Outrage after some French protesters urge police suicides

With French police suicides on the rise, Paris authorities are investigating yellow vest protesters who encouraged police to kill themselves. Radical protesters have clashed with police nearly every weekend for five months on the margins of largely peaceful yellow vest demonstrations demanding more help for France's beleaguered workers, retirees and students. On Saturday, Associated Press reporters heard some protesters in Paris shouting "Kill yourselves!" at police firing tear gas and rubber projectiles and charging the crowd to contain the violence at the 23rd weekend of yellow vest demonstrations .

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  Clashes in 23rd week of Paris yellow vest demos

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  Paris police fire tear gas at demonstrators

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Trump mistakenly tweets millions dead in Sri Lanka explosions on Easter Sunday

In expressing his condolences to those impacted by the Sri Lanka blasts, President Donald Trump initially claimed incorrectly that millions had died in the South Asia country on Easter Sunday. At least 138 people were killed in what appears to be coordinated attacks as the death toll is expected to increase, according to multiple media reports. Hundreds were wounded in a series of explosions that targeted churches and hotels frequented by tourists around the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, the Associated Press and CNN report.

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  M.R. James Wrote the Scariest, Not-So-Holy Ghost Story for Easter

  The Daily Beast
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  Sri Lanka news: At least five British citizens killed in bomb attacks on hotels and churches

  The Independent

Tiger attacks Kansas zoo keeper after 'error' brought two together

A rare Sumatran tiger attacked a worker at the Topeka Zoo in Kansas on Saturday, wounding the back of her head and neck before other staff members were able to coax the animal away with food, officials said. The zoo keeper was alert and awake when she was rushed to a hospital, where she was listed in stable condition, city of Topeka spokeswoman Molly Hadfield said by phone. The victim, the primary tiger keeper at the Topeka Zoo and Conservation Center, was in the predator's outdoor habitat when she was attacked, zoo director Brendan Wiley said at a news conference.

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  Topeka Zoo keeper injured in incident with tiger

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  Zookeeper hospitalized after tiger attack at Kansas zoo

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IS claims deadly attack on Afghan ministry

The Islamic State group Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 10 people and trapped around 2,000 for hours inside the communications ministry in the Afghan capital the previous day. Four IS jihadists detonated explosives near the ministry, then entered and "battled Afghan security forces with machine guns and hand grenades for numerous hours", the group said in a statement on its social media channels. The attack in central Kabul killed seven civilians and three members of the security forces, the interior ministry said on Sunday, in a new toll after three people died of their wounds.

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  Kabul attack: Gunmen storm government ministry as blast hits Afghan capital

  The Independent
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  Gunfire Heard as Attackers Target Communications Ministry in Kabul

  Storyful

Officials: South Carolina school girl died of natural causes

South Carolina authorities said Friday that the death of a fifth grade girl at school last month was due to natural causes and not a fight with another student, which they described as lasting only seconds. Solicitor Duffie Stone said at a press conference that 10-year-old Raniya Wright died of a congenital condition called an arteriovenous malformation, a tangle of abnormal blood vessels in the brain. Raniya had been taken to the doctor after complaining of headaches about two weeks before she died.

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  Natural Causes — Not Classroom Fight — Led to Death of South Carolina 5th Grader: Prosecutor

  People
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  Mother of Raniya Wright disputes prosecutor's conclusion on 5th grader death

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How the U.S. Navy Sank Imperial Japan's Top Secret Aircraft Carrier

Warfare History Network Security, Asia The first torpedo struck farthest aft. Over the next 30 seconds three more warheads detonated against the massive aircraft carrier's hull, working their way forward. The explosions and instant flooding immediately killed scores of men, many asleep in their bunks.

Give Notre Dame a Modern Roof the Alt-Right Will Hate

When the most famous Gothic cathedral in the world burned this week—smoke and flames billowing out from the spire—I took to Twitter to join the chorus of voices who expressed their heartfelt loss. As a historian, I am all too aware of how vulnerable the remains of the Middle Ages are, and a seemingly eternal building such as Notre Dame is no exception. Should it look like something from the Middle Ages, or not?

