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Students and teachers who survived the shooting at a Florida high school pleaded for legislative action after their classmates and coaches were killed.   US Representative Michael E. Capuano leads primary challenger City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, according to a new poll.   President Trump cut an Obama-era regulation that added to the national gun background check database the names of people who are receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses.

Republicans on the House Budget Committee are pushing forward with a new budget resolution this year designed largely to rein in spending on entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, according to the panel’s chairman.   MORE (R-Ark.) said Wednesday, “and it's now the Congress’s time to act.”  Womack, who captured the Budget gavel just last month, acknowledged that the sweeping fiscal agreement enacted last week — which solidifies discretionary spending levels over the next two years — essentially precludes the need for Congress to enact a new budget gove

MORE said Wednesday he is “totally opposed” to domestic violence, breaking an eight-day silence on the allegations that led to staff secretary Rob Porter’s resignation from the White House. “I am totally opposed to domestic violence of any kind. Everyone knows that,” Trump said, waving his finger as he spoke to reporters in the Oval Office. “It almost wouldn’t even have to be said.

Multiple people are dead and a suspected gunman is in custody following a shooting at a South Florida high school on Wednesday. "I'm saddened to say that 17 people lost their lives," the county's sheriff said in a tweet. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said that the suspected shooter was a former student at the school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which is located about 30 miles from Fort Lauderdale. "From what I understand there was a time where he did attend this school.

Senators are struggling to break through a legislative stalemate on immigration, with centrists making a frantic push to find a deal that can win enough support to pass by the end of the week. The centrist senators on Wednesday said that they had finished the contours of an agreement that would protect “Dreamers” in exchange for more spending on border security. But in a sign of just how harried the push has become, the official language of the agreement wasn't revealed until late Wednesday night after hours of what Sen.

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.

Most everywhere in the United States, rents stayed the same or went up last year. But not as much as in previous years: In 2017, median rents across the country rose an estimated 3.1 percent, continuing the steady trend of slowing increases that has been going on since 2012, according to a study by Trulia. Rents went down in only 11 of the 100 largest metropolitan markets, according to data provided by Trulia.

Most everywhere in the United States, rents stayed the same or went up last year. But not as much as in previous years: In 2017, median rents across the country rose an estimated 3.1 percent, continuing the steady trend of slowing increases that has been going on since 2012, according to a study by Trulia. Rents went down in only 11 of the 100 largest metropolitan markets, according to data provided by Trulia.

Stormy Daniels, the porn star whom Donald Trump's attorney acknowledges paying $130,000 just before Election Day, believes she is now free to discuss an alleged sexual encounter with the man who is now president, her manager told The Associated Press. At the same time, developments in the bizarre case fueled questions about whether such a payment could violate federal campaign finance laws. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, believes that Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, invalidated a non-disclosure agreement after two news stories were published Tuesday: one in which Coh

The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee is accusing White House of "showing a blatant disregard for national security." Rep.