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WASHINGTON — Late to his own meeting and waving a sheet of numbers, President Trump stormed into the Oval Office one day in June, plainly enraged.Five months before, Mr. Trump had dispatched federal officers to the nation’s airports to stop travelers from several Muslim countries from entering the United States in a dramatic demonstration of how he would deliver on his campaign promise to fortify the nation’s borders.But so many foreigners had flooded into the country since January, he vented to his national security team, that it was making a mockery of his pledge. Friends were calling to say he...

The city of Zurich plans to house asylum seekers in 62 chipboard huts to replace Ikea refugee shelters that it rejected last week after they failed a fire test. The chipboard structures will be assembled by employees of a local company between now and New Year's Day to house up to 250 people, the city announced on Tuesday. Last Friday, Zurich city councillor Raphael Golta unveiled a large hall filled with dozens of Ikea ready-to-assemble Ikea shelters. But just a few hours later authorities were forced to announce that the partly plastic shelters did not live up to Swiss fire...

We are told by careful pollsters that half of the American people believe that American troops should be brought home from Iraq immediately. This news discourages supporters of our efforts there. Not me, though: I am relieved. Given press coverage of our efforts in Iraq, I am surprised that 90 percent of the public do not want us out right now. Between January 1 and September 30, 2005, nearly 1,400 stories appeared on the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news. More than half focused on the costs and problems of the war, four times as many as those that discussed...

WAILUKU >> Getting back to that little grass shack in Hawaii may become a bit easier for Maui residents. A Maui County advisory committee has finished drafting proposed rules that allow the construction of four different kinds of Hawaiian grass huts using materials mainly grown on the islands -- the first proposal of its kind in the state. "It's a long time in coming," said master builder Francis Sinenci. The draft, if adopted, would allow qualified builders to go through the same process to construct Hawaiian huts as they would for a Western dwelling. Sinenci said he has been frustrated...