Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
Good morning.
Here’s what you need to know:
• President Trump’s mission to dismantle his predecessor’s legacy has been shut down, at least for now.
In the space of a few hours, Mr. Trump reluctantly agreed to preserve President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran and failed in his effort to repeal Mr. Obama’s health care program.
Mr. Trump hasn’ t given up. He announced new sanctions on Iran and called on Congress to simply repeal Mr. Obama’s health care program without passing a replacement.
“We will return!” Mr. Trump tweeted about the health care collapse.
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• China partly blocked WhatsApp in its ever-tightening grip over internet content.
The messaging app was the last of Facebook’s major products that still worked in China. It appears to have fallen victim to an online crackdown fed by a perfect storm of politically sensitive news, important events and a new cybersecurity law that went into effect last month.
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• Russia said its patience is wearing thin over two waterfront compounds that the Obama administration seized from Russian diplomats as punishment for Moscow’s meddling in last year’s presidential election. The video above explains.
The Foreign Ministry said that Russia “reserved the right to retaliate against the United States.”
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• President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, above, asked lawmakers to extend martial law on the island of Mindanao through the end of the year to quell the rebellion by Islamic militants in the city of Marawi.
Mr. Duterte’s request is essentially an admission that the fighting to dislodge the Islamic State-linked fighters would not end in a matter of days, despite his vow last week saying that it would.
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• The family and friends of Justine Damond, 40, a yoga teacher from Australia who was fatally shot by a police officer in Minnesota, are desperate for answers .
“Her family and I have been provided with almost no additional information from law enforcement, ” her fiancé, Don Damond, above, told reporters.
And Larissa Waters, the first Australian to breast-feed a child in the Legislature, quit after learning that she held dual citizenship .
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• In a U. S. state that counts alligators, sharks and hurricanes among its many dangers, add lightning.
Florida has more lightning than any other state in the country (20.8 strikes per square mile) and the most people who die from it (54 since 2007) .
We spoke with four survivors about how their lives changed with a bolt from the sky.
• Jack Ma, the chairman of Alibaba, above, arranged a meeting of top business leaders from the U.
