The massacre at Tree of Life synagogue unfolded over about an hour. It ended when the gunman, Robert Bowers, surrendered to police officers. Many of the 11 people who died in the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh were advanced in years, but they were the steady backbone of their congregations. President Trump’s discordant approach to national crises has thrust his leadership into the center of the national debate with about a week until the midterm elections. Robert Bowers had used anti-Semitic slurs on social media before his deadly rampage on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, but much of the rest of his life is only beginning to become clear. HIAS has assisted hundreds of thousands of people displaced by conflict or persecution, often on account of their religious or political beliefs, to rebuild their lives. Democrats in battleground Senate races, including Missouri, Arizona, Florida, West Virginia and Nevada, have embraced health care as they make their final pitches to voters. Nine days out from an already divisive midterm election, the campaign’s finale has come amid a cascade of horrors that reflected the country’s fault lines. It’s always hard to know how major news events may affect an election. This time is no exception, with crosscurrents of grief, faith, fear and gun politics. Brad Parscale believes he is uniquely equipped to manage the potentially fractious relationships inside the campaign and sell voters on the idea of sticking with an unorthodox president. Relatives recalled the troubled life of a man who “just started getting weirder,” and sent him a plea to accept mental health care. He is due in court on Monday. After Pittsburgh, Americans need to ask more of their leaders, and of each other. The Pittsburgh massacre is only the latest, worst instance of rising anti-Semitism. Americans of conscience must now push back. The many ways that the president, his family and his aides are lining their own pockets. Trump has flirted with the deepest racists and Nazis and it has not gone unnoticed, least of all by them. The man accused of the synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh seemed fixated on HIAS, the refugee organization that helped save my family. My wife is Polish Catholic from Buffalo. I am a Jew from Boston. In Pittsburgh we found remarkable religious harmony that one terrible act of violence will not break. The premier Greenwich Village club is getting into the late-night programming wars at a time when it has been under fire for Louis C.K. appearances. The deal is a big move to bring more software developers under IBM’s wing and hints at a bigger push into cloud computing. The show was originally shown on Thursday. But the remarks, which were linked to anti-Semitism, created a firestorm online when the show was shown again on Saturday. Universal’s slasher sequel was No. 1 at the box office for a second weekend, and trails only the 1978 original in earnings when adjusted for inflation. A day after Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha died in a crash outside Leicester City’s stadium, fans gathered to pay tribute to a man known for his generosity. The other ticket was sold in Iowa. The winners will split the nearly $688 million jackpot, the fourth-largest lottery prize in the country’s history. Tesla is relying on showrooms to sell electric cars, solar roofs and batteries. But a California rival has made inroads into the residential business. Justice Kavanaugh returned over the weekend for his high school reunion. His conduct when he was a student there was central to his Supreme Court confirmation battle. Elizabeth Coppin spent her youth in abusive schools and workhouses. Now, a U.N. committee on torture has agreed to hear her allegations of systematic human rights violations. Sleep deprivation is the invisible ceiling to how good life can be. New research shows the animal’s muscles are incredibly efficient for its size, more so than other large animals. Your father was gasping for breath. The hospice care providers had not yet trained you in how to respond. So you called 911. More Recent Articles |
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