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1. Children's distress may help Trump bargain for his border wall

   

   Many of the kids who’ve been taken from their families are under the age of four, according to New York Times data. Too young, obviously, to understand that when their parents crossed the border illegally they were stumbling into the White House’s calculus for the midterm elections.

2. Trump threatens China with new tariffs on $200B in goods

   

   President Donald Trump directed the U.S. Trade Representative to prepare new tariffs on $200 billion US in Chinese imports on Monday as the two nations moved closer to a potential trade war.

3. Distraught child migrants heard in audio published by ProPublica

   

   U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says she hasn't heard newly released audio of crying children who have been separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

4. North Korea's Kim visits Beijing, as South Korea, U.S. halt military drill

   

   North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, where he will likely brief Chinese President Xi Jinping on his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump last week, as Washington and Seoul agreed to suspend a major joint military exercise.

5. 'It kills that mass market': Burgeoning British bourbon market braces for EU tariffs on U.S. exports

   

   With the European Union poised to hit American exports with retaliatory tariffs, those who sell or consume U.S. spirits in the United Kingdom are predicting the burgeoning market for whisky and bourbon could take a hit.