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But her injuries aren't the reason she says she won't finish her senior year there.

As her schoolmates returned Wednesday for the first day of classes since the February 14 massacre, she did not. She's withdrawing from the school -- just months from graduation -- intending instead to complete the requirements for her diploma with online courses.

All things weighed, she can't see the point of going back.

"I want to be a part of Stoneman Douglas and I want to live out the rest of my high school career normally. But there's no such thing as normal anymore," she told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on Wednesday morning, just off school grounds in Parkland.

"Curriculum is never going to resume as normal for the rest of the year."

She says the shooting, which left 17 dead, has given her a new purpose: Advocating for tighter school security and gun control.

"As I'm recovering and taking my online courses, that's when I'd like to take the chance to travel, and speak to large audiences, spread my message, speak to lawmakers, attend rallies, be everywhere I need to be so that people can hear me clearly," she said.

For security, she wants "simple mechanisms we've had for ages, like bulletproof windows and metal detectors, and live-footage security cameras" feeding video to the sheriff's department, and more security officers on school grounds.

She'd also like a ban on assault-style weapons, stronger background checks for gun buyers, and raising the minimum age for buyers to 21.

But she'll make her speeches as a former Stoneman Douglas student. And she'll be carrying scars with her.

The shrapnel lodged behind her cheek and eye, she said, will not be taken out. "To remove them would be more invasive than to leave them," Fuentes said, appearing on camera with a large, dark purple welt under her right eye.

Fuentes isn't the only student talking about not coming back. About 15 students expressed interest in transferring to other schools in the district, Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie said.

Fuentes has already been accepted to some colleges, but she has yet to pick one. She says she's not worried about explaining why she's withdrawing from Stoneman Douglas.

"I think they're aware," she said.

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Samantha Fuentes walks with a cane after a bullet pierced her thigh and shrapnel hit her legs and face during the deadly shooting at South Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. But her injuries aren't the reason she says she won't finish her senior year there.

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Georgia police arrest teacher barricaded in classroom, at least 1 shot fired.

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A teacher at a Georgia high school was arrested today after the individual apparently barricaded themselves in a classroom, police said.

Police in Dalton, Georgia, responded to a report this afternoon of shots fired at Dalton High School. The Dalton Police Department warned parents via Twitter not to come to the school and said a suspect "believed to be a teacher" was "barricaded" in a classroom.

Minutes later, police tweeted that "the teacher is in custody." Police have not revealed the individual's identity or what led to the situation.

Students were evacuated from Dalton High School and taken to the Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center in Dalton, where police said parents should meet their children.

One student apparently sustained an ankle injury while running inside the school during the evacuation. The student was treated on scene by first responders, police said.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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A teacher at a Georgia high school was arrested today after the individual apparently barricaded themselves in a classroom, police said. Police in Dalton, Georgia, responded to a report this afternoon of shots fired at Dalton High School.

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Google gets 2.4M requests from Europeans to be 'forgotten'

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Google has been flooded with 2.4 million requests from individuals and companies across Europe to be "forgotten" - that is, wiped clean from any Web search.

Most of the requests came from regular Joes wanting sensitive information - like their home address or personal photos or videos - removed from any Google search results, the company said in its annual transparency report released on Tuesday.

But among the others looking to take advantage of Europe's 2014 "right to be forgotten" law were 41,213 requests from celebrities and 33,937 requests from politicians, Google said in the report.

The law, enacted by the European Union in May 2014, requires Google and other search engines to de-list information when a valid request is received.

Americans do not have the ability to ask search engines to delete their names from search results.

In Europe, results that are eligible to be removed must be deemed "inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive" by the search engine's staff and must be determined to not generate significant public interest.

The 2,437,271 requests received by Google cover the period from when the law went into effect through December 2017.

Google said that it has processed 2.08 million of the requests and that 43 percent, or roughly 900,000, have been deemed valid and have been de-listed.

The right-to-be-forgotten law has been so popular that a cottage industry appears to have popped up - companies helping others make the RTBF requests. Roughly 1,000 requesters - mainly law firms and reputation-management services - accounted for 360,000, or 15 percent, of all the RTBF bids, Google said.

While the law has been very popular, the demand is slowing. Google noted that 39.7 percent of de-listing requests were made in the first year of RTBF -with 24.9 percent coming in the second year and 22 percent in the third year.

