July 13, Friday, 2018 (2:00 p.m.) Read by Ms. Emma Howard and Ms. Sara Macdonald

  1. More than 190 people are dead following Japan’s worst weather-related disaster in decades.
  2. U.S. President Donald Trump has released a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his Twitter account.
  3. The United States and North Korea have postponed working-level talks until Sunday on the repatriation of remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean War.