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.

'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.

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:

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 …

‘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.

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.

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 …

Ukraine's stand is a model for fighting a Chinese attack, Taiwan's top diplomat says  —  If China should attack Taiwan—a possibility that President Biden warned against this week—the island's defenders plan to draw on lessons from the war in Ukraine.  —  Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu tells NPR …

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.

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.

'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 …

Senate heads for gun control reckoning after Texas school shooting  —  Senate Democrats say a major floor debate on gun control is inevitable after a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, left at least 19 children and two adults dead, only 10 days after another massacre killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo.