Donald Trump, Turkey, Kanye West: Your Monday Briefing
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Skip due process for immigrants, Trump says
• President Trump has called for those who cross into the U.S. illegally to be sent back immediately without due process or an appearance before a judge, saying, “We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country.”
Drawing questions about constitutionality and prompting criticism in Congress, the president’s comments came after he signed an executive order last week that ended the separation of immigrant children from their parents under a “zero tolerance” policy announced two months ago.
The House is planning to vote this week on a bill that would increase border security and provide a path to citizenship for the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers, while also allowing migrant families to be detained together indefinitely.
• Over the weekend, a 15-year-old migrant boy walked out of a large shelter in Texas and disappeared. The operator of the center said it was not allowed to restrain children who want to leave, raising questions about who’s responsible for their safety.
Turkey’s leader extends his power
• Voters granted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vastly expanded authority over the legislature and judiciary on Sunday, with his conservative party and its allies winning about 53 percent of ballots.
Mr. Erdogan has overseen a crackdown on lawyers, judges, civil servants and journalists after a failed coup two years ago. His critics had portrayed the election as their last chance to prevent Turkey from becoming an authoritarian state.
• The victory could have grave consequences for NATO cooperation, security in Iraq and Syria, and immigration flows in Europe.
How Assad gassed his own people
• Dozens of people were killed in a chemical attack in Douma, Syria, in April — but to this day, Syrian officials claim it’s all a farce. The Times set out to investigate what happened.
We analyzed more than 60 videos, as well as images broadcast by Russian TV. We also interviewed dozens of witnesses and experts to reconstruct a virtual crime scene, a single building that was hit by a chlorine bomb.
• The evidence exposes Syrian and Russian lies. Our conclusion: President Bashar al-Assad used a chlorine bomb to attack his own people. Watch our video investigation here.
An affair rattling Washington media
• James Wolfe, 57, a former aide to the Senate Intelligence Committee, was arrested this month and charged with lying about his contact with journalists.
One of those journalists was Ali Watkins, a 26-year-old who was hired by The Times in December to cover federal law enforcement, after the end of a three-year relationship with Mr. Wolfe. Her email and phone records have been seized by federal prosecutors as part of their investigation.
• News of the affair has stunned many journalists and set off an ethical debate in Washington.
“The Daily”: What migrants are fleeing
• For many of those trying to make it to the U.S., staying in their native countries isn’t an option.
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Business
• Scientists say new production of a banned industrial chemical is damaging the ozone layer. An investigation by The Times and an independent environmental group led to factories in China.
• Uber is appealing a ban in London, its largest European market. The case this week is a major test of changes by the ride-hailing company and has ramifications far beyond the British capital.
• The Supreme Court is expected to rule on public-sector union fees this week. It’s one of the headlines to watch.
• U.S. stocks were mixed on Friday. Here’s a snapshot of global markets today.
Smarter Living
Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.
• Travel agents do more than book trips. Here are five other things they offer.
• Getting to the bottom of “thrift store” smells.
• Recipe of the day: There’s comfort in ricotta-stuffed shells and pesto.
Over the Weekend
• European Union leaders agreed that the Continent’s migration rules needed to be reworked, but consensus at a summit meeting this week will be hard to find.
• Saudi Arabia ended a driving ban for women. Our correspondent spoke with one female driver about her new freedom.
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia, becoming the latest Trump administration official to be singled out in public for its policies.
• The 49th annual Pride parade in New York City offered a stage for the Democratic primary and its two rivals: Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon. It’s not clear that anyone noticed.
• At the World Cup, Colombia and England won on Sunday, while Japan and Senegal tied. Today’s games begin at 10 a.m. Eastern, and we’ll have live scores and analysis.
• “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” earned $150 million and the top spot at the North American box office in its debut weekend.
Noteworthy
• In memoriam
Donald Hall, a former poet laureate of the U.S., found a universe of meaning in the apples, ox carts and ordinary folk of his beloved rural New England. He was 89.
• Into the wild with Kanye West
In the past two years, the rapper, producer and cultural fire starter has had wild stretches of public trauma, divisive flirtations with politics, and health struggles that played out both in public and in private.
Speaking with one of our music critics at his resort in Wyoming, Kanye was measured and self-aware, willing to reckon with the challenges he’s created for himself. Read our interview here.
• “Westworld” recap
The Season 2 finale of HBO’s sci-fi Western may not have been the best “Westworld” episode, but it was certainly the most “Westworld” episode, jammed with philosophical and theological conceits. Read our review.
• Quotation of the day
“If export markets get shut off, I could see us getting to the point where we’re dumping our milk in the fields. It’ll be a big ripple effect through the state.”
— Jeff Schwager, president of a longtime cheese producer in Wisconsin.
• The Times, in other words
Here’s an image of today’s front page, and links to our Opinion content and crossword puzzles.
• What we’re reading
Mark Walsh, a London-based editor, recommends this piece from The Players’ Tribune, Derek Jeter’s project to let athletes address their fans directly. “Raheem Sterling, one of England’s best soccer players, has been a magnet for tabloid criticism tinged with racism and class snobbery. This is his riposte: a chatty, informal memoir that covers his father’s killing when he was just 2, and the years of hardship he and his mother endured.”
Back Story
Did you see strange lights in the sky yesterday?
If so, perhaps you spotted an extraterrestrial anniversary celebration! The modern era of ufology (yes, it’s a word) dawned 71 years ago on June 24.
That’s when Kenneth Arnold, an Idaho businessman flying a private plane, saw nine disc-like objects zooming impossibly fast past Mount Rainier, in Washington. He told a newspaper, the East Oregonian, about his sighting, and it ran a short article that was picked up by The Associated Press.
Since then, U.F.O. sightings have been reported worldwide, including in Australia, Canada, India and Scotland.
June 24 was also the day, in 1997, the Air Force published a study about a second flying object report in 1947, by a rancher near Roswell, N.M., who found metallic debris scattered there. Rumors grew that an alien spacecraft had crashed. The study intended to debunk rumors about little green people once and for all (whether it succeeded is debatable).
As for Mr. Arnold, stung at being mocked by skeptics, he once complained to an Air Force officer who interviewed him, “If I saw a 10-story building flying through the air I would never say a word about it.”
But he never recanted his original story.
Nancy Wartik wrote today’s Back Story.
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