Category: Texas

Police Waited to Enter Texas School as Shooter Opened Fire: Witnesses

Several witnesses on the scene of the Texas mass shooting said that police waited to enter as videos surfaced of parents telling officers to: “Go protect the kids!” “What are you doing—get inside the building!” a person yelled in one of the videos, while another screamed, “Go protect the kids!” Law enforcement authorities faced questions…


Tell-All Report Leads the Texas Association of School Boards to Quit National Body

A nonprofit that serves local school boards in Texas joins 22 other states in withdrawing from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) after a Sept. 29, 2021 letter sent to U.S. President Joe Biden was thoroughly analyzed. Funding for the Texas Association of Schools Boards (TASB) membership renewal for the upcoming year would have been…


Texas Bar Wants State Attorney General Ken Paxton Punished for Filing Election Lawsuit

The State Bar of Texas has asked a court to punish Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, asserting he committed misconduct when he filed a lawsuit that asked the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the 2020 election in four other states unconstitutional. Allegations in the suit “were not supported by any charge, indictment, judicial finding, and/or…


Here Are All the 21 Victims Who Died in the Texas School Shooting

The identities of the 21 people, including 19 children, who were slain in a Texas school shooting on May 24 have been identified. Eva Mireles, 44, is one of two teachers killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, according to her aunt, Lydia Martinez Delgado, who spoke to ABC7. Mireles’ daughter, Adalynn, paid tribute to…


Gun Control Advocacy Group Plans Nationwide Protests After Texas School Shooting

A student-led gun control advocacy group is planning nationwide protests in the wake of the Texas elementary school shooting that claimed the lives of 19 children this week. According to its website, March for Our Lives is planning to take to the streets of Washington, D.C. on June 11. The group also has several other marches planned…


Trump Says US Needs ‘Real Leadership,’ Commits to Speak at NRA Convention Despite Uvalde Shooting

Former President Donald Trump said he will still deliver his scheduled speech at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual meeting in Houston on May 27, following the deadly school shooting in Uvalde that killed 19 students and two teachers. “America needs real solutions and real leadership in this moment, not politicians and partisanship. That’s why…


Trump Says US Needs ‘Real Leadership’ After Texas School Shooting, Commits to Speak at NRA Convention

Former President Donald Trump said he will still deliver his scheduled speech at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual meeting in Houston on May 27, following the deadly school shooting in Uvalde that killed 19 students and two teachers. “America needs real solutions and real leadership in this moment, not politicians and partisanship. That’s why…


‘Second Amendment Is Not Absolute’: Biden Decries Gun Laws After Texas School Shooting

U.S. President Joe Biden has decried current gun laws in America after 19 students and two adults were killed by a shooter at a Texas elementary school. He argued there are reform options that don’t negate the Second Amendment, which he claimed “is not absolute.” Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has framed the problem as a…


SoCal Schools Work With Law Enforcement After Texas Shooting

Southern California schools worked May 25 with local law enforcement to increase campus security a day after an 18-year-old killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas. Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said shortly after the shooting—the second deadliest school shooting in the nation’s history—he would immediately increase deputies at schools…


Texas Mass Shooting A ‘Mental Health’ Problem: Gov. Abbott; Florida Shuts Down Abortion Clinic | NTD Evening News

New details are emerging about the shooter who killed at least 21 people at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. According to Gov. Greg Abbott, both the Uvalde mayor and sheriff said that the community suffers from a problem with mental health. Florida has suspended the license of an abortion clinic after two women it…