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# Will Drabold


## Will Drabold


Will Drabold covers politics and breaking news for TIME in Washington, D.C.


## Will Drabold


* ![AR-15 Parkland Florida Shooting](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltefa7938ce55eb446/698927c30a4a229e519d1c95/ar-15-parkland-florida-shooting.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 15, 2018  
### [The Florida School Shooter Used An AR-15 Rifle. Here's What to Know About the Gun](https://time.com/5160267/gun-used-florida-school-shooting-ar-15/)  
The assault left 17 people dead and another 14 wounded  
[U.S.](/section/us/)
* ![Rep. Scott Rigell](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt24550dac94cfb0c4/6988a1b72dce01121d9ea3c8/scott-rigell-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 19, 2016  
### [GOP Congressman: I Signed Anti-Trump Letter For a 'Clear Conscience'](https://time.com/4459210/donald-trump-scott-rigell-letter/)  
Rep. Scott Rigell says Trump is "catastrophic" for the GOP  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)
* ![Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential nominee, reads from a teleprompter during a campaign event at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, on Aug. 15, 2016.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4a93d534d1599e99/6988a2bfab6d7791d66aaee1/trump7.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 18, 2016  
### [Donald Trump Spends $4 Million On First TV Ad Buy](https://time.com/4458268/donald-trump-4-million-first-tv-ad-buy/)  
It's a fraction of what Hillary Clinton has already spent  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)
* ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd940a9b207e07d1d/6988a0d9656a3f20b1bcc9c7/160803_em_vending_marijuana.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 16, 2016  
### [A Federal Court Just Gave a Huge Victory to the Medical Marijuana Industry](https://time.com/4455098/medical-marijuana-justice-department-courts/)  
The federal government cannot pay to prosecute state-sanctioned marijuana use, the federal court sai...  
[U.S.](/section/us/)
* ![The four remaining Republican primary candidates Marco Rubio and Donald Trump debate at the University of Miami on March 10, 2016.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt02927de021a0ea3c/6988a216656a3f5c1ebccb82/trump-and-rubio.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 16, 2016  
### [Poll: Hillary Clinton Up by 9 in Florida. Marco Rubio Ahead in Senate Race](https://time.com/4454910/hillary-clinton-marco-rubio-donald-trump-poll/)  
Only 19 percent of Florida's minority voters say they will support Trump  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)  
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Aug 16, 2016  
### [Kentucky Man Arrested After Dragging His Dog Behind His Pickup Truck for 20 Miles, Authorities Say](https://time.com/4454238/kentucky-man-arrested-dog-drag-pickup/)  
"I want to believe anybody in their right mind wouldn’t do something like this"  
[U.S.](/section/us/)
* ![Brunhilde Pomsel, former secretary of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, sits on a cinema chair in front of posters for the movie "A German life" in a cinema in Munich, southern Germany, on June 29, 2016.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7624a0a0836bc38/6988a285cf40a84c1bc447bb/brunhilde-pomsel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 16, 2016  
### [It Was 'Just Another Job.' Goebbels Secretary, 105, on What She Knew](https://time.com/4453809/goebbels-secretary-brunhilde-pomsel-german-life/)  
105-year-old says she learned of the Holocaust after the war  
[WORLD](/section/world/)
* ![Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio Aug. 15, 2016.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f76e388472922f9/6988a288196cf4283e03cdc1/donald-trump-polls-trailing-hillary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 16, 2016  
### [Trump Continues to Lag Behind Clinton in New Polls](https://time.com/4453774/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-polls-virginia/)  
New polls have Trump down nine points nationally and 14 percent in Virginia  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)
* ![Aug. 15, 2014 President Barack Obama and daughter Malia Obama ride bikes along the Correllus State Bike Path outside of West Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Mass.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt73d1d1010b02a47a/6988974a5f570f9acbb21488/malia-obama-graduation-white-house-photos-08.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 16, 2016  
### [Obama Warns Democrats Not to Take Election For Granted](https://time.com/4453751/2016-election-obama-donald-trump-hillary/)  
"It's still possible for her to lose"  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)
* ![Missing Brendan Dassey appears in court Monday, April 16, 2007, at the Manitowoc County Courthouse in Manitowoc, Wis. Dassey, 17, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and first-degree sexual assault in the death of 25-ye](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3fec59325091ae4/6988a23af887dc3f2fe970e8/brendan-dassey.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 12, 2016  
### [What to Know About Brendan Dassey Going Free](https://time.com/4450977/marking-a-murderer-brendan-dorsey-case/)  
His conviction in the high-profile case was overturned by a judge  
[U.S.](/section/us/)  
* ![The large hydrocarbon sea named Ligeia Mare on Saturn's moon Titan, as photographed by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt250dec48f47a7f97/6988a23a2dce01f2319ea4bf/main_titan_flooded_canyons-still.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 12, 2016  
### [NASA Found Something Interesting on 1 of Saturn's Moons](https://time.com/4450810/nasa-saturn-moon-titan/)  
The only other object in the solar system where bodies of surface liquid have been found  
[SCIENCE](/section/science/)
* ![Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Abingdon, Virginia, Aug. 10, 2016.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4e406858ae10be7a/6988a2108e06016bed4671e2/trump-meltdown-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 11, 2016  
### [Read The Republican Letter Calling For The RNC to Cut Donald Trump's Funding](https://time.com/4449116/donald-trump-rnc-funding-gop/)  
"This is the family trying to fix itself"  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)
* ![Donald Trump Campaigns In Fort Lauderdale](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd9903e635d1051a1/6988a1facf40a8756dc446ee/gettyimages-588322572.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 11, 2016  
### [Trump Will Keep Calling Clinton the Founder of ISIS](https://time.com/4448441/donald-trump-isis-founder/)  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)
* ![Trump says ëSecond Amendment peopleí might be able to prevent Clinton from naming justices](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt379364b616b44cb9/6988a1c6428a9ef08ecd3d68/gettyimages-587769084.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 10, 2016  
### [5 Times Politicians Got in Trouble For Threatening-Sounding Comments](https://time.com/4446843/donald-trump-second-amendment-people-remarks/)  
Donald Trump's 'Second Amendment people' comment is not the first time a politician has gotten in tr...  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)
* ![Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks to the Trask Coliseum at University of North Carolina in Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S., August 9, 2016. REUTERS/Eric Thayer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTSM6CO](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7817ee38dcf15181/6988a1bf2dce0141bf9ea3da/donald-trump5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 10, 2016  
### [Secret Service Has Spoken With Trump Campaign: Report](https://time.com/4447144/donald-trump-second-amendment-people-secret-service/)  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)

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