1. The news from Sri Lanka got worse.

The death toll in Sunday’s coordinated suicide attacks at Christian churches and hotels rose to nearly 300 and the number of injured to 500. “Why kill the innocents?” the grandmother of an 11-year-old victim said, weeping.

A colossal security failure emerged. A foreign intelligence agency recently gave Sri Lankan security officials detailed information about a possible threat to churches by National Thowheeth Jama’ath, the group suspected in Sunday’s attacks. Bitter political infighting may have kept the warning from being shared, and acted upon.

Sri Lankan officials said the group had to have had help from “an international network,” and some suspicion fell on the Islamic State.