Roughly one-third of the requests pertained to the removal of personal information from social-media and directory sites, while one-fifth of the requests were to remove a requester's legal history.
This story originally appeared in the New York Post.

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Google has been flooded with 2.4 million requests from individuals and companies across Europe to be "forgotten" - that is, wiped clean from any Web search. Most of the requests came from regular Joes wanting sensitive information - like their home address or personal photos or videos - removed from any Google search results, the company said in its annual transparency report released on Tuesday.

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The existing battle-lines between Jared Kushner and chief of staff John Kelly are further entrenched and new diplomatic challenges have arisen after the decision to downgrade Kushner's security clearance, people familiar with the matter say.

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For Kushner, the son-in-law and senior adviser to President Donald Trump, news of his diminished clearance came moments before a potentially more damaging headline: that officials from four countries had discussed ways to manipulate him during their dealings on foreign policy.

The series of events led to uncertainty in the West Wing and an impression among officials that Kushner is again on the ropes. Kelly, who mandated the clearance downgrades, has been regarded as his chief antagonist.

The reality, according to several administration officials, is more complicated.

With the approach of a series of key meetings between Trump and leaders from the Arab Gulf -- a region Kushner has focused on -- Kelly and Trump have agreed that Kushner's input will remain invaluable. Neither believes the clearance downgrade will affect his ability to do the job, though outside national security experts and even some inside the White House wonder how it's possible to hold talks with foreign leaders without access to top secret intelligence.

The White House has consistently refused to comment about individual security clearances or the implications of losing them.

Kushner, whose business dealings and wide portfolio have been the subject of intense scrutiny, told people that he suspected the timing of the story about his foreign contacts was coordinated to be released when issues surrounding his security clearance were in the news, according to a source familiar with his thinking, who described his demeanor in recent days as paranoid.

He is under the impression that officials from the intelligence and national security communities were aware of this information beforehand, the person said, but waited until his clearance issues were in the spotlight to make it public.

'Everyone is out to get him'

Kushner also feels that he has come under fire from his own West Wing colleagues recently, with the notion that "everyone is out to get him," a source said. This person noted that Kushner remains exasperated by Kelly's decision to overhaul the security clearance process, feeling that it is mainly directed at him. He has been asking others, "Why is John Kelly doing this?"

But he's not intending to leave his position in the near-term. And Kelly has told colleagues that be believes Kushner should continue in his job for now, and thinks he'll be able to manage his portfolio even without the top-level clearance.

Trump, meanwhile, has been frustrated by the media coverage of his senior adviser and son-in-law in recent days, telling associates that Kushner is being treated unfairly and that the media has been unnecessarily tough on him.

And others in the West Wing have expressed exasperation at the constant stream of damaging information that's directed his way.

"I think that there are people out there gunning for folks inside all of the time," said Kellyanne Conway, the presidential counselor, on Fox News. "You know, since the moment we arrived here, folks have been throwing logs in our path."

Trump has made clear to Kelly, national security adviser H.R. McMaster, and other top officials that he believes Kushner to be performing essential work and wants him to continue, particularly in regard to the Middle East. Top envoys from the Gulf are expected in Washington over the next several weeks, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia -- the young leader seen by some as a reformer with whom Kushner has fostered deep and friendly ties.

Trump has told his aides that Kushner should be involved in the planning for those meetings but has not specifically mandated he be provided an exemption to view top secret material about the countries in question.

Pervasive uncertainty

As aides were informed individually last week that their interim "top secret" clearances would be stripped, a sense of uncertainty pervaded among the advisers and officials who remain with permanent high-level access.

Those who still enjoy access to the nation's deepest secrets will now be responsible for cordoning off that information from those with only "secret" clearances -- or be in violation of federal law, which punishes unauthorized disclosure of classified information with up to ten years in prison.

That's provided national security officials -- careerists and political appointees alike -- with a sense of caution. One official described the mood as "walking on eggshells" to uphold the law.

Adding to the sense of uncertainty is a lack of clarity on who exactly has been stripped of their temporary clearances. Advisers have been told there are dozens of aides who previously had access to "top secret" information but who now only have access to "secret" -- but a comprehensive roster of those with downgraded access hasn't been widely circulated.

In Kushner's case, there is evidence that he is turning to the domestic policy areas of his portfolio as the security clearance matter unfolds. He was meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to discuss prison reform, an area he has said holds special meaning since his father served time in prison on tax evasion and witness tampering charges.

