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Enraged parents and experts are questioning the police response in Uvalde after a Texas official said officers on the scene of Tuesday’s mass shooting waited an hour for backup. Plus, the family of one victim suffers yet another unthinkable tragedy, and movie fans everywhere pay tribute to goodfella Ray Liotta after his death at 67.

Parents are demanding answers after it's revealed police waited an hour for backup in the Uvalde shooting.

Parents have expressed frustration and outrage with police after it was revealed that the attack on schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas, lasted for an hour. A gunman killed 19 children and two teachers while barricaded in a classroom, and authorities have since given contradictory descriptions of their response to the attack. Police said at a news conference yesterday that the gunman was not stopped from walking into the school after crashing a truck and firing at people nearby, and officers pulled back and called for more help while he fired at them from a classroom.

The husband of a teacher killed in the Texas shooting died of a heart attack, family says. 

Days after he lost his high school sweetheart and wife of 24 years in a shooting that took the lives of 21 people, Joe Garcia died of a heart attack, his nephew told NBC News. Garcia had just returned from delivering flowers to the memorial for his wife, Irma Garcia, who was one of two teachers killed by a gunman at Robb Elementary School. The couple shared four children together. 

Students stage walkouts across the U.S. to call for stricter gun control. 

Thousands of high school and college students across the country staged walkouts yesterday to call for stricter gun laws. The protests were organized by Students Demand Action, which noted on its website that gun violence was the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the U.S. in 2020. “I think there is something so devastating about 10-year-olds being killed, and students across the country are realizing this could have been any of us,” a Vermont high school student told NBC News.

🎥'Goodfellas' star Ray Liotta has died at 67.

He was one of us, he was a good fella. The actor who portrayed mobster Henry Hill in the classic 1990 gangster movie "Goodfellas" died in his sleep while shooting the film "Dangerous Waters" in the Dominican Republic, according to his publicist. An acting career that began in 1978 also included a standout performance as Shoeless Joe Jackson in the baseball classic "Field of Dreams" and memorable roles in "Something Wild," "Blow," and "The Many Saints of Newark." "I am utterly shattered to hear this terrible news about my Ray," his "Goodfellas" co-star Lorraine Bracco tweeted. 

📚Two bestselling authors give 13 suggestions for your next great beach read this summer.

Bestselling authors Jasmine Guillory ("By the Book") and Isaac Fitzgerald ("Dirtbag, Massachusetts") stopped by to share 13 must-reads as summer kicks off on Memorial Day weekend. These fantasy adventures, nonfiction thrillers, and heartbreaking and hilarious memoirs will help you lose yourself in a book while enjoying the sunshine.

Allow us to do the meal-planning for you.

Food Network star Alex Guarnaschelli shared her recipe for triple decker burgers with cheese sauce just in time for your Memorial Day weekend cookout. The combination of Parmesan, Worcestershire and soy sauce brings cheesy goodness to a burger combo so big, it can be halved or quartered for multiple servings. Guarnaschelli also showed us the perfect side dish, a baked potato salad. 

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