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Capital Weather Gang
Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the past week
Montreal, Glasgow, Belfast and Yerevan, Armenia, are among the international cities to set all-time-high temperatures.
By Jason Samenow  •  Read more »
Leading contender to be Trump’s Supreme Court pick faces questions from social conservatives
The political moment for Trump remained fragile as a president devoted to his base weighed what a selection of Brett M. Kavanaugh could mean for him.
By Robert Costa and Josh Dawsey  •  Read more »
Anxiety grows in Thailand as trapped boys are being given diving lessons
Getting out of the cave complex would involve an underwater trip that would challenge the most experienced divers.
By Shibani Mahtani  •  Read more »
The Fix
Alan Dershowitz says ‘friends on Martha’s Vineyard’ are shunning him for defending Trump
The Harvard law professor said attempts to ostracize him were “childish.”
By Kristine Phillips  •  Read more »
Reliable Source
The Fourth of July White House concert used to be a sea of stars. For Trump, it’s a drought.
"American Idol” contestants (not finalists), a classical pianist and an early aughts singer round out the entertainment for this year's celebration on the South Lawn.
By Helena Andrews-Dyer and Emily Heil  •  Read more »

Opinion
I left the Republican Party. Now I want Democrats to take over.
I can’t respect head-in-the-sand conservatives who continue to support the GOP by pretending that nothing has changed.
By Max Boot  •  Read more »
WorldViews
Trump got a dose of Dutch bluntness from visiting prime minister
On Monday, the Dutch leader showed that he can hold his own with the U.S. president with a concise, resounding no.
By Rebecca Tan  •  Read more »
Fact Checker • Analysis
Trump falsely claims Obama gave citizenship to 2,500 Iranians during nuclear deal talks
Trump tweeted a wild and unverified accusation that appears to have originated with an Iranian politician.
By Salvador Rizzo  •  Read more »
Retropolis
‘No place to recharge my Kindle’: Letters imagine the front lines of America’s ‘second civil war’
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones falsely claim Democrats were planning to wage civil war on July Fourth. A viral hashtag imagined what such a war might look like.
By Amy B Wang  •  Read more »
Opinion
I’m from the border. The news is getting it wrong.
Texas’s frontier cities are not even among the state’s most dangerous.
By Victoria Ochoa  •  Read more »
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Seven Americans on patriotism, protest and the president
OF AMERICA | At rallies, protests and parades, Americans tell us what it means to be patriotic today.
By Jenna Johnson  •  Read more »
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Calm down. Roe v. Wade isn’t going anywhere.
A more conservative Supreme Court would still lag behind the culture.
By Kathleen Parker  •  Read more »
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Inspired Life
A bride gave bone marrow to save a stranger’s baby. The child lived — and was her flower girl.
The 3-year-old, who was diagnosed with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia, received bone marrow from Hayden Hatfield Ryals.
By Lindsey Bever  •  Read more »

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Perspective
For the Nationals, the crisis point has arrived in a hurry, as it usually does
Washington likely will play better, but the hole it’s currently in is too deep to ignore.
By Thomas Boswell  •  Read more »
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Speaking of Science
Many asteroids might be remnants of five destroyed worlds, scientists say
The "planetesimals" were doomed to collide, producing fragments that also collided, producing still more fragments in a cataclysmic cascade that's been going on for more than 4 billion years.
By Sarah Kaplan  •  Read more »
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