US Companies Distance Themselves From NRA As Pressure Mounts
U.S. companies are taking a closer look at investments, co-branding deals and other ties to the gun industry and its public face, the National Rifle Association.
U.S. companies are taking a closer look at investments, co-branding deals and other ties to the gun industry and its public face, the National Rifle Association.
The nation's largest privately-owned bank holding company will stop producing credit cards for the National Rifle Association in response to customer feedback, a spokesman said Thursday.
A North Texas leader wants the NRA to take their annual meeting elsewhere. Watch firefighters face off against raging flames and a look at a giant toy fair right after your CBS 11 soggy weather forecast.
The White House says President Donald Trump supports efforts to improve the federal gun background check system after a school shooting in Florida that left 17 dead.
With the push to ban bump stocks stalled at the federal level, a handful of states and some cities are moving ahead with bans of their own.
The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary sounded alarms nationally about gaps in mental health care and led to calls for better screening and services, but some key reforms have yet to be delivered by Congress.
The Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a National Rifle Association-supported bill that would allow a gun owner with a state-issued concealed carry permit to carry a handgun in any state that allows concealed weapons.
An attorney is asking the high court to reinstate a wrongful death lawsuit against the Remington Arms Company. He said their AR-15-style firearms are designed as military killing machines and are too dangerous for the public.
Gun-rights supporters have seized on the Texas church massacre as proof of the well-worn saying that the best answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Gun-control advocates, meanwhile, say the tragedy shows once more that it is too easy to get a weapon in the U.S.
The FBI has released more than 1,500 pages of documents related to its investigation of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
The National Rifle Association is offering insurance for people who shoot someone, stirring criticism from gun-control advocates who say it could foster more violence.
Speaker Paul Ryan said there's no plan for the House to act soon on an NRA-backed bill to ease regulations on gun silencers. A House panel had backed the bill last month.
Reports of fraud are on the rise as Tropical Storm Harvey flood waters are receding.
The tipping point for Chris Hurst came while reporting on a shooting at a rail car factory. When the camera turned off, he wept. Just more than a year earlier, the reporter's girlfriend was gunned down on live TV.
In a sign of the new climate taking hold on gun issues under a Trump administration with a Republican-led Congress, a rule to keep guns out of the hands of certain mentally disabled people is on its way to being scrapped.
Calling them "weird," "foolish," and "attention hungry," the National Rifle Association is blasting the pro-gun group Open Carry Texas for demonstrations that resulted in guns being banned from several restaurant chains.
A company is selling a female zombie doll that bleeds fake blood when shot. The 'Alexa' doll is reportedly one in a range of life-size zombie mannequins sold by Zombie Industries, which displayed its products at last weekend's NRA convention in Houston.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry says passing new gun control laws won't stop criminals and would only make law-abiding citizens easy targets by depriving them of weapons to defend themselves.
The NRA annual convention is about to get underway in Houston after the group spent much of the past year under siege, ardently defending gun rights following mass shootings in two states and fighting back against mounting pressure for stricter laws in Washington.
NASCAR might take a closer look at how it approves sponsors after the National Rifle Association became the title sponsor of this weekend's Sprint Cup race at Texas during a national debate over gun rights.
Two pivotal senators announced a bipartisan deal Wednesday on expanding background checks to more gun buyers, an agreement that could build support for President Barack Obama's efforts at gun control.
As race fans began to arrive in their motor homes and campers at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend in anticipation of Saturday's NASCAR race, the title sponsor, the National Rifle Association, remained to be a hot topic off the track.
The National Rifle Association is taking its relationship with racing to a new level as the title sponsor of a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
Word spread fast over the Texas Motor Speedway announcement that the National Rifle Association will serve as its title sponsor for the April 13 Sprint Cup Race.
NRA's sponsorship with Texas Motor Speedway was announced during the track's media day Monday. The April 13 race, the first scheduled night race of the season, will be known as the NRA 500.
Dallas Police say they got a call around 4:20 Sunday afternoon that someone had driven off Second Ave. in South Dallas and was in danger in high water.
The Weather Alert is being dropped Sunday night as severe storms move east.
The Oilers will head to Florida for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.
Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles won her ninth national title ahead of the Olympic trials later this month in Minneapolis.
The theme for the 2024 parade is "Unity in the Community."
Flooding is ongoing in parts of North Texas, but that threat is pushing south and east.
Dallas Police say they got a call around 4:20 Sunday afternoon that someone had driven off Second Ave. in South Dallas and was in danger in high water.
The Oilers will head to Florida for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.
As of Sunday morning, some 14,000 people are still in the dark.
Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles won her ninth national title ahead of the Olympic trials later this month in Minneapolis.
The program connects abuse survivors with free legal aid, aiming to utilize a 2019 Texas law championed by Texas Appleseed to erase coerced debt.
The Department of Homeland Security reported an alarming 36.2 million suspected cases of child exploitation last year, more than doubling the 16.9 million cases reported in 2019.
