The Uvalde school district's police chief is under scrutiny, and experts discuss whether more police in schools would prevent future shootings. Plus, the Biden administration will provide a new rocket system for Ukraine. And your morning cup of joe could lower your risk of death.
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The Uvalde school district's police chief is under scrutiny, and experts discuss whether more police in schools would prevent future shootings. Plus, the Biden administration will provide new rocket systems for Ukraine. And your morning cup of joe could be good for your health. Here's what we're watching this Wednesday morning. |
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A woman hugs a girl as they cry during a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last week. (Chandan Khanna/AFP — Getty Images) The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District in Texas has its own police department, complete with four officers, a detective and security staff who patrol the campus and its entrances. This didn't prevent a gunman from killing 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School last week. Despite this inability to stop the shooter's hour-long siege, the attack has renewed demands to increase police presence in schools as a solution to shooting incidents. But increasing police in schools is not effective in preventing or stopping mass shootings, experts say, and would disproportionately hurt Black and Latino students. Read here about what experts say is an unintended consequence of adding more police to schools. Follow NBC News Now for all the latest developments. - Peter Arredondo, the police chief of Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, hasn't responded for days for a follow-up interview in a state investigation into the law enforcement response to the massacre, an official said Tuesday.
- Funerals for victims began Tuesday. Wednesday will bring visitations and masses for other students. And so on it will go for weeks, as this heartbroken community must say goodbye again and again.
- "Too many entrances": Republicans' point-of-entry argument in the aftermath of the massacre has gained prominence in the years since another Texas school shooting.
- Not even nighttime medicine can help this Uvalde resident sleep: The woman, who's lived across from Robb Elementary School for decades, shares for the first time what she witnessed on May 24.
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| A senior official said the package would also include more systems and weapons that the U.S. has already provided Ukraine, including more Javelin missiles, and that Ukraine has agreed not to use the system to launch rockets into Russia. |
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| Under the law, social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram would be unable to block content based on its viewpoint. Gov. Greg Abbott said the law was a response to "a dangerous movement by social media companies to silence conservative viewpoints and ideas." |
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| China's education ministry has ordered a nationwide review of all elementary school, high school and university textbooks after illustrations in widely used mathematics textbooks for elementary school students were criticized online as ugly, sexually suggestive and anti-China. |
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| This open-source, cloud-based system allows researchers to detect newfound asteroids without needing to gather additional astronomical observations or launch a novel asteroid-hunting telescope. |
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| When Olga Kotenko agreed to let a team of war crime investigators come to her house last week, she didn't realize that would mean digging up her son's remains — which Kotenko and her husband gathered, carried home and buried themselves — and taking them to a morgue in nearby Kharkiv so that forensic analysts could collect evidence. It's all part of Ukraine's commitment to hold Russian forces accountable for alleged atrocities, even as war is ongoing. |
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Perk up — because, contrary to popular myth, forgoing coffee isn't likely to improve your health. The opposite might be true: Years of research suggests that drinking coffee is linked with a lower risk of death. The latest addition to that body of research was published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The findings suggested that those who drank 1.5 to 3.5 cups of coffee a day had a lower risk of death during a seven-year period than non-coffee drinkers, even if they added a teaspoon of real sugar — not artificial sweetener — to every cup. The bitter news: Researchers didn't look at causality, so they couldn't say whether coffee is directly responsible for the outcome. Read the full story here. |
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