The Department of Justice is stepping in to launch an independent investigation into exactly what happened in the small Texas town of Uvalde as the community prepares for funerals. Colombia's next president will be a former leftwing guerrilla or a populist real-estate mogul after voters went against the establishment in the first round of elections, with a runoff set for June 19. And experts find that Americans who were already struggling with serious mental illness before COVID faced an especially uphill battle in dealing with the pandemic.