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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday that it’s “deeply disturbing” that Texas officials found cops could have stopped the school shooter who murdered 21 people in Uvalde within 3 minutes — rather than 74. “The actions that we have seen and the reports that we have seen — it’s deeply concerning,” Jean-Pierre said at her regular briefing. “As you know, DOJ is doing a review. We’re going to leave it to their findings and their review before we’ll say anything more,” she added. “But it is deeply disturbing to hear the reports on what happened on the ground...

The police chief of the school district in Texas where a mass shooting at an elementary school took place on May 24 can assume the City Council seat to which he was previously elected, according to the city’s mayor. Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arrendondo was elected to the Uvalde City Council about two weeks before the shooting. He received 126 votes, or 69 percent of the total, in the election. “There is nothing in the City Charter, Election Code, or Texas Constitution that prohibits him from taking the oath of office,” Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said...