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@nytimes reporter👨🏻‍💻in San Antonio, Texas. DM or email me (non-fashion) 📩 tips: Edgar.Sandoval @nytimes .com 📝📰🗞️

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Scores of visitors arrived to watch the eclipse steps away from the Rio Grande and Shelby Park, an expansive green space that was closed to the public after being taken over in January by the Texas National Guard to stem the flow of migrants. #eclipse2024
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It started with a low thunder that sounded like faraway crowd noise coming from a football stadium. Then came the loud honking of car horns, with some people dancing on the streets.. #bidenharis2020 #bidenwins (edited by ⁦ @cliffordlevy ⁩ )
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Got vid of bull escaping from cops in Queens from a nearby slaughterhouse. "move! Everybody run!" a cop yelled @NYDailyNews @NYDNVideo
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Ever since the mass shooting at Robb Elementary, family members have been asking their neighbors to back candidates who support gun control. On Tuesday, voters in Uvalde County rebuked them. This left many of them feeling abandoned. @nytimes
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I spent a big chuck of Feb & March charting the trauma & healing of two of the brave survivors of the #Uvalde shooting. The story is out today. I can’t thank enough the families of Noah & Mayah. Please take a moment to read about their journey @nytimes 📰
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. @EliotSpitzer outside federal court says he agrees with @Comey that “Trump is a stain in the presidency.” Big media presence for @MichaelCohen212 & @StormyDaniels court appearance
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The families of the #Uvalde victims attend the #MLKDay parade in #SanAntonio ( @GloriaCazares82 @kimrubio21 @LivesRobbed et al) "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.” #MondayMotivation
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Last September the @GovRonDeSantis gov flew 49 migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard. Many said they remain scarred by the experience. Earlier this month I spent time with the few who have forged a new life “en la isla.” Please take a read.
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@hannahdreier When Ms. Cauro fled Venezuela last summer, she never imagined that one day she would be working and living on a wealthy island south of Cape Cod, surrounded by boats and mansions of the kind she had seen only in the movies. @nytimes
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The Thanksgiving of 2012 little Daniel asked his parents for a kitten. His parents said the Sandy Hook 1st grader loved all creatures. “Daniel would pick up the worms off the sidewalk and would put them on the grass so they wouldn’t burn in the sun.” Two cats arrived in December
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“I’m not moving.” The Cross family, who lost their son, Uziyah Garcia, said they want a meeting with @Uvalde_CISD out in public..
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A man who survived the #clevelandtexas shooting told me how he saw the gunman shoot his sister, nephew & other relatives & he pulled his wife & 6 mo old into a closet. He left Honduras 5 yrs ago to escape gang violence & found himself victim of America’s gun epidemic @nytimes
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Then she looked up and gained fire in her voice. “What I want no one can give me,” she said. “I want my daughter back. If I can’t have her, then those who failed her will never know peace.” ⁦ @nytimes #uvalde #robbelementary @NYTNational
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It’s official. I’m starting this week as a @NYTMetro reporter covering police, courts, general assignments. Please email tips, suggestions, musings 📩edgar.sandoval @nytimes .com Re: @NYPDDCPI @nytimes
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Some personal news.... @nytimes
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congrats to @edjsandoval , who is off to be NYT's new San Antonio bureau chief i cannot say enough good things about Edgar - working with him has made me better in so many ways.
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UPDATE: I spoke with Yohonny Miratriz, a migrant from Venezuela who survived the car crash that killed 8 in Brownsville, including a close friend. Everything moved in slow motion, he said. “I had time to think, do I jump forward or backwards?” @nytimes
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#Uvalde families pleaded for voters to support @RolandForTexas @BetoORourke & gun control. They didn't listen @kim_amerie @BCross052422 @GloriaCazares82 felt betrayed. On #Twitter they posted an image of #UvaldeStrong . This time, it was turned upside down.
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Gilles Rousseau she remembers his daughter Lauren as a brave young woman. “I don’t like the word hero. She did what she had to do. The detectives when they walked me to the crime scene, they told me she died in front of them. How can you protect them against a gun like that?”
