FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--Shots ripped through the nation's consciousness at Columbine High School 19 years ago Friday -- before most of this year's high school graduates were even born.

Now the self-named "mass shooting generation" plans to walk out of school to commemorate that dark day, and to protest about how little has changed. Two students ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Democrats are conflicted over the path back to power, caught between catering to a base that is seething with anger toward President Donald Trump and appealing to voters in Republican-leaning parts of the country who they'll need win control of Congress.

A debate about an attack plan for the November elections pits two party ...Read more

DELANO, Calif. -- Celestino Hilario Garcia, his eyes bloodshot and his voice raw, struggled to explain that his brother's and sister-in-law's deaths were not his fault.

A month ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had trained their sights on Santos Hilario Garcia. In the early-morning darkness, they followed in two black Jeeps as he ...Read more

When Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory calling for more people to carry naloxone -- not just people at overdose risk, but also friends and family -- experts and advocates were almost giddy.

This is an "unequivocally positive" step forward, said Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern ...Read more

PLANTATION, Fla. -- Two months after a massacre in Parkland made security the top focus in Broward County schools, many parents and students say the school district is doing too little to ensure safety.

An emotionally charged school security forum at Plantation High drew hundreds who complained about what they saw as an ineffective response by ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- President Donald Trump leveled harsh words against Turkey this week over its jailing and trial of North Carolina pastor Andrew Brunson.

"They call him a Spy, but I am more a Spy than he is," Trump tweeted late Tuesday.

Trump called Brunson "a fine gentleman and Christian leader in the United States" who "is being persecuted ...Read more

HAVANA -- In many ways, it seemed a day like any other in the Western Hemisphere's only communist nation.

Young Cubans gathered at wireless hot spots here in the capital to connect their smart phones. Taxis -- vintage Chevrolets and Buicks and other classics -- lined up outside hotels catering to Europeans and Canadians.

As the sun set, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Senate took a leap forward into modernity Wednesday, changing the rules to allow mothers to bring their infants onto the Senate floor.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the ranking Democrat on the Rules and Administration Committee, was among the lawmakers hailing the change, which was adopted by unanimous consent.

"Every day moms and dads...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visited Calexico's replacement border barrier project on Wednesday after holding a town hall with local Border Patrol agents and officials from other immigration-related agencies.

The new chief of the Border Patrol in El Centro, Gloria Chavez, gave Nielsen a piece of the old Vietnam War ...Read more

TOPEKA, Kan. -- A federal judge on Wednesday found Secretary of State Kris Kobach in contempt of court in a case involving Kansas voting laws, her latest rebuke of the Republican candidate for governor.

Kobach is considered a GOP frontrunner despite his constant court battles involving voter fraud and strict voting requirements that he has ...Read more