BitGou: Wednesday Morning Briefing: Republicans in tight House races embrace gun control policy

2018年3月7日星期三

Wednesday Morning Briefing: Republicans in tight House races embrace gun control policy

Highlights

A majority of Republican lawmakers in the tightest congressional races are changing their message on guns, expressing new support for restrictions after last month’s high school shooting in Florida, according to a Reuters review of the candidates’ public statements.

Florida state lawmakers were due to vote once more on a gun-safety package that would raise the legal age for buying rifles, impose a three-day waiting period on all firearms sales and allow the arming of some public school personnel.

Economic nationalists appeared to gain the upper hand in a White House battle over trade with the resignation of Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, in a move that could ramp up protectionist measures that risk igniting a global trade war.

World

Britain’s grand welcome for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman begins with a lunch with Queen Elizabeth, as the two countries seek to widen longstanding defense ties. But as Prince Mohammed and Prime Minister Theresa May meet, demonstrators will be outside to protest against both countries’ roles in Yemen where war has killed an estimated 10,000 people.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said sanctions on North Korea will not be eased for the sake of a summit between the two sides as Chinese state media repeated Beijing’s line that talks are the only way to end the nuclear standoff.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said there is no chance of him going on trial at the International Criminal Court, because “not in a million years” would it have jurisdiction to indict him.

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