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Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
Texas Police Lieutenant Says Cops Were Reluctant to Engage Gunman Because 'They Could've Been Shot' — A Texas Department of Public Safety official said responding officers were cautious as they entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas because “they could've been shot.”
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Wall Street Journal:
Uvalde Shooter Fired Outside School for 12 Minutes Before Entering — Local residents express anger and frustration as police detail new timeline of mass shooting — UVALDE, Texas—Local residents voiced anger Thursday about the time it took to end the mass shooting at an elementary school here …
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New York Times:
Uvalde Live Updates: Parents Express Anger at Police Response to School Massacre — Authorities defended their response to the shooting in a news conference, as some parents who lost children asked what happened during the hour of terror in which a gunman took 21 lives.
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
How the official accounts about the Uvalde shooting have changed — Since a gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex., on Tuesday, killing 19 children and two teachers, authorities have provided an incomplete — and evolving — explanation of what happened.
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New York Times:
Uvalde Had Prepared for School Shootings. It Did Not Stop the Rampage. — In August 2020, law enforcement officers from five agencies converged inside the hallways of a school in Uvalde, Texas, their guns drawn, role-playing how they would halt a gunman. — The training, detailed …
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Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
‘She was my baby’: A family mourns, and pleads for action, in Uvalde.
‘She was my baby’: A family mourns, and pleads for action, in Uvalde.
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
WATCH: Texas Police Spox on Live TV Confirmed Cops Went In for Their Own Kids During Uvalde Shooting
WATCH: Texas Police Spox on Live TV Confirmed Cops Went In for Their Own Kids During Uvalde Shooting
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Haisten Willis / Washington Examiner:
White House sidesteps question about police response to Texas school shooting
White House sidesteps question about police response to Texas school shooting
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Robert T. Garrett / Dallas Morning News:
Texas Gov. Abbott going to Uvalde — not NRA — on Friday — Abbott to hold news conference in grief-stricken community, send prerecorded remarks to gun group. — AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott is returning to Uvalde on Friday, and will skip the National Rifle Association convention in Houston.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
On Guns, Biden's Call for Action Is a Painful Reminder That He Cannot Make It Happen — America can't even grieve collectively anymore. — There is little doubt that Joe Biden is a world-class griever. For the part of the Presidency that requires national mourning …
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New York Times:
Senators Grasp for a Bipartisan Gun Deal, Facing Long Odds
Senators Grasp for a Bipartisan Gun Deal, Facing Long Odds
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The Texas Tribune:
Why 18-year-olds can buy AR-15s in Texas but not handguns
Why 18-year-olds can buy AR-15s in Texas but not handguns
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Jeff Parrott / Salt Lake Tribune:
Mitt Romney received $0 from the NRA during his 2018 senate campaign, not millions
Mitt Romney received $0 from the NRA during his 2018 senate campaign, not millions
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Shannon McCaffrey / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Herschel Walker fumbles gun control response - twice
Herschel Walker fumbles gun control response - twice
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New York Times:
Three headliners pulled out of this week's N.R.A. convention, citing Uvalde.
Three headliners pulled out of this week's N.R.A. convention, citing Uvalde.
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CNN:
Exclusive: McConnell says he has directed Cornyn to engage with Democrats on a ‘bipartisan solution’ on gun violence
Exclusive: McConnell says he has directed Cornyn to engage with Democrats on a ‘bipartisan solution’ on gun violence
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CNN:
US preparing to approve advanced long-range rocket system for Ukraine — Washington (CNN)The Biden administration is preparing to step up the kind of weaponry it is offering Ukraine by sending advanced, long-range rocket systems that are now the top request from Ukrainian officials, multiple officials say.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Opinion The secret planning that kept the White House a step ahead of Russia
Opinion The secret planning that kept the White House a step ahead of Russia
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Buffalo News:
Authorities investigating if retired federal agent knew of Buffalo mass shooting plans in advance — Law enforcement officers are investigating whether a retired federal agent had about 30 minutes advance notice of a white supremacist's plans to murder Black people at a Buffalo supermarket …
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Politico:
Meadows burned papers after meeting with Scott Perry, Jan. 6 panel told — Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows burned papers in his office after meeting with a House Republican who was working to challenge the 2020 election, according to testimony the Jan. 6 select committee has heard from one of his former aides.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Behind the Jan. 6 panel's last-minute efforts to win 3 key Trump-world lawsuits
Behind the Jan. 6 panel's last-minute efforts to win 3 key Trump-world lawsuits
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Exclusive: DOJ interviews Georgia Republicans about interactions with Trump campaign in fake elector probe — (CNN)Federal investigators have interviewed Republicans in Georgia about interactions with people in former President Donald Trump's orbit and his 2020 reelection campaign …
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Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Rep. Liz Cheney officially files for U.S. House — Rep. Liz Cheney officially filed to run for U.S. House on Thursday, announcing her reelection bid in a video that focused on her allegiance to the U.S. Constitution. — The announcement, one day before the filing deadline …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump E.P.A. Chief ‘Endangered Public Safety’ by Ordering His Drivers to Speed — An internal report validated whistle-blower allegations that Scott Pruitt repeatedly forced his security detail to drive at dangerous speeds on routine trips because he was running late. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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James Finn / Los Angeles Blade:
Texas Trans girl assaulted over GOP lies about Uvalde shooting — Why was this teen girl assaulted by a grown man she'd never met, harassed by four strangers who could tell she was trans — In a phone interview today, Tracey told me the man grabbed her arm and forced her body around …
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Kashmir Hill / New York Times:
A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate — PimEyes is a paid service that finds photos of a person from across the internet, including some the person may not want exposed. “We're just a tool provider,” its owner said. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
John Fetterman got a defibrillator after his stroke. But doctors say the campaign's story 'doesn't make sense.' — It's been more than a week since Lt. Gov. John Fetterman celebrated his win in Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate primary from a Lancaster hospital, where he was recovering …
Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Florida IG report: ‘Insufficient evidence’ for DeSantis critic's claims of Covid cover-up — A prominent critic of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' Covid response made “unsubstantiated” and “unfounded” claims that state health officials had fired her because she refused to present manipulated data online …
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Terry Glavin / National Post:
The year of the graves: How the world's media got it wrong on residential school graves — The coverage triggered protests, church arsons and condemnation from Canada's bad-faith rivals, but last summer's reporting on the country's long-acknowledged historic shame had little to do with what happened.
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NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
11-Year-Old Survivor of Uvalde Massacre Put Blood on Herself and Played Dead, Aunt Says — The family of an 11-year-old girl who survived the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday says the 4th grader played dead after the gunman entered her classroom.
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Ben Dreyfuss / Good Faith:
Progressives Need To Stop Obsessing About What To Name Things — The myth of the “death tax” rebranding — “The end of natural gas has to start with its name,” is the provocative and inaccurate headline of a Vox story calling on the media to stop referring to natural gas as, uh, natural gas.1