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Evidence mounts that Russia has paid the Taliban to kill American soldiers; Beijing cracks down on Hong Kong.   Tonight's Sentences was written by Cameron Peters. TOP NEWS Russian bounties, American lives, and White House inaction Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images On Friday last week, a New York Times scoop revealed that Russian military intelligence has been offering bounties to Taliban forces for the killing of American and British troops in Afghanistan. [ NYT / Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, and Michael Schwirtz ] Now, new reporting suggests that President Donald Trump knew as early as spring 2019 that Russia was placing those bounties. In addition to the President's Daily Brief, then-National Security Adviser John Bolton

The Supreme Court saves DACA for now; a Trump appointee goes on a firing spree at the US Agency for Global Media.   Tonight's Sentences was written by Cameron Peters.   A programming note: Sentences is off Friday with the Juneteenth holiday and will resume on Monday. TOP NEWS DACA endures at the Supreme Court Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Trump administration cannot immediately end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA. [ NPR / Nina Totenberg ] The Court, in a majority opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, concluded that Trump's decision to rescind the program was "arbitrary and capricious" because it failed to co