AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

An active-duty U.S. soldier has been arrested and charged with espionage-related offenses after attempting to share sensitive information about Abrams tanks with Russia, the Justice Department alleged on Aug. 6.

One by one, the media witnesses approached the microphone to describe what they saw at the execution of Byron Black. Speaking at a podium outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, each said a version of the same thing: Black, 69, had suffered before he died.