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    Officials give update on Uvalde, Texas, school shooting

    • Child who survived shooting on what the gunman said

      There was blood in the hallway, and children were covered in it, one of the students who survived the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, told ABC News.

      Samuel Salinas is a student in 4th grade »
      • Texas school shooter’s dad: ‘He should’ve just killed me’

      • Worrying news about COVID mutant revealed

      • Maker of rifle used by Texas gunman draws fury for ads

      • Records show holes in governor's arrest video story

      • A small but significant victory for Biden on guns

    • U.S.
      Associated Press

      Housekeepers struggle as US hotels ditch daily room cleaning

      Like many other hotels across the United States, the Hilton Hawaiian Village has done away with daily housekeeping service, making what was already one of the toughest jobs in the hospitality industry even more grueling. Industry insiders say the move away from daily cleaning, which gained traction during the pandemic, is driven by customer preferences. But others say it has more to do with profit and has allowed hotels to cut the number of housekeepers at a time when many of the mostly immigrant women who take those jobs are still reeling from lost work during coronavirus shutdowns.

    • U.S.
      The Daily Beast

      Lee Greenwood, After Canceling NRA Appearance, Drops Bomb on Fox News: ‘That Weapon Killed Kids!’

      Lee Greenwood, the staple of Trump rallies and the most prominent musician to pull out the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Texas, told Fox News on Friday that his conscience would not allow him to perform at the event in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting. Greenwood directly cited the massacre that left 19 children and two adults dead as the cause of his last-minute pang of conscience. During an appearance on Fox & Friends on Friday, Greenwood added: “For me to go and play at the NRA just days after the shooting would be an endorsement, and people would then deem that as [me saying] 'I like this weapon.

      • Don McLean leads performers dropping out of NRA concert after Uvalde school shooting
        Yahoo Celebrity
      • Larry Gatlin, Lee Greenwood withdraw from NRA convention after Texas shooting
        The Tennessean
    • U.S.
      INSIDER

      Switzerland has a stunningly high rate of gun ownership — here's why it doesn't have mass shootings

      In 2016, the NRA said on its blog that the European country had one of the lowest murder rates in the world while still having millions of privately owned guns and a few hunting weapons that don't even require a permit. Video: Inside a factory that makes untraceable 'ghost guns' But the Swiss have some specific rules and regulations for gun use. Insider took a look at the country's past with guns to see why it has lower rates of gun violence than the US, where gun death rates are now at their highest in more than 20 years, and the leading cause of death for children and adolescents.

    • World
      Associated Press

      UAE dismantles plane of gunrunner Russia wants for Americans

      The emirate of Umm al-Quwain plans a $675 million development on a island just across a lagoon from the deactivated airport where Bout's plane sits. His legacy, however, lives on even as workers disassemble the aircraft's wings — Bout is in the news again as Russia has suggested America trade him for U.S. citizens held by Moscow amid its war on Ukraine. I had not realized that the plane was there to this day," said Stephen Braun, the co-author of a book on the gunrunner called “Merchant of Death."

    • U.S.
      Quartz

      We ordered the same gun used in Uvalde. Here’s how easy it was.

      After Tuesday's school shooting in Uvalde, Texas left 19 children and two adults dead, we wondered how difficult it was to order a DDM4V7, one of the two rifles the gunman bought a few days after turning 18 years old, according to reports. The AR-15-style weapon, made by Georgia-based Daniel Defense, sells online for $1,870, plus tax. Shipping to a local gun shop is free.

      • Nineteen children dead in day of terror
        Associated Press Videos
      • Daniel Defense: Company that made Uvalde AR-15 used toddlers in gun advert
        The Independent
    • Business
      MoneyWise

      ‘Cash is still trash’ — Billionaire Ray Dalio says keeping money in a savings account is not safe. Here’s what he holds instead

      Let's take a look at what Dalio's hedge fund holds instead. Sign up for our MoneyWise newsletter to receive a steady flow of actionable ideas from Wall Street's top firms. Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) According to Bridgewater's latest 13F filing to the SEC, the fund held 22.72 million shares of Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF at the end of March.

    • Politics
      Associated Press

      'Trump is in the past': Mounting losses show limits of power

      Donald Trump opened May by lifting a trailing Senate candidate in Ohio to the Republican nomination, seemingly cementing the former president's kingmaker status before another possible White House run. Trump faced a series of setbacks in Tuesday's primary elections as voters rejected his efforts to unseat two top targets for retribution: Georgia's Republican governor and secretary of state, both of whom rebuffed Trump's extraordinary pressure to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Nearly seven years after the onetime reality television star launched what seemed to be an improbable campaign for the White House, the “Make America Great Again” movement Trump helmed isn't going anywhere.

    • U.S.
      The Hollywood Reporter

      Johnny Depp Gets Unfavorable Decisions on Jury Instructions

      Jurors in the defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard will not consider whether Adam Waldman, Depp's former attorney who was kicked off of the case, had free speech protections when he made allegedly defamatory statements against Heard. In a key ruling on jury instructions, the judge overseeing the case sided with Heard's lawyers Thursday that Waldman does not qualify for privilege, a defense from defamation, because his statements were not in response to anything Heard said or wrote. A ruling the other way could have led to jurors outright denying Heard's $100 million counterclaim against Depp.

      • Amber Heard gets emotional as she testifies about online harassment: 'I don't deserve this'
        Yahoo Celebrity
      • Ex-TMZ employee claims Amber Heard staged photo op and leaked video of Johnny Depp ahead of divorce settlement
        Yahoo Entertainment
    • World
      INSIDER

      A man developed sudden amnesia after having sex with his wife, completely forgetting his own wedding anniversary party the day before

      A man visited hospital after getting amnesia 10 minutes after having sex with his wife. A man got amnesia 10 minutes after having afternoon sex with his wife, temporarily wiping his memory of the previous day and rendering him unable to retain new information, doctors have said. The 66-year-old man became "distressed" after he looked at his phone after sex one afternoon, saw the date and thought that he'd forgotten his wedding anniversary — when in fact he'd celebrated it with his wife and family the day before, doctors from Limerick, Ireland said in a case report published in the Official Journal of the Irish Medical Organisation on Wednesday.

    • World
      Yahoo News

      Chechen leader, staunch Putin ally, threatens Poland over support for Ukraine

      Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a staunch ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, threatened to attack Poland over its support for Ukraine. Speaking in a video that was posted to social media on Wednesday, the warlord warned that Poland had “better take back” the weapons it supplied to its neighbor. “The issue of Ukraine is closed,” said Kadyrov, via a translation from a BBC reporter.

      • Chechen leader threatens Poland for Ukraine support
        Yahoo News Video
      • Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov puts his crosshairs on Poland in threatening video
        The Telegraph
    • Politics
      The Root

      Plans To Forgive $10,000 In Student Debt Per Borrower Announced By Biden Administration

      Is student loan forgiveness finally on the way to help the millions of Americans looking for assistance? According to a report by The Washington Post, the Biden administration plans to cancel $10,000 in student debt per borrower. The move would be consistent with the President's campaign promise in 2020.

      • White House says there is no final plan to cancel student debt
        Yahoo News Video
      • White House says no decision made on student loan forgiveness
        Reuters
    • U.S.
      HuffPost

      Tucker Carlson Cooks Up Absurd New Scapegoat For Texas School Massacre

      Australia hasn't had a mass shooting since 1996, when a gunman opened fire at a tourist resort in Port Arthur, killing 35 people. The government responded by enacting strict gun control legislation, including banning all semi-automatic rifles. In New Zealand, all semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles were banned after a gunman killed 51 people in Christchurch in 2019.

