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Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy pleaded with colleagues to act after the latest mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that left 14 children dead.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden offered comfort Sunday to Uvalde, a city gripped by grief and anger as they paid respects at a memorial to 19 students and two teachers slain during a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school.

Juan Roberto Carranza was helping his son on a job across the street from Robb Elementary School in Uvalde when he saw Salvador Ramos speeding and heard him crash into a ditch. He said Ramos got out of the truck with a rifle and a backpack. Ramos shot and killed 19 children and two teachers.

A medical evacuation train run by a global medical aid organization transported more injured and sick people from eastern Ukraine on Sunday.

President Joe Biden says the “Second Amendment was never absolute” and that, after the Texas elementary school shooting, there may be some bipartisan support to tighten restrictions on the kind of high-powered weapons used by the gunman.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Mayor Buddy Dyer will attend the 90th annual United States Conference of Mayors on Thursday and Friday in Reno, Nevada.  

PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- There was a one-word common denominator echoed y those who attended Memorial Day remembrance in Port Orange: Beautiful.

President Joe Biden meets Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at the White House as soaring inflation takes a bite out of Americans' pocketbooks and the president's public approval.

Police in Florida say a man died searching for Frisbees in a lake at a suburban disc golf course in Largo where people are warned by signs to beware of alligators.