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In unguarded moments with senior aides, President Trump has maintained that Black Americans have mainly themselves to blame in their struggle for equality, hindered more by lack of initiative than societal impediments, according to current and former U.S. officials. After phone calls with Jewish lawmakers, Trump has muttered that Jews “are only in it for themselves” and “stick together” in an ethnic allegiance that exceeds other loyalties, officials said. Trump’s private musings about Hispanics match the vitriol he has displayed in public, and his antipathy to Africa is so ingrained that when first lady Melania Trump planned a 2018 trip...

Munchausen by proxy: Persecuted parents or protected children? Parents who claim they were wrongly branded child abusers have exhausted their life savings fighting to get their kids back and clear the names. Now they want a Seattle pediatrician to be held accountable. In each case, Dr. Kenneth Feldman concluded that the mother suffered from a rare mental disorder called Munchausen syndrome by proxy. And he remains convinced that children in those families are still at risk.