The 5-4 ruling was the first ever to directly address the meaning of the Second Amendment?s ambiguous text, but the decision left open the possibility that less restrictive state laws were permissible.
North Korea took a big step toward re-integration into the world community by submitting the nuclear declaration. In response, the White House said that it would remove it from a list of terrorism sponsors.
AP - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun control in U.S. history.
AP - President Bush on Thursday lifted trade sanctions against North Korea and moved to remove it from the U.S. terrorism blacklist, a remarkable turnaround in policy toward the communist regime he once branded as part of an "axis of evil."
AP - Stocks tumbled Thursday as Wall Street contended with a barrage of bad news: another surge in oil prices and warnings of trouble in the key financial, automotive and high-tech industries. The major indexes showed losses of more than 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which shed about 250 points and dropped to its lowest level in more than a year.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Washington D.C.'s sweeping ban on handguns is unconstitutional. The justices voted 5-4 against the ban. At issue in District of Columbia v. Heller was whether the city's ban violated the Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms."
Sen. Barack Obama is chastising Sen. John McCain for offering energy policies that amounted to "meaningless gimmicks designed to get politicians through the next election."