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THE DAILY TOLL Untold Damage: America's Overlooked Gun Violence By SHARON LaFRANIERE, DANIELA PORAT and AGUSTIN ARMENDARIZ Most shootings with four deaths or injuries are invisible outside their communities. And most of the lives they scar are black.

Taliban Chief Targeted by Drone Strike in Pakistan, Signaling a U.S. Shift By MUJIB MASHAL The strike, which Afghan intelligence said had killed the leader, indicated a major break with precedent as the United States circumvented Pakistan, which has been unable to broker peace talks with the Taliban.

It's No Accident: Advocates Want to Speak of Car 'Crashes' Instead By MATT RICHTEL Activists are campaigning to change a 100-year-old mentality that they say trivializes the single most common cause of traffic incidents: human error.