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“some of the southern areas have cultures that we have to overcome” when it comes to gun control.

more progressive in a lot of areas than some other states

The new law calls for an expanded assault weapons ban, and a new registration of already owned semi-automatic weapons.

The surviving suspect in the Boston bombings has told investigators he and his brother planned to bomb Times Square,

he and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had talked about going to New York to "party.

There is no evidence that New York City is currently a target of a terror attack stemming from the Boston bombings, Kelly added. Still, he said that authorities are investigating two visits that the surviving suspect made to New York City last year.

North Korea said Thursday that it plans to carry out a new nuclear test and further long-range rocket launches, all of which it said are a part of a new phase of confrontation with the United States.

"upcoming all-out action" that would target the United States, "the sworn enemy of the Korean people."

in direct defiance to U.N. Security Council orders to shut down its atomic activity or face more sanctions and international isolation.

North Korea has instead increasingly isolated and impoverished its people through its ill-advised pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery."

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It's unclear how many of the 19 options the president would eventually take up. Those options could include more aggressively enforcing existing gun laws, beefing up national research on guns and ordering stricter action against people who lie on gun sale background checks. They could include ordering tougher penalties for gun-trafficking offenses and ordering federal agencies to make data on gun crimes more readily available. 

The pope’s jobs The pope has two big jobs: He’s the bishop of Rome, which means he has supreme, full, immediate, and universal jurisdiction all over the world (although the title says “Rome,” the job encompasses the whole Church). He’s the head of the entire Catholic Church. As head of the Church, the pope directs the faithful around the world both directly and through mandates to the bishops who oversee the administrative territories known as dioceses. He also elevates bishops to the rank of cardinal as he sees fit. When the pope teaches a doctrine on faith or morals to the universal Church in his unique office as supreme head, he is held to be infallible, incapable of error. When the pope asserts his official authority in matters of faith and morals to the whole church, Catholics believe the Holy Spirit guards him from error.