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Former Rabbi of Targeted Pittsburgh Synagogue Speaks Out

Rabbi Chuck Diamond, a former Rabbi at Tree of Life Synagogue.AP/Gene J. Puskar Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Chuck Diamond heard there had been a shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life congregation, he started heading right over. He was stopped at a police barricade several blocks away, as investigators on…

Watch Wolf Blitzer Speak Out On How CNN Was Targeted

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Three days after a pipe bomb had been mailed to the CNN headquarters in New York City, Wolf Blitzer—one of the cable news network’s most prominent anchors—took to air to affirm that the attempted attack had not intimidated him or his colleagues from continuing to perform their…

11 Dead Following Shooting at a Pittsburgh Synagogue

First responders surround the Tree of Life Synagogue where a shooter opened fire Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. Gene J. Puskar/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update, 4:20 pm ET: Local officials confirm that 11 people were killed and six were injured—including four police officers—in the shooting at Tree of Life synagogue on…

What’s Really Needed to Fight Climate Change Is Money, and Trump Will Not Contribute a Cent

Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Under the 2015 Paris climate accord, 195 national governments committed to curbing carbon emissions to mitigate climate change. After the Trump administration…