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A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked an order by President Donald Trump that barred asylum for immigrants who enter the country illegally from Mexico, the latest courtroom defeat for Trump on immigration policy.

Trump is also likely to give U.S. troops authority to protect immigration agents stationed along the U.S. border with Mexico if they come under threat from migrants seeking to cross into the United States, an official has said.

A white Republican senator’s casual reference to a “public hanging” has invigorated a special election runoff in Mississippi, fueling Democratic hopes of an upset in a conservative state with an ugly history of racist violence.

World

Amid international uproar over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, some members of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family are agitating to prevent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from becoming king, three sources close to the royal court said. Read the exclusive.

The Kremlin has said that a statement by a group of U.S. senators opposing the election of a Russian candidate to head international police organization Interpol amounted to election meddling.

Commentary: The Danske Bank money laundering scandal is not only a disaster for the reputation of Denmark and its largest bank. It also poses a political challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has not made serious efforts to stop capital flight from Russia to the West, writes Steven E. Halliwell, former corporate finance head of Central and Eastern Europe for Citibank N.A. and chief financial officer of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund. "Time may be running out for that approach, however, as Russia’s economy falters and laundering becomes harder to hide."

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two @Reuters journalists, have been imprisoned in Myanmar since Dec. 12, 2017. Follow the case: https://reut.rs/2DGwFa6

5:50 PM - 18 Nov 2018