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A small cluster of #Uvalde parents are reciting their victims’ names outside the @Uvalde_CISD offices. They want a guarantee that the district will initiate an investigation into the responding school officers. #uvaldestrong #Uvalde #UvaldeMassacre ( @BCross052422 @LivesRobbed )
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. @BetoORourke tells the #Uvalde families they deserve to learn what happened on May 24 directly from the authorities, not in the news. “Beto! Beto!” some chanted. He recalled the day he learned about the #ElPaso tragedy. #uvaldetx #Texas #GunViolence
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When a mother learned that her teenage son threatened to shoot his sister & a school, she went to the ⁦ @SATXPolice ⁩ . Detectives learned two chilling details. His threats were serious & he was a cousin of the Uvalde gunman. The Mom likely saved lives
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Soon after they arrived, Ms. Yaun was dead. A gunman had stormed into the business, the police said, killing four people and critically wounding a fifth. (With ⁦ @GiuliaMcDonnell ⁩ // edited by ⁦ @FeliceBelman ⁩ & ⁦ @_jasonbailey_ ⁩ ) ⁦
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No need to bathe with a bucket full of ice-cubes. #PuberMe @colbertlateshow ’s puberty challenge reminds you of all non-awkward times 😫😩😤🤠😟😡
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Teens recalled seeing their friends died in yesterday’s #parklandshooting “I was trying to keep everyone around me quiet. It wasn’t easy to keep everyone quiet when everyone is dying around you.” #ParklandStrong #ParklandFlorida @NYDailyNews #schoolshooting
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Kim Mata-Rubio, who lost her daughter Lexi in Uvalde, said she understood that everybody in the small town of 15,000 people had lost something, if not a loved one, then certainly a sense of security. So now she’s running for mayor to help unite the city
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A year ago, @TamirBenKalifa & I got the call you dread: another mass shooting. This time inside a school in Uvalde. When I returned Tamir was still there. He stayed to document the family’s journey of grief . @kimrubio21 @GloriaCazares82 @ronniemata1228
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The child began showing symptoms in Illinois and was taken to a hospital in the town of Salem, about 250 miles south of Chicago and 1,200 miles north of Brownsville said @JoaquinCastrotx #Texas #Immigration @nytimes
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A large police truck hauls second bomb in explosive container. #ChelseaExplosion #Chelsea #explosion @NYDailyNews
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@SimuLiu @JimmyKimmelLive History being made!
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A few hundreds people gather outside the @nypl carrying signs that read “Count every vote” with no clear winner in the #PresidentialElection2020 /// @NYTMetro #Election2020 #ElectionResults2020
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I went to Eagle Pass, Tx to talk to migrants who suffered severe injuries crossing over buoys & concertina wire. Texas’ harsh border tactics have come under fire. Anchored by @jdavidgoodman & reporting from Texas own (& new New Yorker) @byjayroot Link :
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In a historical move, the Texas House voted to impeach the attorney general Ken Paxton. But who are the four conservative former staffers who aired the allegations leveled against him? I looked at legal filings to find out more…
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Hundreds line up to watch @Macys inflate their #thanksgivingparade balloons. "The good dinosaur!
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EMS care for victim who severed left foot/ankle @ #CentralPark @NYDailyNews "There was a small explosion then dust."
