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President Joe Biden has told graduating seniors who were freshmen when a mass shooting left 17 people dead at their Florida high school that they’ve turned pain into purpose and darkness into light

Seniors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., received a surprise video message from President Joe Biden during their graduation ceremony Tuesday. “This class lost a piece of its soul,” said Biden, referring to the mass shooting that left 17 people dead at the Florida high school in 2018.

If you’re familiar with video games, you know how hyper-realistic people look, making you wonder if they’re animated or taken from actual video. Now, that artificial intelligence technology has been used to create a video of a young man who died two years ago. “Yo, it’s me, it’s Guac, I’ve been gone for two years and nothing’s changed, bro,”...

A Florida couple regrets ever taking in a disturbed teenager in the months before he was accused of the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

The death penalty trial of the man charged with killing 17 people at a Florida high school is off indefinitely because of restrictions related to the coronavirus

A California man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for cyberstalking the families of Parkland, Florida, school shooting victims. A federal judge imposed the sentence Monday on 22-year-old Brandon Fleury of Santa Ana, California. He was convicted by a jury in October. Evidence shows he used Instagram accounts to harass and threaten families of those who...

A mass shooting at the Molson Coors Brewing Company headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the latest on a list of deadly shootings that have rocked the country. Here are some deadly mass shootings over the past few years.

For those who were there, they know it and they feel it: the special bond among first responders who deployed to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018.   “The call came out over the radio, shots fired at MSD,” recalled Lt. Ed Derosa of the Coral Springs Police Department. “And I kind of did the double take…

President Donald Trump met Monday with several family members of the victims of the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, to discuss school safety.

A lawyer says the trauma of witnessing the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is too great for a young student to give a statement and possibly testify at trial. Her lawyer said Wednesday that the 17-year-old girl is still in mental health counseling and cannot yet talk about what she saw to prosecutors or attorneys for Nikolas Cruz.

Children and teens, in this era of blurred boundaries, have at their disposal mobile megaphones — for the first time in human history — to reach the entire world. But does it give those who hear them the right to slap back?

The trial of Parkland school shooting defendant Nikolas Cruz was delayed Thursday until at least next summer, when he will face a death penalty case stemming from the February 2018 massacre that left 17 people dead.

Researchers from the Aspen Institute are raising concerns about a Florida initiative meant to collect and collate huge amounts of data on schoolchildren in the state, according to a report released Thursday. Florida schools are now required to collect, store and crunch data on students in the name of predicting school shootings. The Florida Schools Safety Portal, or FSSP, executive...

It haunts him. The face, its expression blank. No sign of anger, no flicker of excitement or worry. A numbness. The right arm is extended toward him, lining up a target for the gun in hand.

Walmart is removing from its stores nationwide signs, displays or videos that depict violence following a mass shooting at one of its stores in Texas, though it has not changed its policy on gun sales.

President Donald Trump is distorting his record when it comes to gun control. Speaking out this week against two mass shootings in Ohio and Texas, Trump asserted that his accomplishments in stemming gun violence stand out compared with previous presidents. He also suggested an unwavering commitment to improving mental health treatment. And he charged Monday that “gruesome and grisly video...

Despite mounting pressure calling on Walmart to stop selling firearms in the wake of recent mass shootings, two of which happened at their stores, the retail giant said it had no plans to change its gun sale policy. The first of two weekend mass shootings that killed 31 people unfolded at a Walmart store in the border city of El...

Manuel Oliver has traveled the U.S. vowing that his son won’t be forgotten after he was killed in the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida. His planned trip to El Paso, Texas, this weekend to install public art to honor his late son’s advocacy for the humane treatment of immigrants coincided with a gunman’s rampage at a crowded Walmart there...