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| Good evening. Here's the latest. |
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| 1. President Trump visited the two cities in mourning after the mass shootings last weekend. |
| He kept a low profile in Dayton, Ohio, where nine people were killed. He thanked emergency and hospital workers, and spent time with families of victims and survivors. Protesters greeted him with signs, above, that said "Dump Trump" and "Do Something!" |
| Mr. Trump is wrapping up his day in El Paso, where 22 were killed, as we write — and as news was breaking that federal immigration officials in Mississippi had arrested over 600 people, pictured below. |
| Democratic presidential candidates offered scathing criticism of Mr. Trump's exploitation of racism for political purposes and his resistance to gun control. |
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| 2. The legislative way forward after the shootings is … still murky. |
| Democrats in Congress are putting the brakes on Republicans' quick embrace of "red flag" laws, which allow guns to be taken from people deemed dangerous. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York insisted that any gun-related legislation in the Senate be accompanied by a House bill requiring background checks on all gun buyers. |
| The massacre in El Paso, which came just minutes after a white supremacist manifesto was posted online, also heightened calls for Congress to make domestic terrorism a federal crime. We broke down the legal policy issues surrounding the idea. |
| And our Parenting site has guidance on how families can manage their anxieties over mass shootings. |
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| 3. Blink, and Puerto Rico has a new governor. |
| Wanda Vázquez, the secretary of justice, was sworn in as the third governor in five days after the territory's Supreme Court forced her predecessor, Pedro Pierluisi, to step down less than a week into his term. The justices ruled that he had been sworn in on unconstitutional grounds. |
| "Puerto Rico needs certainty and stability," Ms. Vázquez said in a statement before being sworn in. |
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| 4. Former Boy Scouts across the country have named 350 more possible sexual abusers, according to a new lawsuit. |
| The suit was brought by a man in his 50s who has accused an assistant scoutmaster of sexually abusing him in Pennsylvania in the 1970s. The suit asserts that hundreds of predators were not included in the Boy Scouts of America's list of volunteers who were excluded from the organization over accusations of child sexual abuse. |
| Lawyers have been urging former scouts to come forward with claims before a possible bankruptcy filing by the organization. |
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| 5. Central banks in India, Thailand and New Zealand cut interest rates to defend their economies from the spiraling U.S.-China trade war. |
| The unexpected moves by the three countries jolted financial markets. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 closed flat after an early dive of 2 percent. Worried that Australia's central bank may be the next to act, investors sent that country's dollar to its lowest level against the U.S. dollar in a decade. |
| Our Upshot columnist Neil Irwin writes that waging a full-scale currency war risks upsetting a relatively stable world market order and the central role the U.S. has played within it. |
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| 6. Uber, coming to public transit near you. |
| Craving growth, the ride-hailing company has teamed up with cities and transit agencies in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Australia to provide tickets, transport people with disabilities or sometimes operate as a town's entire public transportation system. Cities aren't sure whether to welcome it. In Denver, above, riders of the city's public transit system can use Uber to buy tickets. |
| In other tech news, FedEx is ending its contract with Amazon for ground deliveries in the U.S. at the end of the month, signaling that it's throwing its support behind Amazon's rivals in the e-commerce market. |
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| 7. Should children have a say in what their parents post about them? |
| They're the first generation to inherit a social media presence and, in turn, the privacy risks. By age 5, children can see, on average, 1,500 photos of themselves online. And studies warn that by 2030, parental sharing — or "sharenting" — could account for up to seven million incidents of identity theft and over $800 million in online fraud. |
| In a video from Op-Ed, three children confront their mothers about oversharing. Above, Lucy Petrzela, 7, and her mother, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela. |
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| 8. Remembrances for Toni Morrison continue to pour in. |
| For Wesley Morris, our critic at large, Ms. Morrison's novels made "thinking seem uniquely crucial to the matter of being alive." For the activist Angela Davis and a Morrison historian, she was also a "revolutionary political thinker, who used her gift to change the world." |
| Photos of Ms. Morrison, who died on Monday, are their own kind of gift, our archival editor writes, "a reminder that her life was a dance, a voyage of discovery, decades in the making." |
| The Nobel laureate spoke at Harvard Divinity School on the subject of altruism in 2012. Her lecture is published here for the first time. Its opening is jarringly current — a meditation on a mass shooting. |
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| 9. Nicolas Cage walked into an Italian restaurant off the Las Vegas Strip wearing oversize sunglasses, a dragon ring the size of a walnut and a black velveteen jacket over a Bruce Lee T-shirt. |
| This is how his interview with The Times Magazine began, and it just got odder from there. Mr. Cage spoke with our Talk columnist, David Marchese, about his legacy, his unusual philosophy on acting and his metaphorical — and literal — search for the Holy Grail. Here are some highlights from their time together. |
| "Earlier in my career I was very specific in my concept of who I wanted to be," Mr. Cage said. "I saw myself as a surrealist. This is going to sound pretentious, but I was, quote, trying to invent my own mythology, unquote, around myself." |
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| 10. And finally, how to ward off a snack attack. |
| Have you ever had pesky sea gulls steal your food? A new study suggests that staring them down may fend them off. |
| An experiment by researchers at the Royal Society in Britain found that herring gulls were far less likely to swoop down on potato chips if a person next to the snack faced the birds. |
| And you can raise your arms to ward off gulls, conservationists advise — but waving them will just agitate the birds. |
| Hope you take tonight head-on. |
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