After the shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise, some lawmakers want to loosen gun laws. We’ll look at America’s new "gun battle."

Tensions Rise In America's Gun Debate

 In this Dec. 9, 2015,  photo, sales associate Mike Conway, right, shows Paul Angulo guns at Bullseye Sport gun shop in Riverside, Calif. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

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Second Amendment

Politics

President Obama takes executive action on guns. We'll look at where we are in the long American gun story.  

Obama's Executive Action On Guns

Obama’s Executive Action On Guns

President Barack Obama, joined by Vice President Joe Biden and gun violence victims, wipes a tear from his cheek as speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, about steps his administration is taking to reduce gun violence. Also on stage are stakeholders, and individuals whose lives have been impacted by the gun violence. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Opinion

policy

U.S. death rates by gun are vastly higher than in other countries. How do they keep down the deadly toll?

How The Rest Of The World Prevents Gun Deaths

A map showing the gun ownership per 100 people around the world, compiled by the Washington Post via data sets collected by the Small Arms Survey. (Washington Post)

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Lessons from the Roanoke TV shootings.  We'll look at the way forward with the New York Times' Nick Kristof and other top thinkers.

America’s Paralyzing Gun Culture

America's Paralyzing Gun Culture

A television photographer takes video of a memorial for the two slain journalist in front of the studios of WDBJ-TV7 in Roanoke, Va., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015. Reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward from the station were killed during a live broadcast Wednesday.  (AP)

Roanoke

Media

Guns, background checks, and mass shootings. A new outcry over the system that decide who gets a gun and who doesn't.

Do Background Checks For Gun Sales Really Work?

Federal investigators respond to the scene of a shooting at the Grand Theatre on Thursday, July 23, 2015, in Lafayette, La. (AP)

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Business

Health

Guns in Georgia. Obama in Asia. Affirmative Action. And Joe Biden in Ukraine.  Our weekly news roundtable.

Week In The News: Georgia’s Guns, President In Asia, A Big Week At SCOTUS

Week In The News: Georgia's Guns, President In Asia, A Big Week At SCOTUS

President Barack Obama and ASIMO, an acronym for Advanced Step in Innovative MObility, bow to each other during a youth science event at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, known as the Miraikan, in Tokyo, Thursday, April 24, 2014. (AP)