Article snippet: 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. The combative former chief strategist for President Trump was interrogated for 20 hours over two days this week as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. The plan backed by President Trump was well short of the 60 votes needed to move it to the House, as was a bipartisan plan developed by what’s called the “Common Sense Coalition. “We are grieving with Parkland. But we are not powerless,” the former president wrote on Twitter Thursday afternoon. POLITICAL LEADERS REACT Another mass shooting. Another day of outraged rhetoric from Washington lawmakers. POLITICAL NOTEBOOK President Trump’s inaugural committee paid nearly $26 million to a firm started by an adviser to the first lady while donating just $5 million to charity. Though the measure was winning support from many Democrats, it faces an uncertain fate. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s military parade will not come cheap. <?EM-dummyText [This is dummy text for the story. This is dummy text for the story. This i... Link to the full article to read more