10 things you need to know today: July 8, 2016

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1. Snipers kill five Dallas police officers after protest

Snipers killed five police officers and wounded seven others, alongside two civilians, in Dallas late Thursday at the end of a peaceful protest against recent police shootings of African-Americans in Louisiana and Minnesota. At least one gunman exchanged gunfire with police before reportedly being killed around 3 a.m. Friday. Police said as many as four gunmen "triangulated" fire from elevated positions along the protest's route in an ambush. Police searched for explosives one suspect said had been planted in downtown Dallas, but found none. President Obama called the attack "vicious, calculated, and despicable."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.