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Pompeo’s Plans: President Trump confirmed on Twitter that CIA Director Mike Pompeo met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently in preparation for Trump’s planned summit with Kim—a sign that the president is eager to make a big diplomatic statement. As his nominee for secretary of state, Pompeo is opposed by several prominent members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and could become the first State Department head not to be endorsed by the agency’s overseers in the legislative branch.

A megafire—that is, a wildfire larger than 100,000 acres—has burned more than 260,000 acres in Oklahoma this month,And a new study quantifies the effects of a massive 2016 coral-bleaching event at the Great Barrier Reef, which—combined with another bleaching last year—