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State lawmakers could vote as soon as Monday on something not seen in decades in Florida: new limits on guns. The Florida Senate on Saturday agreed to advance a bill that would increase school safety and restrict gun purchases during a rare weekend session that often turned into a debate on gun control and arming teachers in the aftermath of last month's Parkland school shootings.
Friends, Now, more than ever, independent journalism has become the last firewall against government and corporate lies. Yet, with frightening regularity, independent media sources are losing funding, closing down or being blacked out by Google and Facebook.
'This Is On Them 100%': Fire Chief Blasts National Grid For Storm Response The fire chief in Hull took to Facebook to express his frustration with National Grid after power was knocked out in town for several days. More Than 100,000 Mass.
Several members of Congress joined civil rights activists and others Sunday afternoon for the annual commemoration of a day of racial violence in Selma dating to 1965. A bipartisan group including Rep. John Lewis of Georgia led the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Last week President Trump announced a new 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent hike on aluminum imports. Foreign leaders like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the move "unacceptable" and the European Union threatened to respond to the U.S. with their own tariff.
Congressman John Lewis embraces Susan Bro, mother of Heather Heyer, while touching the Civil Rights Memorial during a wreath laying ceremony in Montgomery, Ala., on Saturday, March 3, 2018. Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017, while protesting the Unite the Right rally.
A program that temporarily shields hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation was scheduled to end Monday but court orders have forced the Trump administration to keep issuing renewals, easing the sense of urgency.
An Illinois school official sparked outrage online in February over his unapologetic endorsement of Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. The Waukegan Public School District appointed Chris Blanks to a seat on the district's discipline committee and allows him to take students on field trips, according to Waukegan Teachers and Parents United , a district advocacy group that contacted The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Women are coming out in droves to run for public office in 2018, and many attribute their newfound political aspirations to President Donald Trump. Roughly 110 women are running for statewide office in Texas and at least 50 are running for congressional seats in the state, ABC News reports .
Asmi Fathelbab accused Linda Sarsour in December of covering for the man who allegedly sexually harassed her while she worked for the Arab American Association, and now the alleged harasser is suing Fathelbab. "I'm astonished that I'm being sued by my stalker, harasser and assaulter," Asmi Fathelbab said, according to Fox News .
READ: Trump Says Rep. Maxine Waters Needs 'An IQ Test' At Gridiron Dinner - President Donald Trump on Saturday night addressed the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, an event he skipped last year and one known for presidential humor. - Though he poked fun at his own administration's dysfunction GOP Panic Spreads to Pennsylvania - Republicans have spent over $9 million in a blue-collar district Trump carried by 20 points.
READ: Trump Says Rep. Maxine Waters Needs 'An IQ Test' At Gridiron Dinner - President Donald Trump on Saturday night addressed the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, an event he skipped last year and one known for presidential humor. - Though he poked fun at his own administration's dysfunction The most memorable jokes from Trump's Gridiron dinner speech - on Saturday participated in the Gridiron Club dinner's long-standing tradition of presidential speeches filled with self-deprecating humor, flinging barbs at his own administration as well as the usual targets.
Across Colorado, Republican and Democratic voters will convene at 7 p.m. sharp on Tuesday in schools, churches, community centers and other neighborhood gathering places, marking the parties' first official step toward picking candidates. This year, Republicans are grappling with what party officials are calling a "hangover" from the party's 2016 caucuses, when the state party decided against holding a presidential preference poll and eventually drew the wrath of then-candidate Donald Trump, who blasted Colorado's system as "rigged" against him when he didn't wind up with any of the state's delegates to the Republican National Convention.
The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to consider the Trump administration's unusual request to overrule a judge who kept alive a program that shields young immigrants from deportation. The administration went directly to the nation's highest court after U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco decided in January that beneficiaries of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program could apply for renewals.
Florida shooting survivor David Hogg says he hung up on the White House during a call inviting him to Trump's listening session Two survivors of the Florida shooting, high school students David Hogg and Cameron Kasky, told TV host Bill Maher that they "don't respect" politicians simply because of who they are, and demanded action from politicians like Sen. Marco Rubio. Hogg bragged that he hung up on the White House during a call about the listening session on gun control and school safety that President Donald Trump hosted last week.
The US Navy's next advanced aircraft carrier is 70% complete - watch the latest 888-ton chuck drop into place The USS John F. Kennedy is the second of the US Navy's Gerald R. Ford-class advanced nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
The West Virginia legislature argued for hours but could not agree Saturday on how much to raise teachers' pay - meaning the teachers strike may well extend into an eighth day Monday. About 20,000 teachers have been on strike since February 22, keeping 300,000 students out of the classroom.
For the first time since the end of the Vietnam War more than four decades ago, a US Navy aircraft carrier will set anchor in the country Monday. Publicly, the United States has portrayed the four-day visit by the USS Carl Vinson and its contingent of 5,000 sailors and aviators as an historic opportunity to enhance the budding friendship that has emerged between the two former foes.
President Donald Trump's administration appears unbowed by broad domestic and international criticism of his planned import tariffs on steel and aluminum, saying Sunday that the president is not planning on exempting any countries from the stiff duties. Speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said: "At this point in time there's no country exclusions."