The Latest Breaking News from Gun Control

Many tributes have been paid to ‘temendous’ high school graduate

Former Congressman Joe Cunningham, a Democrat who once flipped a congressional seat in deep-red South Carolina, will face Republican Gov. Henry McMaster in the race for governor in November.

US campaigners have welcomed a potential bipartisan deal cracking down on new gun control safety measures but say the proposals don’t go far enough.

NEW YORK — An upstate New York congressman who abandoned his reelection effort in a clash with fellow Republicans over gun control criticized on Sunday the nation’s polarized political climate as harmful to democracy, in what has become a familiar refrain from centrist GOP lawmakers.

Monday: Richard Marles has ‘frank’ hour-long discussion with China’s defence minister in Singapore. Plus: flight prices soar

Proposal does not ban assault weapons or raise age required to buy them to 21, but if enacted it would come after years of stalemate

WASHINGTON — Serena Rodrigues remembers how she felt four years ago, during her first March for Our Lives rally in Orlando, Florida, when she took a moment to watch a seemingly endless throng of people march together in support of gun control.

Thousands of Americans have joined protests across the country demanding tighter gun control after a spate of deadly mass shootings.

March for Our Lives rallies and marches were held at an estimated 300 locations across the U.S. — including in Chicago’s Loop — as demonstrators called for action on gun laws.