One dead as car strikes crowds amid protests of white nationalist ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Chaos and violence turned to tragedy Saturday as hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members — planning to stage what they described as their largest rally in decades to “take America back” — clashed with counterprotesters in the streets and a car plowed into crowds, leaving one person dead and 19 others injured. Hours later, two state police officers died when their helicopter crashed at the outskirts of town. Officials identified them as Berke M.M. Ba..>> view originalNationals' Bryce Harper leaves 3-1 win with knee injury, to undergo ...
Bryce Harper left in pain Saturday. (Greg Fiume/Getty Images) Nationals Park went silent in an instant. The thousands in attendance – so excited moments earlier to watch baseball after enduring a three-hour, one-minute rain delay — were in shock. Bryce Harper, the brightest star on a Washington Nationals roster full of them, was on the dirt behind first base holding his left knee in the first inning of the Nationals’ 3-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night. He was in agon..>> view originalU-Va. product Sean Doolittle on Charlottesville rally: 'It's the worst ...
Sean Doolittle played baseball at U-Va. for three seasons. (Gary A. Vasquez/USA TODAY Sports) Sean Doolittle wrestled with sharing his thoughts on social media as he watched torch-bearing white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and Ku Klux Klan members march through Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, where he went to school for three years, on Friday night and all day Saturday. The new Nationals closer isn’t afraid to voice his views, and while NBA and NFL players have increasingly ente..>> view originalTrump babbles in the face of tragedy
One of the difficult but primary duties of the modern presidency is to speak for the nation in times of tragedy. A space shuttle explodes. An elementary school is attacked. The twin towers come down in a heap of ash and twisted steel. It falls to the president to express something of the nation’s soul — grief for the lost, sympathy for the suffering, moral clarity in the midst of confusion, confidence in the unknowable purposes of God. Not every president does this equally well. But none ha..>> view originalStephen Strasburg to pitch for Potomac on rehab assignment Monday
Stephen Strasburg will pitch in a game on Monday. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) Stephen Strasburg, inching closer to a return from the disabled list, will take the next step Monday when he goes on a rehab assignment to start for Class A Potomac. Nationals pitching coach Mike Maddux said Strasburg is scheduled to log five innings or 75 pitches. Earlier, Strasburg said the goal is to emerge ready to pitch for the Nationals next. If he is deemed ready, Strasburg could return as early a..>> view originalUsain Bolt's illustrious career ends in tears after cramp downs him in ...
This is only the fourth time in 24 championship races that Usain Bolt has not topped the podium. (Tim Ireland/Associated Press) It was a heartbreaking ending to an outstanding track and field career for Usain Bolt on Saturday at the IAAF World Championships in London. Running the final leg of the men’s 4×100 relay for Jamaica, Bolt failed to finish when a cramp in his left hamstring led him to pull up just after teammate Yohan Blake handed him the baton. Bolt collapsed on the track, as the ..>> view original5 dead after FDA-approved obesity treatment that places silicone ...
An overweight woman sits on a chair. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The Food and Drug Administration is investigating the sudden deaths of five people who had undergone an obesity treatment that places an inflated silicone balloon in their stomach. All deaths happened within a month of the procedure, the FDA said in a letter earlier this week to health-care providers. Three people died just one to three days later. The agency, however, cautioned that it has yet to determine whether the devices or t..>> view originalAfter Charlottesville, will white pastors finally take racism seriously?
Several hundred white nationalists carrying torches marched in a parade through the University of Virginia campus Friday night. (Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post) Last night, white supremacists assembled in Charlottesville for a public demonstration of hate. They held torches and chanted phrases such as “White lives matter!” and “Jews will not replace us!” Following an event that the city’s mayor called an “unsanctioned and despicable display of visual intimidation,” white pastors ha..>> view originalWho is Kim Jong Un and what will he decide to do?
SEOUL — If North Korea goes ahead with its threat to fire ballistic missiles toward the U.S. territory of Guam, the order will come from Kim Jong Un himself. The officials in charge of North Korea’s missile program could complete their preparations by next week and would then wait for the 33-year-old leader to decide what to do next. Will Kim give the order to fire, potentially inviting retaliation from an American president who has his military “locked and loaded”? This is not a question of..>> view originalFirst woman in Navy SEAL training pipeline drops out
Military history was made as two women passed the U.S. Army's grueling 62-day Ranger Course in Fort Benning, Ga. (Reuters) When 1st Lt. Shaye Haver and 1st Lt. Kristen Griest became the first women to complete grueling Army Ranger training — among the most intense and demanding that the military has to offer — the Army heralded it as proof that every soldier could reach her full potential amid a growing call for equality. But with the strides made by women in uniform, there have also bee..>> view original
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