10 things you need to know today: July 2, 2016

20 hostages dead in brutal Bangladesh attack, Clinton scheduled for FBI interviews, and more

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1. 20 hostages dead in brutal Bangladesh attack

After an 11-hour standoff, Bangladeshi troops entered a restaurant in the diplomatic zone of the nation's capital on Saturday where attackers had holed up with hostages, many of them foreigners. Twenty hostages were found dead, and six attackers were killed in the raid. The attackers, whom the Islamic State claimed as its own, were reportedly armed with guns, swords, and bombs. Many of the dead hostages were reportedly "brutally killed" with sharp weapons. Thirteen hostages were rescued in the raid, and a seventh attacker was arrested.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.