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When President-elect Kim Jong-un, the North’s leader, was to reaching that goal, and how limited any president’s options were to stop him. The ensuing six months have been a brutal education for President Trump. With North Korea’s launch on Tuesday of what the administration confirmed was an intercontinental ballistic missile, the country has new reach.

As most senators have now returned home to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, they will have some time to ponder the next steps in the ongoing health care debate. Some senators returning to their states may be facing tough questions from angry constituents during the break. That was the case for Sen.

The video of Donald Trump wrestling a man with a CNN logo superimposed on his head — tweeted out by Trump over the weekend — did not come from the website Reddit, the White House said on Monday. “The video was not pulled from Reddit,” a White House official told ABC News. The official decline to respond to questions about where the president obtained the clip. Trump tweeted the edited Worldwide Wrestling Entertainment video on Sunday morning.

President Vladimir Putin this Friday on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. According to a spokesperson for the White House, the Trump-Putin engagement will be a "normal bilateral meeting." The White House has not released details on what Trump will discuss with his Russian counterpart. Dimitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, told reporters that it will be a "full-fledged, seated" meeting. Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told Russian state news agency

President Trump took to Twitter to express his frustration over North Korea's latest missile test and called on the country's longtime ally China to intervene. "North Korea has just launched another missile.

Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit. It couldn't come at a more politically or diplomatically sensitive moment for both leaders.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories EASTPORT, Maine - For the 15th year, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, spent July 4 marching through this town of 1,331, a short boat rimde away from Canada. She walked and waved, next to marching bands and Shriner-driven lobster boats. Her constituents cheered - and then asked whether she would vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act. ‘‘There was only one issue. That’s unusual. It’s usually a wide range of issues,’’ Collins said in an interview after the parade.

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