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Former president Barack Obama praised the Parkland student activists who were named among Time magazine's most influential people of 2018. In his tribute to the students - Cameron Kasky, Jaclyn Corin, David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez and Alex Wind - Obama said while they may not have lobbyists, big budgets, or even the ability to vote, they are still making a difference.
In this Tuesday, April 3, 2018 photo, Max Schachter, whose son Alex was killed during the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, speaks to the audience during a congressional town hall on gun violence in Coral Springs, Fla. Schachter has formed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Safety Commission to find ways to make schools safer.
The student organizers behind the "March for Our Lives" are planning a series of town hall this weekend and will use empty chairs to symbolize lawmakers who were invited but who don't attend. As of Friday morning, 33 Democratic lawmakers had pledged to take part in "The Town Halls for Our Lives" events in their home states.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson threw his support to national anthem protestors in the National Football League, in an interview published Wednesday in Rolling Stone magazine. The 45-year-old action hero said he "would either have knelt or raised my fist in solidarity" when asked about the divide between President Donald Trump and the NFL players who knelt during the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner."
John Kelly to Scott Pruitt: The Scandals Need to Stop The day after Scott Pruitt was called by President Donald Trump, who reportedly told him to "keep your chin up" amid a torrent of controversy, the EPA chief got another phone call from a top White House official that was noticeably less encouraging. Final Parkland shooting survivor released from the hospital - Last Parkland shooting patient leaves hospital - Anthony Borges, the last patient from the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has been released from the hospital, according to his attorney.
After The Atlantic hired former National Review writer Kevin Williamson, Media Matters and a number of others called out Williamsons' history of problematic commentary -- including his belief that "the law should treat abortion like any other homicide" and, as Rewire.News characterized it, that "women who have had abortions should face capital punishment, namely hanging." It turns out there are plenty of other reasons that The Atlantic should feel bad about the new hire and his self-proclaimed commitment to "raising a brand new kind of hell."
Fox News is standing by its embattled host Laura Ingraham, who has seen advertisers flee her show over a tweet aimed at Parkland, Fla., school shooting survivor David Hogg. "We cannot and will not allow voices to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts," Jack Abernethy, co-president of Fox News, said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times.
David Hogg may have been a student at the high school in Parkland, Florida shot up by a killer whom the Broward County Sheriff's Department and the FBI knew about and failed to stop, but he has hardly behaved as an innocent victim since then. He is a professional liberal activist with a far-left agenda that includes repealing the Second Amendment, neutering the First Amendment, and creating an environment making Patkland shootings more likely, not less.
Perhaps because advertisers were beginning to pull their ads, Fox News host Laura Ingraham has apologized for calling teenager David Hogg , a survivor of the Parkland, Fla., shooting, a "whiny" high schooler. Ingraham tweeted the apology Thursday after Hogg's call for a boycott of companies that advertise on Ingraham's show seemed to be gaining momentum.
Some Wisconsin students who took their demonstration against gun violence on the road reached their destination Wednesday - House Speaker Paul Ryan's home turf. About 50 students set out Sunday from Madison on their "50 Miles More" march.
Some Wisconsin students who took their demonstration against gun violence on the road reached their destination Wednesday - House Speaker Paul Ryan's home turf. About 50 students set out Sunday from Madison on their "50 Miles More" march.
Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different. - Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has everything: peculiar billionaires, a once-adored startup turned monolith, a political mercenary who resembles a Bond villain and his shadowy psychographic profiling firm U.S. Department of Commerce Announces Reinstatement of Citizenship Question to the 2020 Decennial Census - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that a question on citizenship status will be reinstated to the 2020 decennial census questionnaire to help enforce the Voting Rights Act .
Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King is facing heat after someone managing his campaign's Facebook page posted a meme on Sunday criticizing a Parkland student for donning a patch of the Cuban flag. "This is how you look when you claim Cuban heritage yet don't speak Spanish and ignore the fact that your ancestors fled the island when the dictatorship turned Cuba into a prison camp, after removing all weapons from its citizens; hence their right to self defense," the meme said alongside an image of Cuban-American Emma Gonazlez, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, speaking at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington on Saturday.
Parkland survivor and gun control activist Emma Gonzalez was spotted wearing a Cuban flag patch on her jacket at Saturday's anti-gun "March for Our Lives" rally in Washington, D.C. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma Gonzalez speaks during the March for Our Lives Rally in Washington, DC on March 24, 2018. Galvanized by a massacre at a Florida high school, hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to take to the streets in cities across the United States on Saturday in the biggest protest for gun control in a generation.
The youth-led U.S. gun control movement that flexed its public muscle with huge weekend rallies has already nudged Congress to enact minor firearms changes, but must remain active if it hopes to win more meaningful regulations, lawmakers said on Sunday. The movement that erupted after the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has generated a national conversation about gun rights and has chipped away at legislative gridlock on the issue, they said.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has suggested that students pushing for changes in gun laws would be better off taking classes in CPR so they would be better prepared for active shooter situations. The Republican appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday and said: "How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that."
Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum suggested teens protesting gun violence instead prepare to help the victims of mass shootings by learning CPR and practicing active shooter drills. "How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that," Santorum said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Senator Elizabeth Warren walks with Parkland student Leonor Munoz during the March for Our Lives rally in Boston on Saturday, March 24, 2018. When a gunman armed with an assault weapon opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last month, 17-year-old Leonor Munoz was among the students who hid in a classroom, worried that she would be among the 17 people who lost their lives that day.
Thousands of students, teachers and other concerned citizens descended on the capital Saturday carrying signs and wearing symbolic price tags to say "enough" to gun violence. Many of the speakers at the March for Our Lives rally were students propelled into the debate over gun laws when a 19-year-old with a semi-automatic rifle mowed down their classmates and teachers last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Democratic lawmakers turned out in force on Saturday as hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in cities across the country to call for an end to gun violence. At March for Our Lives rallies across the U.S., congressional Democrats joined in calls demanding swift action on gun control more than a month after a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla.