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\ A shooting Monday at a bank building in downtown Louisville killed five people and injured at least six others, police said. The suspected shooter was also dead, police said. Connor Sturgeon, the shooter from Louisville, is a 25-year-old man. He was reportedly a worker at the Old National Bank Louisville Metropolitan Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey told reporters that officers who arrived on the scene “found active gunshots inside the location at the time.” According to the report of Intel Point Alert, Gunman is 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon, who reportedly texted a friend before shooting saying he was...

There is an odd, nostalgic fixation on Mother Russia within the “foreign policy community.” It’s as if an overwhelming desire to return to the last days of the superpower standoff with an enlightened Mikhail Gorbachev at the helm of the Soviet Union has consumed all rational thought. Or maybe they just hate Bush so much that they are willing to do anything to derail efforts to establish democracy in rogue states, even if it means undermining a proven national security tactic touted by these very same foreign policy experts. The recurring theme surrounding this year’s G-8 summit, was that those...

For those hoping that a second term would cool the seething resentment of George Bush and his supporters over having to live in a democratic society, it was a sobering moment: Bush Resubmits 20 Nominations for Federal JudgeshipsDec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President George W. Bush will resubmit 20 federal judicial nominations, reigniting a battle with Democrats who accuse the nominees of hostility to abortion rights and the environment.The list includes seven of the 10 candidates whose nominations failed during Bush's first term because of Democratic filibusters that blocked Senate confirmation votes. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid called the nominees...