1/ The Trump administration separated more than 900 migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border after a judge ordered the government to stop the practice in June 2018 except in cases where a parent is unfit or presents a danger to the child. One man lost his daughter because a Border Patrol agent claimed he had failed to change the girl’s diaper and another had his child taken from him because of a property damage conviction allegedly worth $5. Another man who has a speech impediment had his 4-year-old son taken from him because he couldn’t clearly answer Border Patrol agent’s questions. Attorneys for the ACLU asked a federal judge to block the Trump administration from continuing to separate migrant children from their parents. (Washington Post / CNN / NBC News)

2/ The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point – the first rate cut in more than a decade. The move is meant to protect the U.S. economy against the effects of an economic slowdown in China and Europe and the uncertainty from Trump’s trade war. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the rate cut was a precautionary, “midcycle adjustment� to provide “insurance� against “downside risks.� Trump, who has called in recent months for the Fed to cut interest rates by a full percentage point, tweeted that the interest rate cut was “not enough� and that Powell had “let us down� “as usual.�(New York Times / Politico / CNBC / Wall Street Journal / Bloomberg /