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Saturday’s funeral in Uvalde remembers 10-year-old Alexandria ‘Lexi’ Rubio

DALLAS — A service was held in Uvalde on Saturday for one of the students killed in the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.

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Thousands rally, take to streets to demand action on gun laws in the US

March for Our Lives rallies and marches were held at an estimated 300 locations across the U.S. — including in Chicago’s Loop — as demonstrators called for action on gun laws.

Chicago Sun-Times

Thousands rally for action on US gun violence after mass shootings

Thousands of people rallied on the National Mall and across the United States on Saturday in a renewed push for gun control measures after recent deadly mass shootings from Uvalde, Texas, to Buffalo, New York, that activists say should compel Congress to act.

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Slain Uvalde girl remembered as caring and opinionated

Alexandria Aniyah Rubio was opinionated like her mother, and she played basketball and softball like her father

The Independent UK

Rekha Basu: As Congress debates gun measures, NRA money distorts the arguments

On March 15, 22-year-old Eden Montang of Ames, Iowa, made an Instagram post about red flags, a topic that, uncannily, is now being debated in Congress. "Stop treating red flags as challenges instead of warning signs," she wrote, framing it as "Unsolicited relationship advice."

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Experts stunned by Uvalde police defense

In interview, he says he hadn’t spoken out sooner because he didn’t want to compound his hometown’s grief

Salon

Off-duty deputy who responded to Uvalde shooting is fired following arrest for public intoxication

The deputy was sent from Brazoria County to Uvalde as part of a team of eight patrol deputies and two dispatchers

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Uvalde school police chief defends delay in entering classroom

Pete Arredondo said in an interview that he did not consider himself in charge of the scene of the school shooting.

Al Jazeera

Uvalde school police chief defends law enforcement response, says ‘not a single officer ever hesitated’ amid mass shooting

The Uvalde, Texas, school police chief claims he did not wait to act when gunfire erupted inside Robb Elementary School in his first extended interview since the mass school shooting last month.

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Uvalde teacher dedicated herself to family, students

Eva Mireles loved her dog, hiking and exercising

The Independent UK

Heidi Stevens: 'Fire up the RV. We’re going to Uvalde.' Author gives kids books, hope to communities devastated by gun violence

When a white supremacist opened fire at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York, Sheletta Brundidge began searching for ways to help the community—and the country—heal.

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Game Over: FBI Seizes Teen After Massacre Warning From Fellow Gamer

A Texas gamer called the FBI on a fellow Call of Duty player after the latter praised the Uvalde massacre and threatened a mass shooting of his own.

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Uvalde police chief Pete Arredondo breaks cover to defend himself as a hero

Arredondo says in his first extensive interview he didn’t consider himself the incident commander as the massacre unfolded

The Independent UK

Uvalde hiring more school police

Texas town's response to botched police school shooting response? Throw more cops at it

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Uvalde Shows Once Again That Cops Are Just Armed Bureaucrats

What happened in Uvalde is part of a pattern, not an aberration.

The Independent UK

Uvalde survivor, 11, nearly suffers cardiac arrest at friend’s memorial

Illiana Trevino had gone to memorial to leave teddy bear and flowers for best friend Amerie

Evening Standard

Ulvade, Matthew McConaughey and the battle for stronger gun control

A country in mourning, desperate gun control negotiations and the tearful plea of a Hollywood star. Guns are at the front of the agenda, but will anything change this time and what does the divisive issue mean for Biden’s presidency? Oliver Wiseman reports

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: As a Los Angeles teacher, I want you to know what a school lockdown feels like

Two days after the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, we had a 15-minute lockdown at the Los Angeles high school where I’m a teacher. A lockdown is when schoolchildren, their teachers and administrators have a dangerous threat at or near the school site. We close and lock all of our…

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Climate change: Are reports of our doom making matters worse?

Even the most casual observer of current events has to admit there is much to be gloomy about. From public health (monkeypox and COVID-19 variants) to mass shootings (Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, among others) to the inability of opinion leaders to agree on basic facts (see the events…

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Uvalde School Police Chief Defends Texas Shooting Response

The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in US history said in his first extensive comments, published Thursday, that he did not consider himself the person in charge as the massacre unfolded and assumed someone else had taken control of the…

Axios

Uvalde schools police chief breaks silence on shooting response after fierce criticism

Pete Arredondo told the Texas Tribune he didn't think he was the incident commander.

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Cornyn calls Uvalde killer ‘ticking time bomb,’ sees progress on Senate gun deal

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn said Thursday the 18-year-old responsible for the Uvalde school massacre fit an all-too-common profile of mass shooters: alienated young men with mental health issues.

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Gov. Abbott asks for new Texas school security chief after Uvalde massacre

Gov. Greg Abbott wants the Texas Education Agency to create a chief of school safety to oversee security efforts in the wake of the Uvalde massacre.

The Independent UK

Over a dozen Uvalde victims were still alive in 80 minute period before police entered school

New details about police delay revealed in report on Thursday

Tribune News Service

House adopts red flag bill to confiscate guns in cases of ‘extreme risk’

WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to allow confiscation of guns from individuals deemed an “extreme risk,” the morning after agreeing to ban teens from buying semi-automatic weapons like the one used by the 18-year-old who killed 21 people at a Uvalde elementary school.

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