NEWTOWN DAD: 'Our Hearts Are Broken, Our Spirits Are Not'

Joined by victims of gun violence, President Barack Obama chided the Senate Wednesday night over its failure to pass a bipartisan bill to expand background checks for gun purchases. "Our hearts are broken, our spirit is not," said Mark Barden, the father of first-grader Daniel who died in the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn. "There were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn't do this. It came down to politics," Obama said. "They caved to pressure, and they started looking for an ...