovernment fighters with ordnance that explodes inside rebels' weapons often wounding and killing the fighters while destroying many of their hard-found arms. The move is another element of the government's struggle to combat the opposition.

WASHINGTON -- Representative Darrell Issa, the Republican leading the investigation into the Obama administration's handling of the botched gun-smuggling investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious, appeared to contradict Speaker John A. Boehner on Sunday, saying there was no evidence that White House officials were involved in a cover-up. The statements from Mr. Issa, the chairman of the House oversight committee, came after Mr. Boehner said last week that President Obama's decision to assert executive privilege to shield Justice Department documents related to the operation was ''an admission that the White House officials were involved in decisions that misled the Congress and covered up the truth.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Department of Defense has identified 1,959 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans recently: McNULTY, Richard L. III, 22, Pfc., Army; Rolla, Mo.; 25th Infantry Division. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LIEGE, Belgium -- A man with a history of run-ins with the law lobbed three hand grenades and opened fire at a crowded central bus stop here Tuesday, killing several people, wounding scores and creating a panic before killing himself, officials said. No motive was immediately established, though the Interior Ministry said it was not related to terrorism, for which European cities have long been on alert. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A ''MythBusters'' stunt went awry on Tuesday, leaving cannonball-shaped holes in the wall of a home and in the window of a minivan in Dublin, Calif. Or, as the local sheriff's department spokesman put it, ''The cannonball took a few unfortunate bounces.'' No injuries were reported, though residents told local news media that they had been shaken up by the incident. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jerusalem ''CLEARLY, there's a war here, sometimes even worse than the one in Samaria,'' the yeshiva student said. ''It's not a war with guns. It's a war of light against darkness.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The government began a gun buyback campaign on Friday that officials hope will take more than one million guns off the streets by the end of the year. The campaign started one month after a gunman shot and killed 12 children in a Rio de Janeiro school before killing himself. In similar campaigns in 2003 and 2009, 1.1 million firearms were turned in. The Justice Ministry says on its Web site that gun owners can turn in their guns and ammunition with no questions asked and will receive the equivalent of up to $190. The weapons will be immediately disabled with a hammer and later melted down. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mortar shells, believed to have been fired from Afghanistan, hit a house in a militant-infested area of Pakistan on Thursday, killing five men and three women, officials said. The attack occurred in Tity Mada Khel, a village in North Waziristan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BAGHDAD -- The Ministry of Health here is campaigning to ban the sale of guns in Iraq. Toy guns, that is. Baghdad's toy markets are stocked with plastic weapons in all prices and sizes: toy guns, tanks, knives, uniforms, even silencers. In a country where guns and military gear are heartbreakingly prevalent, basic training begins early. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

QANDIL, Iraq HIGH in the craggy mountains of Iraq's northern frontier, where men (and, in this case, women) with guns have long operated beyond the control of any government, Murat Karayilan sounds more interested in pursuing peace than the war he has led against Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CHARLESTON still has its cannons aimed at Fort Sumter, where the Civil War began, and has elected the same mayor, Joseph Riley, since 1975. It even has some of the country's most aggressive historic preservation. But that doesn't mean this charming Southern city has nothing new to offer. There are new galleries on Broad Street, and a festoonery of restaurants, bars and boutique bakeries have transformed the once-struggling design district on upper King Street. Charlestonians, governed by laws of hospitality as incontrovertible as those of gravity, cannot help themselves from sharing their new finds, even if you are ''from off,'' as those who grew up on this once swampy peninsula refer to outsiders. Friday [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Department of Defense has identified 1,258 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations. It confirmed the deaths of the following Americans yesterday: McMAHON, Jason T., 35, Capt., Army; Mulvane, Kan.; 184th Ordnance Battalion, 52nd Ordnance Group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While people tend to read magazines, those who prefer to point a gun at them might pick up the July issue of Field & Stream. ''Shoot this magazine!'' the cover reads, and inside is a pull-out target that spells out ''I Heart Guns.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

