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The suspected gunman behind the New Zealand mosques terror attack is believed to be a 28-year-old Australian man called Brenton Tarrant. The assault on two mosques in the South Island city of Christchurch has so far claimed the lives of 49 people, with more than 20 others currently in hospital with serious injuries. Tarrant, who is due to appear in court on Saturday, identified himself online before live-streaming himself slaying more…

The highlight of the new Hudson Yards, which officially opened today with much fanfare, is certainly the Vessel, the climbable staircase sculpture by British architect Thomas Heatherwick and Heatherwick Studio. At 150 feet tall, with 2,500 steps, 154 interconnected flights of stairs, and 80 landings, with a steel exoskeleton in a beehive shape. There is one mile of vertical climbing to be done, and we can attest, it takes a…

The Latest on global reaction to the deadly shootings in two mosques in New Zealand (all times local): 3:20 p.m. Iran’s foreign minister says bigotry in Western countries has led to the attacks on Muslims in New Zealand. In a Friday tweet Mohammad Javad Zarif said: “Impunity in Western ‘democracies’ to promote bigotry leads to this.” Zarif also said the prejudice led to “Israeli thugs entering a mosque in Palestine…

John Hudson March 15 at 12:39 PM Days before President Trump was set to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam, a mysterious incident in Spain threatened to derail the entire high-stakes nuclear summit. In broad daylight, masked assailants infiltrated North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, restrained the staff with rope, stole computers and mobile phones, and fled the scene in two luxury vehicles. The group behind the late…

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<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Politics President Donald Trump said Friday that “there should be no” report from special counsel Robert Mueller on his Russia investigation. His comments come a day after the House unanimously passed a symbolic resolution calling for public release of the report Mueller gives to the Justice Department about his probe. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tried to bring the measure up in his chamber…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Tech (This article is adapted from a forthcoming book, “Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World” by Joseph Menn) Some things you might know about Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman who just entered the race for president: The Democratic contender raised a record amount for a U.S. Senate race in 2018 and almost beat the incumbent…

Key points: Police confirm there are 49 people dead in the attack, 41 people were killed in the Deans Ave mosque, with seven killed at the Linwood mosque.

The gunman appeared to pair the shooting with the typical trolling tactics of the internet’s most far-right instigators, playing to a community of like-minded supporters online who cheered him on in real time as they watched bodies pile up. And the manifesto states plainly what usually goes unstated by internet trolls: By design, its author wanted to get everyone upset and arguing with each other. [Follow our live briefing on…

Every time I think Britain’s MPs have touched bottom, they sink lower. The House of Commons has just resolved that it will not let Britain leave the EU without explicit permission from Brussels, or, as Europhiles absurdly phrase it, that they will not let Britain “crash out” with “no deal.” With one vote, MPs have destroyed any prospect of an equitable outcome. Eurocrats now know that Britain has only two…

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Un is considering suspending talks with the United States and may rethink a ban on missile and nuclear tests unless Washington makes concessions, a senior North Korean diplomat was quoted as saying Friday. Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui blamed top U.S. officials for the breakdown of last month’s summit in Hanoi between President Donald Trump and Kim, Russia’s Tass news agency reported. “We…

” Anti-natalism,” or the radically utilitarian opposition to having children, has broken into the mainstream thanks to everybody’s favorite economist, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. In an Instagram livestream from her luxury Navy Yard apartment, the new Democratic #FreshFace entertained the ethics of having children in light of climate change. (Remember: ” like, the world is gonna end in 12 years” if we fail to pass a nonbinding resolution, including a…

New Zealand is not used to mass shootings of the kind seen at the two mosques in Christchurch on Friday that killed at least 40 people and left 48 injured. Until Friday, the biggest massacre in the country’s history happened 30 years ago, when a man named David Gray went on a shooting rampage, killing 13 people. Following the attack, the nation’s gun laws — which were first passed in…

Senators will be entirely justified when they vote later today to disapprove of President Trump’s (mis)use of supposed “emergency” powers to spend funds for a border wall that Congress did not appropriate for that purpose. The only shame is that the votes won’t be there to override his promised veto. Actually, if Senate Republicans had appropriate self-respect, Trump’s reported treatment of the vote as a “loyalty” test should make them…

PYONGYANG, North Korea – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will soon decide whether to continue diplomatic talks and maintain his moratorium on missile launches and nuclear tests, a senior North Korean official said Friday, adding that the U.S. threw away a golden opportunity at the recent summit between their leaders. Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, addressing a meeting of diplomats and foreign media, including The Associated Press, in…

The university moved swiftly to recover. Mr. Nikias succeeded Steven B. Sample as president that same year and began building the school into a fund-raising powerhouse. For the last several years, it has been one of the top universities in annual fund-raising, along with Harvard and Stanford, raising $6 billion in a recent campaign. Mr. Nikias used the N.C.A.A. sanctions as the impetus to clean house — firing the athletic…

A ramshackle compound in the desert area of Amalia, N.M. Five former residents were indicted on terror and gun charges. Brian Skoloff/AP hide caption toggle caption Brian Skoloff/AP A ramshackle compound in the desert area of Amalia, N.M. Five former residents were indicted on terror and gun charges. Brian Skoloff/AP Updated at 9:40 p.m. ET A federal grand jury in Albuquerque has indicted five residents of a rural New Mexico…

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Then the controllers observed the plane going up and down by hundreds of feet, and it appeared to be moving unusually fast, the person said. The controllers, the person said, “started wondering out loud what the flight was doing.” Two other Ethiopian flights, 613 and 629, were approaching from the east, and the controllers, sensing an emergency on Flight 302, ordered them to remain at higher altitudes. It was during…

Fired FBI agent Peter Strzok told Congress last year that the agency “did not have access” to Clinton Foundation emails that were on Hillary Clinton’s private server because of a consent agreement “negotiated between the Department of Justice attorneys and counsel for Clinton.” That agreement was revealed in newly released congressional transcripts from Strzok’s closed-door testimony at the House Judiciary Committee on June 27, 2018. When asked by then-majority general…