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First Freedom: A Ride Through America’s Enduring History with the Gun (Amazon)

From “one of America’s smartest political writers” (Glenn Beck) comes a fascinating and accessible history of the United States’ unique and enduring relationship with guns, for fans of Chris Kyle’s American Gun.

For America, the gun is a story of innovation, power, violence, character, and freedom.

From the founding of the nation to the pioneering of the West, from the freeing of the slaves to the urbanization of the twentieth century, our country has had a complex and lasting relationship with firearms. Now, in First Freedom, nationally syndicated columnist and veteran writer David Harsanyi explores the ways in which firearms have helped preserve our religious, economic, and cultural institutions for over two centuries. From Samuel Colt’s early entrepreneurism to the successful firearms technology that helped make the United States a superpower, the gun is inextricably tied to our exceptional rise. [Read More]

Need some ‘lucky’ numbers? These have been Mega Millions’ most successful (NBC News)

The U.S. is full of soon-to-be millionaires.

At least that’s what millions of people are betting on as they buy a lottery ticket for the Mega Millions lottery jackpot, which is reached $1 billion. (Yes — that’s with a B.)

The amount is the result of several drawings yielding no winner and a steady stream of customers buying tickets across the country, making it the second-highest lottery prize in U.S. history.

“It’s the fun dream,” said Carole Gentry, managing director of communications for Maryland Lottery and Gaming, summing up why she thinks people love to play a game that is statistically not in their favor. The odds of winning the jackpot are more than one in 302,500,000, according to the Mega Millions website. [Read More]

Sen. Ben Cardin urges Democrats to vote with their party in Denton (KPVI)

Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., spoke Saturday, Oct. 13, about the importance of voting along the party line at the Denton American Legion.

With tightly contested races around the nation, every vote is even more important, he said.

“We need Democrats up and down the ballot,” Cardin said. “We need to have people who are going to respond to the right priorities. … I believe we’re going to fight to get as many Democrats elected as possible.”

Cardin discussed national issues including advocating for the environment, protecting the Affordable Care Act and the recent appointment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Cardin said while he understands voters may have varying opinions on the allegations, the way Justice Kavanaugh was investigated was extremely lacking. [Read More]

First group from Honduran caravan crosses into Mexico, testing President Trump’s red line (NBC News)

The U.S. government is now tracking a small group of immigrants from the Honduran migrant caravan who crossed into southern Mexico on Thursday night, a border President Donald Trump made clear he did not want the migrants to cross in order to prevent them from arriving at the U.S. southern border.

The breakaway group crossed over the Succhiate River separating Guatemala and Mexico, according to an internal U.S. document obtained by NBC News. They are soon to be followed by a group of 2,000-3,000 migrants who have congregated in Guatemalan border town of Tecun Uman, which is located about 25 miles south of Tapachula, Mexico. [Read More]

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