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President Trump is defending racist tweets targeting four House freshmen, all women of color. Three of the four lawmakers had recently testified about their visits to crowded border detention facilities, lamenting what they saw there. But despite condemnation from congressional Democrats, some Republicans and even the British Prime Minister, Trump isn’t expressing remorse. Yamiche Alcindor reports.

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Washington is reeling as a result of racist tweets President Trump made Sunday, in which he blasted four women of color in the House and said they should return to where they came from, although all four are American citizens. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky, joins Judy Woodruff to explain why a “frustrated” Trump’s comments are “overblown” and how he knows his constituents aren’t offended by them.

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The Trump administration says its new regulation barring taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions is taking effect immediately.

The Health and Human Services department said Monday it will begin enforcing the ban on abortion referrals, along with a requirement that family planning clinics maintain separate finances from facilities that provide abortions.

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Facebook’s ambitious plan to create a financial eco-system based on a digital currency faces questions from lawmakers, as it’s shadowed by negative comments from President Donald Trump, his treasury secretary and the head of the Federal Reserve.

Tropical Depression Barry spared New Orleans and Baton Rouge from catastrophic flooding, but even as it weakened and moved north through Arkansas, its trailing rain bands swamped parts of Louisiana with up to 17 inches (43 centimeters) of rain and transformed part of the Mississippi Delta into “an ocean.”

As of Monday evening, with the center of the storm about 105 miles (170 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, the National Weather Service said flash flood watches remained in effect in southeast Texas through the lower Mississippi Valley.

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To experience a variety of great golfing in a week, you used to have to go to Ireland or Scotland. Then along came Bandon Dunes Resort in Oregon, which shot to the top of most traveling golfers’ bucket lists by offering four courses by different architects in one central location. (A fifth will be added by 2020.)

Other resorts, most notably Pinehurst, have upped their game in recent years following Bandon’s approach with back-to-nature minimalist designs.

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If we get back to the lunar surface, astronauts will have to contend with much more than perilous rocket flights and the vacuum of space.

Despite NASA’s successful Apollo landings, humans have spent very little time on the moon.

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New moms may want to think about scheduling their post-delivery checkups a bit earlier than they have in the past.

In a recently resurfaced set of guidelines published in May 2018, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is recommending “that all women” who give birth “have contact with their obstetrician–gynecologists or other obstetric care providers within the first 3 weeks postpartum.”

Read more at People.