Parkland activist parent arrested in Congress after gun-control protest during hearing

A South Florida gun-control activist whose son was killed in during the Parkland school shooting was arrested at the U.S. Capitol complex on Thursday, charged with refusing a police officer’s orders after being removed from a Republican-led hearing about a federal gun regulatory agency. Manuel Oliver, whose son, Joaquin, was one of 17 people killed in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, was arrested “after he disrupted a hearing, refused to stop shouting, and then attempted to go back inside the hearing room,” according to a statement from...