It was less clear how the dozens of other officials who now have downgraded clearances will proceed in their positions. Kushner is unique in focusing on a wide swath of domestic and foreign issues. Other aides are more narrowly focused.

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For Kushner, the son-in-law and senior adviser to President Donald Trump, news of his diminished clearance came moments before a potentially more damaging headline: that officials from four countries had discussed ways to manipulate him during their dealings on foreign policy.

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Some parts of Puerto RIco still won't have power before May.

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Some areas of Puerto Rico will not see power until as late as the end of May, about eight months after Hurricane Maria pummeled the island.

In a series of tweets, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said today that "achieving 95% restoration in areas with challenging terrain like Arecibo and Caguas, will take until mid-April and late-May respectively."

About 95 percent of the island will see energy restoration by the end of March, the Army Corps of Engineers previously said.

The island's 3.5 million residents were plunged into complete darkness when Maria made landfall as a Category 4 storm on Sept. 20.

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Some of those working on power restoration efforts on the badly hit island have started leaving, the agency also confirmed.

"As a part of a natural progression of any emergency response, some contractors are beginning to responsibly draw down their workforce but have provided plans that allows them to complete as many assigned lines as possible," the agency tweeted.

"The primary limiting factor to our progress has always been the delivery of materials, which is improving daily," said Preston Chasteen, public affairs officer for the Army Corps of Engineers Task Force Power Restoration. "The number of workers has not been a limiting factor."

Achieving 95% restoration in areas with challenging terrain like Arecibo and Caguas, will take until mid-April and late-May respectively. (4/7)
- USACE HQ (@USACEHQ) February 27, 2018

As part of a natural progression of any emergency response, some contractors are beginning to responsibly draw down their workforce but have provided plans that allows them to complete as many assigned lines as possible. (2/7)
- USACE HQ (@USACEHQ) February 27, 2018

The New York Times first reported that contractors working on energy efforts are leaving the island.

According to the Puerto Rico Energy Power Authority, 86.6 percent of energy customers have power on the island.

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Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the commander of the Army Corps of Engineers, told ABC News last week that he was not happy with the progress made so far on the island.

"I am not satisfied that people in Puerto Rico should have to wait that much time for power," Semonite said. "But I am telling you, there are no other knobs I can turn to go any faster."

Semonite said that the final 5 percent of restoration, what he calls the "last mile," would be the hardest.

Carlos Giusti/AP

"You might see me in three months from now and say, 'You are only at 99.6 percent.' Well, I am not going to run electricity up the side of a cliff to four houses that will probably never be rebuilt if that is the case," Semonite said. "I don't want to spend taxpayers' money getting lines to houses that are never going to be rebuilt."

The Puerto Rico governor's office deferred to PREPA for comment on the news from the Army Corps of Engineers. PREPA deferred back to the Army Corps of Engineers for a response.

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Parts of Puerto Rico won't have power before late May, 8 months after Maria

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Some areas of Puerto Rico will not see power until as late as the end of May, about eight months after Hurricane Maria pummeled the island. In a series of tweets, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said today that "achieving 95% restoration in areas with challenging terrain like Arecibo and Caguas, will take until mid-April and late-May respectively."

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Teens record video diaries before first day back.

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students talk about their hopes and fears before returning to the school where they lost 17 of their classmates and teachers.

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The company said it will also raise the minimum age for all gun sales to 21. Dick's (DKS) will not sell high-capacity magazines that allow shooters to fire far more rounds than traditional weapons without reloading, as well as other accessories used with weapons similar to the AR-15.

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Dick's Sporting Goods, the nation's largest sporting goods retailer, will stop selling assault-style weapons like the one used in the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting.

The company said it will also raise the minimum age for all gun sales to 21. Dick's will not sell high-capacity magazines that allow shooters to fire far more rounds than traditional weapons without reloading, as well as other accessories used with weapons similar to the AR-15.

The Parkland shooter, Nikolas Cruz, bought a gun at Dick's. The company said he did not buy the AR-15 that he used in the school shooting there.

The company stopped selling those military-style semiautomatic weapons in its Dick's-branded stores after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in 2012, but it continued to sell those weapons at its 35 Field and Stream stores.

Now it will pull those weapons from all of its stores.

Walmart , the nation's largest retailer and a major seller of firearms, announced it would stop selling the military-style semiautomatic weapons in August 2015.

There have been widespread calls for tougher gun control measures in the week since the school shooting.

