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The secretary of State will not testify before a Senate panel on the Benghazi attack.

President Obama will go to Newtown Sunday to meet with victims' families, thank first responders and speak at a vigil. 

The prominent gun-control advocate in Congress says she will renew her push for legislation restricting firearms purchases.

President Obama ordered flags lowered  “as a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence.”

A petition calling for “legislation that limits access to guns” garnered more than 25,000 signatures in the first few hours.

Michelle Obama and the family dog visited a children’s hospital on Friday to read to the patients.

President Obama cancelled a plan trip to Portland, Maine, next week out of sensitivity to the victims of the Connecticut elementary school shooting.

"In the aftermath of the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut today, the President’s event planned for Wednesday in Portland, Maine has been cancelled," press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement. 

The president had been scheduled to visit the University of Southern Maine on Wednesday to ratchet up pressure on House Republicans to agree to tax rate hikes on the wealthiest Americans as part of an eventual debt deal.

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords “sends her prayers” to the victims of the shooting in Newtown, Conn., on Friday, according to a post on her husband’s Facebook page.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is asking the Department of Homeland Security to provide more details related to the arrest of an intern in Sen. Robert Menendez's (D-N.J.) office, who was a registered sex offender living in the United States illegally.

Chaffetz's written letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on Thursday came in response to an Associated Press report that said immigration officials were ordered by the Department of Homeland Security not to arrest Luis Abrahan Sanchez Zavaleta until after the Nov. 6 election. Homeland Security denied that any delay was made in arresting Sanchez.  

If now is not the time to talk about gun control, Rep. Nadler said, "I don’t know when is."