Newtown

The 13 speeches against the thousand mass shootings that have occurred in his second term speak to the enormous amount of work that must be done to change the gun control debate in America.

How aggressive was the first State of the Union of President Barack Obama‘s second term in office? The answer to that question lies in the frowns, sighs…

One week after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, Michelle Obama has written a letter to families in Newtown, CT. In the letter, published in The Hartford Courant, the First Lady expresses her sympathies for grieving families, gives thanks to the town’s first responders and heroic teachers — and finally, talks about how both Newtown and […]

President Barack Obama assured the grieving, shell-shocked Newtown community on Sunday that “you are not alone” and vowed sternly to wield “whatever power this office holds” in a quest to prevent future mass shootings. “We can’t tolerate this anymore,” Obama said from behind a podium on the stage of a Newton High School auditorium, as […]

Newtown massacre gunman Adam Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School, where his youngest victims were shot at close range, law enforcement officials told NBC News. The chilling details emerged as authorities prepared to release the names of the 20 children and six adults slaughtered Friday at the Connecticut school. A team from […]