Investors both in the United States and overseas were still shaking from a week destabilized first by sharp exchanges between Iran and Saudi Arabia over an executed Shiite cleric and then by major plummets on China’s stock markets that led to trading being halted twice.
North Korea’s claimed test of a hydrogen bomb this week had one immediate casualty: the Stalinist outpost’s already strained relationship with its largest and most important neighbor, China.
Supporting the president’s “modest” proposals, Dallas Bishop Kevin Farrell wrote, they represent “first steps in correcting gun laws so weak that they are ludicrous.”