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WASHINGTON — The Orlando, Fla., massacre is unlikely to mean much change in how the Republican Party deals with gay rights. The Sunday shootings gave the GOP, long struggling to erase an image of intolerance, a big stage to show its support and sympathy for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans. But a day later

By Hillary Clinton On Sunday, Americans woke up to a nightmare: Another act of terrorism in a place no one expected it, a man with a gun in his hands and hate in his heart, apparently consumed by rage against LGBT Americans — and, by extension, against the openness and diversity that define our way

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’ve known for some time that American society looks as much like a Third World country as a First. Sure, it has a GDP that is still larger than China’s, and it is viewed, especially by Americans, as a world leader in just about everything good. However, its social gap

WASHINGTON—Even the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history is not likely to convince Congress to change the nation’s gun laws. Democrats in the Senate said Monday that they would renew efforts to ban gun sales to terrorism suspects in the aftermath of the Orlando attack. But the bill is likely to find the same fate

ORLANDO, Fla. — The gunman who attacked a Florida gay nightclub had attended the club before the attack and had used a gay dating and chat app, witnesses said. Kevin West, a regular at Pulse nightclub, said Omar Mateen messaged him on and off for a year before the shooting using the gay chat and

Politicians called for national unity Monday, a day after 49 people were killed at a gay nightclub by an attacker in Orlando, Florida, the worst mass shooting in the country’s history. “Today is not a day for politics,” presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton declared in a speech in Cleveland Monday afternoon. “This is a

By Donald J. Trump MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — The horrific attack that took place this past weekend reveals how weak the leadership is in our country. My thoughts and prayers go out to the many friends and families affected by the events in Orlando, Florida. I am going to be a President for all Americans,