Israeli election may have dimmed hopes for 2-state solution

The two Jewish parties that dared to talk openly about peace with the Palestinians captured just 10 seats in the 120-seat parliament, and opinion polls indicate dwindling support for a two-state solution among Jewish Israelis. "The majority of the people in the state of Israel no longer see a two-state solution as an option," said Oded Revivi, the chief foreign envoy for the Yesha settler council, himself an opponent of Palestinian independence. "If we are looking for peace in this region, we will have to look for a different plan from the two-state solution."

Illinois police officer helps teenager land a job

An Illinois police officer pulled over a teenager for an expired tag, but instead of writing him a ticket, he took the teen to a job interview.

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  Illinois cop pulls man over — and gives him a ride to his job interview instead of a ticket

  MarketWatch
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  Officer helps drive man to job interview after pulling him over for a traffic stop

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Here Are All of the 2020 Hyundai Sonata's Available Colors—Including Yellow

The new Sonata's color palette has some interesting colors beyond the typical white, gray, and black. From Car and Driver

IS hits Syria army with deadliest attacks since 'caliphate': monitor

Islamic State group jihadists have killed 35 pro-Damascus fighters in Syria, in what a monitoring group described Saturday as their deadliest operation since the fall of the "caliphate". The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four senior Syrian army officers were among the troops and allied militiamen killed in the desert east of Homs province over the past 48 hours. The Amaq propaganda arm of IS, which lost the last vestige of its "caliphate" to Kurdish-led forces last month but retains desert and mountain hideouts in both Syria and Iraq, said its fighters carried out the operation.

North Korea: US Marine arrested in connection with 'violent raid' of embassy in Madrid, sources say

A former US Marine who was allegedly involved in a raid of the North Korean embassy in Madrid has been arrested, according to sources familiar with the case. Christopher Ahn was arrested on Thursday in connection with the incident, when a group of at least 10 people stormed into the embassy, restrained and physically beat some personnel and held them hostage for hours in February. Spanish investigators have said the group stole computers and hard drives before fleeing to the United States, where they shared the stolen material with the FBI.

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  Ex-Marine arrested in North Korea embassy attack in Madrid

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  US authorities arrest man linked to N.Korea embassy raid

  AFP

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. CLAIM: Man who threw boy over Minnesota mall balcony is a Somali immigrant. THE FACTS: The man arrested in the case did not emigrate from Somalia, as posts circulating on social media said.

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  Mall of America incident: 5-year-old victim 'showing real signs of recovery'

  KABC – Los Angeles
• Family: Boy thrown from Mall of America balcony recovering

  Associated Press

The Army Passed on This Glock Gun (And It Could Be Your Gain)

The Army may have chosen Sig Sauer's P320 for its Modular Handgun System program over Glock's offerings, but that doesn't mean you have to: Glock plans on releasing a civilian variant of its 9mm Glock 19 pistol to civilian buyers this month, the company announced today. Glock's commercial pistol, dubbed the 19X, is the company's first stab at a crossover model, combining the Glock 17 frame with a Glock 19 barrel.

At Easter mass, Parisians pray for Notre-Dame's swift restoration

The archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit, began the service by drawing a parallel between the planned reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral and the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, celebrated every year by Christians at Easter. "We will rise up again and our cathedral will rise up again," he told the congregation, which included the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the head of the Paris fire service, General Jean-Claude Gallet. The mass had originally been scheduled to be held at Notre-Dame, whose spire was destroyed and its roof gutted in Monday's blaze as rescuers put their lives at risk to salvage the rest of the centuries-old cathedral and its priceless artifacts.

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  Why Did Meghan Markle Skip the Queen's Birthday Outing?

