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WASHINGTON — Mill Creek Township School District in Pennsylvania plans to upgrade its surveillance cameras, radios and a door monitoring system with a $500,000 federal grant, one of hundreds awarded across the country over the past four years as part of a $1 billion program Congress passed to address school…

Congress now appears poised to spend even more to bolster physical security at local schools in response to a recent wave of mass shootings.

Bipartisan negotiators unveiled a broad measure Tuesday intended to combat a surge in mass shootings.

WASHINGTON — A key sticking point in the negotiations over a bipartisan gun violence package being drafted in the Senate has become how states can use grant money in that package.

A key sticking point in the negotiations over a bipartisan gun violence package has become how states can use grant money in that package.

The Senate’s gun violence framework expands mental health treatment, but there's little connection between gun violence and mental illness.

A bipartisan agreement on gun laws needs to be drafted as a bill this week to have a chance of passage before July Fourth, key senators say.

A deal reached by 10 Democratic and GOP senators should have enough support to clear a filibuster, but doesn’t go as far as the House did.

WASHINGTON — David Hogg is exhausted.

“I’m tired of being here … doing the job of what our senators should be doing,” Parkland survivor David Hogg said ahead of Saturday’s march.

According to my 2006 calendar, I met Connecticut Democratic candidate Christopher S. Murphy on Feb. 28. I had a breakfast speaking engagement in Florida that morning but still got back to Washington, D.C., for a midafternoon interview about his run for the state’s 5th District seat.