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Thirty years ago, FBI tanks smashed into the ramshackle home of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. After the FBI collapsed much of the building atop the residents, a fire erupted and 76 corpses were dug out of the rubble.

What lessons can today’s Americans draw from the FBI showdown on the Texas plains 30 years ago?

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With the release last month of the final report of the NationalCommission to Ensure a Strong Competitive Airline Industry, averdict has been entered against government re-regulation and infavor of economic competition.

US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has served since 1991, is from Georgia. He was born June 23, 1948 in Pin Point, Georgia, a predominantly

Waco has been used as a rallying cry for decades, two scholars of domestic extremism explain.

Thirty years ago, a fiery federal raid on a doomsday sect turned the city into a symbol of government overreach. Donald Trump will speak there on Saturday, and some supporters — and critics — say it’s no accident.

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Waco siege, a 51-day standoff between Branch Davidians and federal agents that ended on April 19, 1993, when the religious group’s compound near Waco, Texas, was destroyed in a fire. Nearly 80 people were killed. The Branch Davidians were founded by Ben Roden in 1959 as an offshoot of the Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Church, which had been established by Victor Houteff several decades earlier. Houteff’s group eventually moved to a farm some 10 miles east of Waco, Texas, but by 1962 Roden ...

Former Missouri senator John Danforth said he has revisited his 1999 report since learning about the Trump rally in Waco and noticed similarities between the rhetoric of Mr. Trump and the conspiracy theorists of the 1990s.