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A New Jersey Lawyer And DACA Recipient

5:07am February 22, 2018

Parthiv Patel passed the bar in 2016 but he couldn't become a lawyer because of his immigration status. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with the first DACA receipient admitted to the New Jersey bar.

President Trump shakes hands with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Ariana Klein as fellow Stoneman Douglas student Carson Abt watches at the start of a listening session on school safety with teachers and students at the White House Wednesday.

Trump Backs Arming Teachers During Emotional White House Listening Session

8:18pm February 21, 2018

by Jessica Taylor

A week after 17 people were killed at a Parkland, Fla., high school, President Trump hosted survivors, parents and teachers from that and other recent school shooting tragedies.

A man walks up in the fog at the U.S. Supreme Court to attend arguments last month. Justices issued multiple opinions on Wednesday.

Politics & Government

Supreme Court Gets Moving, Issuing As Many Decisions In One Day As It Has In 5 Months

6:13pm February 21, 2018

by Nina Totenberg

The high court put out rulings on everything from guns and whistleblower protections to plea deals and the damages someone could seek for a terrorist attack.

Democratic candidate Linda Belcher thanks her supporters in Shepherdsville, Ky., following her victory Tuesday in the special election to fill the vacant seat for the Kentucky House of Representatives 49th District.

Kentucky Democrat Wins Special Election To Reclaim Seat After Lawmaker's Suicide

9:29am February 21, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Linda Belcher reclaimed the seat she lost to Dan Johnson in 2016 amid a wave of pro-Trump voter sentiment in Kentucky. Johnson killed himself in December amid allegations of sexual assault.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller Secures Another Guilty Plea

9:05pm February 20, 2018

by Carrie Johnson

Special counsel Robert Mueller has secured another guilty plea, from a lawyer who lied to the FBI last year. But President Trump continues to attack the investigation, even as it intensifies.

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President Trump speaks at the Public Safety Medal of Valor awards ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday.

After Florida Shooting, Trump Calls For New Regulations On Bump Stocks

6:55pm February 20, 2018

by Jessica Taylor

The president is directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to propose ways to ban devices like the ones used in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting that accelerate the shooting rate of semi-automatic weapons.

A student at Marshall County High School in Benton, Ky., allegedly opened fire on his classmates and killed two of them.

Kentucky Moves To Add Guns To Schools After School Shooting

5:51pm February 20, 2018

by Ryland Barton

The Kentucky legislature is considering arming teachers and administrators in response to a school shooting there Jan. 23.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is shown on Dec. 4, 2017, in Washington, D.C. The court, continuing a years-long pattern, has declined to hear a constitutional challenge to a state gun law.

National

Supreme Court Won't Hear Challenge To California's Gun Laws

3:05pm February 20, 2018

by Nina Totenberg

The court, continuing a pattern of nonintervention, has turned away a constitutional challenge to a 10-day waiting period for gun purchases. Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas angrily dissented.

Teens For Gun Reform Hold Protest At The White House

Politics & Government

What's In The Gun Background Check Plan The President Endorsed?

2:33pm February 20, 2018

After a national outcry over gun violence in Florida last week, there are the early signs of compromise in Washington: President Donald Trump has endorsed a bipartisan proposal to strengthen

The Columbine Generation

2:33pm February 20, 2018

Survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, are dedicated to making sure it's the last.