GunBeat: Facebook announced that it is banning private person to person gun sales on its social network. Until now people have been able to negotiate private gun sales over Facebook without background checks. Facebook already bans sales of both legal …

The Global Threat: The World Health Organization plans an emergency meeting Monday to confront the Zika virus, which they say is “spreading explosively” in the Americas and threatening to infect 4 million people by the end of the year. The …

Patriot Games: A day after one of the occupiers was killed at a traffic stop, the Oregon wildlife preserve taken by a “patriot” group is surrounded by state and federal law enforcement. Their arrested leader, Ammon Bundy, issued a statement …

Patriot Games: Ammon Bundy, the leader of the “patriot” group that seized an Oregon wildlife refuge, and seven other people were arrested in a traffic stop that left one person dead. Some reports say the man killed was LaVoy Finicum, …

The Democrats: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders bluntly explained his belief in “Democratic Socialism,” last night in a Democratic town hall meeting on CNN. “Economic rights, the right to economic security is –  should exist in the United States of America,” …

Skyfall: The air transportation network is still sorting itself out after the weekend blizzard in the Mid-Atlantic coast. Travellers are stranded all over the country. Today nearly 1,500 flights are cancelled and almost 2,000 delayed. In Washington both the federal …

Skyfall: The first blizzard of a late East Coast winter delivered on its promise of a crippling snowfall. Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York were buried under snow. New York’s Central Park had 26.8 inches of snow by midnight, but …

Skyfall: Snow is dumping today on the Mid Atlantic region from Virginia and north into New England. Roughly 30 million people live in the blizzard zone with the heaviest accumulations expected in Washington, DC and Baltimore. Motorists have been stranded …

Skyfall: Washington and the mid-Atlantic are bracing for what weather forecasters are hawking as a potentially “crippling” blizzard moving in later today. The National Weather Service warns that, “Heavy snow and blowing snow will cause dangerous conditions and will be …

MoneyBeat: The Dow Jones was down more than 500 points for a while yesterday on worries about the depressed price of oil and the Chinese economy, before settling down a bit and closing off by 249. Oil dropped to $26.55 …