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Texas massacre casts shadow over hearing for ATF pick

Less than a day after a gunman massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas, a Wednesday Senate hearing for President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reflected the deep political divisions over guns

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Uvalde teachers killed protecting students in Texas mass shooting, as Governor reveals gunman's earlier social media comments

Police tell relatives that Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles died protecting their students from the gunman who burst into their classroom, barricaded the doors and opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle.

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Beto O’Rourke interrupts news conference, tells Texas governor: ‘This is on you!’

UVALDE, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was confronted by political rival and former U.S. Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke at a Wednesday news briefing, where officials gave details about the mass shooting at a local elementary school in Uvalde. Three adults — including the gunman — and 19 students were…

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The 21 lives lost in Texas school shooting

Relatives and friends pay tribute to 19 children and two teachers killed in deadliest US school shooting in a decade.

Al Jazeera

Timeline of Texas school shooting: 126 minutes of terror

A clearer timeline is emerging of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

Los Angeles Times

Texas schools can already arm teachers. Politicians may push for more after Uvalde tragedy

DALLAS — Hours after Texas’ deadliest school shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, state Republicans called for efforts to harden schools and arm more teachers.

Tribune News Service

Hearts ‘forever broken’: Here are the victims of the Texas school shooting

UVALDE, Texas — At least 21 people — including 19 children — were killed by a gunman during Tuesday’s massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Among them were a 10-year-old girl who had just made the honor roll and a fourth-grade teacher who had worked for the school district…

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After mass shootings like Uvalde, national gun control fails – but states often loosen gun laws

Calls for new gun legislation that previously failed to pass Congress are being raised again after the May 24, 2022, mass shooting at an elementary school in the small town of Uvalde, Texas.

The Conversation

Texas school massacre casts its shadow on Parkland mass shooting trial

The Parkland mass shooting trial will not be delayed by the massacre at a Texas elementary school.

Tribune News Service

Trump vows to speak at NRA convention this weekend after Texas school shooting

Former President Donald Trump vowed to speak at this weekend’s National Rifle Association convention even after an 18-year-old gunman killed 21 people, including 19 children, at a Texas elementary school.

Tribune News Service

Father returns book he borrowed 40 years earlier to his former elementary school

Man’s daughters currently attends his former elementary school in Michigan

The Independent UK

Timeline of what happened in the Texas school shooting

By Tuesday evening, 21 people had been killed in the mass shooting

The Independent UK

Salvador Ramos shot grandmother in face after ‘fighting over graduation’ before school attack

Gov Greg Abbott said Tuesday that Ramos sent Facebook messages threatening to shoot both his grandmother and an elementary school

The Independent UK

Texas school shooter warned on Facebook that he was going to shoot up a school 30 minutes before massacre

Salvador Ramos updated his Facebook friends on his day as he shot his grandmother, then killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school, police said Wednesday.

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Texas gunman: ‘I’m going to shoot an elementary school’

UVALDE, Texas — A gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school in one of the deadliest school massacres in U.S. history posted his intentions before barricading himself inside a fourth-grade classroom, where all the fatalities and injuries occurred, state and federal officials said Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Texas gunman sent Facebook messages that he was ‘going to shoot an elementary school’ minutes before attack

Suspect killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School after shooting grandmother

Tribune News Service

Texas school shooting hangs over pending Supreme Court gun rights ruling

The latest U.S. mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school creates a new point of political pressure on a U.S. Supreme Court that has signaled it will soon limit state and local governments’ ability to enact gun control measures.

Los Angeles Times

These TV shows and events have been pulled in the wake of Texas school shooting

Entertainment events — including the airing of TV shows — have been postponed or canceled out of respect for the victims of Tuesday’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where a teenage gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School and killed 19 children and two adults in a single classroom.

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First picture of Texas shooter who massacred 19 children and two teachers

Salvador Ramos, 18, used a semi-automatic rifle to shoot pupils at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde

The Independent UK

A decade of congressional inaction on gun control

Democrats in Congress are trying, again, to pass legislation to expand background checks for gun buyers in the wake of the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas

Al Jazeera

‘Complete evil’: New details of deadly Texas shooting released

Gunman barricaded himself in classroom at Uvalde primary school and shot ‘anyone in his way’, Texas official says.

Daily Mirror

Texas gunman barricaded 19 pupils and two teachers in classroom before killing them

As gunman Salvador Ramos took the children at the Robb Elementary School in Ulvadle hostage, one heroic 10-year-old bravely tried to save her classmates as she tried calling 911 for help

Salon

What we know about school shootings

"The key to stopping these tragedies is for society to be alert to these warning signs and act on them immediately"

The Independent UK

Uvalde gunman was killed by elite Border Patrol tactical unit Bortac, say officials

Suspect killed 19 students and two teachers in elementary school massacre

Los Angeles Times

At LA concert, Olivia Rodrigo calls for 'stricter gun control' after Texas shooting

LOS ANGELES — Olivia Rodrigo took a moment Tuesday during her concert in Los Angeles to address the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that killed two teachers and 19 children.

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