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WASHINGTON — One lasted only 24 days as President Trump’s national security adviser, done in by his lack of candor about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador. Another has been hauled in front of a federal grand jury investigating Russia’s interference in the election. A third has pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents about his own contacts with Russians. Such is the fate of some of the earliest foreign policy advisers that Donald J. Trump announced with great fanfare in early 2016, a time when he was closing in on the Republican presidential nomination.

There are fewer sounds more defiant than beating drums. And the drums beat on at the annual Village Halloween Parade in Manhattan on Tuesday night despite the attack that killed eight people less than a mile from the parade route hours before.

The screams seemed too vivid from the start, too visceral to belong to crowds celebrating a crisp and sunny Halloween in Lower Manhattan.

Eight people were killed on Tuesday 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 jumped out and was shot by a police officer, the authorities said. Law enforcement officials said that as the attacker ran from the truck, he was heard yelling, “God is great” in Arabic. • Officials called it a terrorist attack, but Gov. Andrew M.

Sayfullo Saipov’s arrival in the United States in 2010 began unceremoniously in Ohio. “My dad introduced him as, ‘He’s new to the United States, and he’s going to stay with us,’ ” said Bekhzod Abdusamatov, 22. Mr. Saipov, the suspect in the terrorist attack in Lower Manhattan that killed eight people on Tuesday, arrived from Tashkent — the Uzbek capital and its largest city — knowing little English, Mr.

A driver plowed a pickup truck down a crowded bike path along the Hudson River in Manhattan on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring 11 before being shot by a police officer in what officials are calling the deadliest terrorist attack on New York City since Sept.

A driver plowed a pickup truck down a crowded bike path along the Hudson River in Manhattan on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring 11 before being shot by a police officer in what officials are calling the deadliest terrorist attack on New York City since Sept.

The Virginia gubernatorial election is now officially a week away, and a new ad from a Democratic group in the state is again sparking a bitter war of words between the two campaigns vying for the Commonwealth’s top office. The minute-long ad -- entitled "American Nightmare" -- from the Latino Victory Project features a pickup truck adorned with a Confederate flag and an Ed Gillespie bumper sticker driving aggressively through the neighborhood chasing young minority children fleeing in terror. The ad drew swift condemnation from

Facebook, one of the world’s largest social media networks, will reveal for the first time on Tuesday that Russian-linked content may have reached as many as 126 million people across the platform during the 2016 U.S.

White House chief of staff Marine Corps general, did not elaborate on how the Civil War could have been prevented through compromise. His comments echoed those of President Donald Trump, who has pushed back against the removal of Confederate monuments, including those honoring Lee. “This week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down.