Minn. cop fatally shoots black man during traffic stop, aftermath ...
Philando Castile, 32, was fatally shot by a police officer at a traffic stop outside St. Paul. His girlfriend, Lavish Reynolds, and her daughter were in the car with him. Reynolds live streamed the aftermath on Facebook. Here's what you need to know. (Monica Akhtar,Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) A Minnesota traffic stop turned deadly Wednesday evening when a police officer opened fire on a black driver and killed him — less than 48 hours after another fatal police shooting in Louisiana...>> view originalBritain will have first female leader since Margaret Thatcher
LONDON — The race to be Britain’s next prime minister was whittled to two on Thursday, with Conservative Party lawmakers assuring that the country will have a female leader — the nation’s first since Margaret Thatcher stepped down more than a quarter century ago. The contest will pit the home affairs secretary, Theresa May, against Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom in a race that features contenders who were on opposite sides of last month’s European Union referendum. In a vote among 330 Tory mem..>> view originalDonald Trump is committing campaign malpractice
You can love Donald Trump. You can hate him. But what you cannot dispute is that the way he has run his campaign since winning the Republican nomination two months ago has been absolutely disastrous. Campaigns are complicated things. No one gets every piece of them right. Some candidates are great at big rallies. Some are only good at small events. Some are terrific TV communicators but bad on the stump. Some delegate well; others don't. Some never waiver from a message, while others can't seem..>> view originalYour Nationals-Mets primer: Things to look for as Washington heads ...
Lucas Giolito will start Thursday night against the Mets. (Photo by John McDonnell / The Washington Post) After their 7-4 win over the Brewers Wednesday, the Washington Nationals took the train north to a pivot point. Citi Field always seems to spit the Nationals out heading decisively in one direction or the other. The Nationals and Mets have less than a half-season remaining. Suddenly, four games against one another seem capable of changing things. The Nationals appear to be huffing and p..>> view originalTrump, seeking GOP unity, has tense meeting with Senate ...
Donald Trump arrives at RNC headquarters for a meeting with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and House Republicans on July 7 in Washington, D.C. Later in the day, Trump is scheduled to meet with Senate Republicans. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Donald Trump’s private meeting Thursday with Senate Republicans – designed to foster greater party unity ahead of the national convention in Cleveland — grew combative as the presumptive presidential nominee admonished three senators who have been critical of ..>> view originalUS jets abandoned Syrian rebels in the desert. Then they lost a ...
A rebel fighter gestures as he fires his weapon during clashes with forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on the front line of Aleppo’s Sheikh Saeed neighborhood on May 23, 2015. (Hosam Katan/Reuters) American warplanes were diverted from an offensive launched against the Islamic State last week by U.S.-backed rebels in Syria in order to bomb a more enticing target in Iraq, withdrawing air support at a critical moment and contributing to the failure of the rebel operation, accord..>> view originalThe story behind the filming of the fatal Baton Rouge police shooting ...
On July 5, two white Baton Rouge police officers fatally shot 37-year-old black man Alton Sterling. Here's what you need to know. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) The past few years have seen a marked increase in videos featuring police officers injuring or killing suspects. These videos, which appear on social media and in newscasts, have powered public outcries accusing police officers of using excessive force and worse. In most cases, these videos are captured by random bystanders wh..>> view originalThe Iraq War is still being fought in London, Washington and Baghdad
Former British prime minister Tony Blair speaks at a news conference in London after Wednesday’s release of the Chilcot report. (Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Getty Images) The much-anticipated release of the Chilcot report — the findings of a seven-year investigation into the British involvement in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq — interrupted an already frenzied British news cycle fixated on the country’s disentanglement from the European Union. Clocking in at some 2.6 million words, or five time..>> view originalBangladesh blast, gunbattle kill 4 during Eid prayers
NEW DELHI (AP) — Islamic extremists in Bangladesh hurled homemade bombs and engaged in a gunbattle with police guarding a large Eid prayer service at the end of the holy Muslim month Thursday morning. Two officers, a woman and one suspected militant were killed, while at least 12 other people were injured, officials said.At least one of the bombs exploded during the prayer attended by hundreds of thousands of people at the sprawling Sholakia grounds in the district of Kishoreganj, about 90 kilom..>> view originalSaturn's moon Titan could have the right chemistry for life
This composite image shows an infrared view of Saturn's moon Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho) Titan, Saturn's aptly named largest moon, is exactly the kind of place we want to visit: NASA describes it as "one of the most Earth-like worlds we have found to date." It has a dense atmosphere and stable lakes and rivers. Its air isn't breathable (it's almost entirely nitrogen, with a little methane thrown in instead of oxygen), and its ri..>> view original
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