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At least eight 911 calls were made from classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, between 12:03pm — half an hour after the 18-year-old gunman entered the building Tuesday — and around 12:50pm, when Border Patrol agents and police finally stormed in and shot him dead.

Why it matters: Local and state law enforcement officials in Texas are facing intense criticism for why it took so long for officers to confront and stop the Uvalde shooter inside two connected fourth-grade classrooms.

With President Biden reportedly leaning toward forgiving $10,000 of student loan debt for most borrowers, prominent advocacy organizations say the plan would not go far enough to provide relief for borrowers.

Driving the news: The White House is planning to cancel $10,000 per borrower, the Washington Post reported Friday, citing three unnamed sources familiar with the discussions. The proposal — below the $50,000 that some Democrats have called for — is not yet finalized, a White House spokesperson said.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was confronted by a man at a restaurant on Friday for opposing gun-control legislation, days after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas left 19 children and two adults dead.

The big picture: The man, who was identified by the Washington Post as Benjamin Hernandez, asked the senator why he came to the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in light of the massacre.

Wherever the world's attention might be focused right now, it's not Davos, Switzerland.

Driving the news: When a major new trade pact was announced on Monday — encompassing 13 countries including the U.S., Japan, India, South Korea, and Australia — it was at a summit in Tokyo, 6,000 miles from Davos.

Good afternoon, and welcome to our deep dive from Davos, Switzerland, where Team Axios — Dave Lawler, Felix Salmon, Ina Fried, and Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston — covered the World Economic Forum's annual meeting of heads of state, CEOs, activists and celebrities.

A Texas state senator told CNN on Saturday that the Texas Department of Public Safety assured him that it will never again "stand down for any law enforcement agency" in response to an active shooter situation after a gunman killed 19 kids and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde this week.

Why it matters: Steven McCraw, director of the department, said in a briefing Friday that the police commander on scene at the time of a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde made "the wrong decision" by not ordering officers to confront the shooter sooner.

The U.S. Army awarded Raytheon Technologies a $624 million contract to produce 1,300 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to replenish its stock after sending around 1,400 of the missile systems to Ukraine in response to Russia's unprovoked invasion.

Why it matters: U.S. lawmakers voiced concerns in April that the diversion of Stinger and Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine could leave the U.S. militarily vulnerable and called on President Biden to replenish supplies.

Former President Trump called for heightened school security mechanisms at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Houston on Friday — mechanisms that Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, the site of a mass shooting that left 19 kids and two teachers dead this week, had.

Why it matters: The Uvalde tragedy and the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 dead on May 14 have intensified the debate on gun control legislation and renewed scrutiny of gun rights organizations like the NRA, gun manufacturers and lawmakers who maintain close ties with the gun lobby.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said at a press conference Friday that he was "misled" on the timeline of the events of the Uvalde school shooting.

Driving the news: "The information that I was given turned out, in part, to be inaccurate, and I'm absolutely livid about that," he said.