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The Coast Guard rescued three family members who were stranded on Naushon, a sparsely populated island off Martha’s Vineyard. One was in critical condition. Read full article

Some conservative policy advisers and commentators, including Laura Loomer and Stephen K. Bannon, are raising questions about the administration’s policy in the region. Read full article

About 200 people stood in an intersection outside the Coast Guard base in Alameda, Calif., where federal agents were said to be arriving to prepare for an immigration enforcement operation. Read full article

President Trump said he had called off a planned federal deployment of immigration agents to the city. It was not clear what that meant for the rest of the Bay Area. Read full article

The surprise move could give Democrats two or three additional House seats and is likely to scramble the last couple weeks of campaigning ahead of the Nov. 4 election. Read full article

Darren Bailey, a Republican candidate for governor, lost his son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren, ages 12 and 7, in a helicopter accident in Montana, his campaign said. Read full article

The shift mirrors trends at other elite schools after a ban on affirmative action. The Trump administration has said it wants to scrutinize demographics to ensure schools aren’t using racial preferences. Read full article

The portraits fill a visual vacuum during a ban on media access to the operation that holds the last 15 U.S. wartime prisoners. Read full article

Motorola won a $7 million contract to modernize Kerr County’s emergency radio system. When a devastating flash flood swept through the county, emergency crews had trouble using it. Read full article

Carol Rosenberg, a reporter who has covered the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay since it opened in 2002, describes a collection of stylized portraits of its detainees in the war against terrorism. The photos were taken as part of a Red Cross program for the detainees to communicate with their families. Read full article