      • 19 children and 2 teachers were killed in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday: Here are 5 countries that have taken radical steps to eliminate firearm deaths
        INSIDER
      • Texas gunman warned online he was going to shoot up school
        WFXT
    • Science
      Reuters

      Bacteria with antibiotic resistant genes discovered in Antarctica, scientists say

      Bacteria in Antarctica have been discovered with genes that give them natural antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance and have the potential to spread out of the polar regions, according to scientists in Chile. Andres Marcoleta, a researcher from the University of Chile who headed the study in the Science of the Total Environment journal in March, said that these "superpowers" which evolved to resist extreme conditions are contained in mobile DNA fragments that can easily be transferred to other bacteria. "We know that the soils of the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the polar areas most impacted by melting ice, host a great diversity of bacteria," Marcoleta said.

    • Business
      Business Insider

      The wild life of billionaire Twitter founder and 'Block Head' Jack Dorsey, who's officially left the social network's board, eats one meal a day, and takes ice baths

      After cofounding Twitter on March 21 2006, he was booted as the company's CEO two years later, but returned in 2015 having set up his second company, Square — which he rebranded as Block in 2021. He led Twitter through the techlash that has engulfed social media companies, testifying before Congress multiple times. Related video: Elon Musk on Twitter fame, loneliness and the future of AI And Dorsey announced on November 29, 2021, he had stepped down as the CEO of Twitter.

      • Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter's board
        TechCrunch
      • Jack Dorsey exits Twitter's board of directors
        NBC News
    • Science
      BBC

      Ancient DNA reveals secrets of Pompeii victims

      Researchers studying human remains from Pompeii have extracted genetic secrets from the bones of a man and a woman who were buried when the Roman city was engulfed in volcanic ash. This first "Pompeian human genome" is an almost complete set of "genetic instructions" from the victims, encoded in DNA extracted from their bones. Ancient DNA was preserved in bodies that were encased in time-hardened ash.

    • Politics
      Reuters

      White House says no decision made on student loan forgiveness

      WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The administration of President Joe Biden has not made a final decision on student loan cancellation, a White House spokesperson said on Friday, after a news report said it was planning to cancel $10,000 in student debt per borrower. Two of them said the $10,000 debt forgiveness would apply to Americans who earned less than $150,000 in the previous year, or less than $300,000 for married couples filing jointly. White House spokesman Vedant Patel said the report was inaccurate.

      • White House says there is no final plan to cancel student debt
        Yahoo News Video
      • Biden plans to cancel $10,000 in student loans per borrower, announcement won't come this weekend: report
        MarketWatch
    • U.S.
      The Daily Beast

      Daniel Defense, the Maker of the Uvalde Shooter’s ‘Perfect Rifle,’ Abruptly Exits the NRA Convention

      On a Memorial Day weekend when we honor those who died in service to our country, the company that manufactured a weapon of war used to kill 19 children and two adults in a Texas elementary school had planned to hawk its wares at the gun industry's annual collective disgrace. But in the aftermath of Tuesday's slaughter in Uvalde, Daniel Defense, is no longer slated to join all the other profiteers of violent death at this weekend's NRA convention in Houston. Up until Wednesday afternoon,the company was to have occupied Booth 4839, conveniently close to the cafe at the George R. Brown Convention Center, amid what the NRA terms “14 acres of guns and gear.

      • Hundreds of businesses set to participate in NRA meeting despite elementary school shooting
        Yahoo Finance
      • NRA opens gun convention in Texas after school massacre
        Associated Press
    • Politics
      The El Paso Times

      Beto O'Rourke confront Gov. Greg Abbott during Texas shooting update

      Beto O'Rourke confront Gov. Greg Abbott during Uvalde, Texas shooting update.

    • World
      Yahoo News

      Kremlin rails against West, accuses U.S. of 'canceling Russia'

      The Kremlin's top diplomat on Friday accused the West of waging “total war” and promoting “the culture of canceling Russia,” in blistering remarks that underscore how Moscow continues to see the war in Ukraine as an existential struggle to remake the geopolitical order as opposed to a mere territorial conflict. The West has declared a total war on us, on the Russian world. Nobody makes any secret of this," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday during a meeting with regional officials.

