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<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Terror and Foreign Ties

An attack in London, Manafort’s links to Russia, intel committee infighting, and more.
Source: Hannah McKay / Reuters

What We’re Following

Fear in London: Four people were killed and 20 wounded today in what’s being investigated as a terrorist attack near the British Parliament. Here’s what we know so far. The alleged attacker, armed with a knife, struck several people with a car on Westminster Bridge and attempted to enter Parliament, killing a policeman before being shot dead by another officer. Unlike other recent terrorist attacks in Europe, which targeted crowds in relatively unprotected areas, this one took aim directly at the seat of government—with serious effects.

This morning, the AP reported that Trump’s former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, while employed by an oligarch close to Putin. Hours later, House—caused another uproar: He announced new information that —though it still gave no proof of government wrongdoing—and then briefed Trump himself without having shared the info with Democratic members of the committee. Adam Schiff, the committee’s ranking Dem, said Nunes’s seemingly partisan actions cast doubt on his ability to conduct an independent investigation into links between Russia and the Trump campaign—and capped off the day of bombshells by telling reporters that the evidence for such collusion was “.”

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