Updated: Florida High School Shooting: Victim's Identified
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- Published on Thursday, 15 February 2018 08:13
- Written by Janet Walker
The horrors of the senseless massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, have now become an indelible mark on the lives of this community and the world, as stories of survival, heroism and heartbreak are shared.






By using starvation and the systematic bombing of health and hospital facilities, Israel is tending to depopulate Gaza right before the eyes of the international community who are caught between non-interference and historical guilt.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pursued, since the October 7, massacre, the annihilation of Hamas, and now the destruction of Iranian Hamas leaders, or is the new wave all about securing the United States support.
The reciprocal increase in customs duties undertaken by the United States and China borders on a confrontation between the two rival trading powers, with each digging deep on their positions, and promising new leverage in the trade wars escalate.
As the Ukrainian and Middle Eastern conflicts drag on, the attitude of the leaders who are leading them, here Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, whose intentions for conciliation remain uncertain, and are questioning at the very least.
The two-month Israeli Palestinian cease fire was shattered this week, amidst allegations from Israel that Palestinian government is not honoring the agreement, which Palestine denies, after both sides were unable to negotiate terms for an extension.
President Trump's statements about Canada, Greenland, and Gaza are both worrying and amusing. They are the will of a man convinced that the consequences of his decisions push allies and enemies to respect and distrust the United States.
AccuWeather's preliminary estimate of the total damage and economic loss from the
Effective waste management is critical for restaurants striving to maintain profitability while minimizing their environmental impact. Yet, many continue to make avoidable mistakes, leading to increased costs and substantial food scraps. Here are a few tips.
Chicago, a solid democratic stronghold, has long been a key convention city. In the years before the 2024 Democratic National Convention, the 1968 Democratic Convention that resulted in riots, and an historical infamy some 56 years later.
Navigating the complexities of Canadian immigration laws is difficult, especially for those facing inadmissibility issues. Learning about the various grounds of inadmissibility and the legal pathways available can help you face challenges and successfully enter the country.
Former President Donald J. Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts related in his historic hush money trial, after twelve hours of jury deliberation, after 15 days of testimony, 20 witness, and 200 pieces of evidence.
In the aftermath of the bombing of a camp for displaced Palestinians by the Israeli army, questions about the strategic relevance of the military operation are being raised, particularly regarding war goals and objectives that are gradually losing clarity.
Triumphantly re-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin seems as untouchable. However, a more advanced analysis of reality would tend to evoke an atmosphere of an end to his reign, or at least the beginnings of difficult years to come.
The Board of Trustees of Asia Society announced the appointment of Dr. Kyung-wha Kang, an accomplished diplomat and former UN leader, as the organization's 9th President and Chief Executive Officer. Her appointment is effective in April.
Javier Milei's election as Argentine president confirms the rise of populism as a political alternative. In a downgraded country, the Argentines have chosen the populist experiment, while many attempts in America and Europe have ended in bitter failures.
The announced rapprochement between North Korea and Russia tends to present itself as the creation of an Asian bloc capable of competing with the Western sphere. But the excessively divergent interests of the two countries demonstrate limits.
Chinese President Xi-Jinping has positioned himself as the middle man every foreign leader will meet with to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin’s maniacal march to decimate Ukraine and calm the tyrannical winds of war from spreading. Explanations.
As the Russian-Ukrainian conflict drags on, China always anxious to anticipate its future,
While the war in Ukraine will still condition the content of international relations in 2023, the upheavals it is causing could still generate and revive Sino-American and European relations. At the expense of an increasingly lonely Russia.
While Iran has been shaken for several months by demonstrations calling for a liberalization of the regime, the Republic of the mullahs has announced the abolition of the morality police so feared by Iranian women.
Elected president of Brazil, Lula inherits a fractured country, torn apart by a deep social and political crisis. To which is added a most significant environmental issue, the Amazon rainforest crystallizing all passions on an international scale.
General Colin Powell, former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who was fully vaccinated, has died from complications brought on by the Coronavirus, his family said in a released statement. He was 84.
The attacks of September 11 marked the collective memory to the point of upsetting the apprehension of the world as it then presented itself. Twenty years later, one thing is clear: Don't these upheavals pave the way for a new era?
As the 9/11 terror attacks are at the twenty-year anniversary, this generation's "date that will live in infamy," does. It remains seared in the minds of those who lived and worked in the locations where the planes shattered the peaceful calm.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, once a potential Presidential candidate, has announced he will resign his office effective in two weeks, after a bombshell report revealed he created a toxic workplace and sexually harassed and groped female staffers.
The advance of the Taliban in Afghanistan, now on the doorstep of Kabul, the capital of a country that has been plagued by almost chronic unrest for more than forty years, is sure to worry the international community.
