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President Trump on Wednesday touted gains in the stock market, suggesting that his administration was "in a sense reducing debt." During an interview on Fox News, Trump said he's proud of the "$5.2 trillion of increased in the stock market." "The country -- we took it over and owed over 20 trillion. As you know the last eight years, they borrowed more than it did in the whole history of our country.

President Trump plans to name John Rood, a Lockheed Martin executive and former State Department official, to the Pentagon's top policy post.  Rood, a 20-year veteran of various roles in the federal government, previously served as acting under secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, and assistant secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation under the George W.

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(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, above, had a question for Catalonia’s separatists: Did you declare independence or not? Mr.

Intense, fast-moving fires have been raging across much of California since Sunday night. The blazes have barreled through communities like freight trains, turning homes to dust in a blink and leaving at least 23 people dead.

Powerful, hot and dry winds like those that have fanned the deadly wildfires now raging in California are a common occurrence in the state, a result of regional atmospheric p

GLEN ELLEN, Calif. — Hundreds of sleep-deprived, stubble-faced firefighters, their yellow coats layered with soot, assembled here Wednesday to hear their commanders say what they already knew: The fires that have devastated California’s wine country were still spreading, nowhere near containment, and the crews battling the blazes were stretched to their limits. “I wish I could say the cavalry is coming — it’s not,” Battalion Chief Kirk Van Wormer of Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency, told the gathering of firefighters, flecks of ash raining down on them.

CLEVELAND — When the Yankees left here five days ago, they were devastated.

Here are some of the organizations responding to the Rohingya refugee crisis. Some are trying to gain access to restricted areas of the western state of Rakhine in Myanmar, where many ethnic Rohingya Muslims remain.

GENEVA — United Nations officials struggling to mobilize aid for more than half a million Rohingya Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar in recent weeks have reported another surge of arrivals in Bangladesh, and warned on Tuesday that the crisis could worsen. More than 11,000 people crossed the border into Bangladesh on Monday, the United Nations refugee agency said, and thousands more are waiting to cross. More than 515,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since Aug.