Shooting Survivor: CNN Gave Me “Scripted Question” After Denying Question About Armed Guards  —  Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Colton Haab said he was approached by CNN to ask a question at Wednesday night's town hall but decided not to after the network gave him a “scripted question,” quashing one he wrote himself.

McMaster could leave WH after months of tension with Trump  —  Washington (CNN)With tensions flaring between President Donald Trump and national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the Pentagon is considering options that would allow the President to potentially move the three-star general …

The Pro-Trump Media Has Its Match In The Parkland Students  —  On Monday night, the pro-Trump media set its sights on a new political enemy: young adult survivors of gun violence.  —  The attack on outspoken survivors of the Parkland school shooting began with an article …

Bernie blames Hillary for allowing Russian interference  —  Bernie Sanders on Wednesday blamed Hillary Clinton for not doing more to stop the Russian attack on the last presidential election.  Then his 2016 campaign manager, in an interview with POLITICO, said he's seen no evidence …

Trump's former bodyguard makes $15,000 a month from a GOP ‘slush fund’  — The Republican National Committee is paying a firm owned by Trump's former bodyguard $15,000 a month for consulting, according to its latest campaign filings.  — Within weeks of leaving the White House …

Security Alert - U. S. Embassy Podgorica, Montenegro (February 22, 2018)  —  Event: The U.S. Embassy in Podgorica advises U.S. citizens there is an active security situation at the U.S. Embassy in Podgorica.  Avoid the Embassy until further notice.  —  Actions to Take:

Fueled by a Democratic surge, Texans turn out in force on first day of early voting  —  AUSTIN — Of the 51,249 Texans who cast ballots Tuesday on the first day of early voting, more than half voted in the Democratic primary.  —  The total number of voters from 15 of the state's largest counties is high for a midterm year.

U.S. Colleges Are Separating Into Winners and Losers  —  Schools that struggle to prepare students for success losing ground; ‘The shake-out is coming’  —  Concord University in West Virginia and Clemson University in South Carolina were both founded shortly after the Civil War.

An Envoy Who Can Rival 'North Korea's Ivanka'  —  WASHINGTON — When the sister of Kim Jong-un made her historic visit to the Winter Olympics in South Korea two weeks ago, saying nothing but commanding noisy press coverage, the South Korean news media quickly called her “North Korea's Ivanka.”

Texas school district threatens to suspend students who protest gun violence  —  A superintendent in a Texas school district is warning that students will be suspended if they cause any disruptions to protest gun violence.  —  Needville Independent School District (ISD) …

Trump supporters, conservatives rage over Russian bot purge, #TwitterLockOut  —  Twitter revealed to congress that Russian bots had retweeted President Trump hundreds of thousands of times between September 1st and November 15th of 2016.  For more on the story here is Zachary Devita.  Buzz60

MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle connects the dots in latest Mueller indictment to tie Trump directly to Putin  —  On Wednesday, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle laid out how special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is becoming “clearer by the indictment.”  —  Tuesday's guilty plea …

Congresswoman claims most mass shooters are Democrats  —  Congressman booed at his gun control town hall  —  (CNN)Rep. Claudia Tenney, an upstate New York Republican who is up for re-election in one of the most competitive congressional districts in America, told a radio host in Albany …

Why Trump won't use his superpower on guns  —  President Trump has a rare political superpower — he can get Republicans to do what seems like the impossible.  He used this superpower to soften their opposition to Vladimir Putin, to instantly stir their distrust of the FBI, and embrace trillion-dollar deficits.

Arctic temperatures soar 45 degrees above normal, flooded by extremely mild air on all sides … While the Eastern United States simmers in some of its warmest February weather ever recorded, the Arctic is also stewing in temperatures more than 45 degrees above normal.

With last-minute cancellation of Gateway Pundit founder, drama once again unfolds ahead of CPAC  —  The Conservative Political Action Conference hasn't even started and a snafu is once again stealing the limelight ahead of the annual event.  —  News of the last-minute chaos emerged …

This photo of Trump's notes captures his empathy deficit better than anything  —  President Trump held a worthwhile listening session Wednesday featuring a range of views on how to combat gun violence in schools.  And while Trump's at-times-meandering comments about arming teachers …

Ohio student dies after shooting himself in school bathroom, officials say  —  The Ohio student who apparently shot himself with a gun in his school bathroom on Tuesday has died, officials announced Wednesday.  —  The deceased seventh grader, from Jackson Memorial Middle School …