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The Trump administration missed its deadline to reunite immigrant families. Plus Trump’s criticism of NATO, new discoveries about ancient humans, and more.
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NATO Summit: President Donald Trump, who has long argued that America’s fellow members in NATO don’t pull their weight, called for member countries to increase their defense spending to 4 percent of their GDP—but that’s not what NATO needs, Peter Beinart argues. While Trump’s meeting with NATO comes at a precarious time in U.S.–European relations, the alliance may have been through worse.

The Trump administration fell far short of its July 10 deadline to return immigrant will need to be reunited with their families by July 26. Amid national outcry over the separation of families at the border, Democratic politicians have joined activists in calling for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to be dismantled, but And in one Texas town, some residents hope that the reopening of an immigrant detention center will revitalize the economy.

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