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  • A Texas State Police officer walks outside Robb Elementary School following a shooting, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

    Police inaction moves to center of Uvalde school shooting probe

  • Flowers are placed around a welcome sign outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, to honor the victims killed in Tuesday's shooting at the school. Desperation turned to heart-wrenching sorrow for families of grade schoolers killed after an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself in their Texas classroom and began shooting, killing several fourth-graders and their teachers. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    A timeline of how the Texas elementary school shooting unfolded

  • In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a ruling party's politburo meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

    North Korea moves to soften curbs amid doubts over COVID counts

  • A view of flip fops and sandals on the street, following a stampede in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Saturday, May 28, 2022. Police say a stampede at a church charity event in southern Nigeria has left at least 31 people dead and seven injured. One witness said the dead included a pregnant woman and "many children." Police said the stampede took place at an annual "Shop for Free" program organized by the Kings Assembly Pentecostal church in Rivers state. Such events are common in Nigeria, (AP Photo)

    Children among 31 killed at church fair stampede in Nigeria

  • Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a memorial service for Ruth Whitfield, a victim of the Buffalo supermarket shooting, at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

    VP Harris tells Buffalo mourners: Stand up for what's right

  • Esmeralda Bravo, 63, sheds tears while holding a photo of her granddaughter, Nevaeh, one of the Robb Elementary School shooting victims, during a prayer vigil in Uvalde, Texas, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    The names: 19 children, 2 teachers killed in Uvalde school

  • A woman fleeing from shelling waits in a stretcher to board an evacuation train at the train station, in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, eastern Ukraine, Friday, May 27, 2022. Volunteers have been racing to evacuate as many civilians as possible, particularly the elderly and those with mobility issues, as Russian forces make advances in the region. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

    Russia takes small cities, aims to widen east Ukraine battle

  • In this image taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, May 28, 2022, a new Zircon hypersonic cruise missile is launched by the frigate Admiral Gorshkov of the Russian navy from the Barents Sea. Russia's Defense Ministry said the Russian navy successfully launched a new hypersonic missile from the Barents Sea. The ministry said the recently developed Zircon hypersonic cruise missile had struck its target about 1,000 kilometers away. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

    Russia test-fires its latest hypersonic Zircon missile

  • Residents confront a representative about opening up of their compound in Jingan district in Shanghai on May 25, 2022. Residents in China's largest city of Shanghai have become bolder in demanding the lifting or easing of coronavirus restrictions that have left millions locked up in their compounds for almost two months. (AP Photo)

    Shanghai lockdown: Residents demand release, and some get it

  • The Valhall oil field off the North Sea, Aug. 15, 2017. Europe’s frantic search for alternatives to Russian natural gas has dramatically increased the demand — and price — for Norway's oil and gas. As the money pours in, Europe’s second-biggest natural gas supplier is fending off accusations that it’s profiting from the war in Ukraine. (Haekon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

    War surges Norway's oil, gas profit. Now, it's urged to help

  • In this photo released by official website of the office of Iranian Senior Vice-President, on Friday, May 27, 2022, Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber, second right, visits the site of a tower at under construction 10-story Metropol Building which collapsed on Monday, in the southwestern city of Abadan, Iran. Rescue teams at the site of the tower pulled five more bodies from the rubble on Friday, bringing the death toll in the disaster to 24. (Iranian Senior Vice-President Office via AP)

    Iran police disperse crowd gathered at collapsed building

  • FILE - Protesters wear yellow vests at a protest as they wave national flags and chant slogans against Libya's Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, in Tripoli, Libya on April 19, 2019. Libya faces a serious security threat from foreign fighters and private military companies, especially Russia’s Wagner Group which has violated international law, U.N. experts said in a report obtained Friday, May 27, 2022 by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

    UN experts: Libya's security threatened by foreign fighters

  • Former president Donald Trump speaks during the Leadership Forum at the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center Friday, May 27, 2022, in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

    NRA speakers unshaken on gun rights after Texas school massacre

  • Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw speaks during a press conference held outside Robb Elementary School on Friday, May 27, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway outside of the classrooms during this week's attack on a Texas elementary school for more than 45 minutes before agents used a master key to open a door and confront a gunman, authorities said Friday. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

    Police in Texas waited for 48 minutes to confront school shooter as students repeatedly called 911

  • A woman is carried from her home in an evacuation by volunteers of Vostok SOS charitable organisation in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, May 26, 2022. Residents in villages and towns near the front line continue to flee as fighting rages in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

    Ukraine fears repeat of Mariupol horrors in the Donbas

  • Miah Cerrillo, a 11-year-old survivor of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, feared the gunman would come back for her so she smeared herself in her friend's blood and played dead. (Miah Cerrillo family photo)

    She smeared blood on herself and played dead: 11-year-old reveals chilling details of the massacre

  • A Southwest Airlines flight prepares to land at Reagan National Airport, in Arlington, Va., Monday, Dec. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    California woman gets 15 months in prison for punching flight attendant

  • Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, arrives for a news availability with Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, after their meeting at the State Department, Friday, May 27, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    U.S. says Turkey's NATO issues with Sweden, Finland will be fixed

  • This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, Portuguese health authorities confirmed five cases of monkeypox in young men, marking an unusual outbreak in Europe of a disease typically limited to Africa. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)

    WHO: Nearly 200 cases of monkeypox in more than 20 countries

  • In this image from Senate Television, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, speak on the Senate floor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at the Capitol in Washington. Schumer has quickly set in motion a pair of firearms background check bills in response to the school massacre in Texas. But the Democrat acknowledged Wednesday the refusal for years of Congress to pass any legislation aiming to curb a national epidemic of gun violence. (Senate Television via AP)

    Senate GOP blocks domestic terrorism bill, gun policy debate