CHAPEL HILL SHOOTINGS
Outpouring: Thousands showed up for a candlelight vigil last night to honor the three victims of a shooting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. All three victims were Muslim.
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YEMEN UNREST
Unstable situation: The U.S. Embassy staff is out of Yemen, but U.S. Special Forces are staying behind to conduct counter-terrorism operations. The U.S., British and French embassies all pulled up stakes this week as the troubled Middle East nation became too politically unstable to stick around. The Pentagon wants to be in Yemen to launch attacks against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — a terror group that has hatched numerous plots to attack U.S. interests and other Western targets. A U.S. military spokesman said there’s no doubt the situation in Yemen has affected America’s counter-terror mission.
