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PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Donald Trump is condemning the attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue as "an assault on humanity," and calling on Americans to "unite to conquer hate." Trump made the remarks in a pair of tweets. The Saturday shooting killed 11 people and left 6 injured at the Tree of Life synagogue. The shooter is in custody.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man arrested in the mass shooting Saturday at a Pennsylvania synagogue appears to have made virulently anti-Semitic posts on a website popular with far-right extremists, including one made shortly before the attack. A law enforcement official identified the shooter to The Associated Press as Robert Bowers, a 46-year-old Pittsburgh man.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump says the deadly attack by a shooter on a Pittsburgh synagogue shows anti-Semitism "must be confronted anywhere and everywhere it appears." Trump is also speculating that the death toll would have been curbed if the building had had an armed guard. The president condemned the attack and said it has resulted in "a lot of people killed."
LONDON (AP) — Mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc appears to have lived in a hallucinatory world populated by monstrous reptiles and malevolent billionaires. But the paranoid stew of ideas he posted online gives a taste of how conspiracy theories are finding both an increased salience in American public sphere and a sometime-eager purveyor in the White House. Sayoc was obsessed with George Soros, the Jewish investor and Holocaust survivor who has served as a boogeyman for neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and Republicans.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter is apologizing for refusing to take down a threatening tweet that pipe bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc sent to a former Democratic congressional press secretary earlier this month. The tweet that Rochelle Ritchie complained about said "hug your loved ones real close every time you leave home." She got it after an appearance on Fox News, and complained. Twitter responded then that the tweet didn't violate its rules against abusive behavior, but after Sayoc's arrest said it had made a mistake.
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