The children taken from their parents now live and wait in unfamiliar places: big American suburban houses where no one speaks their language; a locked shelter on a dusty road; a converted Walmart where they must stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance in English daily.
The president’s exhortations sowed more confusion as Republicans struggle to reach consensus on immigration legislation and as federal agencies scramble to reunite families who were separated at the border.
A restaurant owner’s decision to ask the White House press secretary to leave the Virginia business is the latest example of political figures from the Trump administration and beyond being shunned as they go about their private lives.
(The Washington Post)
U.S. commanders worry that if they must head off a conflict in Eastern Europe, a mixture of bureaucracy, bad planning and decaying infrastructure could let Russia grab NATO territory while American planners are filling out the 17 forms needed to cross Germany into Poland.
Immense rains in the Eastern U.S. are causing more flash floods — and it will get worse, experts say
Torrential rains have become more frequent and more intense, with extreme flooding and perilous infrastructure failures. Large storms now drop far more rain at a faster clip because warmer air holds more water, according to experts.
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Analysis Republican efforts to impose stricter work rules on food stamp recipients and consolidate the safety net could have the heaviest burden on the working-class, rural white voters on whom the president has staked the future of their party.
Like-minded travelers turned a Dallas hotel into a place where right-leaning women who feel under attack on their liberal school campuses can don their MAGA hats, learn to develop right-wing Instagram pages and question the existence of the patriarchy without fear of insult.
The number of fact-checking organizations has tripled around the globe in four years. But the journalistic movement is increasingly under attack.
Secular politician Muharrem Ince said the entire election process had been “unjust” but that he accepted the results of the vote. An unofficial tally gave President Recep Tayyip Erdogan 52.6 percent of the ballots.
“I think that’s the most ridiculous question I’ve ever heard,” said Beck, who once asked listeners whether he should kill the liberal filmmaker Michael Moore himself or hire an assassin.
An 8-year-old tried selling water for a trip to Disneyland. A white woman threatened to call police.
Jordan was selling water outside the San Francisco apartment building where she lives to help raise money for a family trip to Disneyland. Her sidewalk hawking greatly upset her neighbor.
World Cup 2018
Six teams have already advanced. For the rest, some of the most dramatic moments will play out over the next four days.
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