Trump gets letter from Kim, predicts more talks

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that he received a “beautiful” threepage letter from Kim Jong Un and predicted that the two leaders would have more talks to try resolving the standoff over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Trump has said he’s not bothered by the flurry of missiles that Kim has launched in recent days, rattling U.S. allies in the region. The president said they were all short-range missiles and reiterated that North Korea has never broken its pledge to pause nuclear tests. Trump said Kim told him in the letter that he was upset about recent U.S.-South Korea military exercises, which North Korea sees as a threat. On Saturday, South Korea’s military said North Korea fired two more unidentified projectiles from its east coast into the sea.

Child Welfare: A 1978 law giving preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving American Indian children is constitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, reversing a lower court judge in a case fraught with emotional arguments over adoptive families being “torn apart” and the urgency of protecting tribal families and cultures.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal in New Orleans upholds the Indian Child Welfare Act. Opponents called the law an unconstitutional race-based intrusion on states’ powers to govern adoptions. But the 5th Circuit ruling disagreed, saying the law’s definition of an “Indian child” is a political classification.