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The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, which thankfully left him with only a small wound to his ear, horrified me and reminded me of two assassinations that changed my life in 1968 when I was only eight. I was shocked when my hero, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was shot dead in Memphis in April. Crying myself to sleep and praying for his family, I promised myself I would devote my life to the Civil Rights Movement and to making America a more just and equitable society for everyone. Nothing I have done can compare with King’s...

In February Angela Merkel told reporters, “Islam is not the source of terror.” This week, after Islamists tried to blow up a bus carrying a top German soccer team, Merkel told reporters that “there is no doubt” that some refugees pose a security threat. Germany, a country of 80 million, received over one million migrants and unvetted “refugees” in 2015. Chancellor Angela Merkel expected another million migrants in 2016. German leftists greet Muslim refugees to Germany with cheers. In 2016 Islamic extremists murdered 22 people in Germany in seven different attacks.

A federal grand jury investigating the governor of Puerto Rico has subpoenaed records on dozens of Philadelphia-area companies and business executives who have contributed to his past campaigns or done business on the island. Robert M. Feldman, a longtime political associate of U.S. Sen.-elect Bob Casey Jr., and 10 of his companies are among those named on federal grand jury subpoenas being delivered across the Philadelphia region and in Puerto Rico.The subpoenas ask for all company documents relating to Puerto Rico Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila. The FBI is investigating whether Vila steered government contracts to campaign contributors, or whether illegal...

-snip- Robinson explains that before they left the area his team convinced Alaska state authorities to set up nine locations that were not cleaned up, so they could monitor whatever long-term improvements were observed. “For a period of years,” John says, “those locations [that were left alone] were in much better shape than the locations that had been aggressively cleaned up. “The very aggressive way we went about it - I have to fault myself on this, because I’m the one that directed it, turned out to be a much more serious problem than the oil was. We were killing...