Pulse

A handful of House Democrats staged a protest in the well of the House Chambers on Wednesday to demand action on gun control measures that Republicans say would violate due process rights. Nearly three dozen Democrats, our own Bill Keating among them,  staged a sit-in in the well of the House of Representatives to demand a vote on a controversial bill that would ban weapons sales to individuals on

(Associated Press) - President Barack Obama decried the deadliest mass shooting in American history on Sunday as an "act of terror" and an "act of hate" targeting a place of "solidarity and empowerment" for gays and lesbians. He urged Americans to decide whether this is the kind of "country we want to be...

A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded Florida nightclub early Sunday before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. The attack left about 50 people dead and more than 50 others wounded ...