FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama tore into the National Rifle Association on Thursday as he sought support for his actions on gun control, accusing the powerful lobby group of peddling an "imaginary fiction" that he said has distorted the national debate about gun violence.
In a prime-time, televised town-hall style meeting, Obama dismissed what he called a "conspiracy" alleging that the federal government — and Obama in particular — wants to seize all firearms as a precursor to imposing martial law. He blamed that notion on the NRA and like-minded groups that convince its members that "somebody's going to come grab your guns."
BOSTON (AP) – NBC has announced plans to drop its affiliation with Boston's WHDH-TV at the end of its current contract in December and launch a network-owned station in the city next January.
NBC said in a memo to employees Thursday that it will build out a local news team. NBC is owned by Comcast and already operates cable-television's New England Cable News and Spanish-language station Telemundo in the Boston market.
