The Tactical Games Are a Fitness Fad. With Guns.

The Tactical Games Are a Fitness Fad. With Guns.

A slurry of snow and sleet was battering the Nevada Firearms Academy and Range, a rugged expanse of dry soil and sagebrush about 25 miles outside downtown Reno. It’s rarely so cold in this part of the high desert basin — hovering in the high 30s just past dawn on …

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C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say

C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say

The extensive layoffs of federal health workers that began on Tuesday will greatly curtail the scope and influence of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the world’s premier public health agency, an outcome long sought by conservatives critical of its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The reorganization of the …

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Haiti Doesn’t Make Guns. So How Are Gangs Awash in Them?

Haiti Doesn’t Make Guns. So How Are Gangs Awash in Them?

A video that circulated widely on the internet recently showed a Haitian gang leader, Joseph Wilson, shirtless, happily showing off belts of .50 caliber ammunition, mockingly saying he used the armor-piercing bullets to groom his hair. “We have enough combs for our hair to last a year,” he joked. So …

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Alec Baldwin Sues New Mexico Prosecutors Over Dismissed ‘Rust’ Case

Alec Baldwin Sues New Mexico Prosecutors Over Dismissed ‘Rust’ Case

Alec Baldwin filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing New Mexico prosecutors and law enforcement officials of waging a “malicious prosecution” against him after the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the “Rust” film set. Their involuntary manslaughter case against Mr. Baldwin in the shooting death of the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, …

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