Taken separately, the stories of Christopher Garnier and Capt. Kimberley Fawcett are upsetting and concerning for different reasons. However, when the two stories are placed side by side and viewed together, the situation becomes truly outrageous. Christopher Garnier is a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for the brutal strangling death of 36-year-old off-duty police […]

Michael Cohen put his chips on, and faith in, someone who didn’t deserve it. He was dazzled. He was entertained. He wanted a patron. He needed a guide. So he disregarded all the warning signs, ignored all the bad stuff. It was so much easier to believe. At one point or another, haven’t many of […]

Earlier this year, the retired astronaut Scott Kelly posted a harmless tweet quoting Winston Churchill’s famous line, “In victory, magnanimity.” Left-wing Twitter went berserk, and Kelly felt obliged to grovel. “Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill,” he wrote. “My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. A covert social media drive. A letter quietly circulated around Congress. A partnership with a secretive organization financed by millions of corporate dollars. Energy industry giants and conservative groups have joined forces to aggressively push President Trump’s rollback of […]

To the Editor: Re “May Retains Post, but E.U. Exit Plan Faces Bleak Path” (front page, Dec. 13): Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain speaks of “delivering the Brexit that people voted for.” But the Brexit that people voted for was always an impossible fantasy premised on false assurances that they could, as Boris Johnson, […]

To the Editor: Re “Anti-Zionism Isn’t the Same as Anti-Semitism,” by Michelle Goldberg (column, nytimes.com, Dec. 7): If anti-Zionism isn’t a form of anti-Semitism, what is? To deny the Jewish people, of all the peoples on earth, the right to self-determination surely is discriminatory, all the more so 71 years after the United Nations General […]

Among a governor’s many powers, none is more significant than signing a death warrant. It’s a terrible responsibility, hard even to imagine until you’re asked to carry it out, as we were. But we became convinced that it wasn’t something a civilized society should ask of its leaders. That’s why we halted executions in our […]

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Less than two weeks before Christmas, Santa took some time out of his busy schedule to visit kids at the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton. With Rudolph and the other reindeer resting up in the North Pole, Santa had some help from the 408 Squadron and arrived by military helicopter. “This is a great opportunity. […]

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s fourth-largest airline, Avianca Brasil, has been in talks for a much-needed cash injection since before it filed for bankruptcy on Monday, German Efromovich, whose family controls the carrier, told Reuters. Efromovich, the controlling shareholder of better-known airline Avianca Holdings SA AVT_p.CN said in a phone interview on Thursday that he […]