Thousands of students left schools across the nation Friday as part a national walkout. Occurring on April 20, the 19th anniversary of the mass shooting at Columbine High School, the event is particularly poignant this year, thanks to advocacy by the…

Friday marks 19 years since the Columbine massacre took place in Littleton, Colorado. Though few at the time imagined such a tragedy could ever be repeated, school shootings have become horrifyingly routine. So, for many pushing for gun control refor…

Look, spelling isn't everyone's forte. It's certainly not one of President Trump's stronger skills. But though he misspelled a prominent diss in a Friday tweet, it wasn't solely the grammatical error that had Twitter abuzz. Rather, Trump calling Jame…

On April 20, 1999, 12 teenagers and a teacher were killed at Columbine High School. Nearly 20 years later, another 17 people lost their lives in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In an effort to demand gun policy change and h…

Time magazine's annual "100 Most Influential People" issue always garners plenty of attention. But there's a little something extra in this year's edition — a blurb written by former President Barack Obama about the Parkland students, who were featur…

"They can't be here for us." That was how Donte Robinson described his initial reaction to seeing police officers enter the Starbucks in Philadelphia he and Rashon Nelson were at last week. Appearing Thursday on Good Morning America, Robinson and Nel…

There were some (mostly) male senators who had questions about the Senate allowing babies onto the Upper Chamber's floor. Perhaps most notably, Sen. Orrin Hatch fretted over a a hypothetical situation of there being 10 babies in the Senate, but Sen. …

Rapper sensation Cardi B recently revealed the one president who earns her highest approval — Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On Twitter, Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders agreed with Cardi B on Roosevelt's contribution to truly making America great, and the…

Given age-old Republican complaints about too much wasteful government spending, one might assume minimizing tax dollar expenditures on nonessentials in Washington, D.C., would be a primary GOP goal. But recently, that theory came under question agai…

It's not often that an official in President Trump's administration publicly questions the White House, but it happened on Tuesday. And when (or if) that moment comes again, the bar has been set by U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. Her comeback after a Tr…

It's tax season, everyone, which means it's time for millions of Americans to hope they're getting a refund — and not a bill — from the government. Depending on the state you live in, the odds of one or the other will fluctuate — the difference betwe…

Not much is known about Melania Trump's love life prior to her connection with Donald Trump, a relationship that began when she was 28 years old. But did Melania date anyone before Trump? One man claimed he was Melania's first beau, and that the two …

Jimmy Kimmel and Sean Hannity's divergent political views went viral over the weekend, as the two media megastars traded barbs over Twitter. Their dispute started over Kimmel mocking Melania Trump's accent, and it turns out, Hannity's got company in …

The New York Times has apparently had it with President Trump's accusation-flinging. In an opinion published Wednesday by the editorial board, the nation's "newspaper of record" lambasted Trump for regularly blaming anyone but himself for special cou…

Taken at face value, there may not seem like much to object to in a recent tweet from Ivanka Trump extolling the importance of encouraging physical fitness among kids. But as retired Gen. Mark Hertling tweeted, Ivanka Trump's father hasn't prioritize…

Most congressional day-to-day happenings don't get a tremendous amount of publicity, but they almost certainly will this week. For the first time, Facebook CEO and tech megastar Mark Zuckerberg will testify in Congress before the House and the Senate…

On Tuesday, millions of American women (and male allies) will recognize Equal Pay Day. The date is set aside each April to signify how much longer into the next year women must work in order to earn the same amount of money as men did that year. But …

Puerto Rico's education woes didn't start with Hurricane Maria, but the devastation wreaked by the storm has left the territory's education system in serious distress. It's all contributed to the island's Department of Education announcing that 283 s…

President Trump's administration has seen a lot of employees come and go over the past 14 months, and there may soon be another person added to that list. The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has racked up a lot of negative headlines…

Owners of assault rifles in one Illinois town will need to sell or relocate those weapons ASAP. A local village board voted unanimously Monday to ban assault rifles in Deerfield, Illinois, as well as high-capacity magazines — and they're planning to …