News Brief: Supreme Court Upholds Gun Ban, Pastor Resigns Amid Sexual Abuse Allegation, FBI Raids Property of California Mayor

Published on June 22, 2024

Good morning, and welcome to the Epoch Times News Brief for Saturday, June 22, 2024. I’m Bill Thomas, we’ve got a variety of important stories to get to, and here’s what’s going on. The Supreme Court upholds a gun ban and also rules on expert testimony in criminal trials, and a megachurch pastor, with a sordid past, is held accountable. Also, a California mayor gets an unexpected visit from the FBI, and some issues from the 2020 election still linger on in the state of Nevada. We’ll get to each of those stories coming up, but first, two important rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court: the first one concerns guns....

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