Heartwarming Photos Of Obama Meeting With The Families Of The Sandy Hook Victims
President Barack Obama met Sunday with the families of the victims of last week's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 26 people dead, including 20 children. According to White House...
View ArticleA Group Of Dogs Was Sent To Newtown To Comfort School Shooting Survivors
A group of golden retrievers were sent from a Lutheran organization in Illinois to Newtown, Conn., where they will comfort the survivors and others affected by the recent massacre at Sandy Hook...
View ArticleObama Gave His Best Speech Ever, And It Sounds Like He's Going To Do...
Addressing the grieving community of Newtown, Conn., Sunday night, President Barack Obama promised to take action to prevent shooting massacres like the one that killed 26 people — mostly children — at...
View ArticleFULL TEXT: Obama's Stirring Speech At The Sandy Hook Shooting Vigil
President Barack Obama addressed the community of Newtown, Conn., Sunday at a vigil for the victims of last week's shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 26 people dead, most of...
View ArticleMIKE BLOOMBERG: The Power Of The NRA 'Is Vastly Overrated'
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyNew York City Michael Bloomberg called for strong legislation to crack down on gun control Sunday, dismissing the power of the...
View ArticleLIEBERMAN: We Need A 'National Commission On Mass Violence'
Responding to the massacre in his home state that left 26 people — including 20 children — last week, retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said Sunday that the country needs a national commission to find...
View ArticleObama Says Targeting Legal Marijuana Users ‘Would Not Make Sense’
President Barack Obama said he doesn’t intend to crack down on marijuana users in Colorado and Washington, where recreational use is now legal. But marijuana reform advocates are only cautiously...
View ArticleOne Little Girl Had To Lay Among Her Dead Friends To Escape The Sandy Hook...
The first student to escape Sandy Hook Elementary School after a gunman opened fire had to pretend to be dead and lay among her dead friends to escape the shooter.The unnamed six-year-old girl "ran out...
View ArticleE-Mails Submitted In A SAC Portfolio Manager's Insider Trading Case Link...
Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Two days before Dell Inc. was set to report second-quarter 2008 earnings, Jon Horvath, a technology analyst at SAC Capital Advisors LP, e-mailed his boss Michael S. Steinberg and...
View ArticleOne Of NYU's Most Famous Law Professors Made Quite An Embarrassing Exam Mistake
One of the country's most distinguished legal scholars might now forever be known as the professor who inadvertently gave his students all of the answers to their final exam.Arthur Miller meant to send...
View ArticleGOP Lawmaker: 'I Wish To God' The Sandy Hook Principal Had An Assault Rifle
Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Republican from Texas, said Sunday that he wished Dawn Hochsprung, the principal of the Sandy Hook Elementary School, had been armed on Friday with an M-4 assault rifle to counter...
View ArticleSchool Shooter's Babysitter Said The Boy's Mom Warned Him Never To Turn His Back
The mother of the Sandy Hook Elementary gunman warned the boy's babysitter never to turn his back on the boy.Ryan Kraft, who babysat Adam Lanza when the boy was 9 or 10 years old, told CBS News Nancy...
View ArticleObama Left A Nice Message For A Newtown Football Coach And Teacher Last Night
Newtown High School football coach Steven George and teacher Bobby Pattison left President Barack Obama a message on George's whiteboard Sunday, in advance of the president's appearance to address...
View ArticleObama Finally Gave Up On Trying To Control Guantanamo Bay Detainees' Access...
The Obama Administration has given up an effort to give the military full control over the activities of lawyers representing detainees at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba — an effort that had been aimed at seizing...
View ArticleSchools In Ridgefield, Conn., Are On Lockdown While Police Search For A...
Schools in Ridgefield, Conn., are on lockdown Monday morning while police search the area for a man with a rifle.A man with a weapon was reported near the Branchville train station, the Stamford...
View ArticleThe Sad Truth About Newtown's Effort To Tighten Gun Laws
With each passing minute, more heart-breaking details about last week's school shooting pour out of Newtown.Few are as frustrating to read as the story of the town's struggle with gun laws. Newtown,...
View ArticleDon't Get Your Hopes Up About A Significant Change To US Gun Policy
CONSIDERING the frequency with which gun massacres now occur in America, the media attention they garner, and the failure of that attention either to shift public opinion regarding gun control or to...
View ArticleA Democratic 2016 Contender And Pro-Gun Rights Senator Is Now Calling For...
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Monday called for more "rational gun control" legislation in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., that killed 27 people.Warner's...
View ArticleThe Morgan Freeman Statement Criticizing The Media After School Shooting Is A...
Over the weekend a short statement, apparently written by actor Morgan Freeman, began to spread widely on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit.The statement criticized the media for the way they portrayed the...
View ArticleHere's What Barack Obama Can Actually Do About Gun Control
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary school murders — the seventeenth mass shooting of 2012 — there is renewed public pressure on Washington to address gun violence in an effort to prevent similar...
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