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Turkey’s Erdogan At The White House

President Trump welcomes his Turkish counterpart to the White House despite a bipartisan congressional push to cut arms sales to Ankara.

Career Public Servants Testify On Ukraine

Acting Ambassador William Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent took copious notes about the Trump administration’s dealings with Ukraine. They’ll testify publicly Wednesday.

Supreme Court May Side With Trump On ‘DREAMers’

At issue is the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which granted temporary protection from deportation to roughly 700,000 young people.

Kansas Tries To Attract Younger Hunters

Attempts to lure more people into hunting have mostly failed. Kansas is working on a new plan to attract young people by focusing on what states stand to lose: conservation dollars funded by licenses.

Retrial For Activist In Arizona

In Arizona, the U.S. government is again prosecuting a humanitarian aid worker it says was harboring undocumented immigrants and trying to hide them from Border Patrol agents.

Nestlé Faces Opposition Over Plans To Take More Water In Florida

Opposition is growing in Florida to a water bottling company that wants to take more than a million gallons of water a day from Ginnie Springs. Environmentalists want limits on the amount taken.

What Happens To Your Used Stuff? ‘Secondhand’ Tells Of A Billion-Dollar Industry

As “traditional bonds disintegrate in the face of industrialization, urbanization, and secularization, brands and objects become a means to curate and project who we are,” writes reporter Adam Minter.

Literary Nonprofit Buys Elizabeth Bishop’s Key West Home

The poet lived on the Florida island for nearly a decade, and her former house will become the headquarters for Key West Literary Seminar.

NASA Renames Object After Uproar Over Old Name’s Nazi Connotations

Scientists said an object four billion miles from Earth would be given a Native American name: Arrokoth. Its previous, informal name, Ultima Thule, had links to the Third Reich.

For a Rural Democrat, Talking Potatoes Is Easy. Impeachment Is Really Hard.

Representative Collin Peterson of rural Minnesota is one of two Democrats who voted against the impeachment inquiry. It has left him a man in the lonely middle.

Johnson Says Brexit Delay Holding Back Economy: U.K. Votes

(Bloomberg) — Sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, follow us @Brexit and subscribe to our podcast.Boris Johnson is back in campaign mode following a tricky visit to flood-hit areas of northern England, where his government’s response was criticized by loca…

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