GOP senator plans gun background-check bill

Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., who once spearheaded an unsuccessful bipartisan agreement to strengthen gun laws, said Tuesday that he plans to introduce legislation in the coming weeks that would expand background checks on gun purchases.

Toomey said the legislation is a revival of the measure that he introduced in 2013 along with Sen. Joe Manchin, a moderate West Virginia Democrat. It would have expanded background checks to include unlicensed gun-show dealers and online sales.

Other issues that Toomey and some colleagues are focusing on include access to guns for people on the no-fly list and people who do not properly disclose their criminal records when attempting to buy guns. sexual-harassment allegations.

Smiley has denied PBS’ accusations and said it never presented him with the names of his accusers, specific allegations, or details of its investigation.

The public television network, based in Arlington, Virginia, dropped Smiley’s late-night interview program, “Tavis Smiley,” over what it said were “multiple, credible allegations” of workplace misconduct by the host. News reports said Smiley allegedly had sexual relationships with employees of his company, TS Media, and that some of the employees feared their jobs were in jeopardy if they refused. disappeared at sea when their boat collided with an unknown object near the Bahamas was charged Tuesday with killing her and intentionally trying to sink the vessel to cover up his crime.

Lewis Bennett, 41, is charged with second-degree murder on the high seas in the May disappearance of Isabella Hellman, also 41, of Delray Beach, Florida, the FBI said in an affidavit filed in Miami federal court that points to financial greed as the likely motive. The affidavit also notes that Bennett did nothing to search for his wife, but he did rescue a tea set.

Investigators said they found evidence that Bennett had intentionally tried to sink the boat, which was a sailing catamaran. For example, portholes below the waterline had been opened, and damage to the twin hulls appeared to have been caused from the inside, according to the FBI.

The couple had been married only three months and had been sailing on a delayed honeymoon to St. Maarten, Puerto Rico and Cuba.