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In an emotional address, the president responded Friday to a mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. At least 20 children are among the dead, according to state police.

Only 17 states and the District of Columbia have proposed running their own insurance markets. Experts had expected mostly small states to seek federal help, but some of the nation's largest have said they will not run an exchange on their own.

The actions of first responders also have changed since the 1999 shooting in Colorado, according to security experts.

Sunday's parliamentary election is taking place against a backdrop of increasing nationalist feeling in Japan. Right-wing sentiment has been growing in the face of an ongoing conflict with China over a group of disputed islands and continued economic and political instability inside Japan.

As details emerged about the tragic shooting deaths of more than 20 children and adults at a Connecticut school, law enforcement sources named Ryan Lanza as the gunman. But then came reports that portray Lanza's younger brother, Adam, as the suspect.

The town, about 60 miles northeast of New York City, has a low crime rate and a tall flagpole that serves as an unofficial town symbol.

Mariner 2's 1962 mission to Venus was the first time any spacecraft had gone to another planet. Before the mission, very little was known about the planets, and much of what was believed to be true turned out to be wrong.

Robert Siegel talks Maggie Gordon, a reporter at the Stamford Advocate, about the father of the alleged gunman in the Newtown, Conn., shooting.

Audie Cornish talks to Robert Smith about the latest on the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

Myrlie Evers-Williams is the widow of assassinated civil rights activist Medgar Evers. After her husband's death, she became a noted activist herself. But music has always been one of her loves, and she's about to fulfill a longtime dream on the Carnegie stage.