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Lara Graney is a senior at Communications High School in Wall Township, N.J.

Why I walked out today: Because in every classroom I've ever sat, I've had a plan to flee a gunman

We are sick and tired of wondering when it is going to happen to us, N.J. student says.

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Conor Lamb, Democratic congressional candidate for Pennsylvania's 18th district, is surrounded by members of the media after voting at his polling station at First Church of Christ, March 13, 2018 in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Voters head to the poll

Pennsylvania lesson for Democrats: Get angry at Trump & GOP, not your own candidates
PA-18 shows Democrats how to win amid a historic crisis: Stay mad at Trump and the GOP, not candidates who don't check every liberal box.

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Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah, Conan O'Brien on the Tillerson tweet in Best of Late Night
Take a look at our favorite jokes, then vote for yours!

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Students are right on gun control, and Republicans are dangerously wrong: Dianne Feinstein
Republican talking points on guns are misleading and absurd, especially the argument that Democrats have no constructive ideas to counter this violence.

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Rexit: Right move for the wrong reason
Tillerson failed at managing the State Department, but he was a valuable counterweight to Trump's worst instincts: Our view

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Marine Le Pen and Steve Bannon in France on March 10, 2018

Steve Bannon is a parasite abroad in search of a new host to ruin
The exiled former Trump aide and Breitbart chief is looking for a new home with the European far-right and he's changing his rhetoric to make it work.

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Outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the State Department, Washington, D.C., Oct. 14, 2017.

Donald Trump hired and fired Rex Tillerson for all the wrong reasons
Trump brags about winging it. How he picked Tillerson is a good example of the damage that kind of low-energy laziness can do.

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A rally at a Samsung factory in Yongin, South Korea, in 2010.

Your cool new Samsung smartphone brought to you by noise, pain and miscarriages
The women blowing the whistle on Samsung factory conditions deserve to be heard. And for a sustainable electronics industry, they should be heeded.