Student Carly Novell Became the Second Member of Her Family to Survive a Mass Shooting
Waiting for word from students just south of the campus of Marjorie Stonemason Douglas High School in Coral Springs, Florida where a shooting occurred on Wednesday. Amy Beth Bennett/Sun-Sentinel/Zuma Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Carly Novell, a senior at the Florida high school where at 17 people were killed in a…
Mother Who Lost 14-Year-Old Daughter in Florida Shooting Pleads for Trump to Act
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The mother of a 14-year-old girl who was among the 17 people killed in Wednesday’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, appeared on CNN Thursday to demand that President Donald Trump take action against gun violence. The searing segment was fraught with emotion, as Lori Alhadeff begged Trump…
Imagine Dragons to Conservative Group: Stop Using Our Music
Singer/songwriter Dan Reynolds, of the Imagine Dragons, performs on stage at the Capitol One Arena on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, in Washington.Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Washington, it’s nearly CPAC time—that point in the year when thousands of conservative activists assemble in Washington for the annual…
Trump’s Immigration Bill Was Just Defeated. It Wasn’t Even Close.
Lennin Nolly/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The hardline immigration bill endorsed by President Donald Trump failed badly in the Senate on Thursday afternoon. It received just 39 votes well short of the 60 needed to take up the measure. Of the four immigration proposals the Senate considered on Thursday,…
Senate Rejects Bipartisan Plan to Protect Dreamers Amid Aggressive Opposition From Trump
Ting Shen/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The bipartisan immigration plan that represented the Senate’s best chance to pass legislation to protect Dreamers—undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children—was defeated on Thursday afternoon. The final tally was 54 in favor, 45 against, with eight Republicans joining most Democrats…
Florida Sheriff: No Known White Supremacist Connection in School Shooting
Students released from a lockdown embrace following following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.John McCall/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update 5:16 pm ET: The Leon County Sheriff’s Office told the Tallahassee Democrat on Thursday that they knew of no information linking Cruz…