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• Two Israeli Embassy Staffers Shot and Killed Outside Event in Washington, Officials Say
  Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that the shooting occurred near an event held at the Capital Jewish Museum.
• Trump’s Apple Threat Complicates India’s Tariff Negotiations
  Apple and India have invested years and billions of dollars in teaming up against China. India sees it as a strength. To President Trump, it looks like leverage.
• Trump Casts Himself as a Protector of Persecuted White People
  President Trump publicly dressed down the president of South Africa based on a fringe conspiracy theory, providing a vivid distillation of his views on race.
• End of Federal Oversight Plan for Minneapolis Police Draws Criticism Over Timing
  The Trump administration announced the withdrawal of the plan just days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s killing.
• Trump Clashed With South Africa’s President
  Also, the Justice Department ended oversight of local police in several cities. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
• Graduates Boo Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught Year
  Claire Shipman, the university’s acting president, noted the absence of Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate who continues to be detained by immigration authorities.
• Inside the Oval Office Meeting With South Africa’s President
  John Eligon, Johannesburg bureau chief, recounts what he witnessed in the Oval Office when President Trump confronted the visiting President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa with an elaborate presentation attempting to falsely prove a “genocide” against white Afrikaners.
• Inspector Let Recruits Who Failed Psychological Exam Join the N.Y.P.D.
  Terrell Anderson, the former head of a unit charged with assessing candidates, has been transferred. He has been praised as an innovative officer.
• Trump Claimed a Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers. It Didn’t.
  During a meeting with South Africa’s president, President Trump played the video as evidence of racial persecution. A Times analysis found he misrepresented the contents of the video.
• Trump Lectures South African President in Televised Oval Office Confrontation
  President Trump showed a video and leafed through printouts that he falsely claimed showed widespread persecution of white South Africans. The country’s president tried to correct the record.