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1:15 PM ET, May 28, 2022

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New York Times:
Gun in Texas Shooting Came From Company Known for Pushing Boundaries  —  After one of its military-style rifles was used in the Texas elementary school shooting on Tuesday, the gun manufacturer Daniel Defense published a pop-up statement on its home page sending “thoughts and prayers” …
Discussion: Bloomberg and WSAV-TV
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New York Times:
Children called for help from inside classrooms in Uvalde.  The police waited.  —  UVALDE, Texas — Furtively, speaking in a whisper, a fourth-grade girl dialed the police.  Around her, in Room 112 at Robb Elementary School, were the motionless bodies of her classmates and scores …
Discussion: National Review
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Federal agents entered Uvalde school to kill gunman despite local police initially asking them to wait  —  Federal agents who went to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday to confront a gunman who killed 19 children were told by local police to wait and not enter the school …
Curt Devine / CNN:
Focus turns to Uvalde school police chief's decision not to send officers inside.  Here's what we know about him  —  (CNN)The law enforcement official who made the decision not to breach the Uvalde elementary school classroom where a gunman was shooting children and teachers was the school district police chief, officials said Friday.
Discussion: PennLive and The Daily Beast
New York Times:
A Heartbroken Nation  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  It is separate from the newsroom.  —  The United States seems to be failing to protect its people by the week.
Washington Post:
Tiny school police force in Uvalde took charge, then failed to go in  —  After praising police, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott now says he is seeking a full investigation of response to massacre  —  The police response to the Texas school massacre was led by the chief of a six-officer police department that oversees about eight schools.
Discussion: Insider
Safia Samee Ali / NBC News:
Uvalde police chief who delayed officer response to shooting to join City Council
Discussion: New York Post and Insider
Graeme Massie / The Independent:
Senator who has received $1m from NRA runs into a locked door trying to avoid Texas shooting questions
Washington Post:
Before massacre, Uvalde gunman frequently threatened teen girls online  —  Young people who met the alleged gunman online said he had threatened to kidnap, rape or kill.  But they said their reports were ignored and that his kind of angry misogyny was just “how online is.”
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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CNN:
Uvalde gunman threatened rapes and school shootings on social media app Yubo in weeks leading up to the massacre, users say  —  Salvador Ramos told girls he would rape them, showed off a rifle he bought, and threatened to shoot up schools in livestreams on the social media app Yubo …
Politico:
Trump Jr. allies issue warning to Stefanik camp: Don't go after Tucker's kid  —  Allies of Donald Trump Jr. issued a stark warning to Elise Stefanik recently: Keep friends' kids out of your political rivalries.  —  Those Trump Jr. allies were recently told that Stefanik's camp was behind …
Discussion: Raw Story and Wide World of News
Gus Bova / The Texas Observer:
Greg Abbott Is Full of Shit  —  On Tuesday, as the world knows already, an 18-year-old man carried an AR-15-style rifle into a 574-student elementary school just off Highway 83 in the town of Uvalde, 90 minutes west of San Antonio.  Unobstructed by police, he barricaded himself …
Discussion: BizPac Review and Insider
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump, Cruz join NRA leaders in defiant response to Uvalde shooting
Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:   Teen Activists Plot to Unseat Greg Abbott, Other Pro-Gun Lawmakers
NBC News:
How Starbucks uses dubious ‘connection scores’ to evaluate its workforce  —  Starbucks uses crowd-sourced ratings known as connection scores to evaluate the customer service at its cafes around the country.  —  In interviews, 17 current and five former Starbucks employees told NBC News that the system …
New York Times:
Trump's Primary Losses Puncture His Invincibility  —  With many of Donald J. Trump's endorsed candidates falling to defeat in recent primaries, some Republicans see an opening for a post-Trump candidate in 2024.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Donald J. Trump had cast …
ESPN:
San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler ‘not okay with the state of this country’ in wake of Uvalde shooting  —  As details of the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, continue to unfold, San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler on Friday wrote that he is “not okay with the state of this country” …
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Gabe Kapler / Kaplifestyle:
Home of the Brave?  —  The day 19 children and 2 teachers were murdered, we held a moment …
New York Times:
What Happened on Day 93 of the War in Ukraine  —  A report by legal and rights experts cited a ‘genocidal pattern’ by Russia.  Russian troops seized Lyman and moved closer to encircling Sievierodonetsk.  —  Follow live news updates on the war in Ukraine.  —  Ferocious Russian Attacks Spur Accusations of Genocide in Ukraine
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Patrick Reilly / New York Post:
Daily Beast releases apology to Hunter Biden's laptop repairman  —  The Daily Beast has issued an apology to the Delaware computer repairman who acquired Hunter Biden's laptop for wrongly claiming in a past story that the computer was “stolen.”  —  The apology to John Paul Mac Isaac appeared …
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Pippa Crerar / Mirror.co.uk:
Boris Johnson bids for Jubilee boost with return of imperial measurements  —  Downing Street will hope it shores up support among key Brexiteer voters in battleground seats which Tories are currently in danger of losing  —  Boris Johnson is planning to announce that imperial measurements …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
This Republican senator thinks ‘wokeness’ is the cause of mass shootings  —  (CNN)Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson offered up a controversial theory to explain the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, this week that left 19 children and two teachers dead.  —  “We stopped teaching values …
Discussion: Althouse
Andrew Hay / Reuters:
Forest Service says it started all of New Mexico's largest wildfire  —  Two blazes that grew into New Mexico's largest ever wildfire were both started by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the agency said on Friday, prompting the state's governor to demand the federal government take full responsibility for the disaster.
NBC News:
NRA convention in Houston met with fiery protest co-organized by Black Lives Matter  —  Houston's 90-degree weather could not stop crowds of people from protesting outside the National Rifle Association's 151st annual convention on Friday, just days after a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, killed at least 19 children and two teachers.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and The Root
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Houston Chronicle:
Live updates: Beto O'Rourke speaks in front of thousands of protesters outside NRA event
Discussion: Fox News and Forbes
 
 
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