The Firing Line: The front page of today’s Boston Globe features a life-size picture of an assault rifle with the headline, “Make It Stop.” It won’t happen soon. The Senate yesterday was unable to move forward on what might seem …

Zapped: The leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, is believed to have been killed in a drone strike along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, according to the Pentagon. The US military is still trying to verify that he is dead, but …

EgyptAir: Searchers have found floating luggage, seats, and body parts from the downed EgyptAir passenger jet. The Airbus 320 was flying normally overnight Thursday from Paris to Cairo when it suddenly jerked to the left, then spun right and plummeted …