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Protesters with children wrapped in thermal blankets staged a sit-in at the Russell Rotunda on Capitol Hill.
The protesters called on the Trump administration to reunite migrant children with their parents and end the “zero tolerance” prosecution policy.
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Activists placed 7,000 pairs of shoes in front of the U.S. Capitol to symbolize the number of children killed by gunfire since Sandy Hook.
Thousands of students and organizations across the country are joining in school walkouts in honor of those who died in the Parkland, Florida, shooting last month and to call on legislators for stricter gun laws. See where they are being held with our interactive map.
The 61 House Democratic women hold a photo op in front of the Capitol Thursday
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Sen. Daniel Inouye, the second-longest serving senator in U.S. history, was remembered Thursday as a man who gallantly defended his country on the battlefield and gracefully sought to better it during the 50-plus years he represented his beloved state of Hawaii. Colleagues and aides lined the Capitol rotunda five deep to say farewell.
