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Month: May 2022

‘She was going to be someone.’ Families and friends remember the victims of the Uvalde school massacre as the first funerals are held

CNN, WFAA By Travis Caldwell and Rebekah Riess, CNN Ten-year-old Maite Rodriguez wanted to be a marine biologist before she could say the words. “She loved animals,” cousin Destiny Esquivel told CNN’s Adrienne Broaddus on Monday. “She was determined. She was smart. She was going to be someone.” But last week, a gunman stormed into

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‘She was going to be someone.’ Families and friends remember the victims of the Uvalde school massacre as the first funerals are held

CNN, WFAA By Travis Caldwell and Rebekah Riess, CNN Ten-year-old Maite Rodriguez wanted to be a marine biologist before she could say the words. “She loved animals,” cousin Destiny Esquivel told CNN’s Adrienne Broaddus on Monday. “She was determined. She was smart. She was going to be someone.” But last week, a gunman stormed into

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There’s talk of razing Robb Elementary School and rebuilding it. Here’s what happened after other school massacres

By Holly Yan, CNN The extraordinary trauma after a school massacre may be too overwhelming for survivors to even think about returning to class. In Uvalde, Texas, students at Robb Elementary School are marred by the slaughter of 19 children and two teachers at their school. But at some point, classes must resume. Now, questions

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‘The horse and buggy era’: Attacks on voting machines set off fresh worries about election subversion

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Despite warnings that ditching voting machines would delay election results and likely violate the law, county commissioners in a rural slice of western Colorado this year voted to stop paying the licensing fee on the county’s devices. Commissioners in Nye County, Nevada, meanwhile, want local election officials to begin hand-counting paper

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‘Ella iba a ser alguien’. Familiares y amigos recuerdan a las víctimas del tiroteo en la escuela de Uvalde durante los primeros funerales

Verónica Ojeda (CNN) — Maite Rodríguez, de 10 años, quería ser bióloga marina antes de poder decir las palabras. “Ella amaba a los animales”, dijo su prima Destiny Esquivel a Adrienne Broaddus de CNN el lunes. “Era decidida, era inteligente. Iba a ser alguien”. Pero la semana pasada, un hombre armado irrumpió en su clase

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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN In a photograph by Tommy Kha, the artist, dressed as Elvis Presley in a bedazzled low-cut white suit, stares at the viewer from behind a table in a retro-looking bright teal kitchen. There’s a sense of the uncanny valley with his blank, unbreaking gaze, and the harsh light flattening his figure. But

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