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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 12 ULVALDE, Texas (AP) — Nineteen children were looking forward to a summer filled with Girl Scouts and soccer and video games. Two teachers were closing out a school year that they started with joy and that had held such promise. They're the 21 people who were killed Tuesday when an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom at Robb Elementary School in the southwestern Texas town of Uvalde. Some families have been willing to share their stories with The Associated Press and other media. Others asked for privacy. Here are their names. Nevaeh Alyssa Bravo, 10 Her aunt noted that Nevaeh’s first name is heaven spelled backward. In a Facebook posting, Yvonne White described Nevaeh and her friend Jailah Silguero as “Our Angels.” ___ Jacklyn Cazares, 9 Javier Cazares said his daughter was someone who would … [Read more...] about The names: 19 children, 2 teachers killed in Uvalde school

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 9 CANNES, France (AP) — Lukas Dhont's sensitive coming-of-age film “Close,” about the tender friendship of two 13-year-old boys whose bond is tragically separated, has provided a late, emotional wallop at the Cannes Film Festival. “Close," the Belgian director's second film after his controversy-generating debut “Girl,” has emerged as one of the standouts at Cannes, and one of the most poignant. While heartbreak in film is usually expressed through romantic relationships, Dhont's movie traces the painful fallout of two exceptionally close boys who drift apart when their intimacy is ridiculed. “It comes from deep within,” Dhont said in an interview on a balcony in Cannes a few days before the Thursday premiere of “Close.” “When I was young because of fear I had for this closeness, I think I pushed a lot of friends away. If I hadn’t done that, maybe … [Read more...] about Lukas Dhont’s tender boyhood drama ‘Close’ stirs Cannes

Dried blood on the window of Paris’s Carillon cafe. Photo: Jerome Delay/AP In the aftermath of mass murder in Paris, Establishment Republicans posited hopefully that now, finally, their voters would get serious and support a presidential candidate who had professional experience in the field of politics. A few days after the attacks, Politico reported the firm convictions of party stalwarts, who confidently asserted, “The reemergence of foreign policy atop the Republican agenda will force voters to reevaluate the outsider candidates, particularly as both [Donald] Trump and [Ben] Carson display a lack of knowledge about national security and the terrorist threat.” But that, it turned out, was wishful thinking. Far from sobering up the Republican electorate, the attacks served instead to ­ intensify its state of frothing rage . A poll showed that the candidate Republicans trusted most to handle terrorism, and the candidate who found his overall lead in the polls rising … [Read more...] about Terrorism in the Age of Trump

Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The 20 th century was a really strange period in American politics. You had Southern right-wing white supremacists sharing the same party as civil-rights activists; you had one election cycle where both parties were fervently lobbying the same candidate (Dwight Eisenhower) to run as their party’s nominee. The comfortable ideological overlap between the two parties made it normal for many voters to swing back and forth between them for idiosyncratic reasons. The parties themselves barely held together: George Wallace led a bloc of conservative, white working-class defectors out of the Democratic Party in 1968; John Anderson did the same with liberal Republicans in 1980. Both those third-party movements prefigured permanent shifts that have since hardened into place, leaving two ideologically coherent parties fighting bitter trench warfare over a tiny, and steadily shrinking, no-man’s-land. Political professionals in both parties, from … [Read more...] about Politics in a Country Where Nobody Changes Their Mind

0 Pets Rescue organizations in the Ankeny area put these pets up for adoption over the past week. Pet News , Patch Staff Posted Reply If you've been hoping to add a fuzzy ball of four-legged love and affection to your family, you should check out these Ankeny area shelters for a pet you can adopt. Across Iowa, there are thousands of dogs, cats and other animals of all ages, sizes and breeds without a home — and many of them are located within driving distance. For those looking to adopt, a great place to start the search for a lovable new four-legged friend is at Animal Rescue League Of Iowa Inc, where Opie the dog is waiting patiently, or another local rescue center. If you aren't sure if you have time to take care of a pet year round, many shelters also offer opportunities to foster pets until they are placed. With help from our friends at Petfinder, Patch has compiled this week's list of animals available for adoption … [Read more...] about Ankeny Area Pet Adoption: Taz, Opie & More

0 Community Corner The City has an additional $11.14 million in requests at various stages of the FEMA process. Press Release Desk , News Partner Posted Reply Press release from the City of Marion: May 13, 2022 FEMA Reimbursement Update On May 9, the City of Marion received over $4.1 million in public assistance reimbursements from FEMA (Federal and State combined). This brings the total received to date to $11.8 million. Thus far, FEMA has obligated a total of $18.47 million. The City has an additional $11.14 million in requests at various stages of the FEMA process. Thank you to Rita Packingham, Amal Eltahir and Tidal Basin Group for their hard work to fast track the City's reimbursements. Upcoming Street Closures for the Marion Arts Festival After two years as a virtual event, the Marion Arts Festival returns on Saturday, May 21. There will be some localized road closures in Uptown to accommodate … [Read more...] about City Of Marion: IN FOCUS: A Weekly Update From City Manager Ryan Waller For May 13