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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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ABC13:

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 …

Discussion: San Antonio Express-News, The Daily Beast, ABC7, The Sun, Breitbart, NBC Chicago, Josh off The Press, Mediaite, CBS News, The Wrap and NewsNation

Washington Post:

Biden urges end to ‘carnage’ of gun violence after 19 children killed at Texas school … President Biden on Tuesday evening urged Congress to end the “carnage” of gun violence after more than a dozen elementary schoolchildren were killed by an 18-year-old in Texas.

Discussion: Rolling Stone

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 …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Associated Press, New Jersey Online, MEL Magazine and Deadline

NBC News:

19 children, 2 teachers killed in Texas elementary school shooting — ‘Why do we keep letting this happen?’: Biden speaks after Texas school shooting — UVALDE, Texas — At least 19 children and two teachers were killed Tuesday when a gunman opened fire in a Texas elementary school …

Discussion: KSAT-TV, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Breitbart, CBS News, The Mahablog, RedState, Conservative Review, The Gateway Pundit, TheBlaze, The Daily Wire and Blue Virginia

Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:

‘Spare me the bullshit’: Sen. Chris Murphy rips GOP colleagues after Texas shooting — Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., took to the Senate floor after Tuesday's deadly school shooting in Texas and pleaded with his Republican colleagues to take action against gun violence, saying what happened wasn't “inevitable.”

Discussion: New York Post, Insider, ABC News, Raw Story, USA Today, The Hill and The Daily Wire

Cami Mondeaux / Washington Examiner:
Texas AG facing runoff says banning guns for public safety ‘ridiculous’ after school shooting

Discussion: Politico, National Review, Mother Jones and Mediaite

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.

Discussion: Associated Press, Bloomberg, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Rolling Stone, Georgia Recorder, Breitbart, New York Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Shore News Network

Washington Post:

Katie Britt, Rep. Mo Brooks headed to a runoff in Alabama GOP Senate primary … Welcome to special coverage of the Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas primaries and runoffs in Texas from Post Politics Now. — Today, Katie Britt and Rep. Mo Brooks are headed to a runoff in Alabama's GOP Senate primary, the Associated Press said.

Discussion: CNN, Washington Examiner, Fox News, New York Times, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, NOQ Report, Political Wire and Ringside at the Reckoning

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 …

Discussion: The Guardian, Mediaite, Politico, Bloomberg, CNN, The Hill, HuffPost, New York Magazine, Washington Post, Associated Press, NPR, Shore News Network, Peach State Politics … and Insider

NBC News:

Georgia Governor Primary Election Results — GOP incumbent Brian Kemp faces David Perdue, a primary challenge stoked by former President Donald Trump in an effort to oust a fellow Republican for not joining an effort to overturn the state's presidential election results two years ago.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, New York Times, Raw Story, National Review, Associated Press and East Bay Times

Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Brad Raffensperger, targeted by Trump, wins Ga. GOP primary for secretary of state

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Brookings, National Review and Los Angeles Times

Politico:
Kemp notches huge primary win in Georgia as Cuellar tries to hang on in Texas

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Associated Press, Bloomberg, NBC Los Angeles and CNN

New York Times:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders wins the G.O.P. nomination for Arkansas governor.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Townhall, CBS News, Washington Examiner, Boston.com, Fox News, Breitbart, Reason, Slate, Raw Story, National Review, Vanity Fair and New York Magazine

Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Trump's picks in Tuesday's GOP primaries spent over $400,000 at Mar-a-Lago

Discussion: Vox, NPR, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Raw Story, Digby's Hullabaloo, Vanity Fair, POLITICUSUSA and Daily Kos

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.

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:

Discussion: ABC13

Ryan Busse / The Bulwark: Even the Gun Industry Knew We Would End Up Here

CNN:

‘They were shooting directly at the journalists’: New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces — This story contains a disturbing image. — (CNN)Several shots ring out in quick succession, cutting through a clear, blue spring morning in Jenin, in the West Bank.

Discussion: Associated Press, The Great Awakening, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Al Jazeera, Mediaite and The Times of Israel, more at Mediagazer »

Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC:

Why conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Marjorie Taylor Greene just easily won her primary — ‘Shocked!’: Black Georgians on being represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene — According to NBC News projections, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has won the Republican primary in Georgia's 14th …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, New York Post, National Review, East Bay Times, Raw Story and WTOP News

Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Marjorie Taylor Greene wins her primary, dashing establishment G.O.P. hopes.

