According to officials President Barrack Obama will nominate Senator John Kerry as Secretary of State on Friday. The president is likely to make the formal announcement later in the afternoon.
The National Rifle Association is holding a press conference on the issue of new gun-control legislation, a topic that has become the focus of the national concern after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which left 26 people killed among which 20 were children of ages six and seven.
In order to honor the 26 vicitms, who lost their lives on Dec. 14, when Adam Lanza opened fire in the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newton Connecticut, killing six adults and 20 children of ages six and seven, some major websites observed a moment of silence by going dark at 9:30 am on Dec. 21.