The principal of Lake Norman Charter, Craig Smith, talks about the decision to allow students to walk out on March 14th as part of the nationwide demonstration to stand up for school safety.Β Β
From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last monthβs massacre of 17 people at Floridaβs Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Lulled asleep by the humming of their Texas-bound charter bus following a trip to Disney World, members of a high school band were jarred awake before dawn Tuesday when the rig ran off a highway and plunged into a deep ravine.
From Maine to Hawaii, thousands of students planned to stage walkouts Wednesday to protest gun violence, one month after the deadly shooting inside a high school in Parkland, Florida.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday got his chance to inspect prototypes for the βbig beautiful border wallβ he wants to build to separate the U.S. from Mexico, saying strengthening the border would help stop β99 percentβ of illegal immigration β or, he allowed, βmaybe more than that.β
President Donald Trump unceremoniously dumped Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday β by tweet β and picked CIA Director Mike Pompeo to take his place, abruptly ending Tillersonβs turbulent tenure as Americaβs top diplomat and escalating the administrationβs chaotic second-year shake-up.
Police investigating series of package explosions in Austin, TX.
President Trump heads to the Golden State to inspect border wall prototypes amid immigration-based protests.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have completed a draft report concluding there was no collusion or coordination between Donald Trumpβs presidential campaign and Russia, a finding that pleased the White House but enraged Democrats who had not yet seen the document.
Investigators believe a package bomb that killed a teenager and wounded a woman in Austin on Monday is linked to a similar bombing that killed a man elsewhere in the city this month, and theyβre considering whether race was a factor because all of the victims were black.
A helicopter crashes into New York City's East River, claiming five lives.
The White House unveiled a new plan to prevent school shootings that backs off President Donald Trumpβs support for increasing the minimum age for purchasing assault weapons to 21.
The political and legal fallout from Florida Gov. Rick Scottβs decision to sign a sweeping gun bill into law following a school massacre was nearly immediate as the National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit to stop it and political candidates in both parties criticized it.
As schools around the country brace for student walkouts following the deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida, principals and superintendents are scrambling to perform a delicate balancing act: How to let thousands of students exercise their First Amendment rights while not disrupting school and not pulling administrators into the raging debate over gun control.
The Polk County Sheriff is concerned that a couple who is charged in connection with four different murders, in two different states, may be connected to other murders.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed a school safety bill passed by the Legislature in response to the Valentineβs Day mass shooting that killed 17 people at a high school.
The smirk wiped from his face, a crying Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud Friday in a hard fall for the pharmaceutical-industry bad boy vilified for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.
Napa County Fire captain Chase Beckman says a gunman has taken hostages at a veterans home in California.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump plan to meet in May for nuclear disarmament talks, a whiplash development that would put two leaders whoβve repeatedly insulted, threatened and dismissed each other in the same room, possibly in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
After a week of hints and uncertainty, President Donald Trump said Thursday he would announce tariffs on imported steel and aluminum but with temporary exemptions for Canada and Mexico as he seeks to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement. He suggested Australia and βother countriesβ might also be spared, a shift that could soften the international blow amid threats of retaliation by trading partners.
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