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A year ago little Jaheem Hunter barely survived a gunshot to the head. Today the brave pint-size survivor returns to the same street where a bullet pierced his skull to celebrate his sixth birthday @NYDailyNews #bronx #survivor #gunviolence #gunviolenceawareness #guncontrol
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#NYPD bomb squad looking into vehicle looking for possible second bomb #ChelseaExplosion #chelsea #explosion @FDNY
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After nearly two weeks of testimony, a jury found a former Border Patrol intelligence supervisor guilty of killing four women in Laredo. Family members confronted #juandavidortiz during an emotional victim statements. ⁦ @nytimes
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UVALDE, Texas — The Rev. Y.J. Jimenez rushed 30 minutes to #Uvalde Memorial Hospital to console two parishioners who had lost their 10-year-old grandchild in Tuesday’s shooting. 😢 @nytimes @NYTNational
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Man describes smoke filling his subway car & #PortAuthority hallway. “The smoke was in the hallway. I was thinking, there may be more bombs. We heard the noise just when the train stopped, then a lot of smoke.” @NYDailyNews @NYDailyNewsPix
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Today marks the 1 year anniversary since I was hired as a @nytimes full-time reporter. I never thought I would see my name in the Gray Lady, much less join A-list team📰. Forever grateful to @jamesmckinleyjr @cliffordlevy et al (DMs open for ideas & tips)
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Legal woes aren’t over for Ken Paxton. 8 years ago he was indicted and arrested on criminal securities-fraud charges. A trial date in that case is still pending.
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@BCross052422 Cross began the protest to demand that the district suspend school police officers for their delayed response to the May shooting, in which 19 children died. “I’m done asking,” Cross told me. “Now, I’m demanding.” Link: @nytimes @BCross052422
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Jose Flores and Andrea Herrera, inseparable siblings both in the fourth grade, rode the bus together to Robb Elementary School last Tuesday as they did most mornings. He headed into Room 111, she into Room 104. ⁦⁦ @nytimes #uvalde #uvaldetx 💔
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My latest from #Uvalde @nytimes ⁩ Last week, Mr. Suarez helped place the portraits of the six fallen players on the wall of a dugout, each posing in a Little League uniform with a bat, forever 10 years old. #Uvaldestrong ⚾️🧢🥎🏟⁦ @NYTNational
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Families of the Uvalde victims were visibly shaken at a groundbreaking for a new school that will replace Robb Elementary, where 21 died. Jerry Mata said that shoveling dirt brought him back to the day he threw dirt at his daughter’s coffin, Tess Mata.
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San Antonio will be one of the rare locations in the world to experience two eclipses within six months, the annular eclipse today and a total eclipse in April. I spoke to people who witnessed the annular eclipse & are already for the 2nd one #eclipse
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The businessman at the center of the allegations that led to the impeachment of the AG of Texas, Ken Paxton, has been arrested and was scheduled to appear in federal court in Austin on Friday. David Montgomery will be there and help us w/ updates
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Crowds gather by the Triple S store in #BatonRouge where cops shot #AltonSterling . Mourners painted his image here.
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In today’s front page of The New York Times, a photo by @TamirBenKalifa shows @berlie72 & @kim_amerie (grandma’ & mother of Amerie Jo Garza) pleading lawmakers for gun control. Link: @nytimes
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I went to talk to families like the Quilatans who live in colonias, the impoverished settlements outside established cities, where just the ability to cool off has become a painful reminder of the social divide prevalent in border communities. #summer
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#Uvalde families mark #DayofDead in the Capitol with a march for gun control…
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I spoke with the member of Grupo Betas who came across the two bodies near the buoys in Eagle Pass, the second one inches away. “It is lamentable to see these situations. These are things that should not happen, but happen,” he told me. w @jdavidgoodman
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It was two days before the end of the school year. Miah Cerillo, a fourth grader at Robb Elementary School, and her classmates were giddy with anticipation to the summer break.  #Uvalde #Texas @nytimes
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UVALDE, Texas — Joe Costilla was mourning the loss of a cousin by marriage, a beloved teacher gunned down during the school shooting, when he spotted a large pickup truck with a logo from the nearby Domino’s pizza place on Wednesday afternoon. @nytimes
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My @nytimes article on two of the brave survivors of the #UvaldeMassacre NOW has an audio component for all of you who favor podcasts. “Noah is not the same boy. Mayah’s mother said it was “a miracle” her daughter survived at all.” ➡️ & click on 📻audio:
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#Chelsea remains on high alert past 1am. #NYPD asking residents to stay clear of windows. #ChelseaExplosion
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My colleague ⁦ @jdavidgoodman ⁩ & I went to #Uvalde last week to try & figure out how the city was coping. We found fierce unity among families of the victims. But also divisions that run deep in the majority Latino, socially conservative community.
