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Before the church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Tex., there was the church massacre in Charleston, S.C. It was enough to make the Rev.

NEWTOWN, Conn.

For Democrats, signs everywhere suddenly look rosy. They won smashing victories last week in Virginia and other states.

BANGKOK — The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, seldom holds back. His antidrug crusade has led to the extrajudicial killings of thousands of people. He is fond of boasting about how he has personally killed criminals and even strangers.

HANOI, Vietnam — For the last week on the road, President Trump had been measured, disciplined and studiously scripted as he picked his way through the geopolitical minefields of Asia. Then came the weekend. In a stream of tweets on Sunday, the president said those who wanted to investigate his ties to Russia were “haters and fools,” ridiculed “crooked” Hillary Clinton’s ill-fated effort to reset relations with Russia and fired back at North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, for calling him old, saying that he could call Mr.

MANILA — President Trump said on Monday that he had a “great relationship” with President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, an authoritarian leader accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of extrajudicial killings in his nation’s war on drugs. The two leaders declined to answer questions during brief remarks to reporters on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or Asean, summit meeting in Manila. But as they sat side by side, Mr. Trump and Mr.

WASHINGTON — For eight years, the jihadist propaganda of Anwar al-Awlaki has helped shape a generation of American terrorists, including the Fort Hood gunman, the Boston Marathon bombers and the perpetrators of massacres in San Bernardino, Calif., and Orlando, Fla. And YouTube, the world’s most popular video site, has allowed hundreds of hours of Mr. Awlaki’s talks to be within easy reach of anyone with a phone or computer. Now, under growing pressure from governments and counterterrorism advocates, YouTube has drastically reduced its video archive of Mr.

WASHINGTON — Jake Williams awoke last April in an Orlando, Fla., hotel where he was leading a training session. Checking Twitter, Mr. Williams, a cybersecurity expert, was dismayed to discover that he had been thrust into the middle of one of the worst security debacles ever to befall American intelligence. Mr. Williams had written on his company blog about the Shadow Brokers, a mysterious group that had somehow obtained many of the hacking tools the United States used to spy on other countries. Now the group had replied in an angry screed on Twitter.

Jury deliberations in the bribery trial of Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez are scheduled to resume amid uncertainty over the fallout from comments made by an excused juror last week. The juror told reporters on Thursday that although many jurors appeared to be leaning toward acquittal, she anticipated a hung jury. She was excused because of a previously scheduled vacation that the judge knew about during jury selection in August. An alternate juror will take her place on Monday, and deliberations will start over.

President Donald Trump's counselor, Kellyanne Conway, said she takes sexual misconduct allegations very seriously but in the case of Alabama candidate for U.S. Senate, Roy Moore, "both sides are alleging different things." "I denounce that conduct.