It’s unclear what exactly transpired in the time between when Salvador Ramos crashed a pickup outside Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, to when he was killed 90 minutes later. Since Tuesday — when the 18-year old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers — state and local law enforcement officials …
Read More »'How Does This Make Sense to Anyone?': Late-Night Hosts Call Out GOP's Inaction on Gun Violence
One day after a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school left 19 children and two teachers dead, late-night TV hosts used their platforms to call for stricter gun laws in the United States. In an emotional monologue, Jimmy Kimmel fought back tears as he called out elected officials who …
Read More »'Please Help Us': Families Broken as Texas School Massacre Victims Identified
Shortly after Tuesday’s deadly shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas left 19 students and two teachers dead, Laura Mejia shared a photo of her 10-year-old cousin Xavier Javier Lopez — posing while wearing a yellow soccer jersey at a local Burger King — to Facebook, asking for help …
Read More »Taylor Swift Is 'Filled With Rage and Grief' Over Uvalde School Shooting
Taylor Swift, like so many of us, is horrified by the massacre at a Texas elementary school. “Filled with rage and grief, and so broken by the murders in Uvalde,” she tweeted about the mass shooting that killed at least 19 children. Then she referred to two other mass shootings: …
Read More »'We Had No Idea This Was Goodbye': Victims of Texas School Massacre Remembered
In the hours since Tuesday’s deadly shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, some family members are beginning the unimaginable mourning process after learning that their loved one was taken from them. Others, meanwhile, are still trying to find their missing child, praying that their biggest fear isn’t about …
Read More »Buffalo Mourns 10 Killed in 'Racially Motivated Hate Crime' at Market
Updated: May 15, 8 p.m. ET Police released the names of the 10 people killed during a racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York grocery store on Saturday afternoon. The victims of the attack, which Erie County Sheriff John Garcia described as “pure evil,” include Aaron Salter, 55, …
Read More »8Chan, Bastion of White Nationalism, Dropped by Cybersecurity Provider
Cloudflare, the online security provider and web infrastructure company that provides security protections for the anonymous message board 8chan, on which the accused El Paso shooter posted his manifesto minutes before the attack, has pulled its support from 8chan, thus causing the site to, at least temporarily, go dark. In …
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