CNNMoney (New York) First published February 28, 2018: 7:28 AM ET

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The company said it will also raise the minimum age for all gun sales to 21. Dick's will not sell high-capacity magazines that allow shooters to fire far more rounds than traditional weapons without reloading, as well as other accessories used with weapons similar to the AR-15.

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Ellen names a room in the Children's hospital dedicating to Kimmel's son

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Ellen DeGeneres surprises Jimmy Kimmel by dedicating a room at Children's Hospital Los Angeles after his son.

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Bryan Funes, 17, and Jorge Alexander Cortez, 23, were arrested last Thursday in Austin on criminal conspiracy charges after police unintentionally foiled a plot to kill another MS-13 member -- who was in the car when cops pulled it over, The Houston Chronicle reported. Melquisedec Steven Lemus-Monje, 19, was also arrested and charged with conspiracy and a weapons violation.

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MS-13 gang members on their way to kill another member had their plan unintentionally foiled when Texas police pulled their car over - sparing the would-be victim's life by a mere two minutes, according to court records.

Bryan Funes, 17, and Jorge Alexander Cortez, 23, were arrested last Thursday in Austin on criminal conspiracy charges after police unintentionally foiled a plot to kill another MS-13 member -- who was in the car when cops pulled it over, The Houston Chronicle reported. Melquisedec Steven Lemus-Monje, 19, was also arrested and charged with conspiracy and a weapons violation.

Funes and Cortez, both El Salvadoran immigrants, were planning to drive their intended target from Austin to Houston to kill him, court records obtained by the Chronicle stated. The man was reportedly wanted dead by the savage gang due to a variety of factors, including drug debts. It's unclear if the would-be victim, who was not identified, was currently an active MS-13 member.
WHAT IS MS-13, THE VIOLENT GANG TRUMP VOWED TO TARGET?
Houston police said they received news about the plan when they intercepted calls made by the MS-13 gang members. The men allegedly called MS-13 gang leaders in El Salvador and Virginia, who then "green lit" the operation, according to court records. Lemus-Monje at one point referred to a "nine" with "candies" - believed to be a 9 mm pistol - that would have been used in the murder, according to the Chronicle.

Lemus-Monje, Funes, another MS-13 gang member and the intended target were in a car in Austin on Feb. 11 when a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper pulled them over because of an expired vehicle registration, according to the Chronicle. Lemus-Monje was found with the pistol.

Cortez was discovered in a separate car.
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Funes called another individual a short time after the plot was thwarted and said police stopped them "approximately 2 minutes before they would have killed" the member, records stated.

Cortez was booked into jail on an attempted murder charge on Thursday, but records show he was released Tuesday.

Katherine Lam is a breaking and trending news digital producer for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @bykatherinelam

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MS-13 gang members were stopped by police 2 minutes before killing would-be victim, report shows

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Victim of the Parkland Shooting say she will not be attending the school anymore

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But her injuries aren't the reason she says she won't finish her senior year there.

As her schoolmates returned Wednesday for the first day of classes since the February 14 massacre, she did not. She's withdrawing from the school -- just months from graduation -- intending instead to complete the requirements for her diploma with online courses.

All things weighed, she can't see the point of going back.

"I want to be a part of Stoneman Douglas and I want to live out the rest of my high school career normally. But there's no such thing as normal anymore," she told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on Wednesday morning, just off school grounds in Parkland.

"Curriculum is never going to resume as normal for the rest of the year."

She says the shooting, which left 17 dead, has given her a new purpose: Advocating for tighter school security and gun control.

"As I'm recovering and taking my online courses, that's when I'd like to take the chance to travel, and speak to large audiences, spread my message, speak to lawmakers, attend rallies, be everywhere I need to be so that people can hear me clearly," she said.

For security, she wants "simple mechanisms we've had for ages, like bulletproof windows and metal detectors, and live-footage security cameras" feeding video to the sheriff's department, and more security officers on school grounds.

She'd also like a ban on assault-style weapons, stronger background checks for gun buyers, and raising the minimum age for buyers to 21.

But she'll make her speeches as a former Stoneman Douglas student. And she'll be carrying scars with her.

The shrapnel lodged behind her cheek and eye, she said, will not be taken out. "To remove them would be more invasive than to leave them," Fuentes said, appearing on camera with a large, dark purple welt under her right eye.

Fuentes isn't the only student talking about not coming back. About 15 students expressed interest in transferring to other schools in the district, Broward County Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie said.

