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Photo Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Welcome to a world without rules. (I want you to read this paragraph in your super-scary movie trailer voice.) Welcome to a world in which families are mowed down by illegal immigrants, in which cops die in the streets, in which Muslims rampage the innocents and threaten our…
For months now, Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies have been hammering Donald J. Trump on the air, and Mr. Trump has barely bothered to hit back at all. But as he emerges from the Republican convention, Mr. Trump is at last receiving some meaningful air support: Rebuilding America Now, one of the “super PACs”…
Updated | Just hours after Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke announced he is running for a U.S. Senate seat representing Louisiana under an “America First” campaign slogan. It’s a two-word phrase that Trump also used in his speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. “I’m overjoyed to see Donald Trump…
A brush fire that was sparked Friday afternoon exploded in size again on Sunday, scorching more than 30,000 acres north of Los Angeles and spreading an enormous plume of smoke for miles, fire officials said. Ash from burned brush fell miles away from the actual flames, and the large smoke plume spread through such a…
There’s been heated debate during the past two weeks over which of Pokémon Go’s three teams — Instinct, Mystic, and Valor — are the best. Obviously it’s Mystic, but we learned today that Team Instinct really has it rough. Designs for each of the three teams’ leaders have finally been unveiled, and the consensus is that Mystic…
KABUL, July 25 (Reuters) – Civilians are being killed and wounded in record numbers in Afghanistan, the United Nations reported on Monday, just days after one of the deadliest attacks ever in Kabul. Overall at least 1,601 civilians were killed and 3,565 wounded in the war in the first six months of 2016, the United…
At least 17 people have been killed by a car bomb in the central Iraqi town of Khalis, officials say. The explosion, about 49 miles (80km) north-east of the capital, Baghdad, was “very strong” a provincial official told a private TV station. Hospital sources said the death toll was expected to rise, Reuters reports. The…
Twelve people were injured by the blast in the city of Ansbach, three of them seriously, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said at a news conference Monday. The bomber, a 27-year-old Syrian national who was known to police, was killed, Hermann said. The attack took place at the final concert of the Ansbach Open festival,…
At least two people were killed and more than a dozen others were injured in a shooting outside of a Florida nightclub early Monday, officials said. Some of the victims were aged as young as 12, according to authorities in Fort Myers. Club Blu Google Police said that officers responded to the parking lot…