The Latest: Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea

President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to scale back annual joint military exercises with South Korea due to his war against Iran, citing a good relationship with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. The BBC has asked a U.S. court for documents and testimony from Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump, Jr., related to Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster. Separately, Trump blamed vandals for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial.