A four-man Jamaican bobsled team will compete in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time in 24 years.
What began as a milestone marking adulthood ended in tragedy after a suspected gunman used the AR-15 style rifle he purchased days after he turned 18, authorities said. Uvalde High School student Salvador Ramos allegedly purchased two assault rifles just days after turning 18 and used them to carry out the second-worst school shooting in U.S. history -- all within a span of eight days, authorities said. Ramos was known for fighting and threatening fellow students, some classmates told ABC News.
Pennsylvania’s top election official says the margin between the top two candidates in last week’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate is tight enough to trigger a recount
Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez offered a poignant message to families Wednesday, one day after a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that took the lives of 19 children and two teachers. “There are 19 parents here in Uvalde that aren’t gonna get to hug their babies anymore.” Gutierrez, who represents the district where the shooting occurred, told ABC News Live that “we need to do anything that's possible to stop this paradigm that keeps happening over and over again.”
A fourth-grade teacher, several sets of cousins and a 10-year-old boy whose family called him "the life of the party" were among those killed in a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, ABC News has learned. At least 19 children and two teachers were killed after a gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, west of San Antonio, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The alleged gunman -- identified by officials as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a student at Uvalde High School -- is dead, authorities said.
On the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police, President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order on policing reforms for federal law enforcement. The order signed Wednesday will apply to roughly 100,000 federal officers total, administration officials said. Speaking in the East Room surrounded by Floyd’s family members, relatives of Breonna Taylor and civil rights leaders, Biden celebrated the order as a "measure of what we can do together to heal the very soul of this nation to address profound fear and trauma exhaustion."
After a school shooting in Texas in which at least 19 children and two teachers were killed, teachers are speaking out about the fear they experience daily for themselves and their students. Angelle Terrell, a high school social studies teacher for 11 years, said she felt compelled to speak out after hearing about the shooting Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, a small town about 90 minutes west of San Antonio, Texas. Two fourth grade teachers, several sets of cousins and a 10-year-old boy whose family called "the life of the party," were among those killed in the mass shooting, ABC News has learned.
Americans have turned their attention to Uvalde, Texas, after the devastating shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and two adults dead on Tuesday. The mass shooting marked the second-deadliest school shooting in recent U.S. history behind the 2012 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut that left 26 victims dead. As onlookers search for ways to get involved and help those affected, local and national efforts are in place to support the victims, families and others coping with the trauma of yet another mass shooting in this country.
Laverne Cox now has her very own Barbie doll, an honor she said is a "dream." The toymaker revealed on Wednesday that it would be celebrating the Emmy award winning actress' 50th birthday, May 25, with a Tribute Collection Barbie doll. It also has bright blonde, voluminous hair to mirror Cox's signature style.
Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, interrupted a press conference from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott about the Uvalde shooting Wednesday, shouting at the current governor before being escorted from the auditorium. Abbott ordered law enforcement officers to escort O'Rourke, who won his Democratic primary for governor out Tuesday, outside the building. Several attendees on the stage, including Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, began yelling back, telling O'Rourke to sit down, that he was "pathetic," and that this was no place for politics.
On Feb. 14, 2018, Sari Kaufman was a 15 year old high school student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when a gunman opened fire and killed 17 people, a majority of whom were her fellow classmates. Four years later, she says she continues to relive her trauma through the growing number of others like her who are personally affected by gun violence. Most recently, the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, when authorities say an 18-year-old high school student opened fire and killed at least 21 people, including 19 children.
As the nation mourns the latest American massacre of 19 elementary school students and two teachers in Texas, the deadliest mass school shooting in nearly a decade, gun control efforts remain stalled in Washington, as they have for almost 30 years. President Joe Biden on Tuesday night made impassioned remarks expressing outrage at lawmakers who are blocking "common-sense" gun laws and rejected the argument often heard from Republicans that gun violence is a mental health issue. Since the National Rifle Association formed its own political action committee in 1977, the organization has used its deep pockets to lobby lawmakers at the federal and state level to stave off gun control efforts.
Nineteen children and two teachers are among those killed Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, a small rural town. As the country is left reeling in the wake of another mass shooting, Manuel Oliver, father of Joaquin Oliver, who was killed in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, and Mary Ann Jacob, who survived the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut in 2012, speak on the surge of deadly gun violence.
The grandfather of the accused gunman in Tuesday's deadly shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, said he did not know that his grandson had recently purchased two AR-15-style rifles. The suspect, Salvador Ramos, turned 18 on May 16 and purchased the rifles on May 17 and May 20, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Ramos is accused of shooting his grandmother at their home in Uvalde before driving his grandparents' car to Robb Elementary School and opening fire, killing 19 students and two teachers.
The mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday has put the spotlight back on recent data showing that firearm injuries are the No. 1 cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States. A total of 19 children, mainly third and fourth graders -- as well as two teachers -- were killed at Robb Elementary, in what President Joe Biden referred to as an act of "carnage." It's an all-too-familiar story in which communities are left wondering in the aftermath how to best keep children safe.
Several dogs are among the responders traveling to Texas Wednesday, one day after a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in the city of Uvalde, killing at least 19 children and two teachers. The trained animals are all part of Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) K-9 Ministries, a K-9 unit that travels across the U.S. to provide comfort and support to people impacted by disasters such as mass shootings. Eight of the group's canines, all golden retrievers, will be dedicated to the Uvalde community.
Police will be barred from wearing their uniforms at the June 26 Pride march in San Francisco, one of the biggest Pride celebrations in the world. Instead, officers are being advised to march in T-shirts that represent their local law enforcement agency. Last year, New York City's Pride parade organizers banned officers from marching in the parade for the first time in decades.
The suspect in the Robb Elementary School shooting, Salvador Ramos, turned 18, purchased two rifles and carried out the second-worst school shooting in U.S. history -- all within a span of eight days, authorities said. Prior to the shooting, the suspect allegedly exhibited unusual behavior such as threatening classmates and claiming to have cut scars into his face, his classmates at Uvalde High School told ABC News. The shooter's classmates told ABC News the suspect was known for fighting and threatening fellow students.
For some of the officers who responded to the Texas school shooting, it was personal. When gunfire rang out at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, agents from Customs and Border Protection immediately responded. Law enforcement sources tell ABC News Border Patrol agents' children were inside.
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr delivered a powerful message on Tuesday after 19 children and two teachers were killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas: "We can't get numb to this." In his pregame news conference before tip-off for Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals against the Dallas Mavericks, Kerr said "any basketball questions don't matter" and instead addressed politicians in a plea for gun control. "When are we going to do something?" Kerr yelled, slamming his fists on the table.
Tim McGraw shared a powerful message slamming the "divisive rhetoric" around school shootings after at least 19 children and two teachers were killed Tuesday in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The country superstar, 55, began his post, shared to Twitter and Instagram, by saying he "cannot even fathom the pain the families" of the victims are experiencing after the tragedy. While the "It's Your Love" singer admitted he doesn't know how to fix the problem of gun violence, McGraw said he does "understand that we must have real, unbiased dialogue and action about what/how to work toward a solution."