''Do you support allowing people to carry loaded guns into an American airport?'' Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey asked the attorney general at a recent Appropriations Committee hearing. The proper answer to this question would seem to be: ''Huh?'' However, Eric Holder is a dignified guy, so he settled for ''very worrisome.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While the rest of the nation comes to grips with fresh concerns about terrorism, domestic and foreign, Congress is wrapped up in the peculiar obsessions of the gun lobby -- most of which are certain to make Americans less safe in their homes and on the streets. Congress, for example, is cowering before the gun lobby insistence that even terrorist suspects who are placed on the ''no-fly list'' must not be denied the right to buy and bear arms. Suspects on that list purchased more than 1,100 weapons in the last six years, but Congress has never summoned the gumption to stop this trade in the name of public safety and political sanity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Washington can restrict the right of its residents to own guns -- again -- a federal judge ruled Friday. In his opinion, Judge Ricardo M. Urbina of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia found that new gun laws, which were passed after the United States Supreme Court struck down a previous firearms ban, are constitutionally sound. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When President Obama took office, gun rights advocates sounded the alarm, warning that he intended to strip them of their arms and ammunition. And yet the opposite is happening. Mr. Obama has been largely silent on the issue while states are engaged in a new and largely successful push for expanded gun rights, even passing measures that have been rejected in the past. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Board of Governors at Colorado State University voted 7 to 0 to ban guns from its campuses in Fort Collins and Pueblo, a decision that pitted faculty members against students demanding to exercise their right to carry guns. Guns had been banned at the University of Colorado, but Colorado State had followed a state law that allows a person to carry a concealed weapon as long he or she has a permit. Neighboring Utah allows concealed weapons on state property, and a court has ruled that colleges are not excepted. A Colorado faculty group said the ban would make the campuses safer, but a student, Brady Allen, 25, told the board that fear of an accidental discharge from a concealed weapon was not a good reason to ban guns. ''You might as well ban everything that has a potential risk -- cars, alcohol and sports,'' said Mr. Allen, a history student and a former Marine. Gun rights advocates say campus bans make students vulnerable to attacks. In 2007, a gunman at Virginia Tech killed 32 people and wounded 23 before killing himself. The university board's vote instructs the presidents of both campuses to submit a weapons plan by February. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A scheduled local council vote this week will be the first step in a review process that will likely take years, but that doesn't mean it's too early to get out the rhetorical artillery here in the heart of the Petro Belt off the New Jersey Turnpike. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The chief of United Nationspeacekeeping forces, Alain Le Roy, has told the Security Council that a series of explosions in southern Lebanon on July 14 most likely came from an illegal Hezbollah arms cache. He gave a speech behind closed doors on Thursday, and reporters obtained copies on Friday. Mr. Le Roy, left, said there were ''a number of indications'' that the ordnance was Hezbollah's, including reports from the Lebanese Army that the civilians who rioted to prevent United Nations peacekeepers from investigating were Hezbollah supporters. The cache included mortars, AK-47s, artillery shells and 122-millimeter rockets. Mr. Le Roy said the weapons were a ''serious violation'' of the Security Council resolution that ended the 34-day Israel-Lebanon war in 2006. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

To the Editor: Re ''God, Firearms and America Come Together at a Church in Kentucky'' (news article, June 29): [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Guns tend to bring out a black-or-white, yes-or-no stridency in American policy debate. Guns are bad. Guns are good. Guns are dangerous. Guns keep you safe. The National Parks evoke equally deep emotional feelings -- about place. Setting aside specific spots for the celebration of nature, or history, or spirituality, is an old tradition -- as old as the Second Amendment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The war here comes from the sky: fast, sharp and coldly lethal. And even when it is not crushing a building or collapsing a tunnel, its sound is always near in the nasal whine of drones and the earsplitting roar of fighter jets. Here in Gaza's south on Saturday, the 22nd day of the war, conversations were punctuated by the whistles and occasional cracks of Israeli ordnance hitting its targets -- a maze of underground tunnels that served as smuggling routes for Hamas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

International nuclear inspectors are investigating whether a Russian scientist helped Iran conduct complex experiments on how to detonate a nuclear weapon, according to European and American officials. As part of the investigation, inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency are seeking information from the scientist, who they believe acted on his own as an adviser on experiments described in a lengthy document obtained by the agency, the officials said. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is under way, said that the document appeared authentic, without explaining why, but they made it clear that they did not think the scientist was working on behalf of the Russian government. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article informs about the discovery of wrecks weighing 1200 pounds by underwater explorer Barry Clifford from the ocean. The wrecks are thought to be of the Whydah, a pirate ship sailed by pirate Samuel Bellamy. They are also thought to contain at least seven iron cannons. Earlier, in 1998, a piece of the hull of Whydah was discovered by Clifford.

The article reports on a conflict between a group of re-enactors of the American Civil War and the U.S. administration over a bronze cannon, cast in 1863 and used by the group in the Civil War. The group, which used the cannon for 30 years, says they have been good steward of the cannon, repairing it and firing it around the U.S. While, the administration says that the cannon is most likely unsafe for firing and wants to display it in the Vermont Veterans Militia Museum and Library.

Discusses how at least 19 American service members were killed in a powerful explosion aimed at a mess hall tent in Mosul, Iraq. How the blast tore a hold in the concrete floor of the mess hall which injured 57 people as a result of sprayed shrapnel; Speculation from officials that the explosion was caused by a rocket or mortar fired by insurgents near the base; Reference to the dangers posed by insurgents planning to disrupt the elections scheduled for January; Consideration of how two French journalists were released in Baghdad after being held captive since August; How four employees and three subcontractors of Halliburton died in the attack.

Reports on the move of U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to open a drive to enlist Russia, China, South Korea and Japan to press North Korea to rejoin talks involving its nuclear arms program.

Reports that Iran has been rebuked by the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations for its lack of cooperation in disclosing the details of the country's nuclear program. Accusations made by the agency and several nations against Iran.