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As safety officials opened an inquiry into a Pennsylvania accident, a witness to the fatal Florida Tesla crash described a car that did not slow down even after impact.
Gretchen Carlson, who has not shied away from discussing sexual harassment, is suing Roger Ailes over his alleged conduct toward her.
Fallout from the F.B.I. inquiry is likely to affect several State Department advisers who facilitated the former secretary’s reliance on a private server.
The Italian government wants to spend $45 billion to prop up banks laden with bad loans. That could increase the strain caused by “Brexit.”
The president, reacting to a grisly video that showed Mr. Castile being shot by the police in Minnesota, asked the nation to confront racial disparities in law enforcement.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 6, 2016, covering July 7, 2016.
Drake
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Beyonce
Original Broadway Cast
Radiohead
2016Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen, killing five of them, in downtown Dallas, Texas at the end of a protest of recent police killings of Black men. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.[†]
On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five, injuring nine others, and wounding two civilians. Johnson, a 25-year-old Army Reserve Afghan War veteran, was angry over white police shootings of black men. He shot the officers at the end of a protest against the recent killings by police of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]