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Parkland Shooting Victim Encourages People to Vote in AI-Powered Animated Video
If you’re familiar with video games, you know how hyper-realistic people look, making you wonder if they’re animated or taken from actual video. Now, that artificial intelligence technology has been used to create a video of a young man who died two years ago. “Yo, it’s me, it’s Guac, I’ve been gone for two years and nothing’s changed, bro,”...
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Couple Apologizes for Sheltering Accused Parkland School Shooter
A Florida couple regrets ever taking in a disturbed teenager in the months before he was accused of the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
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Trial in Parkland School Shooting Off Indefinitely: Judge
The death penalty trial of the man charged with killing 17 people at a Florida high school is off indefinitely because of restrictions related to the coronavirus
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California Man Gets More Than 5 Years in Prison for Harassing Parkland Victims
A California man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for cyberstalking the families of Parkland, Florida, school shooting victims. A federal judge imposed the sentence Monday on 22-year-old Brandon Fleury of Santa Ana, California. He was convicted by a jury in October. Evidence shows he used Instagram accounts to harass and threaten families of those who...
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A Look at Some Recent Deadly Mass Shootings in US
A mass shooting at the Molson Coors Brewing Company headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the latest on a list of deadly shootings that have rocked the country. Here are some deadly mass shootings over the past few years.
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First Responders Deal With Emotional Trauma Years After Parkland School Shooting
For those who were there, they know it and they feel it: the special bond among first responders who deployed to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. “The call came out over the radio, shots fired at MSD,” recalled Lt. Ed Derosa of the Coral Springs Police Department. “And I kind of did the double take…
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Trump Meets Parkland Families to Discuss School Safety
President Donald Trump met Monday with several family members of the victims of the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, to discuss school safety.
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Parkland School Shooting Trauma Affects Young Witness
A lawyer says the trauma of witnessing the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is too great for a young student to give a statement and possibly testify at trial. Her lawyer said Wednesday that the 17-year-old girl is still in mental health counseling and cannot yet talk about what she saw to prosecutors or attorneys for Nikolas Cruz.
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Are Child Crusaders, Heroes Fair Game for Adults Who Snipe?
Children and teens, in this era of blurred boundaries, have at their disposal mobile megaphones — for the first time in human history — to reach the entire world. But does it give those who hear them the right to slap back?
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Parkland School Shooting Trial Delayed Until at Least Summer
The trial of Parkland school shooting defendant Nikolas Cruz was delayed Thursday until at least next summer, when he will face a death penalty case stemming from the February 2018 massacre that left 17 people dead.
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Companies That Changed Policy Over Gun Control Debate
In the wake of the mass shooting that killed 17 at a Florida high school, these companies have responded by announcing changes to their gun sales policies and cutting their NRA discount programs.
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Researchers Concerned by Florida's Amassing of Student Data to Predict School Shootings
Researchers from the Aspen Institute are raising concerns about a Florida initiative meant to collect and collate huge amounts of data on schoolchildren in the state, according to a report released Thursday. Florida schools are now required to collect, store and crunch data on students in the name of predicting school shootings. The Florida Schools Safety Portal, or FSSP, executive...
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Survivors' Advice for Others Touched by Shootings: Seek Help
It haunts him. The face, its expression blank. No sign of anger, no flicker of excitement or worry. A numbness. The right arm is extended toward him, lining up a target for the gun in hand.
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Walmart Pulls Violent Game Displays; No Change On Gun Sales
Walmart is removing from its stores nationwide signs, displays or videos that depict violence following a mass shooting at one of its stores in Texas, though it has not changed its policy on gun sales.
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Fact Check: Trump on His Gun Control Record, Video Games
President Donald Trump is distorting his record when it comes to gun control. Speaking out this week against two mass shootings in Ohio and Texas, Trump asserted that his accomplishments in stemming gun violence stand out compared with previous presidents. He also suggested an unwavering commitment to improving mental health treatment. And he charged Monday that “gruesome and grisly video...
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Walmart Faces Pressure to Stop Selling Guns, Ammunition After Mass Shootings
Despite mounting pressure calling on Walmart to stop selling firearms in the wake of recent mass shootings, two of which happened at their stores, the retail giant said it had no plans to change its gun sale policy. The first of two weekend mass shootings that killed 31 people unfolded at a Walmart store in the border city of El...
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Parkland Father: Humane Treatment of Immigrants Mural in El Paso a ‘Tragic Coincidence'
Manuel Oliver has traveled the U.S. vowing that his son won’t be forgotten after he was killed in the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida. His planned trip to El Paso, Texas, this weekend to install public art to honor his late son’s advocacy for the humane treatment of immigrants coincided with a gunman’s rampage at a crowded Walmart there...
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US Records Nearly 20 Mass Killings for the Year So Far
The U.S. has recorded nearly 20 mass killings so far this year, the majority of them domestic violence attacks that receive scant national attention compared to high-profile public shootings in recent years at schools, churches and concerts. A database compiled by The Associated Press, Northeastern University and USA Today shows that the number of mass killings has held steady in...
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Teen Activists Score Mental Health Days for Oregon Students
Oregon will allow students to take “mental health days” just as they would sick days, expanding the reasons for excused school absences to include mental or behavioral health under a new law that experts say is one of the first of its kind in the U.S. But don’t call it coddling. The students behind the measure say it’s meant to...