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MORE on Tuesday appeared to suggest lawmakers should turn their focus to strengthening background checks for gun purchases in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school last week. “Whether we are Republican or Democrat, we must now focus on strengthening Background Checks!” Trump tweeted. Trump also posted a tweet slamming CNN and MSNBC for purportedly covering a rally protesting Trump that was organized by Russians posing as Americans. “We can do more to prote

MORE on Tuesday sought to deflect criticism of his handling of Russia by blaming former President Obama’s administration for not doing more to stop Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 election. “I have been much tougher on Russia than Obama, just look at the facts.

MORE said Tuesday he has directed the Department of Justice to propose regulations that would ban bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic guns to be modified to shoot hundreds of rounds per minute. “We can do more to protect our children. We must do more to protect our children,” Trump said during the announcement at the White House. Trump's decision comes days after 17 people were killed in a school shooting in Florida.

Lawmakers say they are feeling more pressure than ever to act on gun control after the latest deadly mass shooting at a public high school. A large reason, aides and lawmakers alike say, is the emotional pleas from students who survived the shooting — and who have expressed horror at the idea that nothing will be done in response to the killings of their schoolmates. The grass-roots movement, dubbed “Never Again,” has kept an extra layer of pressure on members to enact stricter gun laws and take other steps to prevent future massacres. One legislative solution that appears to be gaining steam

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.

When the world looks at the United States, it sees a land of exceptions: a time-tested if noisy democracy, a crusader in foreign policy, an exporter of beloved music and film. But there is one quirk that consistently puzzles America’s fans and critics alike. Why, they ask, does it experience so many mass shootings? Perhaps, some speculate, it is because American society is unusually violent. Or its racial divisions have frayed the bonds of society.

James made his latest comments on a recent broadcast of TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” according to Sporting News: James came under fire by Fox News host Laura Ingraham who was so exasperated with the player’s uninformed comments on politics that she told him to “

James made his latest comments on a recent broadcast of TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” according to Sporting News: James came under fire by Fox News host Laura Ingraham who was so exasperated with the player’s uninformed comments on politics that she told him to “

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