Brexit’s New Deadline, Trump Widens Biden Plea: Weekend Reads

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the European Union have given themselves a week to reach agreement on the U.K.’s divorce from the bloc — otherwise, Britain’s at increased risk of a no-deal exit or another postponement. In the U.S., the confrontation between Donald Trump and House Democrats over an impeachment inquiry deepened, with the president now calling on China to investigate still more discredited allegations of wrongdoing by 2020 rival Joe Biden and his son.

China showed its military muscle with a parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic, while unrest festered in Hong Kong with the first shootings of protesters. The authorities there invoked emergency rule for the first time in a half a century to ban face masks on demonstrators. It backfired.

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