Politicians jostling to win the coming U.K. election have embraced a very British response to an awkward problem: Whatever you do, don’t mention the B-word.
The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision threw out a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, finding that the Justice Department exceeded its authority by classifying the device, which modifies a semiautomatic weapon to fire on full auto, as a machine gun.
The State Department levied sanctions on a right-wing Israeli group involved in disrupting Gaza aid deliveries as Washington seeks to avert a deepening humanitarian crisis and tamp down risks of escalating the conflict.
The U.S. and other G-7 industrialized nations vowed to push back against a wave of cheap Chinese high-tech products in a coordinated attempt to counter what they consider to be unfair economic competition.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected after the pro-business Democratic Alliance party said it joined the ruling ANC in a national-unity government.
