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Mother of Uvalde victim files lawsuit against gunmakers, police | Gun Violence News | Al Jazeera November 30, 2022
The last conversation Sandra Torres had with her 10-year-old daughter was about her nervous excitement over whether she’d make the all-star softball team. Hours later, Eliahna Torres was among 19 children and two teachers massacred in a shooting at their elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. With few answers about law enforcement’s 77-minute wait on May […]
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Black and Latino residents burned out of Palm Springs seek city reparations November 30, 2022
Pearl Devers was too young to understand why her mother was bundling her and her brothers up and fleeing their family home on tribal land in Palm Springs. Devers’ father, who built the house with his own hands, stayed behind to make a stand against the brutal 1950s urban renewal project that was seizing their […]
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