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Charity event held at BB&T Center For nearly three hours Monday night, Broadway and television entertainers shared the stage with star students from Stoneman Douglas High School. For some Broadway actors, like Eitan Benson, who grew up in Coral Springs, the benefit concert was all about the children. “When I saw what happened in February, I was devastated...

David Hogg, the self-professed anti-gun genius, has been caught red-handed promoting an election fraud scheme. Recently, Hogg announced that he would be taking a “gap year” putting off college “to work on the midterm elections and help educate new voters.” Well, it seems that educating new voters includes showing them how to engage in election fraud. Now, Hogg’s in a public meltdown as he sees his fame and glory get flushed down the drain. Thanks to a savvy Twitter user who screen captured Hogg retweeting instructions by the George Soros funded-group called HeadCount. It pretty much sounds an awful lot...

One of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School's most visible student activists will postpone his first year of college to devote time to political causes. David Hogg has been accepted at the University of California, Irvine, "but he will not be going to college this year because he's decided to take a year off and work on the midterm elections," his mother, Rebecca Boldrick, told CNN Monday. She said her son hopes to register and educate new voters and to "get people to vote."

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have planned dozens of events nationwide Rep. Ted Deutch, a Boca Raton Democrat, hosted a town hall on gun violence Tuesday, the first of almost 100 forums across the country. More than a thousand people packed the Coral Springs Center for the Arts...“Really what we need is more things like this across America, where there are politicians supported by the NRA,” said David Hogg, one of the students that organized the event. “We have to ban assault weapons. We have to make it work. It’s not about the Second Amendment, it's about what’s right and what's...

Students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School return to class Monday, their first day back since organizing one of the largest youth-led protests in US history. But these teenagers won't be returning to a normal high school experience. Instead, they'll be met with strict security measures which are intended to protect them from another mass shooting but have some students feeling as if they'll be learning in a prison. "Going to school is really so hard, and now it's going to be so much worse," said Isabelle Robinson, a senior. "A lot of the people I've talked to are dreading...

School shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg doubled down on his refusal to accept an apology from Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an interview with CNN on Saturday, as advertisers of her show announced they were ending their relationships with her after she mocked the teenager on Twitter for not getting into his top colleges. The senior student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas described Ingraham’s apology as disgusting, saying “she basically tried promoting her show after apologizing to me.”

FULL TITLE: 'Why you do you take so much money from the NRA?' Now Parkland survivor David Hogg takes on gravely ill John McCain on Twitter over his $7.7million in donations from gun lobby Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has confronted Senator John McCain onTwitter over his decision to accept more than $7.7 million from the National Rifle Association over his career. Hogg, 17, who has become a leading gun-reform advocate since the Florida high school shooting in which 17 people died, tweeted McCain on Friday with the question: 'Why do you take so much money from the NRA?' The...

The David Hogg experiment would be captivating if we were all just spectators, but the latest twist in the spectacle reveals a destructive element sure to metastasize quickly. Last Wednesday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham tweeted, “David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA ... totally predictable given acceptance rates.)”

Parkland activist David Hogg is calling for a boycott of Laura Ingraham’s advertisers after the Fox News host made a comment about some of his college rejections, which he openly discussed in an interview with TMZ. “David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates.)” Ingraham tweeted along with a link to a DailyWire story about the rejections. Hogg was turned down by four University of California schools--Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Irvine. The Parkland activist responded by calling on his supporters...

One of the student survivors of the Parkland, Fla., mass shooting is calling for people to target Fox News host Laura Ingraham's advertisers after she posted a critical tweet about him being rejected from colleges. Ingraham had tweeted a Daily Wire story earlier Wednesday about Parkland student David Hogg not getting into four colleges he had applied to.

Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg says his teachers are “very understanding” when he skips school for gun control rallies. Axios asked Hogg, “How do you do all this and make sure you graduate?” Hogg replied, “Good question. Talking to my teachers and trying to work it out day by day. I was supposed to do a math test yesterday, and I was like, ‘Nah,’ but it works out. My teachers are very understanding.” Axios followed up by asking Hogg if there is more his school could be doing for him. Hogg responded by suggesting his school...

Two student survivors of last month’s deadly shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school are urging President Donald Trump to break his ties with the National Rifle Association and live up to his pledge to push for stricter U.S. gun laws.

Declining to endorse in the Arizona Senate GOP primary, Joe the Plumber said he doesn't want to "create a lot of drama." Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher was in Phoenix this weekend for a pair of anti-tax rallies at the state Capitol. He overlapped on both occasions with J.D. Hayworth, McCain's primary opponent, but he didn't endorse the former congressman.

It's obvious the camera loves President Barack Obama. But are American audiences growing tired of his seemingly ubiquitous TV appearances? This week alone, the president has been on "60 Minutes," held a press conference during primetime (networks reluctantly bumped "American Idol" and "Biggest Loser" to make room for it) and answered viewer questions at his first-ever online town hall meeting. And all this is in addition to ESPN’s sporadic updates on how his NCAA bracket is doing. New York Times columnist Gail Collins put it this way: "…there appear to be only two constants in our ever-changing world. One is...

After wrapping up the second annual "Camp Casey" protest in Crawford, Texas, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan will travel to Washington, D.C., to kick off a 17-day protest and conference aimed at ending the war and "righting injustices." Sheehan rose to fame in the anti-war movement in August 2005 when she camped out near President Bush's Crawford ranch demanding a meeting with him. She named the protest "Camp Casey" after her son, Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004 after voluntarily re-enlisting in the Army for a second tour of duty. Since her first protest, Sheehan has traveled...

Fox "Breaking" News Cindy Sheehan just arrested again in NY. awaiting further info.

"Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan is so angry that she wasn't allowed to disrupt last night's State of the Union address that intends to file a lawsuit claiming she was brutalized by Capitol Hill police who suppressed her first amendment freedoms. "I have the bruises and muscle spasms to prove it," Sheehan said, in a message posted to several left wing web sites after she was arrested and then released on her own recognizance. Sheehan also contends she suffered emotional trauma, complaining: "I am so upset and sore it is hard to think straight." The Bush-bashing Gold Star mom says she...

Protesters Shutter Crawford Campsite By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago Dozens of war protesters packed up their tents and left their campsite near President Bush's ranch after a weeklong demonstration, but they promised to return at Easter if U.S. troops are still in Iraq. About 200 people participated in the protest, which coincided with Bush's Thanksgiving holiday visit to his ranch and wound up Sunday. It was a continuation of the August demonstration led by activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq last year. Protesters credit the summer vigil, which they say attracted...

Crawford TX - Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who drew national media attention when she camped outside President Bush's Crawford Texas ranch refusing to leave until she had spoken to Bush, drew far less media attention and fewer supporters at a rally held in Crawford Saturday.Seen as an emotionally distraught woman, Sheehan had attended a rally earlier this year in Washington DC where she and other anti-war protestors chained themselves to a fence outside the White House which got them attention once again, but Sheehan and other supporters were promptly arrested for trespassing. Earlier this...