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Gunshot at Georgia school sparks debate on arming teachers

When a gunshot was fired from a classroom in the north Georgia mountains and police identified the gunman as a teacher, it immediately pierced the national debate over whether educators should be armed.

Park Service weighs new poop rules for Denali climbers

Climbers on North America’s tallest mountain may have to start packing out more of their poop after a researcher determined a glacier in which much of it has been dumped over the past decade probably is not decomposing the human waste.

 
Rev. Billy Graham honored by Trump and others on Capitol Hill

The nation’s political leaders bowed their heads for a solemn salute Wednesday to the Rev. Billy Graham in the soaring Capitol Rotunda, paying tribute to a man who ministered to presidents and other Americans of both parties.

 
Florida students return to school 2 weeks after 17 were killed

The Douglas students return to school, two weeks after 17 were killed and after a whirlwind of political activism that has reignited the nation’s gun and school-safety debate.

HUD employee demoted over Ben Carson office remodel request

When the acting head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development asked an agency official to “find money” to pay for a costly makeover of incoming Secretary Ben Carson’s office, she recoiled, telling him $5,000 was the statutory max.

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