AN AMERICAN MAN has been charged with attempted murder in Vermont over the shooting of three men of Palestinian descent, in a crime the US president Joe Biden has reacted with “horror” towards. With the investigation in its early stages, Vermont state attorney Sarah George said there was not yet sufficient evidence to support a hate crime enhancement of the charges against the suspect, identified as Jason Eaton, 48. But “I do want to be clear,” George told reporters in Burlington, the northeastern US city where the shooting occurred. “There is no question this was a hateful act.” The attack...