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EasyJet to cancel 200 flights from Gatwick airport. EasyJet is to cancel more than 200 flights over the next 10 days, causing disruption for families heading abroad on half-term holidays. The airline said about 24 flights a day from London’s Gatwick airport would be cancelled between 28 May and 6 June. It said the cancellations were necessary “to provide reliable services over this busy period”. Flight cancellations impact half-term holidays On Thursday a software failure forced…

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Protesters gather outside NRA convention. A huge and passionate group of protesters angered over the shooting deaths of Texas elementary school students converged Friday outside the gun lobby annual convention in Houston. The protesters held crosses with photos of shooting victims and shouted, “NRA go away,” and “Shame, it could be your kids today,” as hundreds of members of the nation’s biggest gun lobby arrived at the conventional hall. https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1530246463468412929?s=20&t=2IonnXcd-RbGoTUWMtU-GQ Protesters gather outside NRA convention National…

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NRA supporters push back in the wake of the Texas shooting massacre. Donald Trump said ‘the various gun control policies made by the left would have done nothing to prevent such attacks.’ ‘Evil’ like Texas massacre a reason to arm, not disarm: Trump. Suggesting that we should arm our teachers and students to defend themselves. Former US President Donald Trump rejected calls for tightened gun controls Friday following the Texas school massacre, saying decent Americans…

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Gov. Abbott cancels appearance at NRA convention for fears of public backlash. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — who was scheduled to speak Friday on the first day of the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting — is cancelling his in-person appearance to attend a press conference on the school shooting in Uvalde. Abbott will speak to the convention instead “through prerecorded video,” spokesman Mark Miner told US News Thursday. Gov. Abbott cancels appearance at NRA The NRA event takes…

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Texas school shooting – the Husband of killed teacher dies of grief. His heart simply couldn’t take it anymore. The husband of Mrs Garcia, one of the teachers slain in Tuesday’s mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has died of a heart attack. Joe Garcia was the husband of Irma Garcia, who taught for 23 years at Robb Elementary School. Mrs Garcia was one of two teachers killed by a teenage gunman in the shooting that…

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