Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of seventy-eight. Sunrise is 6:36 AM and sunset 7:02 PM, for 12:49:26 of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 95.1% of its visible disk illuminated.Today is the one thousand forty-second day.
The Whitewater Library Board meets at 6:30 PM, and the Whitewater Unified School District also meets at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1864, the Wisconsin 13th Infantry participates in an operation against Confederate generals Forrest and Hood in Tennessee.
Recommended for reading in full:
Andrew Calderon reports Border Courts Swamped With New Asylum Cases (‘Thousands of cases have been filed since President Trump started forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico’):
Early this year, the Trump administration began forcing thousands of migrants seeking asylum to return to Mexico, to wait there for immigration court hearings that would decide whether they could settle in the United States. New government figures show the policy is rapidly flooding some courts assigned to handle the cases.
The numbers from the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the agency within the Department of Justice that runs the immigration court system, show that so far this year, nearly 17,000 new asylum cases for migrants waiting in Mexico have been assigned to border courts through the end of August. And the numbers have been growing. More than 6,000 were filed in August alone.
These figures are likely an undercount of the number of people affected by the policy. According to data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, 26,000 people had received notices to appear in these courts by the Department of Homeland Security through July.
Hyonhee Shin reports North Korea leader Kim invited Trump to Pyongyang in letter:
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited U.S. President Donald Trump to visit Pyongyang in a letter sent in August amid stalled denuclearisation talks, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday, citing diplomatic sources.
Kim, in the letter sent in the third week of August, spoke of his “willingness” for a third summit and extended an invitation for Trump to visit the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, the Joongang Ilbo newspaper reported, citing an unidentified source.
Trump on Aug. 9 said he had received a “very beautiful letter” from Kim.
But U.S. officials have not said anything about a second letter in August.
Trump and Kim have met three times since June last year to discuss ways to resolve a crisis over North Korea’s missile and nuclear programmes, but substantive progress has been scant.