Texas school shooting: Biden to console grieving families
By DW
28 May 2022 |
7:15 am
The first family will meet with community and religious leaders, as well as those who lost their loved ones to the violence that left 21 people — including 19 children — dead at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
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