Democrats plan early return for work on gun legislation

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee will be returning early from their summer recess to consider gun-violence legislation in the wake of this month’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.

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Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler of New York announced Friday that his panel will gather on Sept. 4 to consider a series of bills, including one that would ban high-capacity magazines of ammunition. The panel will also hold a hearing later in September to examine military-style assault weapons, which many Democrats want to ban.

Democrats are also pushing the Senate to take up legislation already passed by the House that would bolster background checks for gun purchases.

President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have expressed a new openness to gun legislation in the wake of the shootings.

Anthony Scaramucci Says Twitter Suspended Him For Calling Trump ‘The Fattest President’

One day after Donald Trump fat-shamed a person at his rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, the former and very temporary White House communications director said Twitter suspended him for commenting on it.

Anthony Scaramucci said he was temporarily locked out of his account on Friday after he posted a tweet Thursday night mocking Trump, in which he called him “the fattest President.”

The tweet is still up on the website, but Scaramucci told Axios reporter Jonathan Swan he can’t access his account and suspects his tweet is what led to the temporary ban.

Twitter confirmed the temporary suspension to the New York Post:

“The user is temporarily locked out of their account for violating our abusive behavior policy,” a rep told the paper. “If a tweet was found to be in violation of our rules, and has yet to be deleted by the person who Tweeted it, we will hide it behind a notice. The account will remain locked until the Tweet is removed.”

But Swan said Scaramucci may be wrong about what tweet caused the temporary ban since the tweet remains without any notice. 

FDA approves AbbVie’s Rinvoq to treat moderate-to-severe RA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved AbbVie Inc’s ABBV, +2.39% Rinvoq, a JAK kinase inhibitor, to treat moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis in adults for whom methotrexate hasn’t worked, AbbVie announced Friday. The pharmaceutical company said Rinvoq should be available in the U.S. later this month. "Despite the availability of multiple treatment options with varying mechanisms of action, many patients still do not achieve clinical remission or low disease activity – the primary treatment goals for rheumatoid arthritis," said Roy Fleischmann, a clinical professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas who led one of AbbVie’s clinical trials of Rinvoq. "With this FDA approval, Rinvoq has the potential to help additional people living with RA achieve remission who have not yet reached this goal." The European Medicines Agency and regulatory authorities in Canada and Japan are still reviewing the drug. Shares of AbbVie were up 2.2% Friday afternoon, though they’ve fallen 30% in the year to date amid investor worry over declining sales of the company’s blockbuster drug Humira. The stock also took a hit in June when the AbbVie said it would be acquiring Botox-maker Allergan Plc in a deal worth around $63 billion. The S&P 500 SPX, +1.35% has gained 15.2% so far this year.

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Congress To Consider Domestic Terrorism Bill

House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Friday introduced a bill that would criminalize domestic terrorism attacks. 

The bill would create a federal domestic terrorism crime and could be applied to attacks like mass shootings in El Paso, Texas; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Charleston, South Carolina, Schiff said in a statement.

“Even though Americans today are more likely to be killed by white-supremacists than international terrorism organizations while on American soil, treating these terrorist acts, including racist or anti-Semitic shootings, differently than other acts of terrorism makes the public take it less seriously,” he said.

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