Bedugul Coffee: Thursday Morning Briefing: White House struggles to contain summit outcry

Highlights

The White House struggled to contain a political outcry and confusion over President Trump’s summit with Putin. Through his performance in Helsinki and throughout his presidency, Trump has made real enemies in the realm of American national security. “He has struck blows against their empire,” writes intelligence expert and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tim Weiner for Reuters Commentary. “One way or another, the empire will strike back.”

“I can only hold one at a time to keep them warm. Whoever I am not holding is cold,” Karen said of life with her two young sons in detention in a border facility in Laredo, Texas. See the story from Reuters Graphics and read hundreds of sworn statements filed this week in a long-running lawsuit challenging conditions for children in immigration custody.

For the latest in Reuters’ Life Lessons series, Angela Bassett spoke about her most challenging role of all – how she went from a modest childhood in St. Petersburg, Florida, raised by a single mom, to being a reigning Hollywood queen.

World

Israel passed a law today to declare that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country, something members of the Arab minority called racist and verging on apartheid.

China said comments made by a senior White House official blaming President Xi Jinping for blocking progress on a deal to avert a trade war were “shocking” and “bogus” accusations.

Swiss regulators are stepping up efforts to halt an exodus of cryptocurrency projects from the country, after two of only a handful of banks active in the nascent sector shut their doors on it in the last year.

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I have such brave colleagues: Wa Lone told the court that during the interrogation, an officer offered a“negotiation” over the journalists’ arrest if they agreed not to publish the massacre story – an offer he said he rejected. https://reut.rs/2zTvd32

10:13 AM - Jan 10, 2018