Facebook aims to be a ‘hostile environment’ for terror as May calls for new Internet rules

Facebook condemned Saturday’s deadly London Bridge attacks while pledging to “aggressively remove terrorist content” from its platform, as British Prime Minister Theresa May raised the specter of imposing new regulations to restrict the dissemination...

These pirates are nowhere near the Caribbean, but they’re real and wreaking havoc on the high seas

Across the world, pirates are setting sail on the high seas again, costing shippers and insurers hundreds of millions of dollars, after declining since the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama off Horn of Africa. Once contained by international policing efforts,...

Warship Named for Giffords Is Close to Being Ready for Sea

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER June 4, 2017 WASHINGTON — In January 2012, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, decided to resign her seat, a sad coda to the assassination attempt she had miraculously survived, but which left her badly...

Portland Killings Dredge Up Legacy of Racist Laws in Oregon

By KIRK JOHNSON June 4, 2017 PORTLAND, Ore. — The fatal stabbing of two good Samaritans who intervened when a man on a commuter train shouted slurs at two women — both African-American, one in Muslim dress — has reawakened bitter memories...