President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to attend Game 5 of the World Series at Nationals Park on Sunday if the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros are still playing, though he did not confirm if he had been asked to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
“I don’t know. They’ve got to dress me up in a lot of heavy armor – I’ll look too heavy,” he responded when a reporter asked him about whether he would take the mound. He appeared to be making a reference to a bulletproof vest that presidents sometimes are required to wear by Secret Service when they are amid large crowds.

Joe Biden is apparently dropping his long-held opposition to the creation of an outside group that would supply an infusion of money to benefit his campaign, a recognition that financial struggles are becoming a major problem for his presidential prospects.
Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, released a statement Thursday afternoon saying that Biden would reform campaign finance if he is president, but in the meantime, he would open the door to outside money.

The House Transportation committee issued a subpoena to the General Services Administration on Thursday, seeking financial records and other information regarding President Donald Trump’s District of Columbia hotel.
The hotel operates in the federally-owned Old Post Office Pavilion under a lease that Trump signed in 2013, when he was still with his company, and which has become the center of lawsuits and conflict-of-interest concerns since he took office.

The Trump administration plans to cancel subscriptions to The Washington Post and the New York Times held by federal agencies, the latest sign of presidential displeasure with news coverage he deems unfair.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told the Wall Street Journal that the White House would instruct agencies not to renew their subscriptions to the papers when they come up.
She characterized the decision as a cost-saving measure, telling the Journal that “hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars will be saved” by the cancellations.
Trump has made no secret of his dislike for both newspapers, dubbing the Times “the failing New York Times” and The Post “the Amazon Washington Post” in his frequent broadsides against the two news organizations.

The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that the Trump administration separated 1,556 more immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border than has previously been disclosed to the public.
The majority of the children are ages 12 and under, including more than 200 considered “tender age” because they are under 5 years old.
The ACLU said the Justice Department disclosed the final tally – which is in addition to the more than 2,700 children known to have been separated last year – hours before a federal court deadline to identify all children separated since mid-2017, the year President Donald Trump took office.

Rav Aharon of Zhitomer, author of Toldos Aharon (1816). A talmid muvhak of Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, he succeeded Rav Zev Wolf of Zhitomir (the Ohr Hemeir) upon the appointment of the Kedushas Levi. His divrei Torah were written down by one of his closest talmidim, Rav Levi of Zhitomir,after he heard them, at the end of every Shabbos and Yom Tov.

U.S. Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer said on Wednesday that the U.S. Navy is “completely defensible” against the Iranian threat, including in the Persian Gulf.
Spencer’s talk consisted of how the U.S. Navy has prepared its uniformed and non-uniformed men and women during their career, such as providing a quality education in the Navy’s higher-education institutions, and how it is advancing and maintaining its line of fleets.

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Arthur Wayne Johnson, appointed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to a top post in the federal government’s trillion-dollar financial aid operations, resigned Thursday, calling the student loan system “fundamentally broken” and urging the elimination of millions of Americans’ student debt.

 
With his Brexit deal “paused” and his “do-or-die” promise to leave the European Union by the end of October dashed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday said that he would ask the fractious Parliament to agree to a Dec. 12 general election.
In a letter to opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, Johnson said he would give the divided Parliament one last chance to scrutinize his withdrawal agreement legislation and “get Brexit done” by Nov. 6.
In his missive to Corybyn, Johnson warned that, regardless, he would put forth under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act on Monday, a motion seeking an early general election.
Under that act, two-thirds of Parliament must agree to go to elections. It is uncertain that Johnson could win the two-thirds he needs.