Again! A Gunman kills 21 at a Texas Elementary School
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| Children are put in buses as they leave by law enforcement for protection |
{Reuters}
A gunman murdered 19 children and two teachers in the deadliest U.S. school shooting in nearly a decade, prompting President Joe Biden to urge Americans to confront the country's gun lobby and pressure Congress to tighten gun laws.
Authorities said Salvador Ramos, 18, shot his grandmother, who survived, before fleeing and crashing his car near Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and opening fire before being killed, apparently shot by police.
Here are reactions from officials, members of Congress and other prominent Americans to the latest in a string of mass shootings in the United States.
Georgia Republicans dealt Donald Trump his biggest defeat in his bid to play kingmaker in this year's midterm elections, choosing Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger despite Trump's efforts to oust them. But political analysts and Republican strategists caution that any scorecard is a poor barometer for the state of Trumpism.
Centrist U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar was clinging to a razor-thin lead against progressive challenger Jessica Cisneros in a high-profile south Texas Democratic primary battle that illustrated sharp dividing lines over immigration and abortion rights.
Biden's public approval rating fell this week to 36%, the lowest level of his presidency, as Americans suffered from rising inflation, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.
A man suspected in the fatal weekend shooting of a New York City subway rider, less than two months after a mass shooting on the transit system, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.
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