Trump, Sessions Ignore Gun Control in Wake of Florida Massacre

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Trump, Sessions Ignore Gun Control in Wake of Florida Massacre
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions instead say residents should have known something like this could happen. 
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The remark came while defending U.S. strikes in a Jake Paul interview.

Andre Karlow, who said, "Trump should kill them all," appeared defiant as the judge imposed years of confinement for the attack.

New visa requirements could create document conflicts that follow gender-nonconforming travelers into immigration enforcement databases.

Women, young people, and high school finishers were more likely to view homosexuality favorably.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to betold.

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The unsolved murder, dubbed the “gay Black Dahlia,” was cracked wide open by filmmaker Rachel Mason.

A year after Iowa stripped gender identity from its civil rights code, Kim Reynolds signed a law barring cities and counties from restoring protections for trans residents.

Well before he became Texas’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, James Talarico helped a nervous student leader find the courage to wear a rainbow Pride pin to meet Barack Obama writes Nathan Barrera-Bunch.

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