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12:05 PM ET, May 28, 2022

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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Federal agents entered Uvalde school to kill gunman despite local police initially asking them to wait  —  Federal agents who went to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday to confront a gunman who killed 19 children were told by local police to wait and not enter the school …
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New York Times:
Gun in Texas Shooting Came From Company Known for Pushing Boundaries  —  After one of its military-style rifles was used in the Texas elementary school shooting on Tuesday, the gun manufacturer Daniel Defense published a pop-up statement on its home page sending “thoughts and prayers” …
Discussion: Bloomberg and WSAV-TV
Curt Devine / CNN:
Focus turns to Uvalde school police chief's decision not to send officers inside.  Here's what we know about him  —  (CNN)The law enforcement official who made the decision not to breach the Uvalde elementary school classroom where a gunman was shooting children and teachers was the school district police chief, officials said Friday.
Discussion: PennLive and The Daily Beast
Safia Samee Ali / NBC News:
Uvalde police chief who delayed officer response to shooting to join City Council  —  The police chief who reportedly made the call not to immediately send officers into Robb Elementary School to confront a gunman was elected to Uvalde's City Council just three weeks ago after running …
Discussion: Insider
New York Times:
Children called for help from inside classrooms in Uvalde.  The police waited.  —  UVALDE, Texas — Furtively, speaking in a whisper, a fourth-grade girl dialed the police.  Around her, in Room 112 at Robb Elementary School, were the motionless bodies of her classmates and scores …
NBC News:
NRA convention in Houston met with fiery protest co-organized by Black Lives Matter
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and The Root
Washington Post:
Before massacre, Uvalde gunman frequently threatened teen girls online  —  Young people who met the alleged gunman online said he had threatened to kidnap, rape or kill.  But they said their reports were ignored and that his kind of angry misogyny was just “how online is.”
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CNN:
Uvalde gunman threatened rapes and school shootings on social media app Yubo in weeks leading up to the massacre, users say  —  Salvador Ramos told girls he would rape them, showed off a rifle he bought, and threatened to shoot up schools in livestreams on the social media app Yubo …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
ESPN:
San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler ‘not okay with the state of this country’ in wake of Uvalde shooting  —  As details of the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, continue to unfold, San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler on Friday wrote that he is “not okay with the state of this country” …
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Gus Bova / The Texas Observer:
Greg Abbott Is Full of Shit  —  On Tuesday, as the world knows already, an 18-year-old man carried an AR-15-style rifle into a 574-student elementary school just off Highway 83 in the town of Uvalde, 90 minutes west of San Antonio.  Unobstructed by police, he barricaded himself …
Discussion: BizPac Review and Insider
Gabe Kapler / Kaplifestyle:
Home of the Brave?  —  The day 19 children and 2 teachers were murdered, we held a moment …
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Abbott ‘livid’ about being ‘misled’ on police response to Uvalde shooting
John Nichols / The Nation:
“Let Beto Speak”: Texans Desperately Need an Alternative to NRA Republicans
Discussion: Politico
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Daily Beast issues apology to laptop repairman amid lawsuit after claiming Hunter Biden's laptop was ‘stolen’  —  John Paul Mac Isaac filed a defamation lawsuit against the Daily Beast, CNN, Politico, Adam Schiff  —  Hunter Biden laptop blocked by mainstream media a ‘coordinated effort’: Laptop repairman
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Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
Daily Beast releases apology to Hunter Biden's laptop repairman
Discussion: Twitchy
Claire Parker / Washington Post:
Russia has incited genocide in Ukraine, independent experts conclude  —  Russia is responsible for inciting genocide and perpetrating atrocities that show an “intent to destroy” the Ukrainian people, a new legal analysis signed by more than 30 independent experts concluded.
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Politico:
Trump Jr. allies issue warning to Stefanik camp: Don't go after Tucker's kid  —  Allies of Donald Trump Jr. issued a stark warning to Elise Stefanik recently: Keep friends' kids out of your political rivalries.  —  Those Trump Jr. allies were recently told that Stefanik's camp was behind …
Discussion: Raw Story and Wide World of News
Andrew Hay / Reuters:
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.
New York Times:
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 …
New York Times:
Trump's Primary Losses Puncture His Invincibility  —  With many of Donald J. Trump's endorsed candidates falling to defeat in recent primaries, some Republicans see an opening for a post-Trump candidate in 2024.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Donald J. Trump had cast …
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
This Republican senator thinks ‘wokeness’ is the cause of mass shootings  —  (CNN)Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson offered up a controversial theory to explain the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, this week that left 19 children and two teachers dead.  —  “We stopped teaching values …
Discussion: Althouse
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Shouldn't Hillary Clinton Be Banned From Twitter Now?  —  Trial testimony reveals Hillary Clinton personally approved serious election misinformation.  Is there an anti-Trump exception to content moderation?  —  Last week, in the trial of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann …
Discussion: The Hill and Instapundit
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