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 …
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Donald Trump kicked off his appearance at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention on Friday by awkwardly reading the names of the 21 people slaughtered with an AR-15-style rifle in Uvalde a few days earlier. The NRA played a recording of a bell clanging as the former president strained to …
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The family of Irma Garcia — one of the two teachers who sacrificed their lives to save their students at the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde, Texas — is now also mourning the loss of another family member. Garcia’s husband, Joe, died Thursday of a heart attack, minutes after dropping …
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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 …
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Armed law enforcement officers were present on Tuesday as a shooter entered an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and slaughtered 21 people, including 19 young children. Witnesses say they weren’t doing enough to stop the shooter. The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that onlookers urged police to go into the …
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Ted Cruz stormed away from a reporter who asked him about gun control in the wake of the massacre that killed 21 people, including 19 small children, in Uvalde, Texas. “Is this the moment to reform gun laws,” Mark Stone of Sky News asked the senator from Texas in Uvalde …
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A country music concert slated for this weekend’s NRA Convention in Houston just lost another performer. Larry Gatlin, a member of the country trio the Gatlin Brothers, has dropped out of the lineup. The 74-year-old vocalist and songwriter behind Gatlin Brothers hits like “All the Gold in California” and “Houston …
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In the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, which left 19 children and two adults dead, thousands of students from across the country walked out of their classrooms at 12:00 pm EST today to protest gun violence in schools. Organized by Students Demand Action, …
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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 …
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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: …
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