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While authorities have claimed that Valdez tried to grab the officer’s gun and taser, his family alleges police unnecessarily escalated the confrontation, then misled them about the killing.

Tensions between Trump and the Ukrainian leader have been high ever since their heated confrontation at the White House in February.

A late-season confrontation between a major character and a new mysterious threat is especially clumsy and ultimately unnecessary.

And along the way America may have alienated the allies it needs most in such a confrontation.

This has become life in southwestern Syria, with the threat of ever-deeper Israel incursions an omnipresent fear and deadly confrontations with residents feeding the prospect of an all-out war between Israel and Syria’s new authorities.