Bedugul Coffee: Thursday Briefing: Biden plans to crack down on 'ghost guns' with executive actions

Biden plans to crack down on 'ghost guns,' anti-coup protests in Myanmar fight back and major powers meet on the Iran nuclear deal.

President Joe Biden will unveil his administration’s first steps to curb gun violence, including a plan to reduce the proliferation of “ghost guns,” after a slew of mass shootings have put pressure on him to act.

Biden is also seeking to ease a national affordable housing shortage by pushing local governments to allow apartment buildings in neighborhoods that are currently restricted to single-family homes

Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar fought back with handmade guns and firebombs against a crackdown by security forces in a town in the northwest but at least 11 of the protesters were killed, domestic media reported.

Diplomats from major powers met separately with Iran and the United States to discuss how to bring both back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal that Washington abandoned three years ago.

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A national expert in the proper use of force by police testified that former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin had no need to kneel on the neck of George Floyd once he was handcuffed and prone.

Emblazoned with the outline of a masked Statue of Liberty flexing a formidable bicep, the first COVID-19 mobile vaccine clinics rolled into New York City to make vaccinations more easily available for underserved communities.

The Biden administration said it is examining 5,600 previously unreviewed cases of migrant children to see whether they were separated from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland will kick off a two-day visit to Utah where she will meet with tribes and political officials to discuss the potential restoration of two national monuments that were slashed in size by former President Donald Trump in order to open them to mining and drilling.

Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani asked a judge to throw out a voting machine company’s $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit relating to his false claims about the November 2020 presidential election being rigged.

Tesla sharply criticized lengthy regulatory processes in Germany ahead of the planned opening of its first European gigafactory this summer.

Apple said it plans to argue that it faces abundant competition in the market for video game transactions to defend itself against antitrust allegations by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games, the iPhone maker said.

Japan’s Nomura has set up an internal team to investigate a possible $2 billion loss relating to Archegos Capital Management, two people familiar with the matter said.

GameStop said it intends to elect activist investor Ryan Cohen as chairman, putting him in the driver’s seat as he looks to transform the videogame retailer.

Europe’s ambition to make the most powerful computer chips risks wasting billions of euros, a German think tank said in a report, urging policy makers to focus instead on rebuilding the region’s chip design industry.

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