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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.
I am convinced that neither the Zika virus nor political chaos will scare any patriotic contender away from the Rio 2016 Olympics. (“Political Chaos in Brazil Makes Zika Virus least of Pre-Olympic Woes,” The iPINIONS Journal, April 8, 2016) World number one Jason Day became the latest top golfer to withdraw from August’s Rio de Janeiro… Read more.
And he leaves a stain on the reputation of yet another good woman: Attorney General Loretta Lynch described her Monday meeting with Bill Clinton aboard a private plane as ‘primarily social,’ but some Democrats are struggling to stomach the optics of the attorney general’s meeting with the former president while his wife is under federal investigation… Read more.
From day one, the UK has schemed to gain all of the benefits but sustain none of the burdens of EU membership. Specifically, it has used “opt-outs” to remain a veritable island unto itself (e.g., exploiting the single market while denying the free movement of people, which member states are otherwise obligated to allow). I’ve been… Read more.
China on Wednesday warned U.S. President Barack Obama against meeting with the Dalai Lama at the White House, saying that hosting the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could damage mutual trust. Obama has met the Dalai Lama several times before and calls the monk, who is revered by Tibetans but portrayed by Beijing as a dangerous… Read more.
I have written many commentaries lamenting the way Michael Jackson’s antic behavior and pedophile perversions upstaged his songwriting and showmanship. As it happens, my very first commentary was “Michael Jackson’s Jury of His Peers,” February 23, 2005. It includes this cynical but prescient take on his O.J.-style trial on child molestation charges: A jury has… Read more.
More Benny Hill than Winston Churchill, no? Whatever the case, he makes buffoonish Donald Trump look … er … classy. Read more.
