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What sport shooters can teach us about America’s love for guns, and how to make it stop killing us

The lessons to take from those who love guns the most.

USA Today Sports Media Group

‘Directly related’: Two key words could sink long-shot talks on preventing mass shootings - Roll Call

Democrats are skeptical about striking a deal with Republicans to help prevent more mass shootings, which are a new American tradition.

Roll Call

The Guide #36: From Marvin Gaye to the Macarena, inside one man’s quest to review over 1,000 US No 1s

In this week’s newsletter: Why Stereogum’s Tom Breihan is listening back to every Billboard No 1 hit and grading them out of ten (yes, even The Chipmunk Song)

The Guardian - UK

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After Buffalo and Texas, are we broken?

Feeling grief, confusion and despair right now is normal. How do we turn that into something constructive?

Salon

Eighteen-year-old Americans can’t drink. Why can they buy assault rifles?

The solution to mass shootings isn’t increased policing or an expanded surveillance state or runaway anti-terrorism legislation. It’s making it harder to buy a gun

The Guardian - US

Four things Harry Kane said on Jimmy Fallon Show including goal record claim

England captain Harry Kane spoke with American chat show host Jimmy Fallon at length on Thursday - Here is a round-up of what was discussed on the Jimmy Fallon Show

Daily Mirror

Editorial: Biden's clarity on Taiwan is risky

"Strategic ambiguity" is what U.S. diplomats call America's policy on Taiwan and China. The strategy is to keep the peace by maintaining ambiguity over the degree the U.S. would go to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion.

Tribune News Service

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Commentary: The US needs paid sick leave. Here’s how to get it right

Paid leave has emerged from the pandemic as a popular policy, frequently invoked as one route to move America forward from COVID-19 and its brutal impact on workforces nationwide.

Los Angeles Times

Martin Schram: Seven days in May — saving America from within

“Seven Days in May,” the epic 1960s novel and a film starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Ava Gardner, was a fictional tale about right-wing Pentagon generals who tried to topple the U.S. government.

Tribune News Service

‘It’s an American problem’: US readers on preventing future mass shootings

As America comes to terms with the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, readers explain what they think should be done to prevent future mass shootings

The Guardian - US

Heidi Stevens: To raise children in America is to know the routine: Shooting. Despair. Resignation. Repeat.

To raise children in America is to live in fear.

Tribune News Service

Julianna Goldman: Why America doesn’t know how to stop school shootings

As of right now, in the entire country, there is just a single federally funded study on preventing gun violence in America’s schools. It started in September.

Tribune News Service

Columbine happened 23 years ago. How is America still no further forward?

There is no generous interpretation for the past 23 years of inaction. We all bear some of the blame

The Guardian - US

How lawmakers in thrall to the NRA stifle gun safety laws

Powerful lobbying groups spent nearly $5m last year to expand gun rights while limiting curbs on who can have a firearm and how they can carry it

The Guardian - US

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Ted Cruz walks away from a reporter who asked why the U.S. has so many mass shootings

"Is this the moment to reform gun laws?" British reporter Mark Stone from Sky News asked the U.S. senator.

Financial Times

Still Top Gun? What Tom Cruise’s new movie tells us about American power

The film reflects anxiety over the US’s relative decline in the face of China’s high-tech military might

Los Angeles Times

710 Freeway expansion dropped after decades of planning, marking a milestone for L.A.

LOS ANGELES — A decades-old plan to widen one of America's busiest cargo corridors was scrapped Thursday, as the agency acknowledged it must find a new way to lessen traffic without adding lanes.

The Conversation

6 charts shows key role firearms makers play in America’s gun culture

Americans have blamed many culprits, from mental illness to inadequate security, for the tragic mass shootings that are occurring with increasing frequency in schools, offices and theaters across the U.S.

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The Independent UK

For lockdown generation school shootings are their 'reality'

Students processing the attack in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 students and two teachers — yet another school shooting — returned to a common theme: They are the “lockdown generation.”

The Independent UK

Q&A: Baz Luhrmann on his tragic, razzle-dazzle 'Elvis'

Baz Luhrmann was first in Cannes exactly 30 years ago with his debut “Strictly Ballroom,” which he recalls barely making a sound at the festival

Salon

Redefining identity, one dish at a time

“Asian America” might not be a thing, but its food certainly is — and it’s as important as ever

The Guardian - US

Ted Cruz angrily quits interview after being confronted about gun control

Texas senator says ‘I’m sorry you think American exceptionalism is awful’ in response to questions about Uvalde massacre

Irish Mirror

Gary 'Spike' O'Sullivan says he would 'slaughter' Conor McGregor in boxing bout as he sits down with Roddy Collins

The Cork boxer faces Cuban Erislandy Lara for the WBA middleweight title this weekend

The Guardian - US

America will never get better if we refuse to diagnose and treat its problems

As we endure shooting after shooting, the US starts to seem like a body being attacked from within by some strange and debilitating illness

The Independent UK

Fewer Americans apply for jobless benefits last week

Fewer Americans applied for jobless aid last week as the number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits remains near five-decade lows

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