UPDATE: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon asking the Department of Defense to help house immigrant families caught crossing the border illegally, ending a nearly two-month-old policy of separating children from parents. The order also asks immigration officials to expedite prosecutions for parents, an attempt to limit the amount of time families stay in detention.

U.S. markets tumbled Tuesday morning after the Chinese government accused U.S. President Donald Trump of launching a trade war with new tariffs announced Tuesday. Trump directed the U.S.

Republicans are scrambling for a legislative fix to the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families at the border. Current law prevents immigration officials from detaining children with their parents. Previous administrations got around that by releasing parents and children caught trying to enter the country illegally.

President Donald Trump appeared to surprise Defense Department officials Monday with his request for a sixth branch of the U.S. military: the Space Force. “When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space,” the president said during remarks at the White House.

Opposition to the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents mounted over the weekend, uniting the president’s supporters and critics. Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse and one of President Donald Trump’s most high-profile evangelical supporters, called the policy “disgraceful.” Former first lady Laura Bush called the policy “cruel” and “immoral” in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

The Canadian Supreme Court severely limited religious liberty in the country on Friday when it ruled against a Christian university trying to open a law school. In a 7-2 decision, the court ruled regional law societies had a right to block accreditation for the school over objections to its community covenant, which requires students and faculty to abstain from sex outside heterosexual marriage.

President Donald Trump on Friday blasted the conclusions in a Justice Department report claiming former FBI Director James Comey broke protocol but didn’t act with political bias in his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email use. The report, released Thursday, included more text messages exchanged by two FBI agents investigating Clinton. Trump focused on the clear bias in those messages but directed most of his ire at the agency’s leadership. “The end result was wrong.