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Five Teams Fight for Final Two Playoff Spots in Fan Controlled Football
The race to the postseason concludes in Fan Controlled Football as five teams fight for the final two playoff spots in the final week of the regular season.
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Don't Overlook Memorial Day's Black, Southern Roots
The first Memorial Day, organized by Black residents of Charleston, South Carolina, was nearly erased from history. In 1865, a group of Black Charlestonians exhumed a mass, unmarked grave filled with the bodies of Union soldiers, and then gave them proper burials. LX News storyteller Jalyn Henderson speaks with David Blight, a historian who uncover... -
The NRA Spends More on Voters Than Politicians
The NRA annual meeting will take place in Houston this weekend, just days after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, 280 miles away. NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky joins LX News from Uvalde, and explains how the group influences politics through more than just its campaign donations to candidates.
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Student Activist: ‘We Are Past the Thoughts and Prayers Phase'
After the mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, “we want to see bills, policies and laws changing to save lives,” says Ade Osadolor-Hernandez of Students Demand Action. She joined LX News to talk about preventative policies that might have stopped the Uvalde shooter.
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Quarterback Cut After Celebrating Touchdown by Smoking Joint on Field
Fan Controlled Football quarterback Jason Stewart was cut after he celebrated a touchdown pass by smoking a joint on the field during a game.
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Why NY's Gun Laws Weren't Tough Enough to Stop the Buffalo Shooter
New York has some of the toughest state gun laws in the country, but even that wasn’t enough to stop a gunman from killing 10 shoppers at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, this month. In the wake of another mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, NBCLX storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo took a look at New York’s...
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Why Politics Can't Be Kept Out of the Uvalde School Shooting Conversation
In the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, politicians on both sides of the aisle have lobbed angry barbs about gun policies — including Beto O’Rourke’s angry confrontation of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a news conference. While some say that now isn’t the time for politics, NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky explains w... -
Texas Passed These Looser Gun Laws Months Before Uvalde School Shooting
In 2021, Texas passed a package of gun laws that declared the state a “Second Amendment sanctuary state” and loosened restrictions on carrying handguns in public, among other changes. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker explains.
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Co-Teachers Killed in Uvalde School Shooting Died Trying to Shield Their Students
The two co-teachers killed along with 19 children in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, are being hailed as heroes for attempting to shield their students from the gunman in their final moments. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker shares what we know about longtime educators Eva Mireles and Irma Garcia.
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‘Complete Evil': 19 Children, 2 Adults Killed in Texas School Shooting
An official says an 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded himself a classroom, “shooting anyone that was in his way.”
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Texas School Shooting Victims: Third and Fourth Graders, Beloved Teachers
Nearly all of the 21 victims from Tuesday’s mass shooting have been identified by relatives, as of Thursday morning.
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Security Expert Discusses How Shooting Suspect Got Guns
A former consultant for the Department of Homeland Security, Mustafa Tameez talks about gun laws and how the suspect in the Texas school shooting might have obtained the weapons that were used in the shooting that killed 18 children.
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WATCH: President Biden's Full Speech After Uvalde, Texas School Shooting
President Joe Biden addressed the nation Tuesday after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.