The Daily Populous

Rep. Donald Beyer of Virginia, a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means panel, wants to impose a 1,000% excise tax on assault weapons.

"What it's intended to do is provide another creative pathway to actually make some sensible gun control happen," Beyer told Insider.

"But a gun tax at 1,000%, I can't see how it would not dissuade some people from purchasing a taxed firearm. »

A suspected avocado thief was charged with grand theft of fruit among other charges after he was caught with stolen avocados from a ranch in Goleta.

It happened May 8 near a ranch in the 6900 block of Cathedral Oaks Road.

Rounds was arrested for grand theft of fruit (a felony), possession of a controlled substance (a misdemeanor), and possession of drug paraphernalia (a misdemeanor.). »

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — An investigation into popular pool clubs on the Las Vegas Strip revealed the presence of bacteria and even E. coli.

"We found a lot of fecal bacteria in some of these pools," Whittier told Inside Edition.

The pool water sampled there was clean, with no evidence of E. coli bacteria. »

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A barrage of Russian missiles struck Ukraine’s capital early Sunday, hitting unspecified “infrastructure” targets, Kyiv’s mayor said.

But the attack shattered a sense of calm in Kyiv, which hadn’t seen similar strikes since the April 28 visit of UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

An acrid smell of smoke filled the air in the Darnystki district of eastern Kyiv, with a billowing pillar of smoke rising in the sky. »