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Florida's Republican-controlled Senate voted to exclude most classroom teachers from a plan to allow school staff to carry firearms as part of a package of measures in response to a school shooting that took 17 lives last month.

Oprah Winfrey put to rest any lingering questions about a potential 2020 bid for the presidency, declaring on a late-night talk show that she was "definitely not running."

A Tennessee woman driving a white van intentionally drove into a White House security barrier but did not breach it, and she was immediately apprehended and put under arrest, the US Secret Service said.

Student survivors of the deadliest-ever shooting at a US high school reacted angrily after Donald Trump said the FBI may have been too distracted with a Russia probe to follow leads that could have prevented the massacre.

Both Dunedin and Mumbai, India, have expressed a desire to develop their waterfronts in an attempt revitalise those parts of their cities. We look at five cities around the world who revived their waterfronts visually and economically.

The US Defense Secretary said it was too early to tell whether a diplomatic detente between the two Koreas at the Winter Olympics would lead to results, but the move had not driven a wedge between Washington and Seoul.

The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 1,100 points today as stocks took their worst loss in six and a half years.