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FBI: July Was 15th Straight Month Of Record Background Checks
August 08, 2016 - The latest figures from the FBI show that July 2016 was the 15th consecutive month of record background checks for gun sales. The previous July record was set in 2015, when there were 1,600,832 background checks. But the FBI reports that July 2016 there were 2,197,169–an increase of nearly 600,000 checks. The record breaking trend began in May 2015, when 1,580,980 checks set the record for the highest number of background checks performed in any May on record. Breitbart News reported that the record breaking pace then continued month after month, with June 2015 setting the record for the highest June on record, July 2015 for the highest July, August for the highest August, and so forth. Then when M...
NYU Begins Ignoring Common App’s Questions on Criminal Records
August 04, 2016 - New York University has begun ignoring the checkbox questions about criminal and disciplinary history on the Common Application, the institution an...
Drug "Kingpin' Bust: Defendants' records revealed
August 02, 2016 - Accused heroin trafficker Terrence "Money" Wise had at least two run-ins with Broome County police in drug cases going back 12 years and...
Judge Hits Uber’s Background Check on Passenger Bringing Price-Fixing Suit
July 28, 2016 - A federal judge on Monday banned Uber Technologies Inc. and its Chief Executive Travis Kalanick from using information from a background check on a...
FBI: Gun Background Checks Surged During First Six Months of 2016
July 26, 2016 - The number of applications for federal background checks, which are legally required for potential firearm buyers, surged during the first half of...
Dallas shooter acted alone, say police
July 14, 2016 - The shooter who killed five police officials and injured seven in Dallas, Texas earlier in the week acted alone, the police said, adding that he wa...
FBI background checks surge in June
July 12, 2016 - Following the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, federal background checks for gun purchases surged in June. The Federal Burea...
FBI: Nearly 52,000 Background Checks A Day Under Obama
July 08, 2016 - FBI figures for National Instant Criminal Background Check System checks performed during Obama’s presidency average out to nearly 52,000 che...
L.A. Mayor Wants Colleges to Stop Asking About Criminal Records
July 06, 2016 - Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is asking companies that design and print college admission papers to stop inquiring about students’ criminal...
Hawaii enacts first state law in U.S. to place gun owners in database
June 28, 2016 - While the issue of gun control has made little headway in Congress, Hawaii this week enacted a series of gun laws, one of which the governor says m...
Orlando shooter’s firm ran two background checks on him, it said, and found nothing
June 23, 2016 - G4S, the massive security company that employed the man believed to have killed 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, said it was aware that the FBI...
How did the Orlando killer pass a background check?
June 21, 2016 - Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people in an Orlando nightclub Sunday, was a walking red flag. He was abusive, unstable and prone to rages. He boasted o...
After Orlando, Democrats Push For Universal Background Checks
June 20, 2016 - Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., seized control of the Senate floor Wednesday morning in an effort to force lawmakers to agree on legislation that would...
FBI Gun Background Checks Headed for Another Record Year
June 13, 2016 - Americans are buying guns in record numbers. And if history is any guide, Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando will spur even more firearm sales...
U.S. Urges Colleges to Rethink Questions About Criminal Records
June 08, 2016 - The Obama administration is urging universities and colleges to re-evaluate how questions about an applicant’s criminal history are used in t...
Raise the Minimum Wage, Reduce Crime?
June 02, 2016 - A new White House report links higher hourly incomes to lower rates of law-breaking. American labor activists have mounted a nationa...
Obama Administration Pushes for Change in How Colleges Consider Applicants With Criminal Records
May 24, 2016 - Ban the Box is an Obama administration initiative aiming to make it easier for released prisoners to find work. For many, the box is that dreaded q...
U.S. Urges Colleges to Rethink Questions About Criminal Records
May 17, 2016 - The Obama administration is urging universities and colleges to re-evaluate how questions about an applicant’s criminal history are used in t...
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