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Obama is asking a team led by Vice President Joe Biden to offer "concrete proposals'' to curb gun violence no later than January, in the aftermath of the horrific massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.
Cruz stopped for a moment, his eyes becoming watery: "You never go through some circumstances like this. This was definitely the toughest by far."
For the third day this week, funerals and wakes are being held for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
A large American flag hung near the doorway of the funeral home and luminaries spelling out the word 'hope' were set up on the lawn.
Officials urged people on Wednesday to be careful about donating to charities that claim to benefit victims of Friday's Newtown shootings.
Mental health providers said they won't be able to sustain any more funding cuts and some may be forced to stop providing critical services to those most vulnerable.
Stephen Barton, one of the survivors of the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting, happens to live near Newtown, Conn., and is on a mission to make a difference.
Dr. H. Wayne Carver said he wants to know if there is any identifiable disease associated with the behavior of the gunman, Adam Lanza.
Congressmen are questioning their positions, sporting goods stores are suspending sales and the White House is starting to list the kinds of measures President Barack Obama favors.
The darkness and rain Tuesday night could not keep hundreds from the Naugatuck Town Green, where they huddled with candles to praise the life of Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung.
Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre victim Ben Wheeler was remembered Tuesday evening in his old neighborhood of Sunnyside, Queens.
Allison Wyatt is being remembered a kind and generous girl with a penchant for creating art.
Avielle Richman, known to her family as Avie, moved from San Diego to Connecticut with her family a couple of years ago and was still known by her parents as "their California girl."
"Silly Caroline" Previdi was remembered after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that took her life for her infectious grin and giving heart.
Last Friday began as a normal day for Luke Santana and his third-grade classmates, but things got scary quickly.
