Uvalde Live Updates: Tactical Team Was Ordered to Hold Back, Officials Say  —  A Border Patrol tactical team was ordered to hold back before confronting the gunman.  —  When specially equipped federal immigration agents arrived at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday …

After El Paso shooting, Trump pushed again on gun control.  His aides talked him out of it.  —  One of the most extraordinary moments of Donald J. Trump's presidency was an hourlong meeting with U.S. senators in the aftermath of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., in which he forcefully argued …

Up to 50 Subpoenas Expected as Grand Jury Begins Trump Inquiry  —  The district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., is weighing racketeering charges connected to G.O.P. attempts to overturn the 2020 election.  —  ATLANTA — As many as 50 witnesses are expected to be subpoenaed by a special grand jury …

Senator who has received $1m from NRA runs into a locked door trying to avoid Texas shooting questions  —  Ron Johnson asked about gun control the day after 19 students and two teachers were killed in Texas massacre  —  Texas congressman says it's not time to talk about new gun laws

Moderate Democratic congressman Schrader loses to left-wing challenger in Oregon primary  —  Moderate U.S. congressman Kurt Schrader of Oregon, who at times angered fellow Democrats by opposing pieces of President Joe Biden's agenda, has been defeated by left-wing primary challenger Jamie McLeod-Skinner.

U.S. to Send Advanced Rocket Systems to Kyiv, Officials Say  —  Mobile artillery launchers expected to arrive within weeks, would enable Ukraine to strike Russian batteries in Donbas  —  The Biden administration is expected to announce as early as next week it will send …

Trump's judges are coming for California's gun laws.  Can we stop them?  —  The front page of Thursday's edition of the Uvalde Leader-News was a solid black box, broken only by the date of the mass shooting that killed 19 little kids and two teachers: May 24, 2022.

How Trump's Michigan ‘giant scams’ claims actually proved true — sort of  —  Donald Trump was right.  I never thought I'd write those words, but he did warn us that there was a “giant scam” in Michigan involving the state's election.  Of course, Trump made that claim about the 2020 presidential election …

Forest Service says it started all of New Mexico's largest wildfire  —  Two blazes that grew into New Mexico's largest ever wildfire were both started by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the agency said on Friday, prompting the state's governor to demand the federal government take full responsibility for the disaster.

Guilty plea in plot to firebomb California Democratic HQ  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California man pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to blow up the state Democratic Party's headquarters in what prosecutors said was the first in a planned series of politically-motivated attacks after the defeat of former President Donald Trump.

The Plot to Out Ronald Reagan  —  A group of Republicans tried to stymie what they alleged was a nefarious homosexual network within the campaign of their own party's standard-bearer.  More than 40 years later, the story can finally be told. … It was 3:15 on the morning of June 26, 1980 …

Scoop: PAC to spend $1M to oust ‘Squad’ member Tlaib  —  With help from Ella Creamer and Chris Suellentrop  —  What up, Recast family!  Today we have a scoop about a liberal-leaning new PAC planning to spend big to take out “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.).