Trump shows South Africa’s Ramaphosa a video montage in tense Oval Office meeting
President Trump meets in the Oval Office with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Bilateral relations are at their lowest since the end of apartheid.
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Trump administration uses multiple techniques to encourage and force deportation
Carrying out mass deportations was a key rallying cry during Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency.
Teen who killed Tacoma bagel shop owner in New Orleans sentenced
The 17-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to the fatal New Orleans shooting of Jacob Carter, a co-founder of the Tacoma business Howdy Bagel, was sentenced Monday to 26 years in prison.
Thursday Briefing: Trump Lectures South Africa’s Leader
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Suspects on the loose after killing a man in front of children at an elementary school track meet
A man was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, just steps away from an elementary school track meet, sending dozens of children and parents scrambling for safety and prompting an urgent manhunt for the suspects.
Russia sent novice spies to Brazil. Then Brazil exposed them
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jane Bradley of The New York Times about her investigation with Michael Schwirtz into Brazil’s unmasking of Russian spies in their midst.
UN warns of renewed conflict in Syria but offers hope with sanctions lifting
The top U.N. official for Syria is warning of the “real dangers of renewed conflict and deeper confrontation” in the war-battered country.
Fire at historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say
Investigators in Tennessee say a fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis was intentionally set.
How a joke about rice cost a Japan cabinet minister his job – BBC
How a joke about rice cost a Japan cabinet minister his job BBCJapanese Farm Minister Resigns After Saying He’d Never Bought Rice The New York TimesJapan PM Ishiba to sack farm minister Eto over rice remarks, Kyodo says  …
Cots, MREs, Per Diem: Army Offers New Details for Soldiers Sent to Massive D.C. Military Parade
Thousands of soldiers flying or busing into Washington, D.C., next month will be sleeping on cots, eating mostly MREs (and hot chow for dinner), and showering in contracted trailers during the Army’s multimillion-dollar 250th birthday festivities.