Julián Aguilar
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, will travel to South Texas after a gunman killed 19 children and two schoolteachers on Tuesday. The tragedy is the country’s second-deadliest school shooting.
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An official with the Texas Department of Public Safety said he’d “circle back” with reporters over questions about response time and whether the shooter barricaded himself in a classroom during the shooting spree.
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The May 24 runoff features several high-profile contests for statewide offices, including Republican and Democratic runoffs for attorney general and the state’s land commissioner.
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The group — which includes the Travis County public defender — is calling for the federal government to cut funding from local and state agencies that participate in the program and comes as Gov. Greg Abbott expands the controversial border-security operation.