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By JASON DEAREN, ALLEN BREED and TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Thousands of angry students, parents, teachers and neighbors of a Florida high school where 17 people were killed demanded on Saturday that immediate action be taken on gun-control legislation, insisting they would not relent until their demands were met. The rally in…

By TERRY SPENCER, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — As families began burying their dead, authorities questioned whether they could have prevented the attack on a South Florida high school where a gunman took the lives of 14 students, the athletic director, a coach and a geography teacher. At funerals…

By PETER ORSI and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook south and central Mexico Friday, causing people to flee swaying buildings and office towers in the country's capital, where residents were still jittery after a deadly quake five months ago. Crowds of people gathered on Mexico City's central Reforma…

By KELLI KENNEDY, CURT ANDERSON and TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The FBI received a tip last month that the suspect in the Florida school shooting had a "desire to kill" and access to guns and could be plotting an attack, but agents failed to investigate, the agency said Friday. Florida Gov. Rick…

By ALAN FRAM and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has left hundreds of thousands of "Dreamer" immigrants in limbo, rejecting rival plans that would have spared them from deportation and strengthened the nation's border security. Senators dealt President Donald Trump an especially galling defeat as more than a quarter of fellow Republicans…