World: A man wielding a machete and shouting “Allahu akhbar” was shot and wounded today after attacking a soldier outside the Louvre in Paris, police say. The man was headed toward the Carrousel du Louvre, an underground shopping mall under the museum. …

What Would Mario Say?: The University of California Berkeley had an anti-free speech movement last night. About 1500 protesters gathered to object to the scheduled speech by an editor of the right-wing and racists Breitbart News. Some of the protesters pushed …

By Appointment: President Trump last night named Neil Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge from Colorado, to replace the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme  Court. Trump had invited two candidates to Washington, trying to create a little …

You’re Fired!: President Trump fired Acting US Attorney General Sally Yates last night after she ordered Justice Department lawyers to stop defending and enforcing the president’s immigration and travel ban from seven Muslim countries. Dana J. Boente, the US Attorney …

Mosque Massacre: Six people were killed in an attack during evening prayers at a mosque in Quebec last night in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a “terrorist attack on Muslims.” Eight others were wounded and two suspects were arrested. …

Paper Wall: As thousands of protesters gathered at airports across the country yesterday, a federal judge in Brooklyn granted the ACLU’s request to stop the deportation of everyone detained as a result of the president’s immigration order. Protesters had gathered …

Shut the Door: President Trump visited the Pentagon yesterday and signed an executive order freezing immigration from seven Muslim countries and commanding “extreme vetting” of immigrants from countries plagued by terrorism. “We want to ensure that we are not admitting …

South of the Border: After just one week on the job, President Trump has created his first rift with a foreign leader. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto cancelled his trip to visit Trump next Tuesday because of the American president’s …

Back to the Future: President Trump will call for a re-examination of US methods for interrogating terror suspects and possibly re-establishing “black site” prisons overseas, the Associated Press reports, according to the draft of an executive order they obtained. The …

The Wall: President Trump is expected today to issue an order to build his wall on the Mexican border and crack down on immigrants coming from “terror prone” countries. The president tweeted last night, “Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY …