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| More than an hour of video from a surveillance camera in Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, shows the reality of officers' response to the deadly mass shooting. |
| 🙋🏼♀️ I'm Nicole Fallert. Before we dive in, here at USA TODAY we're always thinking of new ways to bring you the most important information everyday – and we know there's a lot to read out there. To make your day easier, we're starting to break down our longer content into short bites – with the option to go deeper if you'd like. Check out one of these stories in which we explain how New Yorkers can capture Manhattanhenge for the final time in 2022. |
| Now, here's Wednesday's news. |
| 🌅 Up first: K2, the brightest comet in our solar system, will swing by Earth this week. There's a chance of spotting the comet on Wednesday or Thursday as it makes it final pass through the solar system, experts say. But you won't see it the naked eye: experts say people will need at least a small telescope or binoculars to see it. Read more |
 | | In May 2017, astronomers using the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) in Hawaii first spotted the comet known as C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS at a whopping 1.5 billion miles away between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. | | Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach, NASA, ESA, and David Jewitt (UCLA) | |
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| 🟡 Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he will visit Iran one day after the White House warned Tehran could provide Russia with "hundreds" of drones to continue its attack on Ukraine. |
| ⭕ Jan. 6 hearing recap: Committee members connected the dots from a December 2020, meeting in the Oval Office to events on Jan. 5 and 6, 2021. |
| 🐤 Twitter sued Elon Musk for backing out of a $44 billion deal to buy the company. |
| 🏀 The NBA will create a $24.5 million program to pay former American Basketball Association players. |
| ⭐ The 2022 Emmy nominations include groundbreaking nods for ''Squid Game,'' Selena Gomez and Quinta Brunson. |
 | | Quinta Brunson in a scene from "Abbott Elementary." Brunson was nominated for an Emmy Award for best lead actress in a comedy series and is the first Black woman to earn three nominations in comedy categories in the same year. | | Gilles Mingasson, AP | |
Video shows officers' delayed response to Uvalde shooting |
| A 77-minute video recording captured from below a surveillance camera in Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, along with body camera footage from one of the responding officers, shows in excruciating detail what happened when dozens of officers entered the school. USA TODAY has published an edited version of the video to show how the law enforcement response unfolded. The video was obtained exclusively by The Austin American-Statesman, part of the USA TODAY Network, and TV station KVUE. Here's a description of video from inside the school. |
| What this means: Gunshots, delays and a political debate |
| ⚫ The footage tells in real time the brutal story of how heavily armed officers failed to immediately launch a cohesive and aggressive response to stop the shooter and save more children if possible. |
| ⚫ In the video, officers walk back and forth in the hallway, some leaving the camera frame, then reappearing, others training their weapons toward the classroom, talking, making cellphone calls, sending texts or looking at floor plans. None enters or attempts to enter the classrooms. Even after hearing more shots, they wait. |
| ⚫ Officers rushed into the classroom and killed the gunman an hour and 14 minutes after police arrived on the scene. Nineteen fourth graders and their two teachers died in the massacre May 24. |
| ⚫ The video has been the subject of an intense political debate: Gov. Greg Abbott and Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin urged its public release, and Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee opposed releasing it. |
| Read why the USA TODAY Network decided to publish the video. |
| 🎧 On today's 5 Things podcast, hear more from Uvalde as disturbing video shows the moment a gunman entered the elementary school. You can listen to the podcast every day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your smart speaker. |
 | | Rachel Martinez, with her son and a protest sign, attends a city council meeting, Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. | | Eric Gay, AP | |
Biden's Middle East tour starts in Israel |
| President Joe Biden will begin his first presidential trip to the Middle East in Israel, America's closest ally in the region, and the emphasis will be security. The United States has long had an outsized commitment to Israel. But Biden's relationship with the nation has been strained by his attempts to restart a 2015 deal with Iran that was meant to curb its nuclear activities. The U.S. and Israel are expected to announce a "Jerusalem Declaration" committing both countries to use "all elements of their national power against the Iranian nuclear threat," the Associated Press reported. In addition, Biden continues to look for ways to expand defense cooperation in the region. Read more |
| 🌐 Political background: Israel's Netanyahu is plotting a comeback. That could be a problem for Biden's Middle East agenda. |
| 🌐 ''Nobody has any hope'': Ahead of Biden's Middle East trip, some Palestinians say he's no different than Trump. |
| 🌐 Related: The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the PGA Tour for antitrust violations against the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, a report says. |
 | | President Joe Biden boards Air Force One for a trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, July 12, 2022, at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. | | Gemunu Amarasinghe, AP | |
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| ⭕ Point of view: Tuesday's Jan. 6 hearing shows Trump knew what was coming. |
| 🟡 USA TODAY Opinion: Russia is using rape as a weapon of war in Ukraine. Here's what can be done about it. |
| 🌎 Your tax dollars paid a Peace Corps worker $258,000 — after he killed a woman. |
| ✈ If your flight is delayed, you may be eligible for compensation from your airline. |
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Report will likely support new rate hike by Fed |
| Economists say that inflation warning signs are waning, with potentially softer price increases in the coming months. But this encouraging data isn't likely to show up in the June consumer price index (CPI), due out Wednesday, and the annual rise is likely to notch another 40-year high of 8.8%. That ugly report will probably prompt the Federal Reserve to jack up its key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point for the second straight month, according to economists and fed fund futures. Read more |
| 📈 Prime Day 2022 deals target budget-conscious shoppers amid record-high inflation. |
| 📈 Political effect: Inflation prices top COVID as America's No. 1 concern. Will this impact midterm elections? |
| 📈 Live: 160+ best Amazon Prime Day 2022 deals on Apple AirPods Pro, LG TVs, Revlon — shop now. |
 | | An Amazon workers pull a cart of packages for delivery on E 14th Street on July 12, 2022 in New York City. Amazon is holding Amazon Prime Day in more than 20 countries, offering exclusive discounts on thousands of products, from July 12-13. | | Michael M. Santiago, Getty Images | |
Highland Park shooting survivors to rally on Capitol Hill |
| Organizers are expecting up to 1,000 people to converge on the U.S. Capitol Wednesday in support of stricter gun laws in the wake of the July Fourth mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. The "March Fourth" rally is part of a broader call for action in the wake of recent mass killings, including most recently the attack in Highland Park, in which seven people were killed and dozens of others were wounded. Organizers say harsher policies need to be enacted to prevent the steady stream of mass killings. There have been 333 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Read more |
| 🔵 Highland Park victims mourned: Irina McCarthy, a toddler's mother, is remembered for humor and her love of family. |
 | | Mourners hug as they walk into Weinstein & Piser Funeral Home in Wilmette, Illinois, for the funeral for Irina McCarthy, who was killed in a mass shooting that left more than three dozen others injured during Highland Park's Fourth of July parade, Tuesday morning, July 12, 2022. | | Ashlee Rezin, AP | |
ICYMI: Some of our top stories yesterday |
| 🌮 First lady Jill Biden apologized after comparing Texas Latinos to ''breakfast tacos.'' |
| 💶 What does euro-U.S. dollar parity mean for Americans? For travelers? |
| 🛢 More than 1 million gallons of oil have been collected from the longest-running spill in American history, the Coast Guard says. |
| 🟣 Louisiana abortion clinics can reopen after the state's ban was temporarily blocked by a judge for the second time. |
| 🌳 What to know: A Yosemite fire is threatening a sequoia grove with some of Earth's oldest, biggest trees. |
 | | Firefighters clear loose brush from around a Sequoia tree in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park, California. A wildfire on the edge of a grove of California's giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park grew overnight but remained partially contained Tuesday, July 12, 2022. | | Garrett Dickman, AP | |
Akron declares day of mourning for Jayland Walker |
| Two weeks after police killed Jayland Walker – an unarmed Black man – in Akron, Ohio, the city has declared Wednesday to be a day of mourning. Walker's funeral also will be held Wednesday at the Akron Civic Theatre. Officers shot and killed Walker, 25, on June 27 as he fled police who were pursuing him for a traffic violation and an equipment violation, according to authorities. Akron City Council on Monday passed the resolution declaring Wednesday as a city-wide day of mourning for Walker, while public speakers and protesters gathered at the city hall to criticize the council for failing to reform Akron police. Police said they will continue with their current traffic stop and chase policies. Read more |
| ✔ Jayland Walker's family: He was not a ''masked monster with a gun'' in Akron police shooting. |
 | | The Rev. Robert DeJournett speaks as he stands between the family of Jayland Walker, left, including Walker's mother, Pamela Walker, seated, and attorney Bobby DiCello who is representing the family, during a press conference at St. Ashworth Temple Church of God in Christ Monday, July 11, 2022 in Akron, Ohio. The family is upset with how the Akron Police Department is dealing with peaceful protesters and also how Walker is being portrayed by the department to the public. | | Karen Schiely, Akron Beacon Journal | |
📷 Photo of the day: New images from the James Webb Space Telescope look deep into the universe 📷 |
 | | What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth. | | Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach, NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team | |
| From cosmic cliffs to the birthplace of stars, the James Webb Space telescope is stunning stargazers and non-stargazers alike with its breathtaking views of a universe never glimpsed before. The world's largest and most powerful space telescope is capturing images of thousands of galaxies – some of which formed billions of years ago after the Big Bang – and some of the faintest objects ever observed. Read more |
| Click here to see more of the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope. |
| Associated Press contributed reporting. |
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