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The dozen-plus indictments filed by special counsel Robert Mueller last week roiled U.S. politics and detailed a remarkable Russian operation to influence American public opinion. But for those wondering whether the indictments might now lead to arrests or extradition from Russia for its 13 alleged conspirators, the short answer: no. […]

Wichita police are continuing their frantic search for a missing 5-year-old boy who was last seen over the weekend. Lucas Hernandez disappeared around 3 p.m. on Saturday, police said. His 26-year-old stepmother told police she saw him in his bedroom just before she took a shower and fell asleep. Police […]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a new congressional map for the state, in a decision that could have major ramifications for the balance of power in the U.S. House of Representatives. The court issued the map after Governor Tom Wolf, a Democrat, and the Republican-controlled state legislature, were unable […]

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump suggested that the FBI’s Russia investigation had caused the agency to divert resources or attention that could have prevented last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Fla. “Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. […]

President Donald Trump‘s position on gun control, particularly regarding assault rifles, has appeared to shift over the years. Trump in 2000 said he took a middle ground, supporting a ban on assault weapons though generally opposing gun control. Trump in 2015, however, was dismissive of calls to regulate assault rifles […]

President Donald Trump felt liberated Friday afternoon, sources close to him told ABC News, when the news broke that the special counsel probing interference in the 2016 presidential election unveiled a grand jury indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian groups accused of meddling “with U.S. elections and political […]

Students from the Washington, D.C. area held a protest outside the White House Monday to call for lawmakers to reform gun laws after the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla. last week. In the protest, organized by a group called Teens for Gun Reform, 17 students lay on […]

Two more South Florida teenagers were mourned at funerals today less than a week after being gunned down at their high school. Luke Hoyer and Alaina Petty were among the 17 people who died in the Valentine’s Day rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The suspect, […]

A 7-year-old boy was gunned down in Jacksonville, Florida, on Sunday night, becoming the fifth child to be shot in the city in less than two weeks but the first to die, the sheriff’s office said. The child, Tashawn Gallon, died in the shooting that also injured a 23-year-old man, […]

The White House says President Donald Trump is “supportive of efforts” to update the nation’s background check system in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., shooting last week that killed 17 people, many of them teenagers. Press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday the president spoke with Texas Sen. John Cornyn […]