The Gun Owners of America (GOA), along with other plaintiffs, sued Governor Ralph Northam over an executive order issued Wednesday which sought to forbid firearms and other weapons from the area immediately surrounding the State Capitol. Thousands are expected to congregate on Monday for Lobby Day, Virginia’s annual occasion for average citizens to engage with representatives and advocate for particular causes. Gun-rights supporters in the commonwealth had been in an uproar over a package of gun-control legislation that a newly empowered Democratic trifecta promised to push through the legislature....

Perez plays down talk of Ronaldo exit Belotti has been linked with Milan, Ligue 1 giants PSG and the Premier League’s Manchester United after scoring 26 Serie A goals in 2016-17. Torino, however, have no intention of selling the 23-year-old Italy international — who has a €100million release clause for foreign clubs. “With Belotti we’re tied to him until 2021,” Cairo told Tuttomercatoweb. “Then clearly it’s very important that he remains happy as I hope he is....

In Missouri, Democratic senatorial challenger Geri Rothman-Serot is so strident on her message of change that the editor of a Washington newsletter told her she “would give a woodpecker a headache.” In Washing-ton state, Patty Murray invited reporters to sift through 20 years of personal cheeks in shoe boxes to back up her claim that she is an ordinary person running for the Senate-“just a mom in tennis shoes.” Sometimes the drive to be different produces bizarre twists....

Since the downing of the U.S. EP-3 surveillance plane, senior U.S. officials say it’s time to “draw some red lines” around Beijing. What’s more, a tilt to Taiwan has the near-solid support of conservative think tanks, from which Bush is picking his team. The evenhanded policy of the past made sense when China and Taiwan were dictatorships committed to blurring their differences, the Bushies reason. But now Taiwan is a democracy, and Beijing flaunts its determination to take the island by force if necessary....

‘There’s no position for Muller at Bayern’ The Manchester United manager has stuck to his guns so far, and while the pursuit of Victor Lindelof has stalled for the moment as Benfica look to get the maximum return possible for their Swedish centre-half, Mourinho arguably had it right back in mid-December. Results over the past month suggest his faith in his players is justified and the Portuguese is making the most of a happy, stable squad....

Featured in Netflix’s new documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door, the Watts home housed the couple and their two young daughters, Celeste (3) and Bella (4), until Watts killed his wife and children. Now, Watts still legally owns the property, which sits empty, even though he’s currently imprisoned in Wisconsin serving three consecutive life sentences. Immediately after Watts’ sentencing, the five-bedroom house went into foreclosure. That means because Watts wasn’t making mortgage payments, the home became the property of the mortgage lender....

Exon compiled his blue book to persuade his Senate colleagues to pass his Communications Decency Act. Partially moved by a private showing in the Senate cloakroom, they did so, overwhelmingly. It is not clear whether the act, which places strict limits on all speech in computer networks, will find its way into law, but its Senate passage was a transforming blow against the Internet empire. Even the most vehement of the Internet’s defenders now face a real problem: how to maintain free speech when well-chronicled excesses give the impression that much of cyberspace is a cesspool....

Symptoms Symptoms of Norrie disease may include: Blindness in both eyes at birth or soon after Leukoria, in which pupils appear white when light is shined on them The colored parts of the eyes (irises) shrinking after birth Eyeballs that shrink after birth Cloudiness in the lenses of the eyes (cataracts) About one-third of people with Norrie disease develop progressive hearing loss, and more than half experience developmental delays in motor skills such as sitting up and walking....

Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, announced on June 10 that North Carolina would automatically enroll anyone 18 or older who has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in the special Summer Cash $1 million lottery. However, he admitted on Friday that the number of vaccinations had not increased “significantly” since the announcement—meagerly rising from 54 percent to 55 percent over the past couple of weeks. “We’re hoping over the next few days and few weeks that we will see some significant improvement in our numbers,” Cooper said during a press conference....

Maryann Leonard, from High Point, went to the Deep River Recreation Center to cast her vote, like she has done numerous times before in previous elections. This time she got a shock when the staff at the voting booth said she was “ineligible” to vote, reported Fox 8 News. “I said, ‘I can’t imagine why.’ [The ballot assistant] said, ‘Let me find out.’ Then she told me, ‘It says you’re dead,’” Leonard said....

The Wildcats and coach Pat Fitzgerald scored a nonconference win against a Pac-12 opponent in impressive fashion. MORE: Welcome to Week 1 | Week 1 photos | Ole Miss DL did what? Five takeaways from Northwestern’s win “Action” Jackson: Justin Jackson picked up where he left off as a freshman 2014, when he rushed for 1,187 yards and closed last season with three 100-yard games. Saturday, Jackson hit up Stanford for 28 carries and 134 yards....

In 2021, shows and series can be watched almost everywhere, from flat screens to phones to even watches. In the 90s and early 2000s however, people only had one choice: a heavy, box-shaped, CRT TV model. For those who lived their childhood during those years however, the awkward shaped TV can provide a sense of needed nostalgia. Previously plagued with the issue of only being able to watch VHS tapes on those TVs, one user has posted a viral video that shows how you can use your old TVs to stream your favorite modern shows....

Fetterman, who suffered a stroke in May, was ripped by commentators after he struggled to communicate effectively and at times spoke haltingly during the debate over Pennsylvania’s hotly contested Senate seat. Because of his lingering challenges with auditory processing, the candidate used closed-captioning to help him understand the moderator’s questions and Oz’s responses. Critics on both sides of the political aisle called his performance “disastrous” and “painful to watch.” Fetterman himself acknowledged that the debate “wasn’t exactly easy,” but declared that he may have made “American political history” by appearing onstage just five months after his stroke....

It’s all part of a changing Ireland, long a homogeneous place where the only foreign residents tended to be proprietors of Italian cafes (every town had one). In summer Dublin was packed with students from Spain who came in droves to learn English but hung out instead in large groups chattering in Spanish. Ireland was virtually an all-white country when I was a child, half a century ago. The first person of color I ever saw was a Pakistani door-to-door salesman selling ties and underwear from a suitcase....

Major favors a payment of the U.S. Army’s standard $105,000 per family, without any admission of blame. The Pentagon fears that would set a dangerous precedent: in the 1989 Panama invasion, U.S. forces are believed to have killed hundreds of civilians. The issue is not likely to go away: several British families have accepted offers from U.S. lawyers eager to represent them in suits against the U.S. government.

So does the state of Massachusetts. Hawkins’s story led to a five-year investigation that uncovered more student allegations of abuse. A grand jury charged Groton’s board of trustees with criminal misdemeanor, for allegedly failing to report similar claims of assault by at least one other student. (Individual trustees are personally indemnified against legal action.) “If we had the information we would’ve reported it,” says Groton spokeswoman Karen Schwartzman. The school, which pleaded not guilty last week, claims that administrators met with the unnamed boy and his parents, but didn’t learn enough to file a report....