Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School use a picnic table at a city park as a media center to plan their rallies on Washington, D.C., and around the country. Brian Mann/North Country Public Radio hide caption

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Proposed cuts in funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau come amid questions about Trump appointee Mick Mulvaney softening the agency's stance on payday lenders. Joshua Roberts/Reuters hide caption

A week ago, kids in Parkland, Fla., were talking about prom and graduation. Now they're talking about funerals and gun control. Some students say the shooting that left 17 people dead will be a catalyst for different gun laws. Brian Mann/North Country Public Radio hide caption

Ben Dickmann surrendered his AR-57 and two 50-round magazines to the Broward County Sheriff's Office Friday. His decision comes after a shooting at a high school in nearby Parkland, Fla. left 17 dead and others injured. Courtesy of Ben Dickmann hide caption

Snow-making has been called a Band-Aid to the bigger problem of warming temperatures. Patrik Duda / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm hide caption

L-R: Florence Kasumba as Ayo and Danai Gurira as Okoye in Black Panther. Marvel Studios hide caption

The office of Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller says 13 Russians and three Russian entities took part in a broad information war against the United States. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption

Master guitar maker Arnulfo Rubio Orozco holds up his latest project. It's taken him a month to craft this guitar with pearl accents and wood from southern Mexico. Carrie Kahn/NPR hide caption

The top science adviser to the EPA, Michael Honeycutt, has been the lead toxicologist for the state of Texas since 2003. Texas cities, including Houston, have struggled for decades with some of the worst air quality in the country. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption

Aaron Feis, a football coach at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., was among those shot and killed at the school on Wednesday. Facebook/AP hide caption

Cyril Ramaphosa seen delivering a speech Sunday at the Grand Parade in Cape Town, South Africa, before he was elected president. AP hide caption