Day: August 5, 2019

A woman walks past a television news screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on July 31, 2019. | Jung Yeon-je/AFP/Getty Images North Korea keeps testing weapons to get Trump’s attention. He likely won’t listen. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s North Korea’s motto these days, as it just launched its fourth set of projectiles — likely missiles — in less than…

In this undated handout provided by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, Cesar Sayoc poses for a mug shot photo in Miami.  | Broward County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images The judge determined he really didn’t aim to kill anyone. Cesar Sayoc, the man who sent pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of President Donald Trump back in October, will now spend two decades behind bars. Sayoc admitted in March to sending 16 crude bombs…

Trump wants social media companies to work “in partnership” with law enforcement to find mass shooters ahead of time. That’s easier said than done. | SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images What’s more likely is that all sorts of speech — and people — would get swept up in the technology dragnets Trump seems to be proposing. After mass shootings in both Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, this weekend, President Donald Trump called on government organizations as…

Extra troops are in India-administered Kashmir to quell potential unrest after New Delhi moved to strip the region of many of its autonomies. | Getty Images The move is part of Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist project. India’s government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has made a controversial move to usurp power from the nation’s only Muslim-majority state, potentially igniting unrest in one of the world’s most dangerous nuclear flashpoints. On Monday, Indian Home Minister…

Barack Obama speaks during a get-out-the-vote rally at the Cox Pavilion as he campaigns for Nevada Democratic candidates on October 22, 2018, in Las Vegas. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images “No other developed nation tolerates the levels of gun violence that we do.” Former President Barack Obama called for more gun control and condemned racist rhetoric — including from “our leaders” — in the aftermath of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio,…

Lori Loughlin leaving Federal Court after the college admissions scandal on April 3, 2019. | Paul Marotta/Getty Images Companies want it for inevitable scandals, but providing it can be tricky. When Lori Laughlin was arrested for allegedly paying half a million dollars to score her two daughters admission to the University of Southern California, it was a Tier 2 scandal. But when Felicity Huffman pleaded guilty to paying $15,000 to change her daughter’s SAT score,…