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Some 388 people are still missing after deadly wildfires ripped through Maui in Hawaii, police have said.

The fate of Yevgeny V. Prigozhin is a reminder of all those who have paid a heavy price for standing up to President Vladimir V. Putin, and of how quickly people can fall from his favor.

The president of Spain’s football federation has refused to resign after he kissed a Women’s World Cup champion after the final last weekend.

A tycoon and a Putin ally, he built a paramilitary force that fought by Russia’s side even as he castigated its military leaders. He is believed dead at 62 in a plane crash.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. To hear his rivals tell it, he’s a neophyte charlatan unfit for the job he’s seeking. A

Selections from ‘The Wind in the Willows’ by Lou Peacock, illustrated by Kate Hindley

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Selections from ‘The Shade Tree’ by Suzy Lee

The novice candidate has drawn GOP primary buzz by ferociously defending the former president, who followed a similar path from business to politics.

Selections from ‘The Biggest Mistake’ by Camilla Pintonato