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One of President Trump’s spiritual advisers asked him to show “heart” ahead of his decision on the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Pastor The Washington Post. Franklin said he and Trump discussed Trump’s love for his own children before Franklin said he wanted “to see that kind of heart toward these children.” The meeting took place as Trump mulled whether to end the Obama-era program that shields from deportation undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S.

Louise Linton is speaking out for the first time since facing backlash following an Instagram post in which she bragged about how much she pays in taxes, calling her words “truly out of touch” and “condescending.” “I want to say I concede completely to the comments of my critics,” Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, tells Washington Life’s Virginia Coyne in an interview for the magazine’s September issue, released Tuesday. “My post itself and the following response were indefensible. Period.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday stressed that the Korean Peninsula should not be treated like a computer game, Reuters reported. Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the remarks when asked at a briefing about Japan's push to slap new sanctions on North Korea.  Hua also expressed regret that sanctions are sought instead of diplomatic dialogue, according to the news service.  The United Nations Security Council

Over the past decade, the DNA laboratory in the office of New York City’s chief medical examiner emerged as a pioneer in analyzing the most complicated evidence from crime scenes. It developed two techniques, which went beyond standard practice at the F.B.I.

SOUTH ELGIN, Ill. — Strike one. “You swing like a girl!” the pitcher barked, heckling yet another player at the plate. Sonja Bushnick of the Rockford Peaches lifted her wooden bat again. She passed on one ball and fouled off another. On the next pitch she hit a short pop-up that the pitcher caught with ease. He laughed at her. The pitcher — wearing suspenders, a necktie and a newsboy cap — was Jody McQuarters, the husband of the Peaches right fielder and a designated ham.

Emma Seppala was working as an intern at The International Herald Tribune (the past iteration of The International New York Times) one summer in college in Paris, shuttling between the newsroom writers and editors on the second floor and the workers at the printing presses in the basement. Ms.

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Want us to let you know when the briefing is ready? New on iOS: Go to our app’s notifications settings on your device (the bell on the upper right corner) and turn on the option for Morning Briefing. On Android, you can adjust the settings by going the three dots. As for this morning, here’s what you need to know: • North Korea “is begging for war.” That’s what Nikki Haley, above, the U.S.

Hurricane Irma, fresh on the heels of Hurricane Harvey, strengthened Monday into a Category 4 storm with 140-mile-per-hour winds, as Florida started to prepare for its potential landfall over the weekend. The latest forecasts have Irma on a more direct path toward South Florida, raising the possibility that the United States could be hit with back-to-back major hurricanes. Gov.

Few places need the federal government right now more than Texas does, as it begins to recover from Hurricane Harvey. Yet there are few states where the federal government is viewed with more resentment, suspicion and scorn. For Republicans, who dominate Texas government, anti-Washington sentiment is more than just a red-meat rhetorical flourish — it is a guiding principle. Gov.

HOUSTON — This city sprawls over 600 square miles, an area so big that Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit could all fit within it simultaneously. The nine-county Houston metropolitan region, covering more than 10,000 square miles, is almost as large as the entire state of Massachusetts. No single image or patch of land tells the whole story of Houston.