The Latest Breaking News from Texas

This devotion to the right to bear arms is horrifyingly outdated. It brought terror to Texas – and it will happen again and again, warns Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The on-site commander believed the gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was barricaded in a classroom during Tuesday’s attack and that the children were not at risk, a senior official told a press conference

With pressure mounting to explain the delayed police response to the massacre at a Texas elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers, Gov. Greg Abbott scrapped plans to attend the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Houston and will travel to the grieving town of Uvalde on Friday…

Two teachers and 19 students were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, making it the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. At least four others were injured.

And culpable.

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Netflix's fourth season of Stranger Things dropped on the streaming platform on Friday, just days after the Uvalde, Texas mass shooting

Ominous social media posts could have alerted the authorities but sifting through possible threats is an enormous task, experts say

Georgia-based Daniel Defense posted an ad on 16 May showing a toddler holding a rifle

A young survivor of the massacre at a Texas elementary school says she covered herself with a friend’s blood and pretended to be dead while she waited for help to arrive

US Marshals have denied handcuffing a desperate parent at the scene of the Texas school shooting who pleaded with them to run inside and confront the shooter.