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Eleven wounded as someone decides to get revenge on Minnesota, Louisiana shootings. It has the feel of war, does it not? I guess we would identify the players roughly as police everywhere against police antagonists everywhere. It’s as if angry factions of Americans decided not to wait for any authority to make a declaration and just decided on their own to start fighting and killing each other. I don’t think this is what’s really happening, but it sure feels that way when you wake up to news like this out of Dallas:

A man attacked a Metrobus driver with a weapon and hijacked his bus Tuesday morning, D.C. police said. The bus then struck a pedestrian, who later died. It's not clear where the bus was taken from, but police say the bus in now stopped at a gas station in the 4300 block of Minnesota Avenue in Northeast Washington. Police say the suspect got on the bus and attacked the bus driver with a weapon. The driver managed to get off the bus, but suffered a back injury in the process. He is expected to be OK. The suspect then drove...

The Navy has decided that it will not repair the nuclear-powered submarine USS Miami after concluding that the cost of repairing damage from a fire set by a civilian worker is more than it can afford due to mandated budget cuts.