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The loss of a pet is often a child’s first experience with death. Understanding the unique ways that children view pets and respond to their passing can help parents to ease the grieving process. Joshua Russell, an assistant professor of environmental science at Canisius College in Buffalo, who has studied the effects of pet loss in children, explained that for many children, pets are more than just animals.

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • Theresa May’s political gamble backfired. In Britain’s snap election, the prime minister’s Conservatives are projected to fall short of a majority but remain the largest party in Parliament.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — A federal prosecutor said on Thursday that Reality Leigh Winner, the her arrest last week. “This was not the first time the defendant mishandled classified information,” Jennifer G. Solari, an assistant United States attorney, said during a detention hearing, in which she described a recorded jailhouse telephone call and referred to an episode last year in which Ms.

WASHINGTON — This summer was supposed to be a heady time for Republicans, who would be repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, cutting taxes and simplifying the tax code, and reining in the reach of government. But now the party, rife with divisions, faces a familiar fight of its own making: raising the government’s statutory borrowing limit. Once a distasteful but manageable task for Congress, the debt ceiling has become a battle Washington seems unable to

WASHINGTON — The House approved legislation on Thursday to erase a number of core financial regulations put in place by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, as Republicans moved a step closer to delivering on their promises to eliminate rules that they claim have strangled small businesses and stagnated the economy. The vote is a significant step for a measure that still faces long odds of becoming law because of the slim majority that Republicans hold

WASHINGTON — A powerful House Republican said Thursday that Congress should immediately provide money for subsidy payments to health insurance companies, which have been demanding big rate increases or fleeing from Affordable Care Act markets because of President Trump’s threat to cut off the funds. The Republican, Kevin Brady of Texas, who is the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, went out of his way to make clear that he now

WASHINGTON — During a dramatic two and a half hours of testimony on Thursday, the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, gave new insight into his tense relationship with President Trump. Mr. Comey said he was distrustful of the president from their first meeting, in early January, and said he believed that Mr. Trump was trying to get him to end the F.B.I. investigation into his former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn. Mr.

In any reality-TV show — if we can agree that that is what American politics has morphed into — there comes the moment where one of the stars reads his or her co-stars for filth. Sue Hawk delivered her famous “rat and snake” speech about her opponents on the first season of “Survivor.” Teresa Giudice flipped over a table on “The Real Housewives of New Jersey.” The fired F.B.I. director James B. Comey’s camera manner is more suited for a human-resources video than a reality-show throwdown. But speaking to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, live on cable and broadcast news, Mr.

James B. Comey, the former an article that appeared in February in The New York Times about contacts between President Trump’s advisers and Russian intelligence officials. Answering a question about the Times article during an appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mr.

WASHINGTON — On the 140th day of the Trump presidency — one for each allotted character on the executive Twitter feed that stayed conspicuously silent all Thursday morning — a very tall man with a very strange place in this very bewildering moment in American history strolled into Hart Senate Office Building 216, shot a quick glance at the masses arrayed behind him and presented a seen-it-all city with something unusual. In a capital accustomed to overcooked spectacle and insufferable congressional testimony, James B.