With Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the wars in the Middle East have hit a turning point—though it’s hard to say what direction they’ll now take: toward some uneasy equilibrium or an escalation in the fighting. Historians and strategists disagree over whether a “decapitation” attack—the assassination of a leader—has much effect on the course of a war. But Israel’s recent tactics have gone well beyond decapitation. As a prelude to the bombing of an apartment complex just...

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C. I. McBurney has struck down Georgia’s six-week abortion ban. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder A Fulton County judge has ruled that Georgia’s six-week abortion ban is unconstitutional under the state constitution, allowing abortions to be performed again in Georgia as before the law took effect. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C. I. McBurney released his long-awaited ruling Monday on the broader question at the center of a lawsuit filed in...

The iconic prehistoric family originally had a different last name.