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Senate Confirms Haspel to Lead C.I.A. Despite Torture Concerns

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Gina Haspel on Thursday to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, elevating a woman to the directorship for the first time despite bipartisan misgivings about her role in the agency’s brutal detention and interrogation programs in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/us/politics/haspel-confirmed.html
Texas School Shooting: 10 Dead, 10 Hurt, and Many Not Surprised It Happened

SANTA FE, Tex. — A nation plagued by a wrenching loop of mass school shootings watched the latest horror play out in this small Southeast Texas town Friday morning, as a young man armed with a shotgun and a .38 revolver smuggled under his coat opened fire on his high school campus, killing 10 people, many of them his fellow students, and wounding 10 more, the authorities said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/us/school-shooting-santa-fe-texas.html?3
More Than 100 Die as Aging Cuban Airliner Crashes

A Cuban state airliner crashed and burned moments after takeoff from Havana on Friday, killing nearly all 114 people aboard the nearly 40-year-old plane.

It was one of the worst airline crashes in Cuba, which has been struggling to operate with a decrepit fleet of planes that it has blamed partly on the longstanding economic embargo imposed by the United States.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/world/americas/cuba-airplane-crash.html?4
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U.S.-North Korea Summit Set for June 12 in Singapore, Trump Says https://nyti.ms/2KS0fcX?2
Trump Pulls Out of North Korea Summit Meeting with Kim Jong-un

WASHINGTON — President Trump, citing a flurry of hostile statements from North Korea, pulled out of a highly anticipated summit meeting with Kim Jong-un on Thursday, telling the North Korean leader “this missed opportunity is a truly sad moment in history.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/world/asia/north-korea-trump-summit.html?2
Arrested on Rape Charges, Weinstein Posts $1 Million Bail

Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to New York City detectives and appeared in court on Friday on charges that he raped one woman and forced another to perform oral sex, a watershed in a monthslong sex crimes investigation and in the #MeToo movement.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-arrested.html