Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday to discuss her plans for the economy, abortion rights and gun control, The Detroit News reported.

Thursday was the final day of a trial challenging the law, passed in response to the 2022 mass shooting in Highland Park.

Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman talk about the current postseason picture in both the AL and NL, they draft the best playoff pitching rotations, Juan Soto hitting his 200th career home run and Jose Altuve’s ejection in San Diego.

The first witness called by those challenging the ban was a downstate gun dealer who testified AR-15-style guns are used for self-defense.

Illinois gun owners had their Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment challenges to a new assault weapon ban tossed on Tuesday after a federal judge ruled the claims were insufficient to make it to trial.

I wonder what would have happened if they (the Black population) had had some of the weapons we’re talking about today.” Illinois lawmakers passed the assault weapons ban, officially known as the Protect Illinois Communities Act,

Judge Emily Tobolowsky denied a request by Attorney General Ken Paxton to block the policy, which would prevent license to carry holders from bringing guns onto the fairgrounds.

Attorneys for the state of Illinois called their first witness to the stand in the trial against the state’s gun and magazine ban. Illinois banned the sale and possession of more than 170 semi-automatic firearms and magazines over certain capacities in January 2023.