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WASHINGTON — The United States and European allies launched strikes against Syrian targets, President Trump announced on Friday, seeking to punish President Bashar al-Assad for a suspected chemical attack near Damascus that killed more than 40 people.Mr. Trump said Britain and France had joined the United States in the strikes, which he said were underway.“These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead,” Mr. Trump, in a televised nighttime address from the White House Diplomatic Room, said of the Syrian attacks last weekend that he blamed on Mr. Assad.He said the strikes of precision...

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Via the Daily Caller, the exciting — I mean it! — conclusion to this weekend’s mystery about whether Lerner was thinking of testifying after all. Answer: Nope. She refused again, which I guess settles the question of whether she inadvertently waived her Fifth Amendment privilege last year by delivering an opening statement before Issa’s committee before suddenly clamming up. At the time, Issa thought that statement constituted a waiver; so did Alan Dershowitz. Maybe the committee decided it wasn’t worth their time litigating the issue. Riddle me this, though: Why don’t they just agree to grant her immunity for her...

BOSTON —Three more people have been taken into custody in connection with the Marathon bombing case, according to Boston police. Two of those in custody, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both originally from Kazakhstan, were friendly with bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, according to the men's attorney. The third suspect has not been named. ABC News reports that the three are college students who may have helped the Tsarnaev brothers after the bombings by throwing away possible evidence, including a backpack full of fireworks that was in the University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth dorm room of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The three people are expected...