Uvalde (United States) (AFP) – A young boy who loved to dance, a girl who was “the happiest ever” — here’s a closer look at some of the victims of the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers. A…
Boeing’s Starliner faces one more challenge as it returns to Earth
Washington (AFP) – Boeing’s Starliner capsule headed back to Earth Wednesday in the final step of a key test flight to prove itself worthy of providing rides for NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. The spaceship autonomously undocked at…
Two years after Floyd murder, Biden a spectator to America’s tragedies
Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden will mark the second anniversary of the murder of George Floyd on Wednesday, the day after a school shooting that came as a cruel reminder of his powerlessness to rein in America’s demons. It was to be a ceremony …
Salvador Ramos: From troubled teen to school shooter
Uvalde (United States) (AFP) – Bullied at school, difficulties at home, a history of self-harm: the young man who gunned down 19 small children in Texas had a troubled background mirroring that of past school shooters. Salvador Ramos — an 18-year-old …
Gun violence response leaves US standing a world apart
New York (AFP) – For nearly a decade, America’s satirical “The Onion” publication has run a headline that’s come to epitomize the futility many people feel in the wake of yet another US gun massacre. “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where Th…
The staggering toll of gun violence in the United States
Washington (AFP) – Only five months into 2022, more than 17,000 people, including 650 children, have been shot and killed in the United States. The toll of gun violence in America is staggering, according to figures compiled by organizations pushing fo…
Another mass shooting, another US gun control debate
Washington (AFP) – A mass shooting that left 19 schoolchildren and two teachers dead in the deeply pro-gun state of Texas on Tuesday increased pressure on US politicians to take action over the ubiquity of firearms — but also brought the grim expectat…
Two decades of deadly gun violence in US schools
Washington (AFP) – Fourteen students and a teacher were shot dead Tuesday when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at their Texas elementary school, the latest in the United States’ relentless cycle of school mass shootings. Here are America’s deadliest …
Texas police face scrutiny over ‘late’ massacre response
Uvalde (United States) (AFP) – Desperate parents scuffled with police and pleaded with them to storm the Texas school where a gunman ultimately killed 19 children and two teachers, new video showed Thursday, as questions mounted over the authorities’ r…
Battleground Georgia tests Trump’s US voter fraud ‘Big Lie’
Atlanta (AFP) – Republican voters appeared set Tuesday to deliver a stark repudiation of Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 US election was stolen as the swing state of Georgia picked its candidates for November’s midterms. Five states were holdin…