CA lawmaker calls for ‘bullet control’

The massacre in Newton, Conn., and other mass shootings have prompted for a call to curb gun violence.

California assembly member Nancy Skinner answered that call with a proposal to restrict ammunition sales in the state.

“2,800 people in California were killed last year by gunfire,” Skinner said. “It is easier to buy bullets than cough medicine or alcohol. It should not be that easy. We need to have [...]

In California, immigration bill designed as the ‘anti-Arizona’

(Reuters) – While America’s debate over immigration has been dominated recently by crackdowns in states like Arizona and Alabama, California legislators are trying to turn that tide with a bill to protect illegal immigrants that they dub the “anti-Arizona.”

Last week, the top U.S. court upheld the most controversial aspect of Arizona’s immigration statute: a requirement that police officers check the immigration status of people they stop, even for minor offenses [...]

Hookers ‘cleaned off London’s streets’ ahead of Olympics

PROSTITUTES are being “cleaned off the streets” and brothels shut down to make London more presentable in time for the Olympics, it is claimed.

Anti-poverty charity Toynbee Hall says the number of hookers arrested in the Olympic borough of Tower Hamlets this year has already exceeded the tally for all of 2011.

The group says 80 brothels have also been shut down in the five Olympic boroughs — Newham, Tower Hamlets, Greenwich, [...]