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Today left a knot in my stomach. My youngest, Liam is the same age as many of the victims.

I have not felt this since the Sandy Hook shooting when dealing with a school teacher from there…

My heart was heavy as I captioned images from IG, that Katrina Kochneva brilliantly screen captured, of this mad teen’s own page, with his haunting words: KIDS NOT SAFE

And then, helping a Photog via cell, to translate Spanish for one of the parents who lost a boy (9) AND the sobs the parent had… oh my

I felt broken afterwards.

Still do.

Hug your people today.

Here are some of our tears, and not even the best pixs that our newspaper partner San Antonio Express-News made and our Jintak Han’s strong coverage.

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

The soldier’s intelligence unit, which monitors pro-Russian forces with the use of drones, has been stationed in the region since the self-declared republics of Donetsk and Luhansk broke away from Ukrainian control in 2014. Ukrainian forces have been holding the line in Donbas against Russian-backed separatists since the Kremlin seized Crimea. They’re still holding the line, but what was sporadic fighting turned into a full-blown war. But now Russian and Ukrainian forces appear to be settling into a gruelling and deadly stalemate in Ukraine’s east, amid warnings from a senior US military official that neither side can win in the present circumstances. Russia and Ukraine have made inflated claims about their successes, with assessments from western defense officials in recent weeks often painting a more subdued picture. Pentagon chief Lt Gen Scott Berrier, director of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, suggests neither side winning despite claim by Kyiv that its forces are pushing Russian troops back. Welcome to ‘KEEPING WATCH’

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Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

May 11, 2022, Laguna Niguel, California, USA: A fire aircraft drops red fire retardant the Coastal wildfire in Laguna Niguel. A wind-driven wildfire that broke out Wednesday in brush near Laguna Niguel grew to 200 acres, burned about 20 homes and prompted the evacuation of nearby residences and a luxury resort, fire officials said. (Credit Image: © Ruaridh Stewart/ZUMA Press Wire)

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

November 17, 2019, Hong Kong, China: A riot police in full protective gear stand guard in front of Catholic Church near Hong Kong Polytechnic University during student’s stand-off with the police outside the Faculty at noon today. (Credit Image: © Liau Chung-ren/ZUMA Wire)

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

May 17, 2022, Donetsk, Donbas, Ukraine: A Ukrainian soldier from an intelligence hides in the grass during a patrol and monitoring operation on the outskirt of the separatist region of Donetsk (Donbas), amid Russian invasion of Ukraine. The unit has been stationed in the region since the 2014 Donbas war unveiled, with its Ukrainian soldiers monitoring activities of the Russian forces, fighting back Russian soldiers and identifying locations of Russian tanks and vehicles with the use of drones. (Credit Image: © Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA Press Wire)

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

May 17, 2022, Donetsk, Donbas, Ukraine: A Ukrainian soldier from an intelligence holds up a riffle as the unit conducts a patrol and monitoring operation on the outskirt of the separatist region of Donetsk (Donbas), amid Russian invasion of Ukraine. The unit has been stationed in the region since the 2014 Donbas war unveiled, with its Ukrainian soldiers monitoring activities of the Russian forces, fighting back Russian soldiers and identifying locations of Russian tanks and vehicles with the use of drones. (Credit Image: © Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/ZUMA Press Wire)

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

Top left, page 10: April 21, 2022, Moscow, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a face-to-face meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, not pictured, at the Kremlin. (Credit Image: © Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin Pool/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire)

Bottom center, page 11: May 9, 2022, Moscow, Russia: Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN sits in the review stand with veterans at the start of the 77th annual Victory Day military parade celebrating the end of World War II at Red Square in Moscow, Russia. (Credit Image: © Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin Pool/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire)

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

In New Mexico, the massive Calf Canyon-Hermits Peaks Fire is now officially the state’s largest recorded wildfire in modern history, eclipsing the 297,845 acre Whitewater-Baldy Fire Complex of 2012. On Monday morning fire officials listed Calf Canyon-Hermits peak at 298,060 acres. Fanned by erratic and unpredictable winds and growing by more than 90,000 acres in the past week, Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak fire has already burned more acres than burned last year in all of New Mexico. Spring is historically a busy time for wildfires in the Southwest, before the summer monsoons arrive around the Fourth of July, if they do. But this year, as in recent ones, large fires began igniting in the region at least a month early due to an extended drought made worse by human-caused climate change. The drought that has enveloped southwestern North America for the past 22 years is the region’s driest ‘megadrought’ defined as a drought lasting two decades or longer, since at least the year 800, according to a new UCLA-led study in the journal Nature Climate Change. Fire scientists predict another long, expensive, destructive and smoky summer. Welcome to ‘NEW MEXICO INFERNO’

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April 24, 2021, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S: Armenian-Americans march for justice on Boston Common to the Armenian Heritage Park on the Rose Kennedy Greenway during the 106th Annual Genocide Remembrance Day on April 24 the day the Turkish Government in 1915 began the removal and extermination of the Armenian people who have lived in the region for 3,000 years. Today President Joe Biden unlike his predecessors officially recognized the events of 1915 as a Genocide.The action has touch off anger in Turkey that only recently lent support to Azerbajian in it attack on the Armenian populated region of Nagorno Karabakh in the Southern Caucasus. Armenians see this and statements by the Turkish leadership as continuation of attempts to continue the Genocide and erasure of the Armenian people and culture. (Credit Image: © Kenneth Martin/ZUMA Press Wire)

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press