Divisions within the White House persist despite a publicly united front on the status of trade talks with China.

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Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.

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A founder of the Free Southern Theater in 1963, he was as eager to hear his audiences’ stories as he was to perform.

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Senior House Democrats see endless, overlapping investigations as the safer, more damaging course of action against President Trump than a politically fraught impeachment.

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No astronauts will be on board for the Saturday launch, but the capsule could carry crew to the space station later in the year.

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The president overruled concerns from intelligence officials and the top White House lawyer about giving his son-in-law access to sensitive information.

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Pam Northam handed raw cotton to children touring the governor’s mansion and asked them to imagine being enslaved and having to pick the crop.

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Andy Sweet’s photographs and a new film tell the story of a vanished Jewish community on the tip of Miami Beach that gave way to a glittering American Riviera.

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Across America, Michael Cohen’s testimony was, for many, just one more television show on the flat screens hanging in restaurants and bars.

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Two black men have been found dead in the Democratic donor’s West Hollywood apartment since 2017. The mother of one of the men sued this week.

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