Border Children, Trade War, N.B.A. Draft: Your Friday Evening Briefing

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Good evening. Here’s the latest.

1. President Trump hit back at criticism over his immigration policies at a White House event for “angel families” — the term some use to describe those who have lost a family member to violence by undocumented immigrants.

Mr. Trump lamented the “death and destruction caused by people that shouldn’t be here,” and accused Democrats and the news media of not caring. His remarks, shown here on video, came two days after he signed an executive order to end the separation of families at the border.

But confusion over the president’s order has led to tense arguments at the White House. The bureaucratic clash threatens to undermine Mr. Trump as his administration scrambles to escape the escalating political crisis.

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2. Far from the fracas in Washington, there was no relief for hundreds of parents who were little closer to reuniting with the more than 2,300 children who have been taken from them under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” border enforcement policy. Above, undocumented migrants in Tijuana, Mexico.

We spoke to parents who said they still did not know how to find their children. Others who had located their children said they were still separated by thousands of miles and a bureaucratic maze they did not know how to navigate. Here’s where migrant children are being held across the U.S.

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3. “We decline to grant the state unrestricted access to a wireless carrier’s database of physical location information.”

That was Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. as the Supreme Court issued a major decision on digital privacy. It ruled that the government generally needs a warrant to collect location data about the customers of cellphone companies.

The 5-to-4 decision has implications for all kinds of personal information held by third parties, including email and text messages, internet searches, and bank and credit card records. Above, a cell tower in California.

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4. North and South Korea agreed to hold temporary reunions of families separated by the Korean War, providing a rare glimpse of the pain that the long political divide has inflicted on families.

The reunions will include relatives who have not seen each other since they were separated during the chaos of the war, which lasted from 1950 to 1953. Above, a 93-year-old South Korean applies to reunite with family members.

President Trump, meanwhile, says North Korea’s dismantling of its nuclear program “is already starting.” Here are the facts.

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5. Inside a daring case of corporate espionage.

Micron, an American chip maker, says its designs, like those above, were stolen and bound for China, where they would benefit a new, $5.7 billion microchip factory. Washington sees a larger pattern of theft, fueling tensions with Beijing.

In yet another trade dispute, the White House is considering tariffs on luxury imports such as perfume, handbags and wine. But it might be drawing the wrong lesson from past trade fights — like the “banana war” of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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6. On Sunday, women will be legally permitted to drive in Saudi Arabia — a bastion of conservative Islam that is the last country in the world to bar women from driving.

The new law has made thousands of Saudi women happy, our correspondent reports, but a bright red line still keeps them from equality. They remain the dependents of male relatives — a father, husband, brother, uncle or son — their whole lives. (Even if they’re riding Harleys, like the Saudi women pictured above.)

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7. Anthony Bourdain had no narcotics in his system when he died.

That’s what a French judicial official told The Times, ending certain questions about the death of Mr. Bourdain, the chef, author and television celebrity who was found dead in a hotel bathroom in a small village in France. Police ruled his death a suicide by hanging.

And Charles Krauthammer, one of America’s most cogent conservative voices as a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and television commentator, died of cancer at a hospital in Atlanta. He was 68.

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8. To no basketball fan’s surprise, the Phoenix Suns took Deandre Ayton, the Arizona center, above, with the first pick in the 2018 N.B.A. draft. Here’s an analysis of every first-round draft pick.

Our N.B.A. columnist, Marc Stein, broke the news of the first three selections — and a Mavericks-Hawks trade that appears to have sent Trae Young, the Oklahoma point guard, to Atlanta. Sign up here to receive Mr. Stein’s N.B.A. newsletter.

Why are the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. so far apart on social justice stances? Marketing and star power, our reporter found out, begin to explain how the leagues got on different sides of a cultural divide.

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9. More World Cup madness.

We looked at how Iceland’s “ruligans” grew from a few fans in plastic Viking helmets into a thousands-strong force of thunder-clapping Nordic people, above, with near-South American levels of enthusiasm. (Iceland lost to Nigeria 2-0 on Friday and needs to beat Croatia to have any hope of advancing.)

Argentina arrived at the World Cup with high hopes and the world’s best player. Now it lingers by the exit.

Here’s our full World Cup coverage.

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10. Finally, start the weekend on a positive note.

Meet Camryn Cowan and Jordan Millar, above, two young girls who won standing ovations for their compositions that were recently performed by the New York Philharmonic.

A Times critic gave them an effusive review, and the Philharmonic’s president said, “Audiences were clearly blown away and delightfully surprised.”

How young are the composers? Both are 11.

Have a great weekend.

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