“How is this still happening? Why are our children still dying and why are we failing them?” A gun control activist who survived last year’s massacre at an Illinois July 4th parade spoke out at a police press conference on Monday’s mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school to make an impassioned plea for gun control legislation. “Aren’t you […]
“This has become part of who we are as a country,” said Julián Castro. “The free availability of guns has not made us safer in the United States or here in the state of Texas.” A South Texas town is reeling Tuesday after at least 21 people—including 19 students and two adults—were killed and an unknown number […]
WHITE HOUSE – U.S. President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted from a White House media briefing Monday afternoon by a U.S. Secret Service agent because of a shooting near the building. Returning to the briefing room lectern minutes later, Trump said, “There was an actual shooting, and somebody’s been taken to the hospital.” Tom Sullivan, chief of […]
U.S. President Donald Trump is headed Wednesday to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, where gunmen shot and killed a combined 31 people last weekend, two cities where many residents who blame the president’s rhetoric for fomenting the violence are urging him to stay away. White House officials said Trump’s visits would be similar […]