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#Texas has been hit with an unrelenting heat wave. Nowhere is it more miserable than in low-income areas that have less access to shade and air-conditioning. “The A.C. only goes on at night, no matter how hot it gets." #Heatwave2022 #Sanantonio @nytimes
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I spent last week talking to parents & children about going back to school in 2 weeks. The answer: fear & anxiety. The horror of May 24 remains fresh for many. The ⁦ @Uvalde_CISD ⁩ ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ is adding 8-foot fences & officers ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ 📚
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Cross began the protest to demand that the district suspend school police officers for their delayed response to the May shooting, in which 19 children died. “I’m done asking,” Cross told me. “Now, I’m demanding.” @nytimes @BCross052422 #Uvalde
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@BerserkAnna @carolynkor Doesn’t drink. Doesn’t smoke. And never goes to bed angry.
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@JamesGunn @DCComics . @mattreevesLA ‘s # Batman should be part of the larger DCU 🥹. It’s called “The Batman,” not “One of the Batmans.” @JamesGunn 🦇
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I spoke with the Uvalde police chief, Daniel Rodriguez, who said a 911 caller told dispatchers that 15 people were trapped inside a moving train. "They were suffocating, they were having trouble breathing” the Chief said. Two of them died #Uvalde @nytimes
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"We won't stop until all black lives matter," aunt of #AkaiGurley after #PeterLiang 's sentence. Via @NYDailyNewsPix
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SeSe came to comfort #firstbaptistchurch mourners. “Dogs feel emotion, so they help people emotionally.” @dog_rates @dogs #sutherlandshooting #sutherlandspringstx @tristatecanine
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. @CBPSouthTexas police officers positioned in the middle of the McAllen-Reynosa International Bridge are putting gear on and keeping a close eye on the Mexican side behind a wall covered in barb wire, minutes before Title 42 is set to expire.
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Nine months after 49 migrants said they were misled & abandoned in Martha’s Vineyard, the DA in San Antonio said the review of the proposed charges by the @BexarCoSheriff will be “lengthy and labor-intensive under the best of circumstance.” #Immigration
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Bad for the diet. Good for the soul. Stopped by @McDonalds in #Uvalde to get the Lexi Burger 🍔. Today would had been her 11th birthday. 🎂💔. We memorized #LexiRubio in this recent @nytimes back to school article. 👼🏻🌤️ @kimrubio21 @TamirBenKalifa ) ⬇️
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Instead, as it started to rain on Monday, the festivities were abruptly canceled, not because of the weather, but because of something that now seems as common at this summer’s public gatherings as hot dogs and fried dough: fear. By ⁦ @SarahMaslinNir
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In interviews, some Eagle Pass residents said it has come to feel as if their own town is under siege, with state troopers stationed along the riverbanks warning those trying to cross to turn back. ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ ⁦ @GovAbbott #immigration #Tx
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Owner of #StatenIsland runaway #ponies relieved @NYPDnews brought them back home: "Wow you guys woke all of Staten Island this morning."
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Often, as hard news reporters, we get emails wishing us all kinds of unsavory demises. So it's nice to get a friendlier note for a change. Especially since I interviewed him in the midst of a tragedy 🤗 #tbt #emailgeeks #journalism #news #hardnews
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Mark Torre with the #NYPD bomb squad says someone left a shock-sensitive explosive in #CentralPark @NYDailyNews
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Claudine Roberts, one of the 4 people stabbed during a violent rampage in the subway, visited her father days before she was killed. She told him, "I love you Daddy." Mr. Roberts asked her to stay & went into another room. When he returned, she was gone.
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@DrDavidDuke from what?
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The county judge told me that the group was outside the Ozanam Center when a Range Rover barreled down upon them around 8:30 a.m. local time. t was unclear whether the driver had lost control or had intentionally run over the group. More here @nytimes
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