Terrorist Truck Attack in New York City
On Halloween (October 31), a man named Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov drove a rented pickup truck into pedestrians and bicyclists on the Hudson River Park bike path in Lower Manhattan, killing eight people and injuring twelve others. It was the worst attack in New York City since the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers on September […]
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Cruz Announces Bid for Nomination We’re ramping up to “election season,” where candidates from both the Republican and Democratic parties formally announce his or her bid for their party’s nomination. Last month, btw introduced you to nine Republican nominee hopefuls who recently addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Among them was Ted Cruz, who […]
Deadly Attack on French Newspaper
Between January 7 and 9, two armed gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical publication called Charlie Hebdo, located in a high-traffic area of central Paris. Two days later, a third gunman took hostages in a grocery store, demanding the release of his associates. Seventeen people were killed in total, making it the deadliest terror […]