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Elected officials from Washington, D.C., to Boston reacted to the deadly school shooting in Texas yesterday with a combination of sorrow and outrage. "We grieve for the terrible loss of life and send our support and love to everyone affected by this horrible attack in Texas," President Trump said in a tweet yesterday.
Loudon County Board of Education passed Thursday a 2018-19 fiscal year budget, tabled a non-resident student policy and took the first step toward updating its meeting policy. Board members tabled a non-resident student policy that some believe could bring in more money.
A study of hundreds of thousands of popular songs over the last three ... . This photo combo of booking mugs provided by the Solano County Sheriff's Office in Fairfield, Calif., shows Jonathan Allen and his wife, Ina Rogers.
We tend to associate the word "brutality" with physical violence, especially violence at the hands of the state. It calls to mind police shootings, torture and war.
The future of kids brought into the U.S. by their undocumented parents faces a crucial test in a federal appeals court in California. The Trump administration seeks to knock down one of a trio of lower-court decisions that have barred the government from ending the program for so-called Dreamers that allowed the children to stay in the country.
Boy, it's been a hell of a week for the NRA's new president, Oliver North, hasn't it? If the notion of celebrating a convicted gun runner for terrorists as the head of the NRA wasn't enough, Oliver North hit the ground running and setting up exactly who the enemy is. Horrifyingly, he's decided it's the teenagers who survived the Parkland, Florida school shooting.
Days after two Glendale teenagers died in a murder-suicide in February 2016, a group identified as LGBT United sought to "protect the memory of the victims of hate." The ad mentioned the deaths of May Kieu and Dorothy Dutiel at Independence High School and said, "This heart-breaking incident is all over the news and the comments are disgusting! Homophobes use the incident as a proof that love is a sin!" A month later, other Facebook ads from LGBT United that ran nationwide rebuked politicians who "keep giving empty promises in order to win votes" and noted "hateful comments from the Hillary supporters about Bernie Sanders."
President Trump commemorated National Military Spouse Day on Thursday, calling the soldiers' spouses in the room "an inspiration to us all." "We ask so much of our military spouses: Frequent moves; heartbreaking separations; parenting alone; incomplete celebrations; and weeks, months, and sometimes years of waiting for a loved one's safe return from harm's way.
That will be the upshot of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions's plan to immediately detain and prosecute everyone - including asylum-seekers and parents with children - caught trying to cross illegally into the U.S. Illegal immigration is wrong, and the government is right to seek to curb it.
Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards used the nuclear option Thursday morning when he directed the state Health Department to send out tens of thousands of "eviction notices" to elderly and disabled Medicaid recipients currently living in nursing and group homes. Edwards stated that unless new tax legislation can be passed before July 1, 2018, the existing state money used to take care of almost 37,000 Louisiana residents on Medicaid will dry up.
White House swings back at critics who say her Be Best campaign to promote kids' well-being copied a booklet by the Obama administration. White House defends Melania Trump's 'Be Best' plan in copying Obama-era booklet White House swings back at critics who say her Be Best campaign to promote kids' well-being copied a booklet by the Obama administration.
The Trump administration is unveiling a multibillion-dollar roster of proposed spending cuts but is leaving this year's $1.3 trillion catchall spending bill alone. The cuts wouldn't have much impact, however, since they come from leftover funding from previous years that wouldn't be spent anyway.
U.S. military officials have sought to ward off congressional efforts to address child-on-child sexual assaults on bases, even as they disclose that the problem is larger than previously acknowledged. Members of Congress expressed alarm and demanded answers after an Associated Press investigation revealed that reports of sexual violence among kids on U.S. military bases and at Pentagon-run schools are getting lost in a dead zone of justice that often leaves both victim and offender without help.
Although the church did not address it, the announcement comes less than a week after the BSA announced it will drop the word "boy" from its name. Mormon church to sever its 105-year-old ties to the Boy Scouts at end of 2019 Although the church did not address it, the announcement comes less than a week after the BSA announced it will drop the word "boy" from its name.
The Trump administration is unveiling a multibillion-dollar roster of proposed spending cuts but is leaving this year's $1.3 trillion catchall spending bill alone. The White House said it is sending the so-called rescissions package to lawmakers Tuesday.
First Lady Melania Trump announced a campaign Monday to raise awareness of children's issues including social media use and opioid abuse, making a rare solo public appearance in the Rose Garden of the White House to formally launch her official work. "As a mother and as First Lady, it concerns me that in today's fast-paced and ever-connected world, children can be less prepared to express or manage their emotions and oftentimes turn to forms of destructive or addictive behavior such as bullying, drug addiction, or even suicide," the First Lady said.
Grab some popcorn, because the summer movie season is here! When school's out, movie theaters are packed with people ready to see the biggest blockbusters of the year. But with so many to choose from, how can you tell what's worth your time ? We've gathered up the most anticipated movies of May and June for kids, tweens, and teens to help you figure it out.
Parents of students at an Illinois elementary school are outraged after their children reported a scary and dangerous bus ride. The children said their bus driver screamed profanities at them and slammed the brakes in a way to throw them from their seats.
One in three older Americans with Medicare drug coverage is prescribed opioid painkillers, but for those who develop a dangerous addiction there is one treatment Medicare won't cover: Methadone is the oldest, and experts say, the most effective of the three approved medications used to treat opioid addiction. It eases cravings without an intense high, allowing patients to work with counselors to rebuild their lives.