Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has blocked a bill that would have created a clearinghouse for school leaders to consult for best practices on keeping campuses safe and guidance on finding grants that would pay for security upgrades.

The gunman in the Texas school massacre barged unchallenged through an unlocked door, then killed 19 children and two teachers while holed up in their classroom for an hour before a tactical team stormed in and killed him, police said on Thursday.

Pennsylvania’s elections chief announced Wednesday that the Republican Senate primary race between Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick is heading to a recount.

As the nation struggles to come to grips with Tuesday’s mass shooting at a rural Texas elementary school, the names and stories of the 19 students and two teachers killed in the horrific attack have begun to emerge.

Turkey doubled down in its refusal to grant NATO membership to Finland and Sweden following Wednesday’s five-hour meeting between delegates representing the three countries.

In a moment that was unquestionably political theater, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke interrupted a Wednesday press briefing hosted by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to provide details on the Uvalde mass shooting.

The White House announced Tuesday that President Biden would sign an Executive Order (EO) to “advance effective, accountable policing,” on Wednesday,  the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death, following failed attempts by Congress. 

Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Minnesota, and Georgia voters went to the polls for both primary and runoff elections on Tuesday, taking one more step in deciding who will go to the general election this November.

An Iraqi national living in Ohio is under arrest for participating in an alleged plot to kill President George W. Bush. The U.S. Attorney’s Office of Southern Ohio stated that the plot was “in retaliation of Iraqi deaths during ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom.’”