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WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!!Even at this grave geopolitical moment when editorial FRAMING on Iran, Gaza, etc. have been shown to have consequences, you continue to be complicit in drumming up empathy for wrong doers? He was not demached over "Kill the Boer comments." It was over his ENTIRE speech. The main reason was his attack on the judiciary. The "I don't care about your courts." There is an editorial consequence to your framing. It sets the stage for international headlines that say "US Ambassador demarchèd for denouncing Kill The Boer." Who sounds reasonable in that framing? Who sounds like a state that is repressing opinion? Kill The Boer is not state policy. The story is the attack on the apex court and South Africa's sacrosanct constitutionalism.

NEW: Texas teen shoots woman in the neck who was visiting her friend with cancer before stealing the car belonging to the woman with cancer. 18-year-old Darius DeWayne Hall has been arrested for allegedly shooting Marietta Allison in northwest Houston. The friend with cancer, Cassie Daniel, has shared a post detailing what happened. "There wasn’t any parking, so Marietta had driven around the block to find a parking spot, and we heard the gunshot," Daniel said. "We were later told that her heart stopped immediately when [Hall] shot her in the neck." "The man took her purse, stole my car key, and took the car." Hall was under juvenile suspension for multiple previous charges, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to court records. Another avoidable death.

Great meeting today in Cape Town with the Western Cape Premier and the Mayor of Cape Town. We discussed shared priorities, including expanding trade and investment, strengthening economic ties, and deepening cooperation between the United States and the Western Cape. Looking forward to continued collaboration.