 Law enforcement officials in Uvalde, Texas, are facing questions about how the events at Robb Elementary School unfolded on Tuesday and why the 18-year-old suspect who killed 19 children and two teachers was in the school for up to an hour before authorities shot him. Early details about the massacre have also come into question – for example, investigators refuted an initial claim that a school security officer exchanged fire with the suspect before he entered the school. During the incident, some onlookers and family members of students urged officers to storm into the school, and even considered running into the school themselves, though video on social media appears to show that they were prevented from doing so. More: - Officials, the public, and the media are still attempting to piece together the exact timeline of the shooting.
- It remains unclear when police first spotted the suspect – he shot his grandmother about a mile from the school, fired at two people outside a funeral home around the corner from Robb Elementary (who escaped uninjured), and then entered the school.
- Lt. Christopher Olivarez told CNN on Thursday that two police officers followed the suspect into the school and were shot, though a Texas Department of Public Safety official later said that officers entered the school four minutes after the suspect did and took fire.
- After that, the gunman barricaded himself inside two adjoining classrooms.
- A tactical Border Patrol team ultimately breached the classroom and shot the suspect, according to Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz.
- One anonymous official told reporters that the team had trouble entering the classroom and required a staff member to open the door with a key.
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 Former President Donald Trump must testify under oath in the state of New York's civil investigation into the Trump Organization, an appeals court said Thursday. The four-judge panel upheld a lower court's ruling that found no reason the subpoenas of Trump, and his adult children Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., should be thrown out. Eric Trump has already been deposed in the investigation; he cited his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination while refusing to answer more than 500 questions. Trump's attorneys could elect to appeal the judgment further. More: - Trump's attorneys argued that forcing him and his family members to testify in the civil suit could itself violate their Fifth Amendment rights, as their responses could be used in a parallel criminal investigation by the Manhattan district attorney's office.
- The panel concluded that the criminal investigation's existence "does not preclude civil discovery of related facts."
- The investigation of the Trump Organization by New York Attorney General Letitia James is a civil suit that will not result in any criminal charges.
- James, a Democrat, has accused the Trump Organization of misrepresenting the value of its assets in order to enrich itself.
- The Manhattan district attorney's office has charged Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg with tax fraud.
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 Ray Liotta in "Goodfellas" (1990) Actor Ray Liotta has died at the age of 67. He had breakout roles in 1989's "Field of Dreams" as Shoeless Joe Jackson and as the gangster Henry Hill in 1990's "Goodfellas." He also appeared in "Turbulence," "Cop Land," "Hannibal," "Marriage Story," and "The Many Saints of Newark." He was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in 1986's "Something Wild" and won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor for a 2005 episode of "ER." More: - Liotta died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic while shooting the film "Dangerous Waters," according to Deadline.
- Liotta has a daughter, the actress Karsen Liotta, and got engaged to Jacy Nittolo in late 2020.
- He kept active as a film and television actor since the 1980s, filming several projects every year. For television, he recently appeared in the Prime Video series "Hanna" and will appear this summer on the Apple TV+ limited series "Black Bird."
- One of his final film roles will be in the film "Cocaine Bear," directed by Elizabeth Banks, which Liotta had recently finished shooting.
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 GOOD NEWS: A 48-year-old man from Scotland is believed to be the first person in the world with scleroderma to successfully undergo a double hand transplant. Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease that causes organ and skin scarring. In Steven Gallagher – from Dreghorn, about 30 miles southwest of Glasgow – the illness made his fingers close into fists, leaving his hands unusable. More: - A team of 30 professionals across several medical disciplines collaborated on the 12-hour surgery in December 2021.
- The new hands enable Gallagher to do simple tasks like fill a glass of water and pet his dog, though he still can't do more complicated tasks like fastening buttons.
- Gallagher called the operation "space-age stuff," and said he was amazed that he was able to move his hands immediately upon waking up.
- The hand transplant also eliminated Gallagher's pain, which he said was "horrendous" before the operation.
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 British authorities have charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men. In a release from Britain's Crown Prosecution Service, Special Crime Division head Rosemary Ainslie writes that Spacey is being charged with a series of incidents in London in 2005 and 2008, and one in Gloucestershire in 2013. Spacey can't be formally charged or tried for the alleged crimes unless he travels to England or Wales. More: - Spacey is also charged in Britain with "causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent" in a 2008 incident.
- The first allegations of sexual misconduct against Spacey were made by actor Anthony Rapp. In 2017, Rapp accused Spacey of making unwanted sexual advances toward him when he was 14, in the mid-1980s.
- Later that year, a television journalist in Boston accused Spacey of sexually assaulting her teenage son in 2016.
- Prosecutors charged Spacey but ultimately dropped the case in 2019 after the accuser declined to testify.
- A massage therapist who sued Spacey, accusing him of sexual misconduct, died in 2019, and the lawsuit was dropped.
- Though the two-time Oscar winner has been dropped from all major studio projects, he does have several films in development.
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 Most of the largest cities in the U.S. saw small population declines during the pandemic, according to Census data. Of the 10 largest cities in the U.S., only two saw population increases: San Antonio (0.9%) and Phoenix (0.8%). The largest decreases were in New York City (-3.5%) and San Jose, California (-2.7%). The shifts are likely due to the massive increase in remote work during the pandemic and the jump in median rent in many cities. More: - Among major U.S. cities, San Francisco saw the highest rate of decline (-6.3%). San Francisco lost 55,000 residents during the pandemic, Los Angeles lost 40,000 (-1%), and New York City lost 305,000.
- Of the nation's cities with between 500,000 and 1 million residents, 12 saw population increases and 16 saw declines.
- The data only reflects population changes through summer 2021. It's unclear if some of the major cities have regained population over the past 10 months.
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- Mortgage rates dipped slightly last week to 5.1%, according to Freddie Mac, though they still remain significantly higher than in recent years.
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