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A grisly checklist and a sickening rampage: Inside the Uvalde massacre — UVALDE, Tex. — The gray Ford pickup truck veered into a ditch with such force that people who live on the block assumed it was an accident and rushed over to help the driver. — Instead, according to witness and police accounts …
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Henry Ramos / kens5.com:
'It's time to die' | Fourth-grader who survived Uvalde school shooting gives heartbreaking account of what gunman told students — The Robb Elementary student said he and several of his friends survived after hiding under a table with a tablecloth covering them.
Associated Press:
Police face questions over response to Texas school shooting — UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Law enforcement authorities faced mounting questions and criticism Thursday over how much time elapsed before they stormed a Texas elementary school classroom and put a stop to the rampage by a gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers.
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Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:
A teacher in Uvalde, Texas, describes ‘the longest 35 minutes of my life’ — Her students were watching a Disney movie when the gunshots started. Then instinct and practice kicked in. — Americans react to the Robb Elementary school massacre — UVALDE, Texas — The teacher came …
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NBC News:
The Uvalde school district had an extensive safety plan. 19 children were killed anyway.
The Uvalde school district had an extensive safety plan. 19 children were killed anyway.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Mass killings keep happening despite good guys with guns
Mass killings keep happening despite good guys with guns
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Kevin T. Dugan / New York Magazine:
The NRA won after Sandy Hook, but today the gun lobby is in disarray and gun safety is slowly making gains in states. — How the U.S. got to the point where 19 fourth-graders were slaughtered in a single classroom in Uvalde, Texas, is along a tortured path, arguably going back as far as 1791, when the Second Amendment was ratified.
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Roxane Gay / New York Times:
The Uvalde Shooting Shows America's Deep Incivility
The Uvalde Shooting Shows America's Deep Incivility
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Lisa Tozzi / Rolling Stone:
He Wrote The Onion's Famous Mass-Shooting Headline. It Still Haunts Him
He Wrote The Onion's Famous Mass-Shooting Headline. It Still Haunts Him
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
These Gun Reforms Could Save 15,000 Lives. We Can Achieve Them.
These Gun Reforms Could Save 15,000 Lives. We Can Achieve Them.
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Tony Messenger / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Nobody does mass shootings like America. Nobody.
Nobody does mass shootings like America. Nobody.
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Robert E Kelly:
Teaching the American Gun Debate in a Foreign Country: No Matter What You Say, They Think We're Bananas
Teaching the American Gun Debate in a Foreign Country: No Matter What You Say, They Think We're Bananas
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Raw Story
Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:
The Senate Has Forfeited Its Right to Exist
The Senate Has Forfeited Its Right to Exist
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Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
What reforms are on the table after the Uvalde school tragedy?
What reforms are on the table after the Uvalde school tragedy?
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Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
We Need to Learn to Live With Guns
We Need to Learn to Live With Guns
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Mark Stone / Sky News:
Texas school shooting: Senator Ted Cruz storms off over questions about gun reform — Among the mourners at a vigil for the 21 people killed at Tuesday's mass shooting are Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, and his ally in the senate, Ted Cruz; Republican politicians who block all Democratic Party attempts to change gun laws.
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Abbott calls Texas school shooting a mental health issue but cut state spending for it — Texas Gov. Abbott: Government must ‘do a better job’ to address mental health — UVALDE, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a “mental health challenge” …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer vows to force vote on gun control legislation after Memorial Day recess
Schumer vows to force vote on gun control legislation after Memorial Day recess
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NBC News:
Black, Asian and Latino communities all faced mass shootings in 2 weeks. How they're showing support.
Black, Asian and Latino communities all faced mass shootings in 2 weeks. How they're showing support.
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New York Times, Off the Kuff, MSNBC, USA Today and The Texas Tribune
David Silva Ramirez / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Day after Uvalde shooting, deputy reportedly shows AR-15 photos at Fort Worth school
Day after Uvalde shooting, deputy reportedly shows AR-15 photos at Fort Worth school
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Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline:
‘Goodfellas’ Star Ray Liotta Dies at 67 — A shocker. Ray Liotta, the terrific actor whose career breakout came in the Martin Scorsese crime classic Goodfellas, has died. Deadline hears he died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was shooting the film Dangerous Waters.
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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
The next U.S. abortion battle is over pills, and it's already begun — The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet released its decision that looks set to dramatically scale back abortion rights, but one of the next legal battles has already begun in a Mississippi court.
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Jennifer Gerson / The 19th:
Vast majority of Americans don't want Supreme Court decisions on marriage, contraception overturned, new poll shows — Two-thirds of Americans say they don't want the Supreme Court to reverse its decision that legalized abortion federally, and even larger majorities say they do not want opinions …
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Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Trump loses appeal, must testify in New York civil probe — NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in New York state's civil investigation into his business practices, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. — A four-judge panel in the appellate division …
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Trump required to testify over New York civil investigation after losing appeal — An appeals court denied a bid on Thursday by former President Donald Trump and members of his family to avoid testifying as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James's investigation into the Trump Organization's business practices.
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BBC:
Actor Kevin Spacey charged with sexual assault — Actor Kevin Spacey charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men, Crown Prosecution Service says … You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.
New York Times:
Where Senate Republicans Stand on Gun Legislation — The New York Times reached out on Wednesday to all 50 Republicans in the Senate to see whether they would support a pair of House-passed measures to strengthen background checks for gun buyers. Within hours of the elementary school shooting in Uvalde …
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Washington Post:
Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams are in a rematch. A lot has changed since 2018. — The political landscape in Georgia — and nationally — has shifted significantly — Stacey Abrams refused to concede the Georgia governor's race to Republican Brian Kemp four years ago, even after it was clear she had lost.
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Sam Whiting / San Francisco Chronicle:
SFUSD drops the word ‘chief’ from job titles to avoid connotation with Native Americans — The word “chief” will no longer be used in reference to job titles in the San Francisco Unified School District in an effort, school officials said, to avoid the word's connotation with Native Americans.
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Francisco E. Jimenez / MyRGV.com:
Source: Donna ISD shuts down campuses after AK-47 found amid credible mass shooting threat — Donna ISD will be shutting down all campuses Thursday and Friday after a credible threat was reported to police, according to a source familiar with the situation.
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Jonathon Ambarian / KBAO-TV:
Proposed measure to require majority votes in Montana elections cleared for signature gathering — HELENA — A proposed constitutional amendment that would change the way Montana conducts its elections has been approved for signature gathering - but it doesn't have much time if it's going to make it onto the ballot later this year.
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
House Rating Changes: 10 More Races Move Towards Republicans — As the parties navigate primaries and begin polling and placing fall ad buys, Republicans' House advantage looks as robust as ever. For independent voters, inflation has become such a dominant concern that neither …
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