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Robin Abcarian: We don't have to live like this. Our children don't have to die like this

I've always wondered how vigorously gun-loving Americans would defend assault rifles if they were forced to see up close the damage the weapons inflict on human bodies.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Courting theocracy

Ordinarily, the word “unprecedented” is hyperbole, similar to “Breaking news!” or “Greatest ever!” When used to describe the current danger to American democracy, however, it is all too appropriate. Never in the nation’s history have democratic institutions been so at risk under what would first appear to be banal circumstances.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: How Harvard could really help historically Black colleges

Giving back what isn’t yours is a fundamental way of righting a wrong. Admitting mistakes and making amends is another. These are not controversial statements. But when it comes to American history and the fraught question of who profited from slavery and what, if anything, should be done about it…

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Gabe Kapler: MLB’s liberal jock in America’s most conservative league

The Giants manager boycotted the national anthem after recent mass shootings. He is somewhat of a rarity in baseball, a sport not noted for its progressive values

The Guardian - US

Filmmaker says America's most inbred family 'like scene out of Deliverance'

The Whittakers have no education and live in squalor in an isolated shack in the backcountry, which is cut off from civilisation.

Daily Record

American exceptionalism: the poison that cannot protect its children from violent death

I had always been afraid of America. Once, in Alaska, we had dinner with a man my father was working with, and he had actually uttered the line – that iconic American saying, so ridiculous as to be almost unbelievable. Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. I thought he…

The Conversation

Has America Given Up on Free Speech?

A review of Mchangama's "Free Speech."

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A Michigan mother and children, a Memorial Day festival and a house party: 79 Americans in mass shootings in 6 days since Uvalde

Since 19 students and two teachers were shot dead in Robb Elementary School, 79 people have been killed or injured in 16 more mass shootings in America, reports Rachel Sharp

The Independent UK

Leeds United signing Brenden Aaronson reveals the Premier League player he admires most

There are no surprises for guessing which player the American chose as his inspiration

Leeds Live

Is Merrick Garland coming for Trump?

Author of "Overcoming Trumpery" says "methodical" Garland is still building a case against Trump and his regime

Salon

Pebbles, 22, crowned world's oldest dog - and dethrones TobyKeith as champion

Toy fox terrier Pebbles, from South Carolina, America, has been crowned the world's oldest dog by the Guinness World Records after reaching 22 years and 50 days old

Daily Mirror

Fresh off 'Julia Child Challenge' win, Calif. home chef wants to teach Americans about Brazilian cuisine

SAN DIEGO — As a little girl growing up in the Amazon region of Northern Brazil, Jaíne Mackievicz-Cenci had an unlikely hero — French cookbook author and TV chef Julia Child.

Tribune News Service

Harry Styles donates $1million to end gun violence in wake of Texas school shooting

Guns are the leading cause of death of American children and teens.

Evening Standard

Harry Styles donates $1 million to gun safety organisation after Texas school shooting

‘Along with all of you, I have been absolutely devastated by the recent string of mass shootings in America,’ singer said

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‘Do something!’: Biden visits Uvalde after mass shooting as onlookers urge him to take action

President and first lady visit seek to comfort community as DoJ launches investigation into police response to school shooting

The Independent UK

After Uvalde, the father of a Columbine victim says Democrats can do better on gun messaging

’We have to work on those gun owners, responsible gun owners,’ Tom Mauser tells John Bowden

The Independent UK

Everything but gun control that conservatives have floated in response to school shootings

Parent militias, armed teachers and airport-like security at schools have all been floated by Republican lawmakers in the last week

The Independent UK

Christian nationalism on the rise in some GOP campaigns

A movement known as Christian nationalism is making its presence known in many Republican primary races this year

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Inside the minds of Americans who do not think guns are a problem

Republicans in Texas double down on their pro-gun stance after the latest in a string of mass shootings in the state.

Tribune News Service

Gene Collier: Sports push toward a new place on gun violence

PITTSBURGH — Most of the American sports over which we obsess have their own established rhythms, the times set metronomically into place for practice, for games, for training, even for soothing ourselves from a harsh world by talking sports in lieu of talking life.

Daily Record

Fugitive US sex offender published identity of alleged sex abuse victim on sick website

Nicholas Rossi - who is facing extradition from Scotland to America on a charge of rape - revealed the woman's identity on a sick website he created.

The Independent UK

Jon Stewart slams Americans for tweeting about Memorial Day but not showing up for veterans over burn pits

US Senate is expected to vote on the Honoring our PACT Act in early June with veterans advocate Jon Stewart saying only six more senators are needed to pass the landmark bill

Daily Mirror

'America has strange relationship with guns but cost of freedom is far too high'

Voice of the People says that even if the US refuses to ban guns, at the very least the laws need to restrict them and make it safer as 45,222 people have died from gun injuries in a year

Salon

Franz Kafka warned us about Fox News

If we show our children pictures of enemies with "sharp pointed teeth," Kafka told us, they "run into our arms"

Daily Mirror

Inside the remarkable lives of America's first ladies in exciting new TV series

A new TV series called The First Lady will look at the lives of Michelle Obama, Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt – played by Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson

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