Killing in Britain spawns a reckoning over rhetoric on eve of EU vote
BIRSTALL, England — The killing of a promising young British lawmaker who advocated passionately for refugees spawned a national reckoning Friday over a political culture that has turned increasingly intolerant in the final days of a bitter campaign to determine whether the country leaves the European Union. The soul-searching spawned by the death of 41-year-old Jo Cox has the potential to reset the tone of the E.U. debate and could influence its outcome when the country votes Thursday. Any ov..>> view originalTroubled. Quiet. Macho. Angry. The volatile life of the Orlando shooter.
People who knew Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen describe him as a man who had many demons and potentially led a double life. (Erin Patrick O'Connor,Jayne Orenstein,Thomas LeGro/The Washington Post) After a lifetime of angst and embarrassment, Omar Mateen was on the verge of realizing a longtime dream in the spring of 2007. He was about to graduate from a Florida training academy that would put him on a path to being a police officer. He had left behind his youth as a pudgy, often-b..>> view originalDozens of GOP delegates launch new push to halt Donald Trump
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Special Operations forces on a mission in Afghanistan. (Photo U.S. Army released) The U.S. military now plans to keep a small force of Special Operations advisers in Yemen — deployed in April for a limited, short-term operation — for the foreseeable future, a step toward reestablishing a counterterrorism mission that was shut down last year by civil war. U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive operations, said the team of about a dozen men would assist tro..>> view originalLaw enforcement searching for former Guantanamo detainee in ...
Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab, 43, outside his new home in Montevideo. (Joshua Parlow/The Washington Post) A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner transferred to Uruguay in 2014 has vanished and is believed to have left the country under uncertain circumstances, U.S. officials said. Law enforcement is now searching for the former detainee, Syrian national Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab, in Brazil, a U.S. official said. “We are coordinating with officials in Brazil and Uruguay to determine his whereabouts,”..>> view originalInside Trump's financial ties to Russia and his unusual flattery of ...
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Kansas City Royals’ Salvador Perez hits a solo home run off Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Michael Fulmer during the sixth inning of a baseball game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, June 17, 2016. (Orlin Wagner/Associated Press) By Dave Skretta | AP June 18 at 12:16 AM KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Even the remarkable patience of Royals manager Ned Yost has been challenged by young pitcher Yordano Ventura, who has all the makings of a star if he could ever put everything together. ..>> view originalSidwell Friends School bans clothing bearing Washington Redskins ...
Sidwell Friends School in Washington. (Mary F. Calvert/For The Washington Post) Washington’s elite Sidwell Friends School has banned clothing featuring the name and logo of the Washington Redskins football team, school officials said Friday. Ellis Turner, an associate head of school at Sidwell, a private school founded on Quaker principles, said that the ban was conceived as part of a student-led revision of the school’s dress code this year. “This spring, students proposed to make the wear..>> view original
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