Discussion: Insider, Associated Press and The Daily Caller

Thomas Brewster / Forbes:

EXCLUSIVE: ISIS Plotting To Assassinate George W. Bush In Dallas — Two confidential informants and surveillance of the alleged plotter's WhatsApp account reveal plans to smuggle assassins into the U.S. to murder the former president, according to a search warrant application discovered by Forbes.

Discussion: Axios, Plain Dealer, NBC News, Bloomberg, USA Today, The Column, CBS News, al.com, New York Post, PennLive, robertspencer.org, KNWA FOX24, NOQ Report, Gizmodo, ABC News, The Daily Caller, Insider, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Wire, CNN, rbc.ru, The Hill, HotAir, TheBlaze, Mediaite, NBC4 Washington, Townhall and RedState

U.S. Department of Justice:
Ohio man charged with aiding and abetting plot to murder former President

Discussion: WCMH-TV, New York Times, MLive.com and The Daily Wire

Aine Quinn / Bloomberg:

Russia Is Winning From the Global Food Crisis It Helped Create — Russia's war against Ukraine, while deepening a global food crisis, has made the invader among the biggest winners of the mess it helped create. — The war has blocked Ukraine's grain exports by sea, cutting off vital supplies for countries from Somalia to Egypt.

Discussion: East Bay Times

Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:
Henry Kissinger says Ukraine must make Russia concessions to end conflict

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Examiner and East Bay Times

The Kyiv Independent:
The Kyiv Independent's response to the New York Times editorial board

Discussion: Washington Post, The Liberal Patriot and Washington Examiner

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

Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:

Crypto billionaire says he could spend a record-breaking $1 billion in 2024 election — Democratic cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried says he expects to spend “north of $100 million” in 2024, with “soft ceiling” of $1 billion — WASHINGTON —Democratic billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried …

Matt Stieb / New York Magazine:

Republicans May Have Sabotaged Their Best Chance to Beat Gretchen Whitmer — The GOP's efforts to unseat Michigan's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, ran into some trouble on Tuesday when the state's elections bureau determined that five of the ten Republican candidates had faked …

Discussion: Raw Story and TheBlaze

Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
5 GOP candidates in Michigan ineligible after fraud, election office says

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Bridge Michigan, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, CNN, Daily Kos and MLive.com

Techno Fog / The Reactionary:

How FBI HQ hamstrung the Alfa Bank investigation — The latest from the Michael Sussmann Trial — Today in the Michael Sussmann trial, we received additional information regarding the FBI leadership's involvement in the opening - and execution - of the Alfa Bank/Trump investigation.

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 …

Kurt T. Lash / SSRN:

Roe and the Original Meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment — Abstract — The current debates over Roe v. Wade as a substantive due process right have prompted a number of scholars to investigate alternative sources for a constitutional right to abortion. One approach argues …

Discussion: New York Times, Balkinization and Reason

Michael Luciano / Mediaite:

'It's Pathetic!' Irate Steve Kerr BLASTS Mitch McConnell and Senate GOP on Opposition to Gun Background Checks — Steve Kerr reacted forcefully to Tuesday's shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which resulted in the deaths of 18 children and three adults.

Discussion: al.com, New York Post, ABC13 and Daily Kos

Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:

Count the Disputed Mail-In Votes in Pennsylvania Primary for GOP Senate Nomination — As the Wall Street Journal relates in an editorial published Monday evening, a dispute has arisen over the counting of mail-in ballots in the closely contested Republican primary election in Pennsylvania between David McCormick and Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Discussion: Politico, TheBlaze, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, The Federalist and Wall Street Journal

Sarah Emerson / BuzzFeed News:

Someone Stole Seth Green's Bored Ape, Which Was Supposed To Star In His New Show — Actor and producer Seth Green was robbed of several NFTs this month after succumbing to a phishing scam that inadvertently threw a monkey wrench into the plan for his new animated series.

Discussion: Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, The A.V. Club and The Mary Sue

Marina Pitofsky / USA Today:

Pelosi responds after archbishop denies her Holy Communion for supporting abortion rights — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Tuesday responded after San Francisco's Catholic archbishop decided to deny her Communion over her support for abortion access in the United States.

Discussion: HuffPost, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit and East Bay Times