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BELOKHOROVKE, Ukraine — Out on the riverbank, the scene of mayhem unfolded under a baking spring sun: blown-up tanks, the detritus of pontoon bridges, heaps of branches shorn off by explosions and the bodies of Russian soldiers, some half buried in the mud. In the forest, a short walk revealed…

There is a cultural obsession nowadays with civility, with the idea that if everyone is mannered enough, any impasse or difference of opinion can be bridged. But these are desperately uncivil times. And there is nothing more uncivilized than the political establishment’s inurement to the constancy of mass shootings in…

Compared with the elementary school shooting in Texas, everything else about this week will be a political footnote. But some of the footnotes are certainly interesting. If we want to pick a theme for Tuesday’s elections, it might be that Donald Trump’s influence isn’t nearly as strong as he thinks…

Jailah Silguero, 10, was the youngest of four children, the “baby” of her family, her father said. She loved going to school and seeing her friends. On Tuesday, she was among those killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Jailah had told her father, Jacob Silguero, 35, on Monday…

To the Editor: Re “At Least 18 Children Shot Dead at School” (front page, May 25): My daughter was born three days after Sandy Hook in 2012. She has never lived in a world where terrorism hasn’t been waged on elementary schoolers. She’s cowered in a dark closet or a…

Oxford Circus in London, unusually deserted, during a lockdown in November 2020.Credit…Andrew Testa for The New York Times The report explores 16 gatherings that took place from May 2020 to April 2021, and, for the first time, lays out in stark detail the evidence of rule-breaking at the highest level…

What can the experience of some of the Sandy Hook parents tell us about what now awaits those who lost children in Uvalde, Texas? Check out our Latest News and Follow us at Facebook Original Source

The Jaffa school offered an interpretation of American history that might be described as Inception, Consummation and Corruption. Its Great Consummator was Lincoln, who restored the promise of the founding by fully establishing the “all men are created equal” absolutism of the Declaration of Independence. Its villains were John C….