Fuentes has already been accepted to some colleges, but she has yet to pick one. She says she's not worried about explaining why she's withdrawing from Stoneman Douglas.

"I think they're aware," she said.

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Samantha Fuentes walks with a cane after a bullet pierced her thigh and shrapnel hit her legs and face during the deadly shooting at South Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. But her injuries aren't the reason she says she won't finish her senior year there.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions pushed back against President Donald Trump's latest insult on Wednesday, prolonging an increasingly awkward public spat between the President and his top law enforcement official.

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"Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn't the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!" Trump tweeted.

Sessions said Tuesday that the Justice Department is looking at whether the FBI has properly handled applications for surveillance orders under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Sessions, appearing at a news conference announcing a new opioid task force, was asked about House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes' controversial memo outlining purported surveillance abuses and told reporters that "the inspector general will take that as one of the matters he'll deal with."

Trump has nursed a sour relationship with Sessions ever since the attorney general recused himself from all investigations into the 2016 campaign, including special counsel Robert Mueller's expanding investigation into possible ties between Trump's campaign and Russia.

CNN's Laura Jarrett contributed to this report.

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"Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn't the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!" Trump tweeted.

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Man posing as rideshare driver accused of raping 7 women

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A 44-year-old California man has been arrested and accused of raping seven women while posing as a rideshare driver, KABC Los Angeles reported.

Nicholas Morales was arrested by Alhambra police following a string of sexual assaults over more than a year, authorities said.

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Morales allegely attacked women in West Hollywood, Beveryly Hills and Los Angeles, police said. He would drive up to women who appeared intoxicated and ask if they'd requested a ride.

"As a woman, and as somebody who goes out at night in Hollywood, it's scary," Rachel Evans told KABC. "You know, when it's 2 in the morning and you're getting out of a bar, you're not really looking at the license plate."

Morales is being held in lieu of $10.3 million bail.

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A 44-year-old California man has been arrested and accused of raping seven women while posing as a rideshare driver, KABC Los Angeles reported. Nicholas Morales was arrested by Alhambra police following a string of sexual assaults over more than a year, authorities said. Morales allegely attacked women in West Hollywood, Beveryly Hills and Los Angeles, police said.

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MS-13 gang members were stopped by police 2 minutes before killing would-be victim

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MS-13 gang members on their way to kill another member had their plan unintentionally foiled when Texas police pulled their car over - sparing the would-be victim's life by a mere two minutes, according to court records.

Bryan Funes, 17, and Jorge Alexander Cortez, 23, were arrested last Thursday in Austin on criminal conspiracy charges after police unintentionally foiled a plot to kill another MS-13 member -- who was in the car when cops pulled it over, The Houston Chronicle reported. Melquisedec Steven Lemus-Monje, 19, was also arrested and charged with conspiracy and a weapons violation.

Funes and Cortez, both El Salvadoran immigrants, were planning to drive their intended target from Austin to Houston to kill him, court records obtained by the Chronicle stated. The man was reportedly wanted dead by the savage gang due to a variety of factors, including drug debts. It's unclear if the would-be victim, who was not identified, was currently an active MS-13 member.
WHAT IS MS-13, THE VIOLENT GANG TRUMP VOWED TO TARGET?
Houston police said they received news about the plan when they intercepted calls made by the MS-13 gang members. The men allegedly called MS-13 gang leaders in El Salvador and Virginia, who then "green lit" the operation, according to court records. Lemus-Monje at one point referred to a "nine" with "candies" - believed to be a 9 mm pistol - that would have been used in the murder, according to the Chronicle.

Lemus-Monje, Funes, another MS-13 gang member and the intended target were in a car in Austin on Feb. 11 when a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper pulled them over because of an expired vehicle registration, according to the Chronicle. Lemus-Monje was found with the pistol.

Cortez was discovered in a separate car.
REPUTED MS-13 DEFENDANTS LAUGH, SMILE AS SLAIN TEEN'S FAMILY GLARES
Funes called another individual a short time after the plot was thwarted and said police stopped them "approximately 2 minutes before they would have killed" the member, records stated.

Cortez was booked into jail on an attempted murder charge on Thursday, but records show he was released Tuesday.

Katherine Lam is a breaking and trending news digital producer for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @bykatherinelam

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Students returned to class at Marjory Stone man Douglas High School today for the first time since the mass shooting at the Parkland, Florida, school that killed 17 people and sent shock waves across the nation.There was a massive presence of police officers and first responders at the campus this morning. All off-duty law enforcement in the area were asked by the police union to offer their support to the students and staff.

