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Article snippet: (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. Rajoy said the Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont, had sown “deliberate confusion” in his latest speech and gave him until Monday morning to respond. Pending that reply, Mr. Rajoy said he was initiating a request to invoke Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, which would allow Madrid to suspend Catalan lawmakers and take charge of the region’s administration. _____ • In Washington, President Trump said it was “possible” that the U.S. would pull out of Nafta, despite urgings from the visiting Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau. Even some of Mr. Trump’s skeptics are starting to believe him. Separately, Mr. Trump is expected to undermine a part of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law with an executive order today. And he threatened NBC, the American broadcaster, over a report that he called for a huge buildup of the country’s nuclear arsenal. Meanwhile, leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said that they planned to make public the thousands of Facebook ads linked to Russia’s campaign to influence American politics. _____ • “America is more than Trump, there will be America after Trump.” That was a German foreign policy expert, who is among the signatories of an open letter urging the next government in ... Link to the full article to read more