Monday, July 4, 2016

Monday's Headlines: ISIS’s ambitions are growing even as its territory shrinks

Clinton's FBI interview only compounds her trust problem; Trump borrows an image from the white supremacist movement — again; Near Russia's border with the Baltics, soldiers on both sides practice for war; UAE warns travelers not to wear traditional dress after Emirati visitor is arrested in Ohio;
 
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ISIS's ambitions are growing even as its territory shrinks
The slaughter of civilians in Istanbul, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Baghdad over the past week reveal two possible patterns: that strikes beyond the caliphate's borders are becoming more frequent and are being conducted by gangs of assailants, instead of an individual assailant.
Clinton's FBI interview only compounds her trust problem
Both parties' front-runners are deeply unpopular, but polls and focus groups indicate Clinton elicits a more visceral mistrust, and her interview with the FBI has only heightened the whiff of suspicion surrounding her and the email scandal.
 
Trump borrows an image from the white supremacist movement — again
The image the presumptive GOP nominee used to criticize Hillary Clinton marked at least the fifth time Donald Trump's Twitter account shared a meme from the racist "alt-right" movement.
 
Near Russia's border with the Baltics, soldiers on both sides practice for war
Any attack on the Baltics has the potential for far more global danger than Russia's intervention in Ukraine, since the United States and other members of NATO committed to defend the region when Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined the military alliance in 2004.
 
UAE warns travelers not to wear traditional dress after Emirati visitor is arrested in Ohio
A man in a white headscarf and a full-length white robe was accosted by police at gunpoint and handcuffed outside a hotel entrance while he was speaking on his phone in Arabic. 
 
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