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Chunks of twisted metal and wood splinters lie among the swings and slides in the playground outside the bombed-out school.

Families gathered at the city’s civic center to await news about their children following the elementary school shooting. Other residents processed their shock and grief in places of worship.

Pfizer says it will provide nearly two dozen products at not-for-profit prices in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has defended China’s record to the top U.N. human rights official, criticizing countries that he said lecture others on human rights and politicize the issue.

No matter where Ukrainians live, the 3-month-old war never seems to be far away.

The United Nations says that in Afghanistan, 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will likely face the most severe form of malnutrition this year as increasing numbers of hungry, wasting-away children flow into hospital wards.

Delegations from Sweden and Finland are holding talks with senior Turkish officials in an effort to overcome Turkey’s objections to their joining NATO.

The gunman who killed 19 elementary school children and two teachers in Texas added to the state's grim recent history of mass shootings.

An official says an 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school barricaded himself inside a classroom, “shooting anyone that was in his way."

An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 19 children as he went from classroom to classroom.

Pakistani police have fired tear gas and scuffled with stone-throwing supporters of defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan as they gathered for planned marches toward central Islamabad for a rally he hopes will bring down the government and force early elections.

Stocks were moving between small gains and losses in early trading Wednesday on Wall Street, keeping most of the major indexes in the green for the week so far.

Here are the results to key runoff races in the Bexar County area.

As President Joe Biden vowed to enact stricter gun laws following the Uvalde shooting, top Texas Republicans worked to create distance between the shooting and potential gun restrictions.

Republican Dawn Buckingham and Democrat Jay Kleberg won their primary runoffs. The winner of November’s general election will replace George P. Bush as head of the Texas General Land Office.

In Texas Legislature runoffs, three of four Republican House incumbents succeed, while Democrats set their sights on retaining a South Texas Senate seat.