By The Editors Video by Leah Varjacques and Taige Jensen In the video Op-Ed above, children read testimonies given by young migrants detained in Customs and Border Protection facilities. They reveal harrowing stories of children living in cages, going hungry and tending to infants without their parents. Border Patrol has been detaining thousands of children, […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering a new hurdle for a no-deal Brexit, the downing of an Iranian drone by the U.S. military and France’s creation of a space command. A new hurdle for a no-deal Brexit British lawmakers passed a measure that would block the next […]

To the Editor: Re “‘Trump Will Be Re-elected, Won’t He?,’” by Thomas L. Friedman (column, July 17): I can only hope that the some of the leading Democratic candidates for president spend a few minutes considering Mr. Friedman’s request to “keep it simple.” There are many Democratic voters like me who are not asking for […]

Anyone else haunted by a particular episode of the TV series ‘Black Mirror’? It imagines a world dominated by a social media application in which people rate their online and in-person interactions on a scale of 1 to 5. Everyone walks around with a score glowing in front of their faces, and that number dictates […]

Jane King, who brought her dog Brody in for grooming at The Petropolitan in downtown Calgary, stopped to check out what the new pet hotel has to offer the next time she heads out of town on an overnight trip. “We do have luxury suites,” Petropolitan owner Hailey Seidel said. “They’re the only ones in […]

The man who convinced more than 1 million people to “storm Area 51” in search of its alien secrets has emerged from an undisclosed location — i.e. his home in Bakersfield, Calif. — to explain how a simple “joke” spiralled out of control. Matty Roberts says he created the event “Storm Area 51 — They […]

Last month, Botswana’s High Court unanimously struck down key sections of the country’s penal code that punished homosexuality with up to seven years in prison. “Human dignity is harmed when minority groups are marginalized,” Judge Michael Leburu, one of the three ruling judges in the panel, concluded. Human rights activists are celebrating the move as […]

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch lender Rabobank and investment firm KKR (KKR.N) have formed a consortium seeking to buy utility Eneco, the bank said on Thursday. A consortium set up by Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) and Dutch pension fund manager PGGM had been seen as the lead bidder after France’s Total SA and Italy’s Enel dropped […]

‘The trust you placed in me is the confidence you placed in Europe,” a modest, but clearly relieved Ursula von der Leyen said after passing a significant milestone in becoming the first woman president of the EU Commission. The former German defence minister has proven herself immensely capable, and those strengths will be tested in […]

Maybe we should stop talking about Donald Trump being a racist. He seems to love the idea too much. “I think I’m winning,” he told reporters as he left for a rally on Wednesday. As the whole world now knows, the president was widely denounced for saying a quartet of young minority congresswomen, known as […]