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As families prepared to bury victims of another U.S. mass shooting, grief mixed with anger amid signs of possible lapses in school security and indications that law enforcement may have missed clues about the suspected gunman’s plans.

"He was killed tragically, inhumanely, he did it protecting others,” Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel told a news conference. In a tweet, the high school football team said Aaron Feis, who was married with a baby daughter, “selflessly shielded students from the shooter when he was shot. He died a hero.”

World

South Africa’s new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is expected to give more details about how he plans to tackle corruption and boost economic growth on Friday, when he delivers his first state of the nation address.

“It’s like the slow progression of tooth decay versus a fight where someone knocks out your teeth all at once,” Flagler County Administrator Craig Coffey said. With the longest coastline of any mainland U.S. state, more money and time is spent fixing up Florida’s shores - widening and building dunes - than in any other state.

The United States and Turkey agreed to try to rescue a strategic relationship that Washington acknowledged had reached a crisis point, with Turkey proposing a joint deployment in Syria if a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia leaves a border area.

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2:05 AM - FEB 16, 2018