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UPDATE, 12:55 PM: As America and the world mourn this week’s school shooting massacre in Uvalde, Texas, the President and First Lady will spend some of this Memorial Day weekend in the Lone Star state’s small town. A day after Joe Biden said he would travel to Texas in “the coming days,” the White House Thursday…

A Texas public safety official faced a barrage of questions over the timeline of police response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and two teachers dead. Victor Escalon, South Texas regional director for the Department of Public Safety, told reporters that they are still trying to…

Dallas television station WFAA has apologized to Jimmy Kimmel Live! for interrupting Kimmel’s emotional monologue Wednesday, in which the late-night host tearfully called out Texas politicians over the Uvalde, TX elementary school shooting, blaming a technical error. “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” aired immediately following…

Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel taped a special segment alone onstage before the Jimmy Kimmel Live! audience was seated. In it, he struggled to address yesterday’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas which took the lives of 19 children and 2 adults. “Here we are again – on another day of mourning in this country,” Kimmel, whose…

After Tuesday’s horrific school shooting in Texas, Abbott Elementary creator, executive producer, writer and star Quinta Brunson, took to social media today to address what she said has been a frequent request from fans. “Wild how many people have asked for a school shooting episode of the show I write,” she began…

Lifetime’s The Bad Seed Returns sequel movie scheduled for premiere this Monday has been delayed in the wake of the Texas elementary school shooting. The film’s co-writer, executive producer and star Mckenna Grace, who reprises her role as Emma, revealed the news on social media. "In the wake of the recent tragedy in…

UPDATED with latest: The press line at tonight’s season 3 premiere event for Hulu’s series The Orville: New Horizons has been canceled in light of yesterday’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas which killed 19 children and two adults. It’s the latest showbiz event that’s been scaled down as angry, sad and questioning…

The Onion blanketed its homepage today with the same article it has posted in response to many other past mass shootings, skewering the idea that such atrocities cannot be stopped. “'No Way To Prevent This,' Says the Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens,” reads the headline on the article, which was posted 21…

Beto O’Rourke interrupted a news conference given by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to protest inaction to mass shooting incidents, accusing state leaders of “doing nothing” to address gun violence. O’Rourke, who is trying to unseat Abbott in November’s election, initially was identified as a “protester” on CNN’s cable news…

UPDATED throughout with new details: Nineteen fourth-grade students and two of their teachers were killed Tuesday in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, west of San Antonio. All of the child victims were in a single classroom. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said at a news conference Wednesday that 17 others…

“As you are all aware, there was another mass shooting today, this time in my hometown of Uvalde, Texas,” Matthew McConaughey wrote in a message posted to social media tonight. The Oscar winner spent the first 12 years of his life in Uvalde, which is about 80 miles west of San Antonio and where today 19 students and 2…

UPDATED: Among the chorus of well-known voices in media, politics and showbusiness expressing outrage at Tuesday’s school massacre was former President Barack Obama. In a long string of thoughts posted to Twitter, Obama said he and wife Michelle were angry for the families of the victims. The former First Lady later…