Millions of California's receiving unemployment are still left in shock at the catastrophic failure of state's Employment Development Department, which has been plagued by disastrous
The Center for Disease Control has bowed to the Biden Administration playbook announcing the abandonment of some coronavirus restrictions presenting an impression that the virus has somehow miraculously dissipated and everyone, now fully vaccinated, can drop the mask.
More than 300million drivers, from Texas to Pennsylvania, are facing the possibility of gasoline shortages, resulting in long lines and empty pumps, as the reality of a week-long shut down of one of the nation's largest pipeline looms.
A lone gunman opened fire in a school in the Russian city of Kazan during the mid-morning classes killing seven children and two adults and injuring twenty others, in what Moscow is calling a terrorist attack.
David Rubin, native New Yorker and former mayor of Shiloh, Israel, and author of a new book, "Confronting Radicals: What America Can Learn from Israel" recently spoke on the divisiveness in Israeli politics and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's future.
Police in Houston, Texas, discovered a holdover home in a human trafficking ring when they arrived to investigate an emergency report of a possible kidnapping and discovered 90 immigrants, malnourished, and squeezed into two rooms.
Golfing great Tiger Woods was lucky to survive the Tuesday morning rollover crash that left the legend crushed inside his mangled SUV, seriously injured, in need of emergency reconstructive surgery, and leaving his professional sports future in question.
Frederick Karl Berger, a former Nazi Concentration Camp guard, near Hamburg, whose role was confirmed after an ID card was found and retrieved from a sunken ship, has been deported to Germany under the 1978 Holtzman Amendment.
Joseph R. Biden, after more than four decades in public service and two other attempts to secure the democratic nomination, today, made history after a tumultuous election as the 46th President of the United States of America.
Amanda Schottmuller sat quietly during her criminal court hearing on June 29, 2020, understanding little about what was happening. She didn't know why a judge was trying to determine if she was dangerous.
The unilateral decision of the United States to reactivate the UN gasoline sanctions against Iran is part of the sensationalist and provocative policy of Donald Trump. But does not the coup de brilliance reveal a weakness in the speech of the current president?
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg died this evening at her home in Washington, D.C., from complication due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer. She was 87 years old.
Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were sentenced for their participation in Operation Varsity Blues, the widespread college admissions scandal that caught many wealthy parents cheating to secure their children's acceptance to selective universities.
Twin explosions destroyed a portion of the sea port in Lebanon, Beirut, leveling buildings, sending massive concrete slabs hurling to the streets, smashing automobiles, killing pedestrians, and creating a widespread repercussion wave that shook the city.
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The United States Supreme Court, in a 7 to 2 decision majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the high court said employers do NOT have to pay for abortions or birth control for their employees.
Tuesday, June 30 at 10pm ET/PT, CNBC presents "Supermarket Shock: Crisis in America's Food Supply," an in-depth look at how the supply chain in the U.S. was abruptly disrupted and forever transformed by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 400 other civil rights organizations today
Coast to coast violent protests have rocked America as citizens continued demonstrating over police brutality with multiple governors imposing strict curfews to reduce the destruction of property and looting that many cities have not seen in decades.
With the world in lock down and life itself on hold, you might think that the last place to look for answers would be a Trappist monastery. Yet, August Turak, award-winning author and successful entrepreneur, would disagree.
Maeve Kennedy McKean, granddaughter to the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and her son, Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean, are presumed dead after disappearing in heavy swells and high winds in the waters of Chesapeake Bay Thursday evening.
Between confinement, worry and amazement, the country faces an invisible virus carrying a lot of consequences for the moment unknown but unavoidable. Among the first: humility and modesty.
The deadly tornado's that struck Tennessee Monday evening leaving 25 dead, have been determined to be EF 4, the second deadliest on the Fujita scale, packing winds of 175mph, the ten-mile-wide storm leveled an enormous swath across two counties.
Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and the seven others who tragically perished recently were remembered during a two-hour celebration of life service that brought 20,000 ticket holders to The Staples Center to bid their hero a final farewell.
Former Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, 41, died today in an explosive helicopter crash that also killed his daughter, Gianna, 13, and seven other occupants who were traveling to a girls' basketball tournament at the Mamba Sports Academy.
The House Judiciary Committee just gave the go-ahead for a bill to go to the full House for a vote on legalizing marijuana in all 50 states. The only two things stopping fully legal pot is the Senate that is narrowly controlled by Republicans or a veto from President Trump.
The near-chronic instability of the South American continent irritates Europe and the United States in search of established economic and diplomatic partners. But the DNA of the continent hampers this wish to the point of pushing both actors away from the current upheaval.
The failure of the exceptional summit of the United Nations on the climate highlighted all oppositions brought by the most polluting countries ready to concede only ultimately secondary measures. Did he have to suspect it or simply dread it, or both?
Greta Thunberg continues to upset the global ecological discourse by returning leaders and politicians to their responsibilities. But would not the teenager not the symbol of a lack of international voluntarism in environmental matters?
If the mistakes committed by the former president of the National Assembly are patent and inexcusable in the light of his duties, to question the functioning of the ministries and the funds granted is now a necessity.
