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The debate over gun control is taking center stage in the Texas governor's race after 21 people, including 19 children and two adults, were killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde earlier this week. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke made headlines on Wednesday when he confronted Gov. Greg Abbott (R) at a press conference, telling the Republican candidate that the mass shooting is ultimately "on him." |
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Texas law enforcement officials now say local police were wrong to have waited to engage with the gunman at an elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead on Tuesday. |
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Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he "was misled" and is "livid" over inaccurate information he was given about the police response to the Texas elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. |
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Friday said he expects new laws to be enacted in response the shooting this week that killed 21 people at an elementary school. |
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Former President Trump criticized Democrats for not backing measures to increase security in schools during a Friday address at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting that came days after a teenage gunman armed with an assault weapon killed 19 children and two elementary school teachers in the nation's latest gruesome mass shooting. |
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National Rifle Association (NRA) officials dismissed calls for stricter gun laws on Friday during their annual convention, which is taking place in Houston, a city less than 300 miles from the Texas school shooting that claimed the lives of 19 children and two adults earlier in the week. |
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President Biden is nearing a decision on student loan debt forgiveness, with the president and his team zeroing in on canceling $10,000 per borrower, with some potential caveats. |
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Although there's widespread approval for student loan forgiveness, support often varies and even decreases with age, especially among older generations who hold larger loan balances on average. |
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Soaring gas prices have Americans bracing for an expensive Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the summer when vacation-related travel typically spikes. |
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Nine likely cases of monkeypox have been identified in the U.S. so far as the virus continues to spread throughout Western countries, outside of the central and western African regions where it typically occurs. |
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OPINION | Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced a new version of the "American Innovation and Choice Online Act" (S. 2992) late Wednesday night, the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes machinations to try to reach the 60-vote Senate threshold. |
OPINION | Americans famously have a problem with nuance and context — with any problem whose solution doesn't present itself readily and without serious mental effort. Faced with tragedies like the one that stole the lives of 19 children and two teachers this week in Uvalde, Texas, the natural human response is to call for action. Politicians need to do something – anything – nuance and context be damned. |
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Students trapped inside a classroom with a gunman repeatedly called 911 during this week's attack on a Texas elementary school, including one who pleaded, "Please send the police now," as officers waited more than an hour to breach the classroom after following the gunman into the building, authorities said Friday. |
Thousands of students across the U.S. walked out of classrooms this week in protest against gun violence days after the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. |
BY HELENE COOPER AND JOHN ISMAY |
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has approved sending long-range multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine, a significant transfer that could hugely aid Ukraine's defense of its territory in the Donbas region, U.S. officials said on Friday. |
Every year ahead of Memorial Day, a soldier from the Army's 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment places a small American flag by the vault of Navy Lt. Andrew J. Chabrol, an honor accorded to every grave at Arlington National Cemetery. |
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