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Students are returning to class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School today for the first time since the mass shooting at the Parkland, Florida, school that killed 17 people and sent shockwaves across the nation.

One student told ABC News he's "not mentally ready yet" to return to class after the Valentine's Day shooting that killed his best friend, while another student said she's happy to get back "to come together to grieve."

The suspected gunman, former student Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly fled after the shooting but was apprehended later that afternoon.

In the days that followed the massacre, Stoneman Douglas survivors not only attended funerals for the slain students and staff, but also took political action, rallying together to create a turning point in the national debate over gun control.

Teenagers made a trip to Tallahassee, the Florida state capital, spoke with President Donald Trump at the White House, and organized a March on Washington for March 24 called "March for Our Lives."

On Friday, staff members were allowed to return to school for the first time.

Then on Sunday, students and parents were permitted to come back to campus for an orientation in which they met with teachers and administrators to discuss plans for resuming classes.

At the school parents hugged their children, some with tears in their eyes. Counselors were on hand to help students and parents cope with being back at the scene of the horror.

Stoneman Douglas senior Julien Decoste lost his best friend, Joaquin Oliver, in the shooting, and told ABC News on Tuesday that he hadn't decided if he will go to school on Wednesday.

Decoste, 18, said he just isn't ready, calling it "too emotionally tough" to see the building where Oliver was killed.

Decoste said his parents think he should go back "to show strength."

"I know Joaquin would want me to go to finish my high school year," he said. "But I'm not mentally ready yet."

Student Carmen Lo, whose close friend Carmen Schentrup died in the shooting, told ABC News on Tuesday, "I'm actually happy to go back to school."

"I think it is in our best interests for us to come together to grieve," Lo said. "We're going back as a united school, ready to make change on behalf of the 17 lives and other schools across the country.

"The one fear I do have is having to come to terms with the fact that there will always be that empty desk because our friends are no longer alive," she said. "However, we want the world to know that we will not let this event break us and we will come back stronger. We will not tolerate inaction because students should not need to be afraid to attend school."

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Students are returning to class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School today for the first time since the mass shooting at the Parkland, Florida, school that killed 17 people and sent shockwaves across the nation.

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Dick’s Sporting Goods, one of the U.S.'s largest retailers of sporting equipment, will no longer sell assault rifles. The retailer also said it would no longer sell high-capacity magazines and would not sell guns to those under 21 years old.

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Dick's Sporting Goods, one of the U.S.'s largest retailers of sporting equipment, will no longer sell assault rifles.

The retailer also said it would no longer sell high-capacity magazines and would not sell guns to those under 21 years old.

The chain's CEO, Ed Stack, announced the changes in an open letter and in an appearance on Good Morning America on Wednesday.

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"As we looked at what happened down in Parkland, [Florida,] we were so disturbed and saddened by what happened, we felt we really needed to do something," Stack told host George Stephanopoulos.

In the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, it emerged that alleged gunman Nikolas Cruz had purchased a firearm from Dick's.

Stack acknowledged that Cruz had purchased a shotgun at a Dick's outlet in November. Cruz is not accused of using this weapon in the shooting, but a AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle.

"We did everything by the book, we did everything that the law required, and still he was able to buy a gun," Stack said.

"When we looked at that, we said, 'The systems that are in place across the board just aren't effective enough to keep us from selling someone a gun like that.'"

Of the decision to withdraw the sale of semi-automatic weapons, Stack said: "We know that this isn't going to make everyone happy, but when we take a look at what those kids and the parents and the heroes in the school, what they did, our view was if the kids can be brave enough to organize like this we can be brave enough to take these out of here," he said.

The Parkland shooting has renewed debate about gun legislation in the U.S., with a group of students from the school leading a campaign for tighter restrictions on the sale of firearms and increased access to treatment for people with mental health issues.

President Donald Trump has in the past week pledged to ban bump stock devices that can increase the firing rate of semi-automatic weapons. Trump also backed calls for some teachers to be armed with guns as a deterrent against mass shootings.

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Dick's Sporting Goods won't be selling assault rifle weapons in the wake of the Parkland killings

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Dick's Sporting Goods, one of the U.S.'s largest retailers of sporting equipment, will no longer sell assault rifles. The retailer also said it would no longer sell high-capacity magazines and would not sell guns to those under 21 years old.