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On Easter Sunday, eight bombs went off across Sri Lanka, killing at least 207 people including 35 foreigners. The attacks targeted churches and luxury hotels. People attending Easter services in churches in Kochchikade, Negombo, and Batticaloa were targeted during the attacks. Another bomb attack was reported in Katuwapitiya, where 50 people were killed in St. Sebastian’s Church. Later attacks were also reported in the cities of Dematagoda, Colombo, and Dehiwala….

On this Easter Sunday, Christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ following his crucifixion. For Catholics in Paris, the holiday is especially poignant this year, as the Cathedral of Notre Dame stands scorched and scarred from a fire on April 15—a reminder of the impermanence of all things, even the most seemingly enduring of edifices.  But there is also cause for celebration. Contemporary events mirrored religious history. The…

Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said President Trump will be emboldened if congressional Democrats, fearing a political backlash, “do nothing” in the wake of the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.  “If we do nothing here, what is going to happen is that the president is going to be emboldened. He’s going to be emboldened because he’s said, ‘Well, I got away…

Fighting at the very top The country has also faced political tensions at the top. An attempt to topple the prime minister last year resulted in a protracted constitutional crisis that threatened to break into violence. For a brief period, the country had two declared prime ministers at the same time. President Maithripala Sirisena fired the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, last October. In his stead, he appointed the former president…

TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) – The FBI on Saturday said it had arrested Larry Hopkins, the leader of an armed group that is stopping undocumented migrants after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border into New Mexico. The arrest came two days after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) accused the group of illegally detaining migrants and New Mexico’s Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered an investigation. Hopkins, 69, also known as Johnny…

Extremism has grown in Sri Lanka Brahma Chellaney, a professor of strategic studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, said that radical Islamist groups had been quietly growing in influence for years in Sri Lanka, in the nearby Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the nearby island nation of the Maldives. Mr. Chellaney said that it was unexpected that the attackers had the confidence to raid…

Paris, France – Holding signs that read “What about the poor?” and chanting “Justice for all,” France’s yellow vest protesters, ignoring the displays of unity by the French political class in the wake of the Notre Dame fire, marched through the streets of Paris and other cities on Saturday, vowing to persevere in what they called “Ultimatum 2”. “These [protests] are very important for social justice,” said Jean-Baptiste Redde at…

David A. Fahrenthold April 20 at 6:08 PM Democrats in the House — and on the 2020 campaign trail — are divided about whether to start impeachment proceedings against President Trump, following a report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III that detailed Trump’s efforts to hinder Mueller’s investigation. The most compelling practical argument against such an effort is that it is unlikely to succeed. That’s because the decision on…

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wants members of a volunteer militia group arrested for detaining immigrants at gunpoint and impersonating U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Members of the United Constitutional Patriots, a conservative group in New Mexico, unofficially patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in their home state and detain immigrants crossing the border. This week, the group detained nearly 300 people, including families with young children, near Sunland Park, as recorded in a…

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Video Press loves Romney’s Trump blast The release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe report has some journalists in apology mode, saying they paid too little attention to Mitt Romney’s 2012 observations about the Kremlin’s threat to U.S. interests. Back in 2012, Senator Romney. R-Utah, was running for president. And he tagged Russia as the United States’ greatest geopolitical foe. Back then, Romney “was broadly mocked” over that position, New York Times…

What made Notre Dame’s structure so unique is also what made it so vulnerable to fire, and why it burned so quickly. Just the FAQs, USA TODAY

Video With the Mueller report behind the Trump administration, how do they move forward and focus on 2020? 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Saturday doubled down on her call for the House to open impeachment proceedings against President Trump in the wake of the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report — even as others in her party appear wary of such a push. “I know…

A set of motorbikes are set on fire during a yellow vest demonstration in Paris on Saturday. Protesters are marching to remind the government that rebuilding the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral isn’t the only problem the nation needs to solve. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Francisco Seco/AP hide caption toggle caption Francisco Seco/AP A set of motorbikes are set on fire during a yellow vest demonstration in Paris on Saturday. Protesters are…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — City officials say a tiger mauled a zookeeper at the Topeka Zoo in northeastern Kansas. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the incident happened around 9:30 a.m. Saturday, when a Sumatran tiger named Sanjiv attacked the worker in a secured, indoor space. Topeka Zoo director Brendan Wiley says the zookeeper was awake and alert when she was taken by ambulance to a hospital. Wiley said he did…

The Franklin Middle School parking lot sits barren as schools remained closed for the day due to the Sol Pais manhunt Wednesday morning April 17, 2019. All Greeley-Evans District 6 schools will be open on Thursday. (Michael Brian/mbrian@greeleytribune.com)ClosedSchools-GDT-041719-2 John Gates has been in the business of school safety for 16 years, but he’s been monitoring public safety for more than 40. He was a Greeley Police officer before joining the…

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President Donald Trump soured on former White House counsel Don McGahn for his role in revealing how Trump tried to impede the special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, according to a Washington Post report published Friday. According to a redacted report on Mueller’s findings, McGahn disclosed that Trump ordered the attorney to call then-acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire the special counsel. “Mueller has to go,” McGahn recalled Trump…