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The powerful U.S. gun rights lobby went on the offensive on Friday, arguing that schools should have armed guards, on a day that Americans remembered the victims of the Connecticut school massacre with a moment of silence.

Days before her son went on a deadly shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Nancy Lanza confided in friends that she knew her troubled child "was getting worse."

Even as they buried more victims of the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history on Thursday, residents of Newtown, Connecticut, sought ways to pressure U.S. leaders to restrict access to guns and a White House task force on violence met.

As the small city of Newtown, Conn. grieves in the wake of the second-deadliest school shooting ever at Sandy Hook Elementary Dec. 14, one name is conspicuously absent from memorials popping up in the area to victims of the killings: The shooter Adam Lanza's mother, Nancy Lanza.

Was the mother of Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old man who committed the second-deadliest school shooting ever at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Conn., trying to have her son committed to a psychiatric facility prior to the tragedy Dec. 14?

The NRA has placed a moratorium on its social media presence, going silent on Twitter and Facebook in the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn.

Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown on Tuesday for the first time since a gunman's rampage killed 26 people in an elementary school, reviving the gun control debate in Washington and prompting a retailer to pull guns from shelves.

Speaking to the grieving community of Newton, Conn. Sunday night, President Barack Obama gave a frank response to anyone that's questioned if there would ever be a right time to seriously discuss gun control: "We're not doing enough. And we will have to change," he said.

Elementary school library clerk Mary Ann Jacob heard gunshots and shouted "Lockdown!" to a class of fourth graders. Then she discovered the classroom door wouldn't lock.

As the nation mourns the tragic loss of 20 children and six adults fatally shot in a school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Friday, details about the suspected shooter, 20-year-old Adam Lanza are beginning to emerge, with police announcing they now have "very good evidence,"

Repeat traffic offender Sheena Hardin accelerated past a stopped school bus in a school zone. Meet Cleveland's biggest idiot.

Teachers and schools that value diversity have a big impact on the academic experiences of Latino immigrant children living in predominantly white communities, according to researchers at the University of Kentucky.

An analysis of newly available U.S. Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, for the first time, the number of 18- to 24-year-old Hispanics enrolled in college exceeded 2 million and reached a record 16.5 percent share of all college enrollments.