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More than anything, the Republican tax bill has been a boon for large corporations, and those corporations are now using their new tax savings to buy back company stock at a historic rate. A recent analysis found that share buybacks will jump to $800 billion this year.
GOP legislatures across the nation have since to debate a motion to ban assault rifles and high-capacity magazines - a measure voted down just six days after the shooting. Votes against that measure included every Republican politician from Miami-Dade county, where the massacre occurred.
Only minutes after taking to Twitter early Wednesday morning to falsely claim that "no one" was talking about repealing the Second Amendment, CNN New Day co-host Chris Cuomo doubled-down on that assertion during an interview with former Senator Rick Santorum. When the Republican pointed to a Tuesday New York Times op/ed in which former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens demanded that the right to bear arms be revoked, Cuomo simply pretended it didn't happen.
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.
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.
At the gun-control rally, two teen sisters who helped organize the protest said they felt hope for the first time after the Parkland, Florida shooting survivors advocated for change. "Finally, somebody was doing something about it, except it wasn't who you'd expect - it was us," Mariah Thomas, 17, said to cheers.
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, center, and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, far right, join demonstrators during a "March for Our Lives" protest for gun legislation and school safety Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Houston. Turner has told several thousand people demonstrating for stricter gun control that adults have a responsibility to stand up and protect all children.
For Justin Johnson, having his newborn baby girl taken from him was "as close to hell as I would want to get to." Johnson spoke to ABC News' Victor Oquendo about his days-long nightmare after he says tribal police came to Baptist Hospital in Kendall, Florida, and took his daughter, Ingrid Ronan Johnson, days after her birth on March 16. Johnson said he was devastated when Ingrid was taken from him.
Touched by the exhibition of 7000 empty shoes on the Capitol lawn, memorializing the 7000 children who have been killed by gun violence since the Sandy Hook school shooting, Fairfax Times wanted to know more about this powerful artistic expression and those behind it.
Republican and Democratic senators on Capitol Hill are calling on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to provide information about Cambridge Analytica's alleged misuse of data from Facebook's users. According to Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, the firm, which was hired by Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, said Facebook should testify before a Senate committee to explain why Facebook users weren't aware that their personal data was being exploited.
Bridges don't usually crumble into dust. So when a pedestrian walkway at Florida International University collapsed Thursday, killing six people and crushing eight cars, people were rightly horrified and confused.
Rep. Ted Deutch, D-FL, who represents the district where Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is located, said that Sen. Marco Rubio's bill focusing on daylight saving time is not what Congress should be focusing on right now.
Workers wait next to a crushed car and yellow tarp under a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge, Friday, March 16, 2018 near Florida International University in the Miami area. The new pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway Thursday afternoon, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel, killing and injuring several people, authorities said.
This photo provided by DroneBase shows the collapsed pedestrian bridge at Florida International University in the Miami area on Thursday. MIAMI >> Authorities said Friday that the cables suspending a pedestrian bridge were being tightened after a “stress test” when the 950-ton concrete span collapsed over traffic, killing at least six people only days after its installation was celebrated as a technological innovation.
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Search and rescue crews worked through the night, using dogs, search cameras and sensitive listening devices in a frantic bid to find survivors. At least four people have been killed after a pedestrian bridge collapsed on to a busy road below in Miami.
A pedestrian bridge suddenly collapsed onto the road below near Florida International University, crushing cars and killing at least six people Thursday. Emergency crews worked overnight in what Miami-Dade Police spokesman Alvaro Zavaleta called a "very slow process" in order to preserve evidence and the safety of possible victims and rescuers, because of unstable conditions at the bridge.
The company that designed a pedestrian bridge that collapsed in Florida is the same company that designed the new Interstate 35W bridge in Minnesota, after the old span collapsed more than 10 years ago. The engineering company is FIGG Bridge Group.
Earlier tonight, Sen. Marco Rubio joined Gov. Rick Scott and other local law enforcement and government officials at a press conference at Florida International University to discuss the pedestrian bridge that collapsed today across Southwest Eighth Street in Miami. As RedState reported, the pedestrian bridge was built using a newly-developed type of modular construction that had never been used on a bridge this large before.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is filing legislation that would let Florida and the nation keep daylight saving time all year. The first bill would make daylight saving time permanent across the country.