Tag: Florida

Beltway Confidential

House approves $1.3 trillion spending bill just hours after it was introduced

Susan Ferrechio · March 22, 2018 4:58 pm

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Florida school post-Parkland hardens security that doesn’t involve gun control

Siraj Hashmi · March 22, 2018 4:01 pm

Beltway Confidential

Deficit hawks rip $1.3T spending bill: ‘When will we learn?’

Pete Kasperowicz · March 22, 2018 2:09 am

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wave goodbye as they leave Orlando, Fla., Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013, en route to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., for a family vacation.

Obamas praise Parkland students for helping to ‘awaken the conscience of the nation’

Melissa Quinn · March 21, 2018 6:22 pm

Zachary Cruz, center, the brother of Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz, is displayed in a monitor via closed circuit television from the main jail as he as he makes his first appearance on charges of trespassing on the grounds of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

New Florida law used to deny guns to brother of Parkland high school shooter

Katelyn Caralle · March 21, 2018 12:21 pm

Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks after the end of the legislative session at the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla., Sunday, March 11, 2018. Flanking Scott is Speaker of the House Richard Corcoran, left, and Senate President Joe Negron.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott calls for armed officers at ‘every point of entry’ at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Diana Stancy Correll · March 21, 2018 3:20 am

President Trump speaks at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Washington.

RNC holding its spring meeting at Trump resort in Florida

Anna Giaritelli · March 21, 2018 12:47 am

House speaker Richard Corcoran, R-Land O'Lakes, pounds the gavel to start the first day of legislative session, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in Tallahassee, Fla.

NRA criticizes Florida House speaker for ‘betrayal’ of gun owners with gun bill

Melissa Quinn · March 20, 2018 9:18 pm

Beltway Confidential

Marco Rubio’s radical but wise proposal: Make Daylight Savings Time permanent

Melissa Langsam Braunstein · March 20, 2018 5:39 pm

Jack Schooner, 16, looks at Grand Theft Auto video game at GameStop in Palo Alto, Calif., Monday, June 27, 2011.

The connection between school massacres and violent video games

Jack Thompson · March 20, 2018 4:00 am

Recovery operations continue Saturday morning, March 17, 2018, at the site of the Florida International University-Sweetwater University bridge in the Miami area that collapsed during construction earlier in the week.

Miami bridge builder deletes its Twitter, Facebook, Instagram accounts without warning

Anna Giaritelli · March 19, 2018 5:59 pm

A survivor of the pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida International University has filed the first lawsuit against the companies that designed and built the bridge. (DroneBase via AP)

Miami bridge collapse survivor files first lawsuit against builders

Anna Giaritelli · March 19, 2018 4:12 pm