Seventeen people have been killed and more than a dozen injured after a gunman opened fire at a Florida high school. Aerial footage showed students streaming out of the school with their hands in the air before dropping their backpacks into a large pile next to police and sitting on nearby grass. Sheriff Scott Israel of Broward County said the 19-year-old suspect - identified in media reports as Nikolaus Cruz - is in custody and that investigators are beginning to "dissect" what happened in the attack.

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WASHINGTON ― As part of a symbolic budget that would slash domestic spending, President Donald Trump this week proposed replacing some monthly food stamp benefits with a cardboard box of nonperishable goods.

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President Donald Trump has responded to the school shooting in Florida, saying “no child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school”. “My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting,” he wrote on Twitter. “Just spoke to Governor Rick Scott.

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A North Carolina mother was sentenced to seven days in prison after she had her daughter baptized, according to the Charlotte Observer.

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The city of Chicago is in mourning after the shooting death of a well-loved and respected Chicago police commander.

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Students appear to be calmly leaving an auditorium in Parkland, Florida.

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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. Senate Republicans and Democrats promoted an immigration proposal on Wednesday to step up border security and protect young illegal immigrants, but its prospects appeared uncertain as President Donald Trump urged Congress to support a tougher measure. The developments underlined the difficult path any immigration plan faces as Washington remains starkly divided on one of Trump's signature issues. Congress has repeatedly tried and failed to overhaul immigration policy over the past decade.

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a stark warning on Wednesday to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, urging it not to approve a draft criminal sentencing reform bill that Sessions claimed would reduce sentences for "a highly dangerous cohort of criminals." In a letter seen by Reuters, Sessions told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman and fellow Republican Charles Grassley that he feared passage of the legislation would be "a grave error." Grassley's committee is slated to make edits to the draft bill at a hearing on Thursday, before it can be sent to the full Senate for a possible vote.

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John Goodman, who plays Dan Conner on the show, said he and Roseanne Barr hit it off from the very beginning.

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The suspected gunman, a former student, has been taken into custody

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