Evening Edition: Fla. students demand change to gun laws at boisterous rally
Students take charge of gun-safety movement with some help from existing groups; Right-wing sliming of Douglas High students can't be ignored. It's too disgusting for that.
Young speakers wearing "We Call B.S." T-shirts condemned their elders for failing to prevent the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which killed 17 students and faculty on Feb. 14. Elsewhere in the Florida, students walked out of school in protest, gathering in parks or marching in the streets.
Gun-safety advocates hope the new activism can create momentum across the country to enact firearms restrictions. But the students are also attracting political attacks from advocates for gun rights. Established groups, however, are aware of how quickly such a moment can fade.
In a triumph of data collection and analysis, a team of researchers based at Oxford University has built the tools necessary to calculate how far any dot on a map is from a city — or anything else.
Immigration experts said Viktor and Amalija Knavs very likely relied on family sponsorship to obtain their green cards, a process President Trump has derided.
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The Rev. Billy Graham's ministry spanned more than six decades, and his evangelical "crusades," as he called them for most of his career, touched every corner of the world, making him one of the most influential and best-known religious figures of his time.
The tweet was the latest in President Trump's running commentary on the investigation in the days since the Justice Department's special counsel announced a sweeping indictment of what prosecutors say is a notorious Russian group of Internet trolls.
Kikkan Randall teamed with Jessie Diggins to win the women's team sprint freestyle race, becoming the first American cross-country skiers to medal since 1976. For Randall, PyeongChang marks her first Olympics appearance since the arrival of her son, Breck, 22 months ago.
For a 33-year-old whose limbs have been splayed on mountains from Colorado to Cortina, Vonn's bronze medal is a singular achievement that must be viewed through the long lens of her career.
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