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China’s Economy Slows Broadly Even as Exports Keep Rising

Officials blamed U.S. “protectionism” for the dismal July data, but growth was likely held back by real estate and new policies aimed at slowing factory investments.

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A residential construction site in Hangzhou, in China’s eastern Zhejiang province in July.
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The Trauma of Childhood in Gaza: No School, Few Toys, Little Hope

Over the past two years, tens of thousands of children in the territory have been killed, wounded or orphaned. Childhood as they once knew it has ceased to exist.

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A camp for the displaced on a beach in Gaza City.
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Masaoki Sen, a Kamikaze Volunteer and Japan Tea Ceremony Grandmaster, Dies

A pilot who never flew on a suicide mission during World War II, Mr. Sen went on to become a grandmaster of Japan’s tea ceremony and used the platform to oppose all wars.

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Masaoki Sen performed a traditional Japanese tea ceremony on the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor in 2011.
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How Trump’s Meeting With Putin Could Unfold, as Trump Seeks Cease-Fire in Ukraine

A sudden feud, an impasse or a first step toward a cease-fire are all possible at the summit in Alaska as the two leaders navigate thorny issues such as Ukraine’s territory and NATO expansion.

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President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018. The summit on Friday will be their first face-to-face meeting since Mr. Trump’s first presidency.
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No Running Water and No Electricity, but for Some Venetians, This Island Is Paradise

A citizens’ group is now in charge of the island of Poveglia, where they will create a park for anyone who wants to leave Venice’s maddening crowds of tourists behind.

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Members of the Poveglia for Everyone association on Poveglia, an island in the Venetian Lagoon. Last year, a court determined that the group could manage one of Poveglia’s three islets on a six-year renewable lease.
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Evo Morales, Barred from Bolivia’s Election, Urges Null Votes

Despite being barred from running again for president and being sought for arrest, a towering figure of Bolivian politics is trying to rally supporters to cast null votes.

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How Trump’s Meeting With Putin Could Unfold, as Trump Seeks Cease-Fire in Ukraine

A sudden feud, an impasse or a first step toward a cease-fire are all possible at the summit in Alaska as the two leaders navigate thorny issues such as Ukraine’s territory and NATO expansion.

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President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia during a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018. The summit on Friday will be their first face-to-face meeting since Mr. Trump’s first presidency.
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Feds Turn Into Beat Cops in Trump’s D.C. Policing Surge

In the nation’s capital, federal agents have operated a sobriety checkpoint, made gun and drug busts and carried out other day-to-day police work. Some residents are uneasy.

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Federal agents detained a man in Washington, D.C., on Thursday night.
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How Ambitious Democratic Governors Are Navigating Trump’s Redistricting War

Some have emerged as a front line against Trump’s push to grab more seats in Congress, putting the issue at the center of their party’s politics. Others are ceding the spotlight.
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With a Shovel and a Dream, Woman Finds 2.3 Carat Diamond in Arkansas

After three weeks, with bug bites and tattered hiking boots, Micherre Fox found the stone at Crater of Diamonds State Park.

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Micherre Fox, who lives in Manhattan, holds a 2.3-carat uncut white diamond she dug up at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park after three weeks of searching.
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Tribal Colleges Rely on Federal Funding. Their Leaders Fear the Trump Years.

As the Trump administration has publicly targeted elite universities, it has also quietly pursued funding cuts for the nation’s tribal colleges, which rely on federal dollars to operate.

Little Priest Tribal College in Winnebago, Neb. Many tribal colleges are hubs of Native culture. Little Priest, for example, promotes itself as the only college in America that teaches the Ho-Chunk language.
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Why Russia Sold Alaska to the U.S.

The Trump-Putin summit will take place in a former Russian colony that the United States bought for $7.2 million in 1867. Here’s how the deal came together and why its legacy matters.

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The $7.2 million U.S. Treasury check that sealed the American purchase of Alaska in 1867.
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Trump-Putin Meeting: What Time, Where and How to Watch

The leaders of the United States and Russia will hold talks at an American military base in Alaska and are expected to hold a news conference afterward.

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Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage on Wednesday.
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