  Marie Claire
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  Easter Sunday Bombs in Sri Lanka Target Christians and Tourists, Leave Hundreds Dead

  The Daily Beast

Church apologizes after video shows cleric inviting kids to spit, slap and cut him for Easter lesson

Videos of the incident were posted to social media during a Monday afternoon after-school event held at the church at which Dempsey was speaking of Easter and the crucifixion. In one of the videos, Dempsey is seen standing still while students take turns spitting on him, some striking him, while other students are heard laughing. The mother of a youth, who reportedly employed a knife handed to him by Dempsey to cut the associate pastor at his invitation, said she was alerted to the video by a friend, according to an on-camera interview with WBNS-TV.

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  UK weather forecast: Easter temperature records could be broken as Britain's scorching weekend leaves Europe in the shade

  The Independent
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  Why Meghan Markle Didn't Join Prince Harry and the Royal Family at Easter Service

  Elle

I've warned that impeachment talk is dangerous, but the time has come: Laurence Tribe

The authority to prohibit a president's corrupt use of power, the report finds, is essential to “our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law. The report declines to reach a judgment on whether the president has committed a crime because Mueller views himself as bound by Department of Justice policy against indicting a sitting president. This does not mean that the president has not committed a crime.

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  Mueller report reveals how Donald Trump leaned on his intelligence chiefs over Russia probe

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  Rep. DeSaulnier on Mueller report fallout: American voters need to know our elections are under attack

  FOX News Videos

Journalist who covered Columbine reflects on lives unlived

Twenty years later, I still find myself doing a mental gap analysis of Columbine, though nothing can ever make anything whole. What I always come back to, which makes me dizzy, is contemplating what the world is lacking because these 12 young people and this teacher were abruptly removed from humanity's equation one April morning as the last millennium's final days waned. All because of two young men who decided that violence would be their final path forward.

Converse introduces trans-themed shoes for Pride and Twitter is happy for once

Brands sometimes go too hard during Pride season. Every once in a while, however, they get it right. The year 2019 has already brought us one *actually good* example.

Mercedes-Benz Rolls Out All its Greatest Racing Cars to Celebrate 125 Years in Motorsports

From hand-cranked antiques to modern Formula 1 cars and everything in between. From Car and Driver

Assad urges progress on Idlib deal ahead of Syria talks

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Friday called for progress on a stalled buffer zone deal around jihadist-dominated Idlib region ahead of fresh talks aimed at ending his country's eight-year war. Assad met envoy Alexander Lavrentiev from key ally Russia in Damascus to discuss the negotiations due April 25-26 in Kazakhstan. Iran and Russia are the major supporters of the Syrian regime, and along with rebel backer Turkey have sponsored repeated rounds of talks in the Central Asian nation.

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  Reuters
• Russian envoys meet Syria's Assad, discuss post-war efforts, trade

  Reuters

Northern Irish Police: Journalist's Murder Sign Of A 'New Brand Of Terrorism'

Northern Irish police said a “new brand of terrorism” was responsible for the death of a well-respected journalist who was killed last week as they announced the arrest of two teenagers in connection with the killing. During a press conference on Saturday, police in Northern Ireland announced that they had arrested two men, 18 and 19 years old, under the country's terrorism act in connection with McKee's murder. On Friday, police blamed McKee's murder on gunshot wounds fired indiscriminately, and released footage of a masked gunman firing during the riots.

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  Dissident Republican Group Marches in Dublin Two Days After Journalist Killed

  Storyful
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  Northern Ireland: Bill Clinton says he is 'heartbroken' by murder of Lyra McKee

  The Independent

Take a Look at the SW1911 Gun: Smith & Wesson's Very Own 1911 Pistol

One of the oldest gun companies in America produces its own take on one of the most exemplary handgun designs in U.S. history. The 1911 pistol was invented by prolific small arms designer John Moses Browning in the early twentieth century. Browning paired the pistol with his new .45 Automatic Colt Pistol cartridge, a large, heavy subsonic cartridge that delivered upwards of 400 foot-pounds of energy on target.