Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With Trump By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Video In edited audio excerpts from an interview with New York Times reporters, President Trump discussed Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump Jr., Robert S. Mueller III and the newly disclosed conversation he had with Vladimir V. Putin. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times President Trump spoke on Wednesday with three New York Times reporters — Peter Baker, …

The Supreme Court Partially Allowed Trump’s Travel Ban. Who Is Still Barred? By ALICIA PARLAPIANO and ANJALI SINGHVI

Portions of President Trump’s travel ban went into effect at the end of June, after the Supreme Court temporarily lifted legal blocks on the ban and agreed to review the case this fall. The court granted an exception for people with “bona fide relationships” in the United States. Last week, a federal judge in Hawaii …

Magu By Obi Nwakanma of Vanguard Newspapers 

In Taoism, the word “Magu” means something quite powerful: the transcendent and immortal divinity of life, who protects the sacred order of the universe, and the female principle. It is like “Ala” – the female goddess of the earth and protector of life and the sanctified in the Igbo aetiological systems. On the other hand, …

Is It Racist to Say Africa Has ‘Civilizational’ Problems? BY REMI ADEKOYA Foreign Affairs Journal

French President Emmanuel Macron should have known his comments about Africa at the G-20 summit this month would spark an angry backlash. Responding to a reporter’s question as to why there is no Marshall Plan for the continent, he cited “civilizational” problems that are different from those faced by Europe after World War II: “Failing …

What Did Trump Know About His Son’s Meeting, and When Did He Know It? – MAX BOOT. Foreign Policy Journal

The administration has resorted to slippery statements and obfuscations, but the truth is closing in around it. Donald Trump is not noted for his sense of humor — he is witless in every sense of the word — but he got off an unintentionally hilarious line the other day when he praised his son Donald …