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By JIM VERTUNO and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Distraught families gathered at a local civic center and turned to social media to mourn and to make desperate pleas for help finding missing children as the death toll in a…

Enrique Hernández hit Dylan Cease’s first pitch over the left-field wall. It was the start of a tough Tuesday for Cease and the Chicago White Sox. Cease had his roughest outing of the season in a 16-3 loss to the Boston Red Sox in front…

The Orioles twice took late-inning leads Tuesday night in the Bronx. Neither survived the bottom half of the frame. The New York Yankees walked off the Orioles, 7-6, to even the teams’ three-game series, answering Baltimore’s…

By ACACIA CORONADO and JIM VERTUNO UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said, in the deadliest school…

By STEVE PEOPLES and JEFF AMY ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has defeated his Donald Trump-backed challenger David Perdue after a furious push by the former president to punish Kemp for not overturning the 2020 election results.…

By The Associated Press There have been dozens of shootings and other attacks in U.S. schools and colleges over the years, but until the massacre at Colorado’s Columbine High School in 1999, the number of dead tended to be in the single…

If there was any doubt about how the Vikings were going to handle their kickers and punters moving forward, new special-teams coordinator Matt Daniels cleared things up Tuesday at TCO Performance Center in Egan. Though incumbent kicker…

By EUGENE GARCIA and DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS UVALDE, Texas — Fourteen children and one teacher were killed in a shooting at a Texas elementary school Tuesday, and the 18-year-old gunman was dead, Gov. Greg Abbott said. He said a local man…

By MIKE BALSAMO, ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN WASHINGTON (AP) — With Congress deadlocked over how to address racism and excessive use of force, President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order on policing Wednesday, the…

Minnesota United must be on upset watch. Union Omaha is looking to pull off its second takedown of an MLS club in the U.S. Open Cup this year. The third-division side knocked off Chicago Fire two rounds ago on April 19 and will look to…