
Grieving Uvalde families condemn responding officers as 'cowards'
CNN
The officers who failed to tackle a shooter at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, for more than an hour should all lose their badges, relatives of some of the 21 people killed tell CNN.
"It was just like putting salt on an open wound," said Velma Duran, sister of murdered teacher Irma Garcia, of this week's assessment of the law enforcement response that revealed an armed police officer had an opportunity to shoot the gunman before he went inside Robb Elementary.
"It's hard to grieve when there's no closure," she said, six weeks after the massacre.

Janet Mills and her allies are counting on a gender gap to narrow Platner’s wide lead ahead of the June 9 primary to decide who will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. They are betting that the unfiltered style that has brought Platner widespread attention as someone who could help Democrats reach young men will backfire with women.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











