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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers released scores of political ads on Wednesday purchased by Russian agents on Facebook and Twitter that showed the extent of the Kremlin’s attempts to polarize the American voting public on issues like race, police abuse and religion. Russia-linked actors created accounts with names like Blacktivists and Back the Badge aimed at voters concerned about police relations with their communities, an

ROSARIO, Argentina — Their big trip to New York had been decades in the making. Thirty years ago, when they were all still high school students in this industrial city in Argentina, 10 young men promised to celebrate their reunion somewhere in style. “In 30 years, we have to go on a trip,” said Cristian Ciancia, a fellow graduate, recalling the pledge. The friends eventually settled on New York, but the cost was too high.

The terrorist attack in New York quickly turned into a debate over immigration policy after President Trump revealed Wednesday that Sayfullo Saipov, the man accused of killing eight people, had benefited from an obscure program known as the diversity visa lottery. Mr.

Mass killings often touch off anguished discussions about what constitutes terrorism. (Our Interpreter columnists addressed these issues in their most recent column).

In the hours before the coordinated attacks in Paris two years ago, a 10-man unit of Islamic State militants car-pooled to the city, where they shared hotel rooms before strapping on suicide belts. Weeks later, the Islamic State released a video eulogizing them as “lions,” and sharing clips of each fighter pledging allegiance to the militant group, also known as ISIS. Each fighter, that

Sayfullo Saipov left home in 2010, just after he celebrated his 22nd birthday and won the lottery to come to America. He never looked back, never again saw his hometown of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, and never stopped moving. Mr. Saipov drove a semi-truck for a living, logging tens of thousands of miles back and forth across the country, from Denver to Detroit, from Canton, Mass., to Salt Lake City.

Eight people were killed on Tuesday, and 12 injured when a rented pickup truck plowed down a bike lane that runs along the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan, officials said. The pickup smashed into a school bus before the driver, Sayfullo Saipov, a New Jersey truck driver who immigrated from Uzbekistan, jumped out and was shot by a police officer, the authorities said. Law enforcement officials said that as Mr.

Sayfullo Saipov sped a rented truck down nearly a mile of a Hudson River bike path on Tuesday afternoon, killing eight people and injuring 12 more, before crashing in front of Stuyvesant High School in TriBeCa. Then he began to run. But at Chambers Street, there was Officer Ryan Nash. Officer Nash fired nine shots at Mr. Saipov, ending the worst terrorist attack in New York City since Sept. 11, 2001. The police commissioner, James P.

WASHINGTON — President Trump touched off a sharply partisan debate over some of the most divisive issues in American life on Wednesday as he cited this week’s terrorist attack in New York to advance his agenda on immigration and national security while assailing Democrats for endangering the country. A day after an

WASHINGTON — President Trump touched off a sharply partisan debate over some of the most divisive issues in American life on Wednesday as he cited this week’s terrorist attack in New York to advance his agenda on immigration and national security while assailing Democrats for endangering the country. A day after an