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AUSTIN — For the first time ever, the Texas House approved divisive legislation that would let people carry handguns in public without a license, delivering a major victory to gun rights activists and Republicans’ conservative flank. In more than six hours of debate Thursday, several Democrats warned it would be dangerous to let untrained people carry a loaded gun in …

The US House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday officially recognising the “Armenian genocide”, a symbolic but unprecedented move that angered Turkey amid already heightened tensions with Washington. Cheers and applause erupted when the chamber voted 405 to 11 in support of the measure “affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide”, a first for the US Congress, …