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Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor

Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor

Good morning! It’s Friday. Here are today’s top stories.

  • In Ceuta, Spain, tensions are rising with at least 13,000 migrants in a city of 83,000. Emergency incidents are up 532 percent. Madrid calls the fear ‘subjective' as residents warn of a revolt.
  • Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived at the White House Thursday for the first time in more than a decade.
  • Reporters from three news outlets that President Donald Trump banned from the White House have said they’ve regained access, hours after a judge ordered the government to restore press passes to the journalists.
  • Russia is increasingly using drone incursions, cyberattacks, sabotage, and other covert operations to sow fear, test Western resolve, and weaken backing for Kyiv, but it is not planning an imminent direct attack on NATO members, European officials said.