Almost 400 law enforcement officials rushed to a mass shooting at a Uvalde elementary school, but “egregiously poor decision-making” ended in more than an hour of chaos before the gunman who took 21 lives was eventually confronted and killed, according to an appalling investigative report published Sunday.

The House on Friday again passed the Women’s Health Protection Act, a comprehensive abortion rights bill that has already been enacted by the chamber this Congress. It goes on to face dark prospects in the Senate.

​Americans’ ​confidence in the US public school system has dropped nearly to the all-time low of 26% recorded in 2014, according to a poll conducted Thursday that also saw the rift between the faith Democrats and Republicans have in the system has grown.​

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem will speak to hundreds of young conservatives in Washington, D.C., later this month at Young America's Foundation's annual National Conservative Student Conference, the Washington Examiner has discovered.