Article snippet: The revelations come ahead of her memoir ‘‘Becoming,’’ where she writes openly about growing up in Chicago, confronting racism in public life, and becoming the country’s first black first lady. President Donald Trump distanced himself Friday from his new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, whose comments on the Russia investigation have drawn scrutiny. Border Patrol agents last month arrested 23,121 migrant family members, the highest one-month total on record. No other state in the country saw such a dramatic shift in power in its capital as Maine. The president Friday lashed out at two African-American journalists, Abby Phillip of CNN and April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks. President Trump left Washington on Friday en route to France to join other world leaders marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Arizona Republicans and Democrats agreed Friday to give rural voters an extra chance to fix problems with their ballots in the count of the state’s tight Senate race, resolving a GOP lawsuit. Michelle Obama says she felt alone after a miscarriage 20 years ago and she and Barack Obama underwent fertility treatments to conceive their two daughters, according to her upcoming memoir. Every election, it takes weeks for Arizona to count its ballots. The president Friday lashed out at two African-American journalists, Abby Phillip of CNN and April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks. JOAN VENNOCHI This is Massachusetts... Link to the full article to read more