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The Broward County state attorney will seek the death penalty in its case against Nikolas Cruz, who is charged with 17 counts of murder in the Parkland shooting. Cruz is seen here at a hearing Feb. 19 in Fort Lauderdale. (Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Florida AG will seek death penalty for Parkland shooting suspect

Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month.

8 years ago

(Nick Shepherd/Getty Images/Ikon Images)
NPR
Education

How school walkouts test student rights and school responsibilities

"It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."

8 years ago

Republican Rick Saccone, left, and Democrat Connor Lamb before the taping of their first debate in the special election in the Pa., 18th Congressional District at the KDKA TV studios, Monday, Feb. 19, 2018, in Pittsburgh. The debate was recorded in the afternoon and scheduled to be broadcast at 7 PM Monday.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

The stink of Republican desperation fouls Trump’s Pennsylvania turf

You can tell Republicans are bracing for a humiliating congressional election defeat tonight in southwestern Pennsylvania by tracking their increasingly desperate behavior.

8 years ago



The Bastille Day festivities in Paris last summer gave President Trump the inspiration to call for a military parade in Washington. But the Pentagon says there will be no tanks in its parade in November. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump’s military parade is set for Veterans Day

The Pentagon says a military parade requested by President Trump will take place in Washington on Veterans Day.

8 years ago

With bullet holes seen in a window, officers look for evidence at the scene of a shooting at an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, Nev. on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Seven people were wounded after a gunman opened fire at the restaurant, authorities said. (Cathleen Allison/AP Photo)
Community

Gun background check system riddled with flaws

Many states still aren't meeting key benchmarks with their background check reporting.

8 years ago

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Politics & Policy

Justice Department proposes banning rapid-fire bump stocks

The Trump administration said Saturday it has taken the first step in the regulatory process to ban bump stocks.

8 years ago

Current federal law only requires background checks for gun purchases from licensed gun dealers, but gun control advocates want to extend the law to include private gun sales, too. (John Moore/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

A backgrounder on background checks

As the gun debate and the debate about background checks continues, here's what you should know about how they work:

8 years ago

Fernando Juarez, 36, of Napa, (center), embraces his 22-year-old sister Vanessa Flores, (right), at the Veterans Home of California on Friday March 9, 2018. in Yountville, Calif. Flores, who is a caregiver at the facility, exchanged texts with family while sheltering in place. A gunman took at least three people hostage at the largest veterans home in the United States on Friday, leading to a lockdown of the sprawling grounds in California, authorities said. (Ben Margot/AP Photo)
Community

California gunman in veteran center killings was ex-patient

Three women who devoted their lives to helping traumatized veterans were killed by a patient who had been kicked out of their treatment program, authorities said.

8 years ago

People watch a TV screen showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea  (Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Gallup finds Americans split on tariffs, consider North Korea most critical threat

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup's Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

8 years ago

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A sheriff's hostage negotiation team passes a California highway patrol checkpoint at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, Calif., Friday, March 9, 2018. Napa County Fire Capt. Chase Beckman says a gunman has taken hostages at the veterans home. Police closed access to the large veterans home after a man with a gun was reported on the grounds. (Ben Margot/AP Photo)
Community

Gunman takes hostages at party at largest U.S. veterans home

Authorities said they could not immediately say if anyone was injured.

8 years ago

A detail from John Singleton Copley’s “Mrs. James Warren (Mercy Otis)
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Museums’ Super Bowl bet nets Philly a portrait of patriot

The Philadelphia Museum of Art made a bet with the Museum of Fine Arts Boston over the Super Bowl. On Friday, the victor reaped its spoils.

8 years ago

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NPR
Courts & Law

Probe into generic drug price fixing set to widen

Forty-five states and the DOJ are claiming that generic drug prices are fixed, and the alleged collusion may have cost U.S. business and consumers more than $1 billion.

8 years ago

Adult film star Stormy Daniels, left, signs autographs at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Team Trump braces for more Stormy weather

Nothing reveals Trump's unparalleled sleaze more than the ever-burgeoning Stormy story.

8 years ago

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway participates in an interview with CNN at the White House in May. Conway was reprimanded for mixing partisan politics with her official duties in TV interviews last fall. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Kellyanne Conway violated federal ethics rules, watchdog agency says

A federal ethics agency has ruled that one of President Trump's closest White House aides twice broke the law separating government from politics.

8 years ago

Then-FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on June 13, 2013, on Capitol Hill
NPR
Politics & Policy

Robert Mueller’s pace measures up with best prosecutors ‘in modern history’

The man leading the Justice Department's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election has been keeping busy.

8 years ago

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