Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Facebook

The Texas primary school shooting victims have been identified. Here are some of their names

Some were cousins, others were just celebrating making the honour roll days before the summer holidays. These are the names and faces of some of the 21 killed at a Texas primary school.

ABC News

Russian forces edge closer to encircling Ukraine troops in east

Advancing Russian forces came closer to surrounding Ukrainian troops in the east, briefly seizing positions on the last highway out of a crucial pair of Ukrainian-held cities before being beaten back, a Ukrainian official said on Thursday.

Reuters

All 21 victims in Texas school shooting were killed inside one classroom

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 online before barricading himself inside a fourth-grade classroom, where all the fatalities and injuries occurred, state and federal officials said…

Los Angeles Times

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

‘That smile I will never forget’: the victims of the Texas school shooting

More details have emerged about those who were killed on Tuesday when a gunman attacked Robb elementary school in Uvalde, Texas

The Guardian - US

Remote learning apps used in schools tracked kids’ data without their knowledge, report says

When the coronavirus pandemic upended traditional methods of delivering education, school districts across the country and the globe turned to online learning platforms.

Miami Herald

Lydia Abdelmalek, who impersonated Home and Away actor Lincoln Lewis to catfish women, loses court appeal

Lydia Abdelmalek pretended to be Australian soap star Lincoln Lewis, convincing her victims to send her compromising photographs and "ruthlessly" stalking them.

ABC News

Teachers hailed as heroes in Texas school massacre as politicians debate gun control

Homeroom teachers were being hailed as heroes Wednesday, a day after a teenage gunman stormed a Texas elementary school, barricaded himself inside a classroom and callously murdered 19 students and two of their instructors.

Tribune News Service

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

EXPLAINER: Social media and the Texas shooter's messages

Could Facebook have known about ominous direct-message threats made by a gunman who Texas authorities say massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school

The Independent UK

What is the latest known about the Texas primary school mass shooting?

After an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 primary school students and two teachers, Democrat gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke confronts Republican Governor Greg Abbott about gun law reforms and the shooter's social media activity before the killings is uncovered.

ABC News

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.

ABC News

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

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…

Los Angeles Times

Federal election: Labor is one seat away from majority government, with four electorates in doubt — as it happened

Labor has won 75 seats from Saturday's federal election and needs just one more to govern in its own right.

ABC News

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

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

Tribune News Service

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.

Los Angeles Times

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.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Beto O’Rourke confronts Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over Uvalde school shooting

AUSTIN, Texas — An emotional Gov. Greg Abbott was interrupted by an equally emotional Beto O’Rourke as the Republican governor and other state officials sought Wednesday to discuss a school shooting in Uvalde a day earlier.

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

Daily Mirror

Guiding Light's star Lee Lawson dies aged 81 and remembered as 'brilliant woman'

The star, who played Bea Reardon on the soap for close to 10 years, died on Sunday, May 2022, with her daughter confirming the news on Facebook

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.

The Independent UK

Texas shooting: Teenage gunman posted ‘lil secret’ Instagram message before shooting 21 people dead

Salvador Ramos told woman ‘I’m about to’ as he hinted at attack just hours earlier

Benzinga

Metaverse Land Just Sold For $10,164 (9,888 MANA) In Decentraland

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $10,164, which is 2.43x the current floor price of 2.1385001 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) ($10,164 USD). The collection consists of over 97,000 plots of land –– at the current moment each plot Land parcels are 16m x 16m, or 52…

Benzinga

Virtual Land Just Sold For 34,000 MANA In Decentraland

What happened: Virtual land tokenized as an NFT just sold for $34,952, which is 8.37x the current floor price of 2.1385001 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) ($34,952 USD). The collection consists of over 97,000 plots of land –– at the current moment each plot Land parcels are 16m x 16m, or 52…

1 … 414 415 416 417

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations