BY JIM VERTUNO AND ELLIOT SPAGAT |
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Students trapped inside a classroom with a gunman repeatedly called 911 during this week’s attack on a Texas elementary school, including one who pleaded, “Please send the police now,” as officers waited more than an hour to breach the classroom after following the gunman into the building, authorities said Friday. |
Thousands of students across the U.S. walked out of classrooms this week in protest against gun violence days after the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. |
BY HELENE COOPER AND JOHN ISMAY |
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has approved sending long-range multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine, a significant transfer that could hugely aid Ukraine’s defense of its territory in the Donbas region, U.S. officials said on Friday. |
Every year ahead of Memorial Day, a soldier from the Army’s 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment places a small American flag by the vault of Navy Lt. Andrew J. Chabrol, an honor accorded to every grave at Arlington National Cemetery. |
