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Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About the L.A. Immigration Protests

The president claimed, without giving evidence, that the protesters were “paid” agitators, that the Los Angeles police asked for the National Guard, and that swaths of the city were under gang control.

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Law enforcement officers responding to people protesting against the detention of migrants by federal law enforcement in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday.
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Death Toll Rises to 11 in San Antonio Flooding

Several people were missing on Friday as search efforts continued a day after flash flooding overwhelmed the area.

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Multiple vehicles were damaged in flooding after heavy rains hit San Antonio on Thursday.
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National Parks Are Told to Delete Content That ‘Disparages Americans’

Internal documents reviewed by The New York Times say that “negative” information at parks and other national site must be removed or covered by Sept. 17.

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The Big Hole National Battlefield in Montana. Members of the public are being asked to flag “negative” information and content at parks.
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Harris Yulin, Actor Who Perpetually Played the Bad Guy, Dies at 87

As an award-winning actor and director, he appeared in scores of stage plays, movies and TV shows over six decades, most often as unsavory characters.

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Harris Yulin, 2003. “I’m not that high-profile,” he once said. But to audiences, he was quickly recognizable from hundreds of parts.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial recap: what Kanye West did during his shocking appearance, more

This week’s Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial had more unexpected moments, including when Kanye West made a shocking — and bizarrely quick — appearance to support the fellow rapper. West, 48, arrived with Combs’ son Christian “King” Combs, and when a reporter asked if he was there to support Diddy, West gave a slow...

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What the foreign flags at the LA protests really mean

Trump claims they signify a ‘foreign invasion’ but experts say they’re flown by US citizens proud of their heritage

At the White House on Wednesday, the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters Donald Trump’s decision to dispatch the military to Los Angeles had been triggered by something he’d seen: “images of foreign flags being waved” during protests over federal immigration raids.

Leavitt did not specify which images the president had been so disturbed by, but the fact that some protesters denouncing his immigration crackdown have waved Mexican, Guatemalan and Salvadorian flags, or hybrid flags that combine those banners with the American flag, has been taken as an affront by supporters of his mass deportation campaign.

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