WASHINGTON – It was just another week in Donald Trump’s (white) America First campaign. At least twice, Trump alleged that people have called for a “moment of silence” for the madman who killed five police officers in Dallas at a Black Lives Matter protest. It was an incendiary accusation, bound to stir racial hatred. Like […]
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USAGavin Eugene Long The shooter who gunned down three Baton Rouge law-enforcement officers and injured three more has ties with the Nation of Islam. Gavin Eugene Long of Kansas City, Missouri apparently coincided his 29th birthday – July 17, 1987 – with his rampage. In his extensive online presence, which included tweets, self-published books, YouTube
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USAThe man who shot and killed three police officers in Baton Rouge has been identified as 29-year-old Gavin Long, two law enforcement sources told CNN. Long died in a shootout with police following the incident. He reportedly carried the attack on his birthday, having been born on July 17, 1987. Authorities believe two other shooters
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USAUPDATED President Obama was briefed Sunday on the shooting deaths of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana – the second major attack on law enforcement officers in the U.S. in 10 days. Mr. Obama, who was criticized for supporting the Black Lives Matter movement last week at a memorial service for five assassinated police
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USAFalcons minority owner Warrick Dunn, a native of Baton Rouge, La., is having a difficult time dealing with the police shootings in his former home town on Sunday. Dunn’s mother, a Baton Rouge police officer, was shot and killed when he was an 18-year senior in high school. Dunn has issued a statement about the
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USABEIRUT, Lebanon — The morning after a deadly failed coup in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s reaction was swift and wide-reaching. Thousands of military personnel suspected of involvement in the takeover bid were arrested. Fearing that the conspiracy had spread to the courts, almost 3,000 judges were fired, including 31 senior justices. They’re unlikely to
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Middle East, USAThe head of the Cleveland police union said Sunday that President Obama has “blood on his hands” after the murders of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “It is reprehensible. And the president of the United States has blood on his hands, and it will not be able to become washed off,” said
Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Sunday that Obama administration officials are doing “everything in our power” to fight terrorism, and blamed Congress for failing to support more troops on the ground. “[W]e are doing everything in our power to put additional pressure on them [the Islamic State], and I believe their days are
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Middle East, USATurkey said Sunday that some 6,000 people have been detained in a crackdown on alleged coup plotters, in the wake of the failed overthrow in which 265 lost their lives. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said in a television interview that, “the cleansing (operation) is continuing. Some 6,000 detentions have taken place. The number could surpass
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Middle East, USADALLAS — Micah Johnson left Texas for Afghanistan at 22, outgoing and eager to be a part of something important. Eight months later, Johnson returned home a different man, ostracized by many of his comrades and increasingly alone. Aside from the strain of war, Johnson’s time overseas included a pivotal episode that started with a
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USAThree police officers were shot to death Sunday in Baton Rouge, La. One shooter is dead and two others may still be at large, authorities said. Around 9 a.m., Baton Rouge police officers and East Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputies were attacked on Airline Highway, less than a mile from the Baton Rouge Police Department’s headquarters,
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USABy Jeremy Ben-Ami WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tomorrow (July 18), the Republican National Convention will kick off in Cleveland. The Democrats will start pouring into Philadelphia the week after. After almost a year of heated political maneuvering, we’re about to enter into the homestretch of 2016. In the lead-up to the conventions, the Democratic and Republican parties
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Middle East, USAISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has apparently put down a clumsy military coup, but the fallout, as he punishes those who challenged his government, will plunge Turkey’s domestic politics and its relations with the U.S. into new turmoil. A vital strategic ally to Washington, NATO member Turkey was generally calm Saturday, after a
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Middle East, USARabbi Haskel Lookstein, the rabbi who oversaw Ivanka Trump”s conversion to Judaism, has withdrawn from speaking at the Republican National Convention next week, JTA reported Friday. In a letter to members of his community, Lookstein wrote that he had accepted Ivanka Trump”s invitation to deliver an invocation at the convention “out of respect for her
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