National News at a Glance

Trump Receptive to Working Out Citizenship Path

President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared open to negotiating a sweeping immigration deal that would eventually grant millions of unauthorized immigrants a pathway to citizenship. The president made the remarks during an extended meeting with congressional Republicans and Democrats who are weighing a shorter-term agreement that would extend legal status for immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children. The 90-minute session — more than half of which played out on national television — appeared to produce some progress: Trump agreed to a framework for a short-term immigration deal to couple protection for young immigrants with border security.

Loss of Immigrants Will Be Felt Throughout Workforce

They clean federal office buildings in Washington and nurse older people in Boston. They are rebuilding hurricane-wrecked Houston. They are the immigrants from Haiti and Central America who have staked their livelihoods on the temporary permission they received years ago from the government to live and work in the United States. Hundreds of thousands now stand to lose that status under the Trump administration, which said on Monday that roughly 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador would have to leave by September 2019 or face deportation. More than 45,000 Haitians will have to leave by July 2019.

Under Pressure, Bannon Leaves Post at Breitbart

Stephen K. Bannon stepped down on Tuesday from his post as executive chairman of Breitbart News, ostracized for now from conservative circles and the Republican Party he brazenly predicted he would remake. Bannon’s departure, which was initiated by an estranged financial patron and Breitbart investor, Rebekah Mercer, came as Bannon remained unable to quell the furor over remarks attributed to him in a new book in which he questions President Donald Trump’s mental fitness and disparages his son Donald Trump Jr. Separately, SiriusXM, which broadcasts a radio show on which Bannon was a host, said it was also cutting ties with him.

Democrat Releases Transcript of Researcher’s Interview

Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, defied her Republican colleagues on Tuesday to unilaterally make public a much-discussed transcript of the committee’s interview with one of the founders of the firm that produced a dossier outlining a Russian effort to aid the Trump campaign. The interview, with Glenn R. Simpson of Fusion GPS, provided few revelatory details about the firm’s findings on the Russian election effort or on President Donald Trump and his campaign. But both the circumstances of its release and the vivid picture it paints of Simpson’s operation provided fresh ammunition to both sides of a growing fight over the dossier.

North Carolina Ordered to Redraw ‘Partisan’ Map

A panel of federal judges struck down North Carolina’s congressional map on Tuesday, condemning it as unconstitutional because Republicans had drawn the map seeking a political advantage. The ruling was the first time that a federal court had blocked a congressional map because of a partisan gerrymander, and it instantly endangered Republican seats in the coming elections. The unusually blunt decision by the panel could lend momentum to two other challenges on gerrymandering that are already before the Supreme Court — and that the North Carolina case could join if Republicans make good on their vow to appeal Tuesday’s ruling.

Fire and Rain Fuel Deadly California Mudslides

First came the fires. Now come the floods. Heavy rains lashed the hillsides of Santa Barbara County on Tuesday, sending one boy hurtling hundreds of yards in a torrent of mud before he was rescued from under a freeway overpass. His father, though, was still missing. A 14-year-old girl was buried under a mountain of mud and debris from a collapsed home before being pulled to safety by rescuers as helicopters circulated overhead, searching for more victims. Still, those children could count themselves among the lucky. At least 13 people — and possibly more, the authorities warned — were killed.

Ex-Sheriff Pardoned by Trump Announces Senate Run in Arizona

Joe Arpaio, the polarizing 85-year-old immigration hard-liner pardoned by President Donald Trump after a conviction for criminal contempt, announced Tuesday that he is running in Arizona for the U.S. Senate. The move by Arpaio, who just six months ago faced a jail sentence before he was pardoned, upended the race to replace Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican who abandoned his 2018 re-election campaign after coming under criticism from Trump. The contenders for the seat include Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, a centrist Democrat, and Kelli Ward, a conservative Republican and former state senator who aligns herself with Trump.

In the President’s Physical, What He Discloses Is Up to Him

President Donald Trump is a commander in chief who fuels himself with Diet Cokes, scoops of vanilla ice cream and slabs of red meat. On Friday, Trump, 71, will undergo his first comprehensive physical examination as president, and the first formal check on his former doctor’s Trumpian 2016 campaign claim that he’d be the “healthiest individual ever elected” to the office. A review of annual checkups of presidents dating back to Jimmy Carter shows that there is no set precedent for administering physicals or reading out results. Like any other medical patient what Trump ultimately reveals to the public about his health will be up to him.