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The vicious Bastille Day attack in the French city of Nice that killed at least 84 people was an act of terrorism, France’s President Francois Hollande said early Friday. The driver, identified as a 31-year-old French Tunisian, crashed his truck into a crowd of people who were watching fireworks. He plowed the vehicle-turned-weapon forward for… Read more.
One of the many things that distress me about politics in America today is the extent to which erstwhile intelligent people spew out viral talking points as informed thought. This herd-like mentality was on full display yesterday. That’s when commentators across the political spectrum began parroting the same condemnation of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader… Read more.
The U.S. will slow the pace of its troop drawdown in Afghanistan, leaving 8,400 troops there when President Barack Obama completes his term, Obama announced Wednesday in a blunt acknowledgment that America will remain entangled there despite his aspirations to end the war. In a statement at the White House, Obama said the security situation in… Read more.
Theresa May is set to become the UK’s next prime minister after Andrea Leadsom pulled out of the contest to become Conservative Party leader. The timing of the handover of power from David Cameron looks set to be after PM’s questions on Wednesday. Mrs Leadsom, who campaigned to leave the EU, said the UK needed… Read more.
In “Lone-Wolf Gunman Terrorizes Los Angeles,” November 5, 2013, I despaired not only that a lone gunman can wreak unspeakable terror, but also that there’s nothing anyone can do to stop such “lone wolves” from doing so. This has been borne out on far too many occasions, including just weeks ago in Orlando, where a lone… Read more.
Snipers shot and killed five police officers ‘ambush-style’ during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, according to Dallas police Friday. At least six other police officers and one civilian were also injured in the deadliest day for police in the U.S. since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Dallas Police Chief David Brown said… Read more.
The U.S. Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation Wednesday into the videotaped police killing of a black man who authorities say had a gun as he wrestled with two white officers on the pavement outside a convenience store. Alton Sterling, 37, was confronted by police on Tuesday after an anonymous caller said he had threatened… Read more.
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The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said on Tuesday that the bureau would not recommend criminal charges in Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information, lifting an enormous legal cloud from her presidential campaign, hours before her first joint campaign appearance with President Obama. But Mr. Comey rebuked Mrs. Clinton as being ‘extremely careless’ in using a… Read more.
Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II and who, more than anyone else, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the world’s conscience, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. It was this speaking out against forgetfulness and violence that the… Read more.
