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BOSTON (AP) — Thousands of people gathered on Boston Common Saturday in a fervent demand for gun law reform during a day of rallies against mass shootings. "Enough is Enough" said a sign held by Sydney Craig, a student at Shawsheen High School in B...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Hundreds of students and their supporters marched in the drizzling rain in Kentucky's largest city to speak out for stricter gun laws in the wake of the Florida school shooting. Media reports say the marchers chanted "enough i...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana high school students protested with signs saying "Protect Kids, Not Guns" as part of the national March for Our Lives event to press for gun control. Saturday's marches come in the wake of a shooting that left 17 dead a...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Thousands of people have marched in Tennessee cities to push for gun control and school safety as part of a national campaign sparked by the recent Florida school shooting. Media reports say about 10,000 to 12,000 people g...

CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of students and activists protested across Illinois to press for gun control in the wake of a shooting that left 17 dead at a Florida high school last month. Chicago's March for Our Lives rally saw protesters fill Union P...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Thousands of people marched to the Utah state Capitol on Saturday in separate events aimed at sparking changes to improve school safety but by different methods. Hundreds of pro-gun marchers took to the site first and p...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Several thousand people braved freezing wind chills and light snow Saturday to participate in the "March for Our Lives" rally near downtown Omaha. Marian High School freshman Callie Cavanaugh says she's tired of school gun v...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Thousands of people gathered Saturday in communities across Ohio at March For Our Lives rallies advocating for stronger gun laws in a movement led by students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 1...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Students across northern New England put their feet down and lifted their voices up to declare "enough" and demand action to end gun violence Saturday. In Montpelier, Concord, Portland and other locations, young people joined h...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — High school students and allies seeking stronger gun control laws in North Carolina following last month's Florida school shootings walked through downtown Raleigh in solidarity with a similar weekend rally in Washington. O...

PARIS (AP) — Calls for greater gun control in the U.S. came from across the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday as demonstrators near the Eiffel Tower demanded that U.S. politicians "protect children, not guns!" The protesters in Paris included American and F...

Delta Air Lines has donated three round-trip charter flights that allowed hundreds of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students to participate in the "March for Our Lives" protest against gun violence in Washington. Delta said the donation is...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) A student movement against gun violence is receiving sustained news coverage and was instrumental in building momentu...

SEATTLE (AP) — High school students on Saturday led thousands of protesters in Seattle and other Northwest cities demanding tighter gun regulations following recent deadly school shootings. Students in Seattle held signs that read "Not One More" a...

DENVER (AP) — Thousands of people of all ages demonstrated Saturday in support of gun control in Denver and around Colorado as part of the nationwide "March for Our Lives" rallies. People packed into Civic Center Park near the state Capitol to l...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's president on Saturday criticized anti-war students at a top university, calling them "terrorists" and promising to oust them from their studies. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said "communist, traitor youth" tried to mess u...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With passage of an enormous budget bill, the GOP-controlled Congress all but wrapped up its legislating for the year. But will it be enough to convince voters to give Republicans another term at the helm? In two big ways, R...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas judge who put the brakes on the state's medical marijuana program didn't do so because of an objection to legalizing pot's use for certain patients. In fact, he was downright apologetic about putting the program...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Young Catholics told the Vatican on Saturday they want a more transparent and authentic church, where women play a greater leadership role and where obeying "unreachable" moral standards isn't the price of admission. In a f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Ronald Reagan once likened trade wars to the pie fights in old Hollywood comedies. One pie in the face leads to another. And then another. Pretty soon, Reagan said in a 1986 radio address, "everything and everybody just g...

CHICAGO (AP) — It's a scandal of privacy, politics and an essential ingredient of business success — public trust. Facebook is confronting a costly, embarrassing public relations debacle after revelations that Cambridge Analytica may have mis...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The man made famous by being "the most interesting man in the world" while pitching Dos Equis beer loaned his expertise with his perfectly groomed facial hair by helping to judge a contest looking for the best beard in V...

SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist salvaged a split of its doubleheader with Arkansas Tech Saturday, claiming a 6-5 win after falling 7-4 in the opener. In the first game, the Bison trailed 2-0 before tying the game in the fourth. Jake Gozzo singled to left...

ARKADELPHIA, ARK. – Southeastern used late scoring in both Saturday contests to pick up a double-header sweep at Ouachita Baptist, taking game on 5-3 before winning the nightcap 7-6 in Arkadelphia, Ark. The Saturday sweep gives them a series v...

MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The No. 27-ranked Southern Arkansas Baseball team saw their offense keep on rolling on Saturday afternoon as the Muleriders plated 23 runs on 22 hits en route to a doubleheader sweep over Northwestern Oklahoma State. The twinbill d...