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5 key takeaways from the Uvalde shooting report and video revealing failures in law enforcement response

By Emma Tucker, Shimon Prokupecz, Dakin Andone and Peter Nickeas, CNN In the first comprehensive look by a government agency into the Uvalde elementary school massacre, a Texas House investigative committee released a preliminary report Sunday outlining a series of failures by multiple law enforcement agencies in their response at the scene. The 77-page “interim

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A West Virginia woman woke up from two-year coma — and identified her brother as the attacker who nearly killed her, police say

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Benjamin Schiller, CNN A West Virginia woman has awoken from a two-year coma and identified her brother as her attacker, according to police. Wanda Palmer, 51, accused her brother of attacking her at her residence near Cottageville, West Virginia, in June 2020. Police said that Palmer was “attacked, hacked, and left

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Uvalde parents call for school board to fire district’s police chief: ‘Why the hell does he still have a job with y’all?’

By Raja Razek and Steve Almasy, CNN Angry residents of the emotionally shattered Texas town of Uvalde confronted the school board Monday night with speakers calling for district police chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo to be fired and asking what safety measures will be put in place when schools reopen. The grief from the May 24

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Zelensky suspends top officials over staffers’ ‘collaboration’ with Russia

By CNN’s Tim Lister and Mariya Knight Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has suspended two important figures in his government, questioning their leadership qualities and accusing many of their subordinates of treason and collaborating with Russia. The two high-ranking officials — Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and State Security Service (SBU) head Ivan Bakanov, a long-time associate

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Uvalde shooting report describes multiple failures and a ‘lackadaisical approach’ by law enforcement

By Shimon Prokupecz, Dakin Andone, Amir Vera, Matthew J. Friedman, Elizabeth Joseph and Peter Nickeas, CNN A preliminary report by the Texas House investigative committee probing the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre outlines a series of failures by multiple law enforcement agencies, describing “an overall lackadaisical approach” by authorities on the scene of the shooting in

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Child who lost mother to cancer got one RSVP to her birthday party. Strangers then came together to help her celebrate

By Sara Smart, CNN After losing their mother to brain cancer in April, a Tennessee woman wanted to make her younger sister’s birthday special. But after only one person responded to their party invitations, strangers stepped in to show their support. Chloe Sexton, 28, and Charlotte Sexton, 8, lost their mother, Jennifer, on April 12

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