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Article snippet: (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • It is the worst terrorist attack in Spain since 2004. A van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas, a popular boulevard in Barcelona, yesterday around 5:30 p.m., killing at least 13 people in an attack for which the Islamic State claimed responsibility. At least 80 others were injured. Seven people were injured in a car-ramming attack in the seaside resort town of Cambrils, the Catalan authorities said on Friday. Five assailants were shot and killed, the police said. _____ • The Spanish police have taken three people into custody in connection with the attacks. They also said they were investigating a possible link to a gas explosion the previous night that killed one person. This was at least the sixth time in the past few years that assailants used vehicles as deadly weapons to strike a European city. King Felipe VI will join mourners in a minute of silence today near the site of the attack. _____ • President Trump condemned the attack in a Twitter post. “Be tough & strong, we love you!,” he wrote. In a following post, he praised the counterterrorism tactics of a U.S. general in the Philippines in the early 1900s. Most historians say that the methods were unproven legends and that even if they were used, they did not work. One of our most-read stories was a frank conversation between Stephen Bannon, the president’s chief strategist, and a reporter. We ex... Link to the full article to read more