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President Trump is finally talking about gun control three days after a mass shooting that left 17 people dead and injured at least 14 others at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The president was silent about the issue in a speech at the White House on Thursday, where he offered condolences to the families of the students and teachers murdered and said he would meet with lawmakers and others to discuss school safety.
On Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller indicted thirteen Russian nationals for attempting to sabotage the 2016 US elections. The 37-page indictment alleges that Russians working for the Internet Research Agency, a Kremlin-linked troll farm, engaged in a multiyear campaign to spread misinformation and actively supported Donald Trump's bid for the White House.
President Donald Trump told lawmakers last month he would sign any immigration bill that made it to his desk. Then his administration shot down a bipartisan bill before it could.
As THON 2018 continued on into Saturday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey walked the floor of the Bryce Jordan Center talking with Four Diamonds families battling pediatric cancer and the Penn State students supporting them. "The theme of this year's event is 'Discovering Tomorrow's Wonder' and you're making that wonder possible for young children," Casey said.
A simple solution to the fight against filtering movies would be to update the Family Movie Act of 2005 to clarify that it covers streaming. In the course of his long career, Sen. Orrin Hatch has often gone to bat for Utah's families.
The student survivors of Wednesday's massacre - many not even old enough to vote - have been saturating the airwaves and social media with a resounding message: Something is broken in a country that can't stem bloodshed wrought by guns. "We are children; you guys are the adults," senior David Hogg implored lawmakers on CNN 24 hours after a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
In this Jan. 15, 2014, file photo, Maria Contreras-Sweet, founder and board chairman of a Latino-owned community bank in Los Angeles, listens as President Barack Obama announces he will nominate her to head of the Small Business Administration in Washington. A group of investors led by a Contreras-Sweet offered to acquire Weinstein Co., rebrand it and install a female-led board of directors.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced Monday a proposal to revise the 2016 final Waste Prevention Rule, also known as the venting and flaring rule. The proposed reversal would eliminate duplicative regulatory requirements and re-establish long-standing requirements that the 2016 final rule sought to replace, according to a BLM press release.
In 1997, I was traveling in Sumatra and I ended up at this camp where they did orangutan rehabilitation for released into the wild. You could watch the morning feeding, where they left a bunch of fruit out and orangutans came from all over the place to eat it.
Maria Creed is overcome with emotion as she crouches in front of one of the memorial crosses at Pine Trails Park in Parkland, Fla., Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, that were placed for the victims of the Wednesday shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Creed's son, Michael Creed, is a sophomore at the school.
New delegates from left: Kathy Tran, D-Fairfax, and her daughter, Elise, 11 months, Wendy Gooditis, D-Clarke, Kelly Convirs-Fowler, D-Virginia Beach, Debra Rodman, D-Henrico, Schuyler VanValkenburg, D-Henrico, Lee Carter, D-Manassas, Karrie Delaney, D-Fairfax, Hala Ayala, D-Prince William, Dawn Adams, D-Richmond, Jennifer Carroll Foy, D-Prince William and Elizabeth Guzman, D-Prince William, pose after being sworn in as members of Virginia House of Delegates at the state Capitol in Richmond, Jan. 10, the first day of the 2018 legislative session.
Just hours after the Justice Department indicted 13 Russians in what it charged was a broad conspiracy to alter the 2016 election, President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Lt. General H.R. McMaster, accused Moscow of engaging in a campaign of "disinformation, subversion and espionage" that he said Washington would continue to expose.
According to the Grand Rapids Police Department, following a three-week manhunt for Norman Dennis Muhammad Jr., who was wanted for a parole absconding warrant and for questioning in the double murder of Germaine Brown and King Talbert on Jan. 17, Muhammad was captured on Feb. 9 at an apartment complex in the 4700 block of South Breton Court SE in Kentwood. The Grand Rapids Police Investigation Unit, along with members of the FBI Fugitive Task Force as well as Kentwood Police SRT units, participated in a planned search warrant at a specific apartment where it was believed Muhammad was staying.
Joy Reid hosted an informative panel discussion about yesterday's Mueller indictments of a Russia misinformation campaign -- and why they don't actually clear Trump. . "What is fascinating here, it is not news to people who watch the show.
Since the dawn of smartphones, the selfie game has just gone up and up. We've got more color filters, hash tags, and animal faces than we can think of.
The Women's March is planning a nationwide walkout next month to protest Congress's inaction on cracking down on school shootings in light of Florida's recent mass shooting, the group announced. The group is calling on all students, teachers, parents, school officials and anyone else who supports the cause to "walkout" of classrooms for exactly 17 minutes on Mar. 14. The walkout's goal is to thwart Congress's tweets about "thoughts and prayers" and to pass legislation that would actually stop gun violence, the event description reads.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 212 illegal immigrants - 195 of them convicted criminals - in a five-day raid in Los Angeles, Calif. The raid resulted in the arrests of 212 illegal immigrants and the targeting of 122 businesses.
John and Steve have written good posts on the indictment against Internet Research Agency et al. handed up by the grand jury in the Special Counsel investigation yesterday. The government has posted the indictment here .
Supreme Court on Friday considered whether to take up Trump administration's appeal of an earlier legal ruling against its plan to cancel DACA Earlier this week, US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled at federal court in Brooklyn, New York, that DACA program must remain in place The US Supreme Court on Friday discussed in private how to handle President Donald Trump 's appeal of a judge's decision blocking his plan to end protections for young illegal immigrants dubbed 'Dreamers,' and the nine justices could announce as early as Tuesday whether they will take up the case.