    • U.S.
      Fox News

      Uvalde, Texas residents react to Beto O'Rourke disrupting Abbott press conference: 'Bull----'

      Several residents in Uvalde, Texas, still reeling from the elementary school mass shooting that killed 19 kids and two teachers have spoken out against Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke's attempt to derail Gov. Greg Abbott's press conference Wednesday. Abbott had just finished speaking about mental health resources available for survivors and first responders to Tuesday's shooting when O'Rourke, a pro-gun control gubernatorial candidate, walked up to the stage and accused Abbott of "doing nothing" to prevent these tragedies.

      • Beto O’Rourke confronts Texas Gov. at school shooting press conference
        Yahoo News Video
      • Beto O'Rourke interrupts briefing, echoing US debate on guns
        Associated Press
    • U.S.
      WFTV

      ‘Like someone had punched a hole in my chest’: Central Florida man survives ‘exploding heart’

      A Central Florida man survived what doctors call an “exploding heart. This is the story of how Roy Reid is a living miracle. I suffered what's called an acute aortic dissection,” he said.

    • U.S.
      Reuters

      U.S. FAA vows 'immediate action' after Capitol security scare

      WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told Congress it has taken "immediate action" to ensure U.S. Capitol Police are aware of unusual aerial events after an April 20 small airplane flight that prompted a security scare. FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen said in a letter to Congress that the agency will provide advance notification of special event flights in the Washington-area. Nolen said the agency believes "this will provide all of our interagency partners with the extra time necessary to reduce any potential confusion," the letter dated Friday said.

    • U.S.
      TheStreet.com

      Elon Musk Chooses Sides on Gun Control Debate

      Elon Musk is the most influential CEO in the world. The mogul with 95 million followers on Twitter is determined to use his platform to weigh in on public debates, whatever they may be. In recent months, the CEO of the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has thus imposed his voice on subjects such as the Russian war in Ukraine, free speech with the eventful acquisition-in-progress of the social network Twitter for $44 billion, cancel culture and its corollary wokeism.

      • Elon Musk weighs in on gun control debate, supports ‘tight’ background checks
        Yahoo Finance Video
      • Twitter investors sue Elon Musk for market manipulation
        Yahoo Finance Video
    • U.S.
      HuffPost

      Ted Cruz Flayed Over Ludicrous Idea For Preventing School Shootings

      According to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the solution to school shootings is fewer doorways and more guns. After 19 children and two teachers were killed at a Texas elementary school Tuesday by a man armed with an assault rifle, the state's senator suggested that schools would be safer if there was only one way in or out. One of the things that everyone agreed is don't have all of these unlocked back doors.

      • The victims of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting
        Yahoo News Video
      • Senator Ted Cruz reacts to Uvalde school shooting
        CBS-Dallas
    • Business
      Associated Press

      Fed officials signal rates may head to 'restrictive' levels

      Federal Reserve officials agreed when they met earlier this month that they may have to raise interest rates to levels that would weaken the economy as part of their drive to curb inflation, which is near a four-decade high. At the same time, many of the policymakers also agreed that after a rapid series of rate increases in the coming months, they could “assess the effects” of their rate hikes and, depending on the economy's health, increase rates at a slower pace. Chair Jerome Powell himself had indicated after this month's meeting that half-point increases would be “on the table” at the next two meetings.

      • GLOBAL MARKETS-Global shares rise after Fed meeting notes hint at future rate hikes
        Reuters
      • Fed Sees Half-Point Rate Hikes at the ‘Next Couple of Meetings.’ Why That’s OK.
        Barrons.com
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    The debate over student debt forgiveness
    • “It could give millions a chance to finally buy a house or start their business or help their kids get an education, too.”

    • “You signed a contract…If you don’t want to deal with the financial pressure of debt, don’t take out the loan.”

    • “Without action from Biden, Black student debt will hinder his agenda with respect to eliminating racial inequities.”

    • “Blanket relief could end up routing too much relief to those who do not need it and too little to those who do.”

    • “Unlike a number of other policy issues, student debt relief doesn’t need to be pushed through a narrowly controlled Congress.”

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