Sen. Susan Collins is among the no votes as Democrats’ first attempt at responding to recent back-to-back mass shootings has failed in the Senate.
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‘Precious individuals’ taken in Texas school shooting
The names of the victims in Tuesday’s Texas school shooting are only beginning to emerge, as the grief-stricken community of 16,000 tries to process what happened.
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Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school, where gunman’s rampage killed 19 children, 2 teachers
About 30 minutes before the bloodbath, the gunman made 3 social media posts, 2 related to shooting his grandmother, and 1 that he was going to shoot up an elementary school.
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U.S. gun laws are getting looser, not stronger, despite more mass shootings
In recent weeks, a string of devastating shootings — at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, a church in Laguna Woods, California, and now an elementary school in little Uvalde, Texas — has renewed calls for tighter gun restrictions. Just hours after a teenage gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults at […]
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Connecticut senator begs for gun compromise after Texas shooting
Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy came to Congress representing Sandy Hook, a school where 26 students and educators were killed in 2012.
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At least 19 children killed in Texas elementary school shooting
The governor says the suspected shooter, an 18-year-old man, also died and was believed to be killed by responding officers.
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Police detain Greely student who threatened to shoot 3 students
MSAD 51 Superintendent Jeffrey Porter said the student referenced a gun in a backpack but no gun was found on school grounds.
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Grief, anger from relatives of Buffalo supermarket shooting
Payton Gendron, wearing an orange jail uniform and a mask, was indicted by a grand jury Thursday.
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Here’s what we know about the victims of the Buffalo grocery store shooting
Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters were targeted for the color of their skin, gone in a hail of bullets at their neighborhood grocery store.
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Buffalo gunman plotted attack for months, his online diary shows
Payton Gendron, 18, drove 200 miles to scout out the grocery store, according to detailed entries he posted on the chat platform Discord.