The TAKE with Rick Klein “We’re going to get it done,” President Donald Trump declared, in kicking off an extraordinary listening session on guns and school violence at the White House on Wednesday. But who is “we”? What is “it”? And when will things be done? When you get past […]
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US Army’s top engineer ‘not satisfied’ with Puerto Rico’s post-Maria recovery
It’s been 150 days since Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, but the island still isn’t at a level of recovery that satisfies the U.S. Army’s top engineer. “I am not satisfied that people in Puerto Rico should have to wait that much time for power,” Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite […]
North Korea to send high-level delegation to Olympics closing ceremony
North Korea said it plans to send a high-level delegation to the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games on Sunday, according to the South’s Unification Ministry. The eight-member delegation, led by hardline military general and Party Central Committee Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol, is expected to arrive by land […]
US women end drought, beat Canada for gold in a shootout
The Americans’ gold medal drought is finally over. They needed the first shootout in an Olympic women’s final to do it, too. Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scored a dazzling, triple-deke goal in the sixth round of a shootout thriller and Maddie Rooney stuffed the last two Canadians to wrap up a 3-2 […]
Trump’s former bodyguard paid $75,000 by RNC for security consulting
A firm run by Keith Schiller, the loyal bodyguard who followed Donald Trump from the boardroom to the Oval Office and then abruptly departed in September, has been added to the payroll of the Republican National Committee, federal campaign filings show. Schiller’s firm, KS Global Group LLC, has received several […]
‘Small explosion’ near US embassy in Montenegro, investigation ‘evolving’
There was a “small explosion” near the U.S. embassy compound in Podgorica, the capital of the Balkan nation of Montenegro, at approximately midnight local time Thursday, the State Department has confirmed to ABC News. “At 00:30, in front of the @USEmbassyMNE building in #Podgorica, #Montenegro an unknown person committed suicide […]
Florida student mistaken for gunman: ‘I knew any move I made’ would end ‘my life’
As gunshots and screams echoed through his school, Lorenzo Prado said he locked himself in the sound booth at the auditorium at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and prepared to die. But moments after the gunfire subsided and he thought he was safe, he said he was confronted by six […]
Deputies will now carry AR-15 rifles on school grounds in Fla. county, sheriff says
Broward County sheriff’s deputies will now carry AR-15 rifles while on school campuses following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last week, Sheriff Scott Israel announced today. The new policy was implemented Wednesday morning. In lieu of gun lockers, the only time deputies will not […]
Unseasonably warm weather across eastern US breaks records for February
Dozens of cities across the eastern United States saw record high temperatures this week, with some shattering the all-time record highs for February. A major ridge of high pressure is sitting over the western Atlantic Ocean, and south winds on the back side of this high pressure are bringing unseasonably […]
Social media companies block abuse of Parkland shooting survivors online
Social media companies said on Wednesday they are moving to address reports of online harassment of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in the wake of a deadly mass shooting and subsequent teen activism on gun policy reform. Twitter put out a message on its platform that it is taking […]