Every year, thousands of guns once used by law enforcement officers are discovered at crime scenes, even as police work to keep firearms out of criminals' hands.
A Mesquite woman's dramatic fight to evict a squatter took center stage in Austin Wednesday, where the senate committee on local governments took up the issue.
Despite the state's famous "Don't mess with Texas" ad campaign, the TCEQ only investigated half of the complaints it received last year.
While in office, Trump took issue with the social media app being controlled by a China-based parent company, trying unsuccessfully to ban the app in the U.S. with an executive order.
Being found guilty of 34 felony counts would normally mark the end of someone's political prospects. But this week's conviction is not stopping Trump (who has built his career, and brand, on grievances) from running for another term in the White House.
Half the country says Trump is not fit to be president; Republicans call the trial unfair, according to CBS News poll.
Every week, Eye on Politics breaks down some of the biggest political stories grabbing headlines in North Texas and beyond.
Former President Donald Trump is the first former president in U.S. history to be convicted of a crime; Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan will keep his southeast Texas House seat after surviving a brutal primary battle. But there will still be a shift at the Capitol, as multiple House Republicans lost their primaries.
A string of recalls connected to Wisconsin-based supplier Schreiber Foods has now extended to Aldi stores after similar recalls at Hy-Vee and other grocery chains.
Over the past several months, the CBS News Texas I-Team has reported on solar panel horror stories. This time, we set out to find a success story.
Self-driving 18-wheelers have longtime truckers worried about their livelihood and others concerned that the technology needs more testing to make sure the public is safe.
McDonald's concept restaurant CosMc's has taken its drink-focused menu to Dallas for its second-ever location.
With the country on the cusp of greeting the return of spring, a warm-weather treat is once again available for free for a limited time only.
Almost one in five survey responders had lost a family member or close friend to a drug overdose, researchers found.
Mackenzie Blacketer is one of thousands of people recovering from substance abuse issues.
A Democratic-led effort to safeguard access to IVF failed earlier this year in the Senate.
Some bags of Pedigree dry dog food could pose a health hazard to pets, Mars Petcare warned in a recall posted by the FDA.
The City of Arlington has had its first sample to test positive in the area and will spray for prevention Wednesday night.
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Within hours of the vote, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced it would sue to block the ban. Dallas employment attorney Rogge Dunn predicts employees will ultimately win this battle.
The closure affects both Dom's locations in Chicago, and all 33 Foxtrot stores in Chicago, Texas, and the Washington D.C. area.
Texas law SB 14 prohibits drug and surgical "gender transition" interventions for minors.
The projects are expected to create at least 17,000 construction jobs and 4,500 manufacturing jobs.
The Oilers will head to Florida for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.
Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles won her ninth national title ahead of the Olympic trials later this month in Minneapolis.
Vinicius Junior scored in the 83rd minute at Wembley Stadium to seal a record-extending 15th European Cup for Real Madrid.
Tyson suffered a medical emergency on a flight from Miami to Los Angeles last weekend due to an ulcer flare up, his representatives said.
Fans will have to act quick to snag tickets when they go on sale Friday at 1 p.m.
Jennifer Lopez was set to embark on a 30+ city tour to promote her new album "This is Me…Now," which dropped in February.
The national Broadway tour of the show is running in Dallas at the Winspear Opera House and will head to Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall on June 11.
Richard M. Sherman and his brother penned instantly memorable songs for "Mary Poppins," "The Jungle Book" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee who focused on food and American diets, has died of cancer at age 53.
Crystal McKinney, a former model, accused Sean "Diddy" Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting her in New York City over 20 years ago. She filed the lawsuit under the NYC Gender Motivated Violence Act.
It's June and that means it's officially Pride Month and Sunday thousands headed to Fair Park for the Dallas Pride Parade, one of the largest LGBTQ+ pride events in Texas.
The Storm Prediction Center has areas along and east of 35 under a level 2 "slight" risk on Monday.
According to Dallas Fire Rescue, the person who called 911 saw the vehicle lose control and end up in the water near the intersection of 2nd Ave. and Bruton Road.
Damaging winds and hail are possible across North Texas Sunday evening.
The House Ethics Committee is opening an investigation into Texas Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar after his indictment earlier this month on allegations of bribery, money laundering and working on behalf of a foreign government.
Severe storms made way across North Texas on May 28, leaving behind a path of destruction.
Damage from across North Texas that was left behind by two tornadoes on May 25.
A storm chaser not only captured a massive tornado touching down in Hawley, Texas on Thursday but ended up rescuing a family of four whose home was destroyed by it.
Dallas artist Roberto Marquez traveled to the Rafah Crossing in Egypt, the U.S. capital and will attend this weekend's statewide protest in Austin.
On Friday, hundreds of thousands of fans gathered outside and all around Globe Life Field in Arlington to celebrate the Texas Rangers historical World Series win!