The free trade agreement signed between the European Union and Mercosur sends a watermark to the issues of food security and environmental protection in a context of continued demographic growth with projected growth far outweighing the ability to produce.
The reduction of subsidies allocated to Brazilian universities by Jair Bolsonaro confirms the influence of a man on a country brutalized by methods that aim to stifle any hotbed of protest. Should we expect it?
Would not the increase in world military spending be the expression of an underlying fear brought on by the upheavals of globalization? Unless humanity returns to instinctive defense reflexes that refer to the dark hours of history.
The fire of Notre-Dame de Paris raises the issue of funding the maintenance of religious buildings under the control of an indebted state and tempted by the call to private to save a heritage time counted.
Beginning Monday, April 15, Extinction Rebellion (XR US) declares a non-violent revolt to force government action on climate change and will galvanize in large and small cities in the United States as one strand in an emerging, worldwide revolution.
The demonstrations of support for pro-European sentiment in London also testify to the fear felt by many Britons to find themselves alone in a world of competition in which Britain would be placed in a weak position.
Has Algeria finally entered its Arab Spring? As protesters' demonstration, refusing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's candidacy for presidential elections, increase, Algeria is entering a decisive turning point in its history: the age of emancipation.
Noticias Telemundo's correspondent in Venezuela, Daniel Garrido, was abducted today at 6 am ET in the vicinity of the Hotel Cayena in La Castellana, Caracas by a group of armed loyalists who forced him into a vehicle.
Karl Lagerfeld, House of Chanel and Fendi Creative Director and iconic Fashion Designer who influenced generations with his creations, has passed away one month after his final collection debuted at Paris Fashion Week. He was 85.
Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, the notorious leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, has been found guilty, after six days of deliberations, on all ten counts associated with running a global narcotics distribution organization, in Brooklyn Federal court.
If the rapprochement of the two Koreans eases the tensions that paralyze the region, the referral of the denuclearization of North Korea to an indeterminate future offers Kim Jong Un a means of pressure to influence the current negotiations.
A tsunami triggered by a volcanic eruption on a remote island in Indonesia swept across the beaches of Banten mangling concreate, ripping homes, hotels off their foundations and killing more than 400 and injuring more than 1500.
As the news that former President George H.W. Bush had passed away, a steady stream of accolades praising the leader as a humble, dedicated, public service, who remained faithfully dedicated to his family, his wife and the life they built.
Over a four hour time period, Southern California Highway Patrol reported 365 car accidents were called in by shell-shocked LA drivers as the forecasted torrential rains disrupted the Thursday morning commute snarling the already bumper-to-bumper traffic.
President Trump arrived in California to meet with Governor Jerry Brown, Governor Elect Gavin Newsom and other officials as they toured the devastation from the deadly Camp Fire that displaced thousands, killed 75 and left a 1000 missing.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, broke three ribs in a fall at her office in the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC. She was transported to George Washington Hospital where she is resting with minor discomfort.
Americans flocked to the polls yesterday, taking decisive action in the historic mid-term elections and put the brakes on President Trump’s steamrolling agenda winning back the House of Representative for the first time in eight years.
James "Whitey" Bulger, 89, convicted Mob boss who spent 15 years living quietly in Santa Monica, California while hiding from federal authorities, was killed the day after he arrived at West Virginia's Hazelton Maximum Security prison.
In the summer of 2015, as Memphis exploded with protests over the police killing of a 19-year-old man, activists began hearing on Facebook from someone called Bob Smith. The name was generic, and so was his profile picture: a Guy Fawkes mask, the symbol of anti-government dissent.
A massive inferno broke out in the evening hours of Sunday at Brazil's National Museum, engulfing the nations national treasure and in the process reducing 200 years of artifacts, research, and historical finds to rubble and ash.
Without a single 'No' vote in the Senate and Assembly, historic legislation authored by Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) requiring law enforcement agencies and forensic laboratories promptly analyze and test all newly collected rape kit evidence in California advanced today to the Governor for consideration.
Sunday, August 26th, Women’s Equality Day, NARAL Pro-Choice California, together with eighteen partner organizations, California leaders and activists will join Americans across the country to demand the U.S. Senate stop Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
Robert S. Mueller, Special Counsel investigating collusion and influencing the 2016 Presidential Election, scored major victories today with the guilty verdicts of Paul Manafort, former Campaign Manager to the President and Trump personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
Noticias Telemundo announced the appointment of Mexican journalist Javier Vega as correspondent in Washington, D.C., as part of an initiative to strengthen its operations in the U.S. capital. Vega will report to Victoria Rivas-Vázquez, Noticias Telemundo's Washington, D.C. bureau chief.
Aretha Franklin, The Queen of Soul, 76, is reportedly in grave condition surrounded by friends and family at her Detroit home. After the news of her "imminent death" broke media outlets independently confirmed the story.

