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President Trump also said Thursday afternoon that active shooter drills at schools ‘‘are a very negative thing.’’  President Trump’s call to arm teachers drew swift and fierce opposition from teachers, school officials, and Governor Charlie Baker.  I modestly propose that in addition to arming teachers, we should allow students to carry their own weapons.   Former president Barack Obama is offering words of encouragement to the Parkland shooting survivors-turned-activists.

MORE’s White House is consumed by controversies on several fronts, putting the administration on the defensive at a time when Republicans are increasingly worried about their electoral prospects. Republicans would be content to spend every day between now and Election Day focused on the GOP’s tax-cut bill and the economy. But those efforts are complicated by the sheer volume of controversies the White House is juggling. “Every day they are working on another crisis is another day lost for pushing their agenda,” said one former White House adviser.

Renewed calls for stricter gun controls following a school shooting in Florida that left 17 dead are falling on deaf ears. Legislators in states across the country have delayed, defeated or refused to take up new measures to prevent more gun violence — despite the impassioned calls of victims from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. In Florida's legislature, House Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to revive debate on a measure to ban assault weapons with student survivors from Parkland watching in the gallery.  The bill, introduced after the 2016 killings of 49 people

Could the logjam that has thwarted previous attempts at legislative action after mass shootings be about to break?  The question moved front and center Wednesday, after the White House hosted an extraordinary event with people affected by school shootings, including last week’s tragedy in Florida.  Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed on February 14, addressed MORE directly in raw and emotional terms. They were joined by parents bereaved in 2012’s Sandy Hook atrocity and others affected by gun violence, in

Students who survived last week’s school shooting in Florida took their calls for action to the White House on Wednesday, as MORE grapples with how to prevent future gun massacres. One of the solutions the students from Parkland, Fla., pushed for during an emotional meeting with the president is raising the minimum age to purchase firearms — an idea that is picking up some bipartisan support in the Senate. The young students have quickly emerged as powerful voic

Senate Majority Leader on Tuesday that he will give an immigration bill a vote, but it won't be attached to a spending deal. "It is still my view that I will call up a DACA related immigration bill that ... the president will sign and that it will not be a part of any overall spending agreement," McConnell told reporters, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Congress has less than two weeks to meet a Jan.

A plan crafted by Republican and Democrat members of the House of Representatives from the bases of both parties, with help from a new firm in Washington designed at its launch to foster ideas from the poles of the parties rather than the establishments of the parties, is expected to be introduced next week when lawmakers return from a President’s Day district workweek. In fact, unlike a gas tax hike plan that the White House semi-embraced in the past week, this plan would not only not raise taxes or the deficit—it would cut into the deficit and pay for infrastructure. The plan, which does not

A plan crafted by Republican and Democrat members of the House of Representatives from the bases of both parties, with help from a new firm in Washington designed at its launch to foster ideas from the poles of the parties rather than the establishments of the parties, is expected to be introduced next week when lawmakers return from a President’s Day district workweek. In fact, unlike a gas tax hike plan that the White House semi-embraced in the past week, this plan would not only not raise taxes or the deficit—it would cut into the deficit and pay for infrastructure. The plan, which does not

“All eyes are on any message Ivanka Trump might bring on behalf of her father, amid growing speculations of talks between Pyongyang and Washington following rare inter-Korean rapprochement,” the Korea Herald/Asia News Network reported. The Network reported: The Daily Mail reported that South Korea will “roll out the red carpet” for Trump. “

“All eyes are on any message Ivanka Trump might bring on behalf of her father, amid growing speculations of talks between Pyongyang and Washington following rare inter-Korean rapprochement,” the Korea Herald/Asia News Network reported. The Network reported: The Daily Mail reported that South Korea will “roll out the red carpet” for Trump. “