Ryan Sit

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Ryan Sit is a Breaking News reporter at Newsweek. He previously covered crime and law enforcement at the New York Daily News and breaking news at Inside Edition. He’s a New York City transplant from the San Francisco-Bay Area and is still looking for good tacos.
                                    
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Court Rules Second Amendment Doesn't Protect AR-15sAR-15s and large-capacity magazines are beyond the scope of the Second Amendment and may be banned, the court ruled.

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Trump National Security Aides All Oppose His Syria PlanTrump recently said "it's time" to rapidly pull soldiers out of Syria.

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Nonresident Concealed Carry Permits Spike in VirginiaOut-of-state residents can apply for a nonresident concealed carry permit in Virginia without ever stepping foot in the state, or placing a finger on a trigger.

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GOP Adviser Kept Ex-Fiancée As Sex Slave, She SaysHe refused to take no for an answer, she said.

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Trump Is a 'Subject,' Not a 'Target,' in Russia ProbeSubjects of investigations, however, can easily become targets.

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More Americans Interested in Concealed Carry PermitsAs interest in concealed carry weapons increases, so does the momentum on the gun violence prevention side of the firearms debate.

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Ted Nugent Is Still Mocking Parkland SurvivorsThe rocker called the high school students "not very educated," adding that the teens "wouldn't know an AR-15 from a pterodactyl."

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Sarah Palin Shocked Over Universal Basic Income"Actually modeled after the Alaska Permanent Fund. Are you familiar with it?" the Stockton mayor responded.

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DEA Convicted Two Men in Taliban-Heroin Smuggling Ring"Don't worry, those are people that are tied to me...They are Taliban."

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Russian Bots Defend Fox News Pundit Laura IngrahamA site tracking 600 Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations recorded a 2,800 percent increase in the use of the hashtag #IStandWithLaura on Friday and Saturday.

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Former Sinclair Reporter Calls Media Giant 'Propaganda'"I feel for my former colleagues being forced to read this garbage." 

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Teen Shot in School Shooting Got Detention for Protest"We are a society of rules," a school board member said when asked about punishments for students who participated in the school walkout to protest gun violence.

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How Big Is the NRA?Nobody knows how many dues-paying members the NRA really has, because it won't release regular or verified membership rolls. A Newsweek analysis found it could be significantly fewer than what the gun group claims.

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Sinclair Hired Reporter From Russian Propaganda OutletAfter airing a segment on the so-called deep state, the media giant required anchors to read a script lamenting fake news stories.

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Conservatives Are Boycotting Netflix Over Susan RiceThe Netflix boycott is the latest addition to a list of things some conservatives have abandoned. 

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Museum Appoints White Woman As African Art CuratorSome saw the outrage itself as an ignorant perspective: "Why aren't you all equally upset that Brooklyn hired a white curator for photography?"

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What Is a 'Badge Factory'?"It's almost like departments are operating like a real-life 'Westworld,' where people with means can pretend they're cops.... It's just insane."

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Trump Vows 'Second Amendment Will Never Be Repealed'"THE SECOND AMENDMENT WILL NEVER BE REPEALED!" Trump tweeted, just a few weeks after he suggested seizing weapons without due process.

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More Than 2 Million Joined March for Our Lives ProtestsThe march is over, but students have politicians in their sights and gun control activism is set to continue through the 2018 midterms.

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Gunmakers Should've Feared Trump Instead of ClintonAs the NRA and gun manufacturers dumped millions into Trump and the Republican Party in 2016, Clinton may have been a boon to the industry as president.

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GOP's Campaign Attacks Emma Gonzalez for Her Heritage"Are you SERIOUSLY mocking a school shooting survivor for her ethnicity?!" asked a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting.

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Amber Rose Slams Bullies Who Called Her Son GayRose—who started the Amber Rose Foundation and the Amber Rose Slutwalk to combat derogatory labels, sexual violence and gender inequality—lashed out at the hateful commenters. 

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Florida Candidate Sided With NRA, Then Dropped in PollsYoung voters called it "political suicide."

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The NRA Used Cambridge Analytica for 2016 CampaignIt's also one strand in a web of Trump-NRA relationships.

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What the Omnibus Spending Bill Means for Gun ControlThe massive spending bill would tweak an amendment that banned the CDC from studying gun violence. But some gun control advocates say the bill still falls short.

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Austin Bombing Suspect Was 'Low-Key and Peaceful'The family of Austin bombing suspect Mark Anthony Conditt said they are "devastated and broken" and "had no idea the darkness that Mark must have been in."

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Dad Arrested for Abusing 'Fussy' 3-month-oldThe infant girl had signs of brain trauma and 28 rib fractures at various stages of healing—indicating she had been abused before.

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How the Austin Bombing Suspect Was Tracked DownPolice got a major break in the case the day before, when two packages were discovered in separate Texas FedEx facilities.

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NRA Rep Shares Misleading School Shooting StoryThe Daily Caller's positing was an apparent reference to President Donald Trump's support for arming teachers in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting.

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Active Shooter Report at Maryland High SchoolPolice are responding to a report of an active shooter with several people wounded at a Maryland high school Tuesday morning.
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