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Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., UVA Shooting Suspect, Failed Gun Background Check Last Year
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Handout / Getty Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr., the suspect in the tragic shooting of three University of Virginia football players, reportedly was able to purchase two guns despite a background check failure last year. According to reports, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. had failed a background check while trying to purchase a firearm from Dance’s Sporting Goods in Colonial Heights, Virginia in July 2021. The former walk-on football player intended to buy a Smith & Wesson M&P15-22 rifle but failed a background check after being flagged due to a pending criminal charge. The charge stemmed from a hit-and-run Jones was involved in on Aug. 9, 2020 in Petersburg. Jones had also attempted to buy a handgun while under the legal age of 21 there in 2018, a...
Gold rises on renewed US stimulus hope, dollar falls
Spot gold rose 0.3 percent to $1,910.56 an ounce at 3:37pm, New York time, after falling as much as 0.5 percent. Gold rose on renewed optimism for a preelection aid package in the U.S., while the dollar fell to a one-week low. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a bill for a compromise stimulus package is being written as she awaits a key phone call with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said his chamber would take up a comprehensive coronavirus package if an accord is struck. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index headed for the third straight decline. Pelosi said in a Bloomberg Television interview that while there are areas where more work is required to get a compromise, she was pleased with the Trump administration’s latest position on coronavirus testing ...
No masking it: Joe Biden eyes stark contrast with Donald Trump over virus
Joe Biden squared off with Donald Trump on Tuesday over the wearing of masks one day after the White House challenger emerged from coronavirus-imposed lockdown donning one while the president attended two events bare-faced. By wearing a mask at a Memorial Day ceremony in Delaware — and by changing his Twitter profile to a photograph of him donning the black covering — Biden signalled he is putting the coronavirus front and center during the US presidential race in a nation increasingly divided over the pandemic. After the president mocked him for his protective mask, Biden hit back, blasting Trump as an “absolute fool.” It appeared to mark a new front in the war of words between the rival politicians. Trump also attended a somber Monday ceremony honoring America’s fallen, in Baltimore. Ins...