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What We're Following This Evening
Deadly explosions in Brussels, cont’d: Belgian officials updated the death toll to 34 on Tuesday evening, with more than 200…
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Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP How Belgium Tried and Failed to Stop Jihadist Attacks
Since November’s carnage in Paris, Belgian authorities have rushed to grapple with Islamist violence, but were stymied by institutional failures, short staffing, and communication struggles.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters What We Know About the Explosions in Brussels
At least 32 people are dead and more than 200 injured in blasts at the city’s airport and a metro station. ISIS claimed responsibility.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters A Supreme Deadlock
The U.S. high court hands down its first 4-4 ruling since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last month.
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Steve Nesius / Reuters Sarah Palin and the Other ‘Revolving Door’
With Palin’s next role—“TV judge”—the line between politics and reality TV has become murkier than ever.
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Gaffe Track: Gaffney Track
The candidate: Ted Cruz The gaffe: The Texas Republican recently named Frank Gaffney as a foreign-policy adviser. Gaffney is…
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Gaffe Track: Trump's Tactical Nuclear Stumble
The candidate: Donald Trump The gaffe: There were many strange moments in the GOP front-runner’s interview with the editorial…
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What We're Following This Afternoon
Deadly explosions in Brussels, cont’d: At least 32 people have been killed in the blasts at the city’s airport and…
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Desmond Boyland / AP Obama in Cuba: Time to 'Leave the Past Behind'
President Obama urges Cubans, and Raúl Castro in particular, to embrace democracy, open markets, and universal human rights.
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Mark Blinch / Reuters Rob Ford Remembered
The colorful former mayor of Toronto was battling a rare form of cancer.
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Enrique De La Osa / Reuters A Southpaw in Havana
President Obama’s historic trip to Cuba concludes with an exhibition baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national team.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters U.S. Politicians React to the Attacks in Brussels
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz offered hard-line responses, while John Kasich and Hillary Clinton called for unity.
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Mark Wilson / Getty Congress Digs In for a Turf War Over Poverty
Paul Ryan is pushing lawmakers to tackle an issue Republicans have long ignored, but all Democrats see are cuts—and a familiar foil.
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What We're Following This Morning
Deadly explosions in Brussels: Fatalities have been reported in the blasts at the city’s airport and metro stations. The BBC…
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Dennis Rivera / AP What Does Obama’s Picture in Front of a Che Mural Mean?
American conservatives are furious about images taken in Havana with the famous revolutionary in the background. Guevara might be even more upset.
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What We're Following This Evening
An attack in Bamako: Gunmen stormed a hotel in the Mali capital that had been converted into the headquarters for…
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Louis C.K. In Defense of Louis C.K.’s Artistic Portrayal of ‘Transphobia’
What information, if anything, does a trans woman owe a straight man? A Horace and Pete scene about that subject was dubbed “problematic” due solely to the identity of its writer.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters New iPhones, for the Small of Hands
On Monday, Apple did something it has never done before.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Pay and the ‘Lady Players’ of Tennis
Controversial remarks by Raymond Moore, the CEO of Indian Wells Tennis Garden, have reignited a conversation about prize money in the sport.
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Nancy Wiechec / Reuters Bernie Sanders's Global Victory Over Hillary Clinton
In the Democrats Abroad primary, the Vermont senator beat his rival by a wide margin and picked up nine delegates.