The convicted killer who broke out of a Tennessee prison went on to steal a truck, seek cover in a shed, drink beer and write an apology note before he was eventually apprehended near Kansas City, Missouri, officials revealed Wednesday. Jacob Morley, 28, remained at large for more than a week before his capture, but authorities were…
Robert Leider, the chief counsel at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who has been overseeing a major overhaul of the agency’s firearms regulations, announced Friday he is stepping down from his role, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. Leider was appointed as the ATF’s top attorney last year shortly…
Washington — The Justice Department said on Friday it will no longer enforce certain provisions of a 1934 law that was passed by Congress to regulate the types of firearms often used by mobsters, after a federal judge declared large parts of the law were unconstitutional. The new guidelines released by the Bureau of Alcohol,…
Washington — Justice Samuel Alito sat down with CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford for discussions touching on a host of issues, including his future on the Supreme Court, his majority opinion in the case that overturned Roe v. Wade and the charged rhetoric of political leaders from both parties. The rare interview came…
At least 27 people were killed in two mass shootings in South Africa’s two main cities, police said on Sunday. The first incident occurred Saturday evening when eight gunmen armed with assault rifles stormed a bar west of Johannesburg and shot 17 people and wounded 15 others. The suspects opened fire on customers drinking outside…
The Justice Department on Friday released a new legal opinion that concludes a federal gun law prohibiting firearms dealers from selling handguns or handgun ammunition to young adults between the ages of 18 and 20 is unconstitutional by violating their Second Amendment rights. The opinion was issued one day after CBS News reported that the…
Washington — President Trump ordered the Justice Department not to appeal a court ruling that loosened restrictions on firearms known as “gangster weapons,” sources familiar with the matter told CBS News, a move that will let some Americans possess or sell short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and silencers with less government oversight. For more than 90…
Some Americans can now possess short-barreled rifles, shotguns and silencers without registering them with the federal government, after the Trump administration declined to pause a Texas judge’s ruling issued earlier this month that deregulated those weapons. The Aug. 5 ruling by U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas gave the…
A court-appointed lawyer for an Afghan woman and U.S. permanent resident whom the Justice Department alleges is an “alien terrorist” vowed Thursday to vigorously fight the government’s efforts to deport her, telling a federal judge that the entire legal process is unfair and unconstitutional. In the first-ever test case before the secretive and never-before-used Alien…
The Justice Department is seeking to convince a federal judge to deport a Texas-based Afghan woman who prosecutors allege is an “alien terrorist,” it revealed Wednesday, in the first-ever test case before a secretive court that has never convened since it was created three decades ago. Nazira Haji Zada, 47, of Fort Worth, Texas, will…
