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1. \u201cThe next great chapter in the history of our armed forces.\u201d
Vice President Mike Pence shared details about a new branch of the military: the Space Command .
Proponents say it\u2019s necessary to compete with countries like China and Russia. And once-reluctant Pentagon officials have backed the proposal, saying they will do what they can to bring it to fruition. But Congress still has plenty of skeptics.
Another branch of the armed forces has reached a milestone: We profile First Lt. Marina A. Hierl, the first woman in the Marine Corps infantry to lead a platoon.
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2. Remember how President Trump disrupted a G-7 summit meeting in Canada, refusing to sign off on its final communiqu\u00e9?
And how there were warning signs that he might do the same at the NATO summit last month? Now we know why he didn\u2019t.
Senior U. S. officials urged the alliance to finish a policy document before last month\u2019s summit meeting even began, ambassadors said.
The rush to get it done, as demanded by John Bolton, the national security adviser, above right, is just another sign of the lengths the president\u2019s top advisers will go to protect the longstanding international alliance from Mr. Trump\u2019s antipathy.
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3. Other White House news:
Thousands of documents from Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s time in the Bush administration have been released.
There\u2019s already a partisan debate over one email, but there are many more documents to sort through, and many more that have not been released.
And in New York, the parents of the first lady, Melania Trump, were sworn in as U. S. citizens.
A new Pew study offers more insights about President Trump\u2019s base. Our interactive approach to the data lets you test your assumptions.
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4. It\u2019s getting hotter, faster \u2014 and the world isn\u2019t ready.
2018 is the fourth-hottest year on record, trailing the previous three years. And temperatures haven\u2019t plateaued.
For many scientists, this is the year they started living climate change rather than just studying it . \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing today is making me, frankly, calibrate not only what my children will be living but what I will be living, what I am living currently living,\u201d one said.
In one Uzbek town, tourism is booming because of these changes: Visitors are flocking to a dried-up port. As it turns out, \u201ca lot of people want to see an ecological crisis.\u201d
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5. The Puerto Rican government quietly acknowledged a far higher death count from Hurricane Maria.
A new report says the figure is likely over 1,400 \u2014 more than 20 times the official toll of 64.
The government was widely criticized for undercounting hurricane-related deaths after Maria struck last September, causing power failures \u2014 and health care disruptions \u2014 that endured for months.
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6. Saudi-led forces bombed a school bus full of children in Yemen. They said they had aimed at rocket launchers.
At least 43 people were killed and 63 were injured, an official said. At least 29 of the dead were children under age 15, the Red Cross said.
\u201cNo excuses anymore!\u201d a Unicef official said on Twitter. \u201cDoes the world really need more innocent children\u2019s lives to stop the cruel war on children in Yemen?\u201d
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7. In media news: A proposed merger between Tribune Media and Sinclair, the country\u2019s largest operator of local TV networks, fell apart, ending the prospect of a conservative outlet to rival Fox.
And we identified a new threat to local journalism around the country. Small papers that have been struggling with everything from shrinking revenue to layoffs to accusations of \u201cfake news\u201d now have to contend with prohibitive U. S. tariffs on Canadian newsprint.
\u201cI fear it\u2019s going to be a very difficult time,\u201d one publisher said. \u201cI think there\u2019s probably going to be some casualties.\u201d
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8. It\u2019s Spike Lee vs. the Klan.
In his new film, \u201cBlacKkKlansman,\u201d the director builds on the real-life story of a black police officer infiltrating the Klan\u2019s ranks in the 1970s.
Our critic A. O. Scott calls it \u201ca furious, funny, blunt and brilliant confrontation with the truth,\u201d and he rates it Mr. Lee\u2019s \u201cbest nondocumentary feature in more than a decade and one of his greatest.\u201d
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9. Our \u201cOverlooked\u201d project looks at Julia Sand, a housebound woman who wrote a series of remarkable letters that helped inspire President Chester A. Arthur.
\u201cGreat emergencies awaken generous traits which have lain dormant half a life,\u201d she wrote when he was hiding after the death of James Garfield unexpectedly elevated him from the vice presidency. \u201cIf there is a spark of true nobility in you, now is the occasion to let it shine.\u201d
And our Gender Letter looks at the how few women are memorialized in monuments \u2014 and the push for women to get their due. Progress: A statue of Ida B. Wells is coming to Chicago next year.
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10. Finally, the late-night hosts were back in action, touching on everything from the trial of Paul Manafort to the Trump campaign\u2019s possible collusion with Russia.
Samantha Bee didn\u2019t pull any punches on \u201cFull Frontal,\u201d saving her sharpest jabs for Donald Trump Jr.
\u201cAny time there was collusion going on, Donnie was there,\u201d she said. \u201cHe shows up everywhere. He\u2019s like the Forrest Gump of collusion!\u201d
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