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• White House officials, Senate Republicans decline Sunday news show appearances to talk Texas school shooting

  29-05-2022 21:48 via thehill.com
  
  White House officials and Senate Republicans declined invitations to appear on Sunday news shows, coming days after the devastating shooting at a Texas elementary school left 19 children and two teachers dead.On Sunday’s broadcast of “Face the Nation,” CBS’s Margaret Brennan said: “The White House did decline our invitation for a member of the administration to come on the show today saying they were leaving it up to Congress to act.On NBC’s “Meet the Pr
  
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• Garland urges public service in Harvard address: 'Democracy is under threat'

  29-05-2022 21:46 via thehill.com
  
  Attorney General Merrick Garland urged Harvard University's graduating class to go into public service to combat the ongoing turmoil in the U.S., saying that “democracy is under threat.” Delivering his commencement address to the university’s graduating class of 2020 and 2021 on Sunday, Garland spoke about how he saw citizens offering to volunteer in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. “Earlier in my career, I spent weeks in Oklahoma City investi
  
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• Pelosi tells Brown University graduates to unite in deeply divided country

  29-05-2022 21:32 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) invoked Abraham Lincoln and John Lewis during her commencement speech at Brown University on Sunday, calling on graduates to help unify the country."I urge you to bring this spirit of unity to whatever you do,” Pelosi said.“It’s no secret that you graduate in a country deeply divided socially, politically, culturally. And there’s even more dangerous factions [that] seek to dispense with democracy altogether, but graduates, you are our hope,
  
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• Bidens meet families of Uvalde school shooting victims

  29-05-2022 21:14 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Sunday met with survivors of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, as well as families of the victims of the massacre.The Bidens traveled to Uvalde on Sunday, five days after a gunman entered Robb Elementary School and killed 21 people, including 19 children. The meeting with families was closed to the press.Biden is slated to meet with law enforcement and first responders in Uvalde before departing Texas for Washington, D.C.The first stop after the pre
  
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• GOP pitches hardening schools as Uvalde security failures emerge

  29-05-2022 18:30 via thehill.com
  
  Republicans and gun rights advocates are calling for measures to boost school security in response to this week’s massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a rebuttal to those seeking to restrict firearm purchases and possession.  But the calls to toughen security come as Texas officials and media reports revealed that some of the security measures Republicans are calling for were already in place at the Uvalde elementary school — and failed.  “Wh
  
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• Bidens visit Texas to pay respects after school shooting

  29-05-2022 18:24 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday to pay their respects to the 21 people killed in the tragic mass shooting at an elementary school there last week.The Bidens, who were met by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and his wife, Cecilia Abbott, visited a memorial constructed outside Robb Elementary School, the site of the deadly shooting Tuesday that left 19 children and two teachers dead.The memorial was decorated with flowers and crosses bearing the names of the victims
  
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• Bidens arrive in Texas to pay respects to school shooting victims

  29-05-2022 18:24 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrived in Uvalde, Texas on Sunday to pay their respects to the 21 people killed in the tragic mass shooting at an elementary school there last week.The Bidens, who were met by Gov. Greg Abbott (R), are visiting a memorial constructed outside of Robb Elementary School, the site of the deadly shooting last Tuesday that left 18 children and two teachers dead.The president and first lady are spending all afternoon in Uvalde, meeting with families of victims
  
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• Bidens arrive in Texas to pay respects after school shooting

  29-05-2022 18:24 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrived in Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday to pay their respects to the 21 people killed in the tragic mass shooting at an elementary school there last week.The Bidens, who were met by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and his wife, Cecilia Abbott, visited a memorial constructed outside Robb Elementary School, the site of the deadly shooting Tuesday that left 19 children and two teachers dead.The memorial was decorated with flowers and crosses bearing the names of the victi
  
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• Why significant gun restrictions are unlikely to pass Congress

  29-05-2022 14:00 via thehill.com
  
  If there’s one thing members of both parties agree on it is this: Congress is unlikely to pass significant gun control legislation, even after two shocking mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y. and Uvalde, Texas that targeted Black people and children.Lawmakers are engaging in conversations behind the scenes on a menu of smaller measures — including red flag laws that would keep guns out of the hands of individuals perceived as a danger to themselves and others and expanded backg
  
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• Biden to confront horrors of school shooting in Uvalde

  29-05-2022 13:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will head to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday, where for the second time in less than two weeks he will grieve with a community struck by a mass shooting.The nation is reeling from the shooting at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday that left 19 children and two adults dead.The massacre, the third deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, has reignited the debate about gun control, fueled questions about the actions of law enforcement and spurred anger from Americans about how commonplace
  
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• Pervasive malaise may be the Democrats’ biggest midterm challenge

  29-05-2022 11:42 via thehill.com
  
  For Democrats, the national forecast keeps going from bad to worse.Consumer prices are rising. President Biden's approval rating is falling. Mass shootings are endemic. Race relations are strained. Baby formula is scarce. The Democrats' legislative agenda is on the rocks. And party leaders — from the White House to Capitol Hill — have limited power to exact the reforms they consider crucial for righting the listing ship. While the midterm cycle was always expected to pose steep
  
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