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Live Updates: ‘We Have to Act,’ Biden Says After 21 Killed at Texas Elementary School  —  It was the deadliest school shooting since the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Conn.  —  19 children and two adults are killed in a Texas elementary school shooting, the authorities say.
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Death toll in Texas elementary school shooting rises; 19 children, 2 adults killed by shooter  —  The suspect was identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School  —  Death toll rises to 22, mostly children, in TX school shooting  —  UVALDE, Texas …
St. John Barned-Smith / Houston Chronicle:
Uvalde school shooting: Teen gunman bought AR-15 style rifle day after he turned 18  —  Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  The gunman who authorities say killed 21 people in a South Texas community - 19 of them elementary school students - legally purchased two rifles …
Washington Post:
Gunman was bullied as a child, grew increasingly violent, friends say  —  Relatives, classmates describe fraught relationship with mother and a troubling pattern of acting out  —  The gunman in Tuesday's elementary school massacre was a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment …
Associated Press:
Gunman kills 19 children, 2 teachers in Texas school rampage  —  UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded himself inside a classroom, “shooting anyone that was in his way,” an official said Wednesday …
Washington Post:
At least 19 children, 2 teachers killed at Texas elementary school  —  UVALDE, Tex. — A gunman wearing body armor and carrying a rifle killed at least 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in this Texas city on Tuesday, authorities said.  —  It was the deadliest mass shooting …
Discussion: Kyodo News+ and TheBlaze
Claire Goforth / The Daily Dot:
EXCLUSIVE: 'That's the picture of him buying a gun': Uvalde mass shooting suspect bought an AR-15 online last week  —  The Uvalde, Texas mass shooter frequently posted about guns and purchased a rifle online days ago.  —  Authorities say that 18 children and one teacher were killed …
Bari Weiss / Common Sense:
American Madness  —  On the mass murder of children in Texas.  —  My sister is a teacher in America, which means she has had to teach her fourth grade students about how to defend themselves against people who might walk into her public school with guns.  Once, during a false alarm …
NBC News:
19 children, 2 teachers killed in Texas elementary school shooting
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
'We're going to go f—ing scorched-earth': How Brian Kemp crushed Trump in Georgia  —  When Brian Kemp's top donors huddled with the Georgia governor and his lieutenants at Atlanta's Capital City Club earlier this year, they had reason to worry that his political career was about to come to an end.
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Politico:
Kemp notches huge primary win in Georgia as Cuellar tries to hang on in Texas
David French / The French Press:
Pass and Enforce Red Flag Laws.  Now.  —  We know they can save lives.  —  I was intending to write about the Georgia Republican primary, but then—just as I was walking back to my hotel—I saw the horrific news out of Uvalde, Texas.  Another school shooting.  Another elementary school.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
America's Hands Are Full of Blood  —  Thoughts and prayers.  It began as a cliché.  It became a joke.  It has putrefied into a national shame.  —  If tonight, Americans do turn heavenward in pain and grief for the lost children of Uvalde, Texas, they may hear the answer delivered in the Bible through the words of Isaiah:
Ryan Busse / The Bulwark:   Even the Gun Industry Knew We Would End Up Here
Stephen Fowler / Georgia Public Broadcasting:
Raffensperger declares victory over election denialism in Georgia GOP Secretary of State's race  —  Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger narrowly won his primary Tuesday against Trump-backed Jody Hice and other challengers.  —  Incumbent Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger …
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Andrew Kerr / Washington Examiner:
Hunter Biden swiped personal info from his family's phones, laptop data suggests  —  EXCLUSIVE — Records located on a copy of Hunter Biden's laptop suggest he took personal data from his sister-in-law's cellphones over a dozen times between 2017 and 2018 without her consent …
Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
The Unanswered Question  —  If an entire generation thinks the system is broken, might that be a “you” problem?  —  Believers in American institutions, and the people who control those institutions, should know that they are forging a generation of Americans with no faith in them.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Scoop: Tens of thousands of migrants waiting on U.S. doorstep  —  As many as 50,000 migrants are waiting in Mexican shelters for a chance to cross the border, hoping to run out the clock on Title 42, the COVID-era rule limiting entry to the U.S., according to internal documents reviewed by Axios.
Discussion: NBC News
Jared Yates Sexton / Dispatches From A …:
This is Going to Get Really Ugly, Really Soon  —  Tucker Carlson and the Right have created imaginary rivals in order to legitimize their antidemocratic actions  —  To watch Tucker Carlson Tonight is to punish yourself.  Tucker Carlson's act is obnoxiously acidic.  The sneering cruelty.
Discussion: Mediaite
The Guardian:
'I'm never going back': the high-profile Russian defectors rejecting war  —  Gazprombank's Igor Volobuyev and diplomat Boris Bondarev are among the Russian elite to oppose Putin's invasion of Ukraine  —  gor Volobuyev spent two decades working in the heart of the Russian business establishment …
BBC:
North Korea fires missiles hours after Biden leaves Asia  —  North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles early Wednesday morning, South Korea's military has said.  —  Authorities in Seoul said the missiles were fired in the space of less than an hour from the Sunan area in Pyongyang.
Jay Michaelson / Rolling Stone:
The Right-Wing Lie That's Killing Our Children  —  Republicans have twisted the 2nd Amendment to suit their extremist purposes, blocking sensible checks on gun ownership and enabling the unceasing procession of mass shootings  —  In 2014, after a mass shooting in California …
 
 
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