Here is Friday's front page of the Dallas Morning News

The front page of Friday's Dallas Morning News.
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Late Thursday night, two snipers firing from an elevated position shot at least 11 police officers at the end of a peaceful protest. Demonstrators were gathering after the fatal officer-involved shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.

Local newspapers are working overnight to cover the incident and its aftermath. The Dallas Morning News chose to sum up the tragedy with one word: ambush. Its Friday morning front page is below. Kimberly Alters

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Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.