The morning rush-hour blast was triggered by explosives hidden in a water tank and injured more than 460 people, officials said. An entire city block was decimated, with office buildings left in rubble and charred vehicles strewn across the road in one of the deadliest single attacks to hit Kabul.
The opioid epidemic that has caused so much pain in the United States is also savaging Mexico — the source of 90 percent of America’s heroin — by creating a cycle of violence between trafficking gangs and citizen militias. Along the country’s heroin highway, the social breakdown is plain to see. “This is a land without law,” said one man who works in the region.
President Trump is seeking momentum for his health-care and tax initiatives and is increasingly incensed that his agenda is bogging down in the Senate, White House officials say. But critics say the lack of progress is partly a reflection of Trump’s inability to persuade lawmakers to follow his lead.
Debrief
The president’s staffers often exaggerate on his behalf — such as when press secretary Sean Spicer insisted that Trump’s inauguration crowd was the largest ever — but Tuesday’s news conference seemed to venture into new territory.
The Energy 202
Analysis If President Trump pulls the U.S. from the agreement, it would be the second time in two decades that the United States has negotiated, signed but then spurned a major international climate pact following a change of party control in the White House.
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The Health 202
Analysis Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell knows that ditching the legislative filibuster would only hurt the Republicans in the long run.
People close to Trump have tried to distance the president from the international businessman and energy consultant, insisting that the two never met and that Page played a limited role in the campaign.
Fact Checker
Analysis The president continues to repeat inaccurate campaign rhetoric.
Bryan Moles, 43, was arrested in his room at the hotel, which sits five blocks from the White House.
Griffin apologized for the grisly photo that showed her holding a prop of the president's blood-covered head, saying: "I beg for your forgiveness."
While the Pacific Northwest city has seen months of demonstrations that have ended in rowdy protests, the slayings of two men who were slashed after confronting a man screaming anti-Muslim slurs has shaken this liberal enclave.
A century ago, a series of deadly shark attacks by the "Matawan Man-Eater" shook New Jersey and prompted President Wilson to declare war on sharks.
