It was 10:17 a.m. on the Fourth of July, central daylight time, when Shelly Sella's cellphone rang. She remembers the time precisely. What she heard — it was her daughter, Lauren — she will never forget. "Screaming: 'There's a shooter, there's a shooter, you gotta come get us, you gotta come get us,'" Sella recalled.
Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest promised on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, to subject a national ban on so-called assault-style firearms to a classification review by a panel of experts.
Over two days, in two acts, the small southwest Texas town of Uvalde has been the unwitting global stage for a real-world illustration of the defining tension in American life.