Tracy Mumford

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has told 1,500 active duty troops to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota after President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act there.

Defense Department officials tell The Times the troops are part of an Army Airborne Division based in Alaska.

Last week, the Pentagon also quietly alerted 200 Texas National Guard troops to be ready to deploy.

Publicly, Trump has already appeared to back off from his initial threat to use the act to send in troops, telling reporters on Friday that, quote, One Pentagon official acknowledged that change of tone, but said the military still wants to be prepared.

And last update on the Trump administration.

New details have emerged about the president's plan to create an international board of peace.

He'd originally floated the idea as a group of world leaders who would oversee the rebuilding of Gaza.

Now it seems to have a much bigger scope that could stretch to cover other conflicts.

And there's a huge fee to join.

Under a draft charter reviewed by The Times, Trump is hoping to sell permanent seats on the board for a billion dollars each.

Several countries said they had received invitations, including Argentina, Canada, and Turkey, though it's unclear if any have agreed to join.

The White House said the board would include, among others, Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Ajay Banga, head of the World Bank.

In a social media post, the president called it, quote, the greatest and most prestigious board ever assembled at any time, any place.

In China, new data out today shows that the country is facing a demographic crisis.

The birth rate has plunged to a record low.

And for the fourth year in a row, there have been more deaths than births, leaving the country's population smaller and older.

Alexandra Stevenson is the Times' Shanghai bureau chief.

She says the country relaxed its infamous one-child policy a decade ago and is now using a whole bunch of tactics to encourage people to have two, even three children.

And finally... Potentially the world's most famous chimney sweep is the one Dick Van Dyke played in Mary Poppins.

In which he did an accent that was so bad he actually apologized to the British people for it later.