Tag: Florida

Cuba's legislature opened the two-day session that is to elect a successor to President Raul Castro.

National Security

Trump: US ‘taking care of Cuba’ in post-Castro era

Gabby Morrongiello · April 19, 2018 6:22 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2018, file photo, student David Hogg speaks to the media as he returns to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Speaking on a Twitter livestream on Monday, March 19, Hogg said the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivors are not pushing a liberal or conservative agenda. But he said they âhave to use our white privilegeâ to make sure all people who have died in gun violence can be heard.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas survivors get a book deal

Tristan Justice · April 19, 2018 3:37 pm

"We are grieving with Parkland. But we are not powerless. Caring for our kids is our first job. And until we can honestly say that we're doing enough to keep them safe from harm, including long overdue, common-sense gun safety laws that most Americans want, then we have to change," Barack Obama wrote on Twitter. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Barack Obama wrote Parkland survivors’ blurb for Time Top 100 Influential People list

Tristan Justice · April 19, 2018 3:26 pm

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, and mass shooting survivors, from left, Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, Cameron Kasky and Alex Wind participate in a panel discussion about guns, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics, in Cambridge, Mass. The Feb. 14, 2018, attack in Florida killed 17 people, 14 of them students. The students have become vocal advocates for stricter gun laws.

Beltway Confidential

The Parkland students’ strategy on gun control isn’t working

Siraj Hashmi · April 18, 2018 7:28 pm

Anthony Borges, right, and his father, Roger, left, listen to his grandfather Alfredo during a news conference in Plantation, Fla., Friday, April 6, 2018. An attorney for Anthony Borges read a statement from him criticizing Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and School Superintendent Robert Runcie for the deaths and injuries sustained during the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Anthony Borges sustained five bullet wounds after he used his body to block a classroom door during the shooting. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Parkland shooting victim files first lawsuit against suspected gunman

Melissa Quinn · April 18, 2018 3:53 pm

"A U.S. ambassador is not going to influence the Cuban government, which is a dictatorial, closed regime," Rubio disclosed.

Marco Rubio picks Heritage Action CEO as his next chief of staff

Diana Stancy Correll · April 17, 2018 10:12 pm

"We should not be banning guns from law-abiding citizens," Paul Ryan said after a closed-door meeting with Republicans Tuesday. "We should be focusing on making sure citizens who should not be getting guns in the first place don't get those guns."

Beltway Confidential

Republicans’ behind-the-scenes fight to replace Paul Ryan

Susan Ferrechio · April 17, 2018 4:00 am

Former U.S. President Barack Obama listens to a question during a leadership summit in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Obama was one of the keynote speakers at the event organized by the Hindustan Times newspaper.

Beltway Confidential

While Obama pushed ‘restorative justice’ in schools, the Parkland shooter got a free pass

Julie Gunlock · April 16, 2018 7:33 pm

Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton is President Trump's national security adviser pick.

National Security

Trump jokes he’s ‘jealous’ of the long applause for John Bolton

Katelyn Caralle · April 16, 2018 5:13 pm

On Feb. 14, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., was the site of a mass school shooting.

Gun rights advocate Charlie Kirk denied speaking opportunity at Parkland high school

Mandy Mayfield · April 14, 2018 3:11 pm

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks with the Washington Examiner in his office on Capitol Hill.

Beltway Confidential

Jim Jordan for speaker? Not so fast, GOP members say

Al Weaver · April 13, 2018 5:12 pm

Summer Zervos and Donald Trump.

Beltway Confidential

Jim Jordan can’t win, but Kevin McCarthy can lose the race for speaker of the House

Philip Wegmann · April 13, 2018 4:44 pm