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That's one civics lesson we'd rather have skipped.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday the Senate will turn to a banking bill next week, dashing hopes of many senators in both parties that the Senate would be able to pass gun legislation quickly in the wake of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Republican senators are not too happy with the White House right now.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is requesting that the order for a $31,000 dining set be canceled, according to a statement provided exclusively to CNN by longtime adviser Armstrong Williams.

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein's happy dance when she was seated next to President Donald Trump in the White House said it all.

Three embattled Cabinet secretaries -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin -- all appeared at a White House summit on the opioid epidemic, carrying on with business as usual.

President Donald Trump is eager to announce protectionist measures on Thursday to buffer the US steel and aluminum industries from foreign imports. But the policy he wants to roll out isn't ready yet, two White House officials said.

White House chief of staff John Kelly expressed some regret about leaving the Department of Homeland Security for his current job, suggesting he was being divinely "punished."

President Trump wants to bring an assault weapons ban into the mix on gun control, a suggestion -- given the source -- that drew an uncontrolled and giddy laugh from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat, who pushed such a measure in 1994 and has long argued for its reinstatement after it lapsed in 2004.

Disagreement over gun control and gun rights is among the most important and defining issues in the country today. They're so charged that about a quarter of voters will only vote for a candidate who shares their view on the subject, regardless of other factors of the candidate, no exceptions, according to Gallup.

The US ambassador to Mexico has announced that she is stepping down in May.

A Massachusetts man has been charged after Donald Trump Jr.'s family and others received threatening letters with suspicious powder last month, the US attorney for Massachusetts announced Thursday.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham wants President Donald Trump to back off Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said Thursday he'll be seeking alternative accommodations -- including potentially flying in coach class -- on his "very next flight" amid an internal probe into his government travel.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson requests that the order for a $31,000 dining set be canceled in a statement provided exclusively to CNN by longtime adviser Armstrong Williams.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not mention the raging debate over gun control when he opened the Senate on Thursday, a day after President Donald Trump created widespread confusion about what policies he wants Congress to pursue at an extraordinary televised meeting with bipartisan lawmakers at the White House.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is set to announce a gun safety plan which he said will keep "any guns of any kind out of the hands of dangerous or deranged people."