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In the aftermath of a high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead, President Donald Trump is urging the country and Congress to act. But, pushing the boundaries of conservative orthodoxy on something as fundamental to the Republican Party as the Second Amendment has the potential to reveal schisms between Trump and the base that elected him.
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Mourners console each other during the funeral service for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School assistant football coach Aaron Feis The armed officer on duty at the Florida school where a shooter killed 17 people never went inside to engage the gunman and has been placed under investigation, police have announced. The Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by a gunman armed with an AR-15 style assault rifle has reignited national debate over gun laws and school safety, including proposals by president Donald Trump and others to designate more people - including trained teachers - to carry arms on school grounds.
Remember Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican presidential candidate who lost decisively to Barack Obama by roughly five million votes ? The man who, after getting whipped in that campaign, disappeared for a while in a sort of self-imposed exile to collect his thoughts and start a new life as a full-time grandfather and part-time philanthropist? It turns out that Romney the career politician is not content to sit on the couch in one of his estates for the rest of his life. Last week, in what will be his fifth political campaign in 23 years, Romney announced his bid to be Utah's next United States senator.
Mourners attend the funeral service for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School assistant football coach Aaron Feis at the Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, Florida, Thursday. Football players wearing Stoneman Douglas jerseys carried Feis' casket into the service at the church where family and friends gathered to remember him as loyal and caring.
A set of instructions sent to voters in the special primary election to replace U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., could cause confusion. The Republic's politics teams talks Don Shooter's claims of being privately investigated, a new and controversial abortion bill, and Steve Montenegro's legal path to citizenship on Feb. 13, 2018.
Donald Trump's outsider candidacy rattled the conservative movement. But more than a year into his presidency, the onetime Democrat now holds what seems to be a near-total grip.
Tennessee's Senate leader and 18 other Republican state senators have endorsed U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn in her U.S. Senate bid. Blackburn's campaign announced the endorsements Wednesday as U.S. Sen. Bob Corker considers whether he wants to reverse course and face Blackburn in a Republican primary.
Minnesota legislators could vote Thursday to restore the House and Senate operating budgets, after Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed them in May. A conference committee approved a bill Wednesday night that would designate more than $64 million for both the House and Senate, allowing them to keep functioning for two years. The funding would be retroactive to July 1. Both chambers need to vote on the measure, and Dayton must sign off on it.
London: The fire burned for hours, ripping through a 24-story apartment block, in one of London's richest boroughs. Video footage showed desperate residents banging on windows and begging for help.
Are you, perhaps, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who's sad or upset that a disturbed 18-year-old kid was able to legally buy an AR-15 rifle and kill 17 of your friends and teachers last week? Miami State Rep. Manny Diaz Jr. also has a message for you: You're actually too young and dumb to understand what happened to you, and are being used by disingenuous Leftists for political gain. They haven't actually said those messages in public.
Politico : "The mass shootings in Newtown, Orlando, Las Vegas and even Fort Lauderdale didn't get Marco Rubio to seriously reconsider his position on guns. But Rubio shifted on firearms Wednesday night as he weathered the righteous anger of a parent and of the students who survived the Valentine's Day massacre at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School and who then faced him onstage at a CNN town hall in purple Florida's liberal bastion of Broward County."
While President Trump endorsed the idea of arming teachers to help prevent school shootings, Sen. Marco Rubio said Wednesday he opposed the plan. "I don't support that, and I would admit to you right now I answer that as much as a father as I do as a senator.
Crews are using boats to help northern Indiana residents amid flooding from melting snow and heavy rain moving across the ... . Emergency crews help evacuate residents, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, in Elkhart, Ind.
President Donald Trump used Twitter Thursday morning to call "fake news" on the gun safety town hall CNN held in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting. One of the most surprising parts of Wednesday's event came when Sen. Marco Rubio shot down the idea that the way to stop school shootings is to arm teachers, an idea proffered by the White House both at a listening session with shooting survivors that occurred earlier on Wednesday and at Tuesday's White House press briefing.
A student who survived the deadly Parkland school shooting in Florida asked Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida if he would "not accept a single donation from the [National Rifle Association]."
In the aftermath of yet another mass school shooting, President Donald Trump says that if one of the victims, a football coach, had been armed "he would have shot and that would have been the end of it." Revisiting an idea he raised in his campaign, Trump's comments in favor of allowing teachers to be armed come as lawmakers in several states are wrestling with the idea, including in Florida, where the 17 most recent school shooting victims are being mourned.
Some of the high school students who traveled to Florida's state capital for protests after last week's mass shooting committed what may have been their young movement's first act of civil disobedience. Some of the high school students who traveled to Florida's state capital for protests after last week's mass shooting committed what may have been their young movement's first act of civil disobedience.
During CNN's Wednesday night town hall with Florida lawmakers, survivors of last week's high school shooting and members of the NRA, Sen. Marco Rubio attempted to explain why a ban on assault rifles wouldn't have prevented the tragedy, and the audience's reaction was not quite what he was hoping for. While explaining what a ban on assault rifles would do, the Republican senator from Florida said to ensure no one would "get around it."
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio was put on the defensive Wednesday by angry students, teachers and parents who are demanding stronger gun-control measures after the shooting rampage that claimed 17 lives at a Florida high school. One of those confronting the Florida senator at a CNN's "Stand Up" town hall Wednesday night was Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was killed on Feb. 14 with 16 others.