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Uvalde Shooter Fired Outside School for 12 Minutes Before Entering – The Wall Street Journal

Uvalde Shooter Fired Outside School for 12 Minutes Before Entering  The Wall Street Journal Police narrative on Texas school shooting in question as new details emerge  Yahoo News Don’t be ‘horrified and heartbroken’ at Uvalde. Get mad as hell and do something.  The

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U.S. education chief calls for action to prevent school shootings

Cardona spoke at a House Education and Labor Committee hearing two days after a gunman stormed into an elementary school and killed 19 children and two teachers.

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Haitians face horrifying violence as gangs run out of local authorities’ control

NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Jacqueline Charles of the Miami Herald about the spike in gang violence in Haiti and what it means for schools and hospitals.

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Lithuania has become the 1st European country to stop using Russian gas

As Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its fourth month, European countries are scrambling to wean themselves off of Russian gas. The Baltic nation of Lithuania has become the first to do so.

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Biden says “the Second Amendment is not absolute” after Texas elementary school shooting – CBS News

Biden says “the Second Amendment is not absolute” after Texas elementary school shooting  CBS News Biden says ‘we have to act’ after Texas school shooting  WTVR CBS 6 Texas shooting is new test for Biden’s long battle over guns  The Independent Biden to

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5 Takeaways From the DC Blockchain Summit

While the crypto industry has taken a huge downturn over the last month, you wouldn’t necessarily know it from the optimism in DC. On Tuesday, some of the nation’s top lawmakers, regulators and crypto lobbyists convened in downtown Washington for

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What You Need to Know about Trump, Alfa Bank and the Durham Case against Michael Sussmann

Russia’s efforts to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election are well established. Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded that Russia tried to damage Hillary Clinton and help Trump win, as did the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee panel that investigated the

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After 329 years, a woman accused of being a witch in Salem has been exonerated

Massachusetts lawmakers formally exonerated Elizabeth Johnson Jr., clearing her name three centuries after she was convicted of witchcraft in 1693 at the height of the Salem Witch Trials. (Image credit: Stephan Savoia/AP)

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TIME’s New Cover Lists Every City That Has Suffered One of America’s 213 Mass Shootings So Far This Year

At TIME, we’ve been in the business of words for nearly a century. But it is hard to think of a task more challenging for my colleagues and me than finding the words to convey the horror, despair, and senselessness

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McConnell offers to negotiate with Democrats for ‘bipartisan solution’ to gun violence – The Independent

McConnell offers to negotiate with Democrats for ‘bipartisan solution’ to gun violence  The Independent Schumer blocks Senate GOP school safety bill, angering Republicans  Fox News Where Senate Republicans Stand on Gun Legislation  The New York Times Exclusive: McConnell says he has directed Cornyn

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