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Background As of November 30, 2012, 456 children were enrolled in kindergarten through fourth grade at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The school's security protocols had recently been upgraded, requiring visitors to be individually admitted after visual and identification review by video monitor. Doors to the school were locked at 9:30 a.m. each day, after morning arrivals. Newtown is in ...
The Uvalde school shooting [6] [7] [8] was a mass shooting that occurred on May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, when 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, [9] [10] a former student at the school, fatally shot 19 students and two teachers, while 17 others were injured but survived.
List of mass hysteria cases. In sociology and psychology, mass hysteria is a phenomenon that transmits collective illusions of threats, whether real or imaginary, through a population and society as a result of rumors and fear. [1] [2] In medicine, the term is used to describe the spontaneous manifestation—or production of chemicals in the ...
At Columbia University, the epicenter of the student protest movement, where New York police cleared a two-week-old encampment by arresting dozens of peaceful protesters on Tuesday, President ...
Students at dozens of universities in the U.S. and Canada are continuing to protest for Palestinian human rights after months of war in Gaza. Most student organizations participating in protests ...
December 23, 2016. The Kent State shootings (also known as the Kent State massacre or May 4 massacre [3] [4] [5]) were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the ...
Current Issues and Events (commonly known as Current Events) is one of several academic events sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League.The contest began in the 1990-1991 scholastic year, and has been conducted every academic year since then except for the 2019-2020 scholastic year, when the contest, among other UIL spring events, was cancelled due to the onset of the COVID-19 ...
Tornado outbreak of January 12, 2023. A tornado outbreak in the US states of Alabama and Georgia damages several towns and kills at least six people. ( USA Today) A truck crashes into several minibus taxis at an intersection in Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa, killing five people and injuring nine others.