N.Y. Times: "Journalists Suffer Deadliest Day in Afghanistan Since at Least 2002"

"A branch of the Islamic State later claimed responsibility for the attacks, which came just eight days after the group took responsibility for another explosion that killed 57 people lining up to register to vote."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/world/asia/kabul-bombing-photographer.html

From CNN: "Waffle House shooting hero James Shaw Jr. raises $165,000 for victims"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/26/us/waffle-house-james-shaw-gofundme/index.html

CNN: "Hero customer rushes Waffle House killer and rips away his assault-style rifle"

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/22/us/waffle-house-shooting-hero-tennessee/index.html

New York Times: "Trump Scraps New Sanctions Against Russia, Overruling Advisers"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/us/politics/trump-rejects-sanctions-russia-syria.html

Five years ago today: terrorism at the Boston Marathon

As The Boston Globe reported, today:

"On the fifth anniversary of the day bombs placed near the Boston Marathon finish line left three dead and more than 260 wounded, Governor Charlie Baker reflected on the resilience of survivors, both those injured in the terror attack and those who lost loved ones on that indelible day."

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/15/boston-marathon-bombings-remembered-somber-events/bU7o2QoxCNVIirHe1tdCWI/story.html

 

On Sunday, the Globe's weekly magazine carried an essay by Denise Richard.  Her son Martin died in the bombing; he was eight years old.  Her daughter Jane, at the time six years old, lost a leg.  Her husband Bill was injured; she was blinded in one eye. 

In the Globe essay, Mrs. Richard writes  "Five years ago, our own City of Boston was the recipient of the world’s love, compassion, and generosity when two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing my son, Martin, along with Lingzi Lu and Krystle Campbell and injuring our family as well as hundreds of others. In turn, we, the families of the deceased and injured, were treated with the utmost care and empathy. Our families were embraced by the spirit of goodness and the determination of a community willing to help." 

She writes, in the essay, about the work of the Martin Richard Foundation; she is the Foundation's acting Executive Director. As noted on its website, the Foundation "helps young people to learn, grow and lead through volunteerism and community engagement. We look to advance sportsmanship, inclusion, kindness and peace." 

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2018/04/14/paying-kindness-forward/SYCwS5K0CKUV0ONgI1ve8I/story.html
 

 Here, too, is a 2014 story from The Globe about the Richard family; it appeared a year after the Marathon catastrophe: 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/12/loss-and-love/a19pcWz6WF5nNozPPItwYI/story.html

Dr. King's last speech

This is a film of the very powerful (and haunting) conclusion of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last speech, delivered on April 3, 1968. He was, of course, killed the next day, at age 39. It is hard to fathom that it has been fifty years since his death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcJWWBIro00