massacre
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Pratt returned to “The Alex Jones Show” in 2017, when the host was under fire for falsely portraying the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut as a hoax.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
The 31-year-old teaching assistant, who wears a headscarf, burst into tears in front of the security guard's booth -- the very spot where Abdullah gave his life to prevent a massacre.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Bush’s phone calls during the Tiananmen Square massacre.
From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026
Joel Negin, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, said Australia's measures in 1996 largely worked because they were part of a broad suite of measures implemented "very quickly" after the massacre.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
But it would mean a series of interviews with UN workers in Burundi, the home of the massacre, and my mom didn’t want to go.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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