Barry, ICE Raids, Jeffrey Epstein: Your Weekend Briefing

Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead.

1. Tropical Storm Barry is inundating parts of Louisiana and coastal Mississippi.

Check out these photos of the storm’s slow progression. It strengthened only briefly to hurricane-force winds, and the more urgent danger comes from flooding rains — possibly 25 inches in some areas. Above, a bar on Lake Pontchartrain in Mandeville, La.

Tens of thousands of people have lost electricity. Here’s the latest. (Part of New York City lost power for entirely different reasons.)

2. Large-scale ICE raids are expected to begin today.

Our reporters have fanned out across the dozen or so cities where ICE agents are expected to try to detain some 2,000 undocumented immigrants.

The fear among migrants is pervasive. Many are lying low; some have gone into hiding. (President Trump is committed to counting noncitizens, but he has given up trying to do it via the 2020 census.)

A report released on Friday at an emotional House committee hearing on family separations said that at least 18 children younger than 2 years old were separated from their parents for at least 20 days.

4. House Democrats are postponing two hearings with Robert Mueller, above, until July 24.

The delay allows the House to schedule more time with the former special counsel than it would have had next week, a victory by junior representatives who wanted to be sure they’d have the chance to ask questions.

The back-to-back hearings are expected to be a pivotal moment for the House’s investigation of possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power by President Trump, but they will now come just before Congress’s summer recess.

The House also approved a dozen new subpoenas for Mueller witnesses.

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6. It’s been a wild Wimbledon.

Simona Halep, above, became the first Romanian to win a singles title there, frustrating Serena Williams in her bid to claim a record-tying Grand Slam title.

Halep called it “the best match of my life,” a speedy 6-2, 6-2 victory in 56 minutes.

Roger Federer battles defending champion Novak Djokovic for the men’s singles title today (9 a.m. Eastern time, ESPN). Federer eliminated Rafael Nadal on Friday.

The tournament’s enduring highlight: the amazing play and uncommon court sense of 15-year-old Coco Gauff.

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8. In space news, Japan’s Hayabusa2 robotic probe landed on an asteroid that it had blown a crater in, to collect chunks of (hopefully revealing) rock.

And India is about to become the latest country to try to launch a probe, above, to the moon.

China landed one this year, and Russia and the E.U. have plans for missions. For the U.S. and NASA, the moon is now an obvious stop along the way to Mars, and rocket companies like Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin are ready to help with landers.

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9. It’s that time of year again — Prime Day (O.K., days).

Monday and Tuesday are summer’s version of Black Friday, a shopping frenzy that can turn into a hangover of spending regret.

Wirecutter, a New York Times company that reviews and recommends products, will be scouring Amazon’s Prime Day lists (as well as the sales of other retailers trying to capitalize on the shopping fever) to find true deals on the things worth buying. To get you started, here are five things to avoid, including the bundle blunder.

By the way, Amazon’s warehouses are becoming so automated that the company is planning to retrain about 100,000 workers by 2025.

10. Finally, what’s a Weekend Briefing without our Best Weekend Reads?

One is actually a video: Our team went on the hunt for the roughly 1,000 artworks the TV artist Bob Ross created for his show, “The Joy of Painting.” It’s a hoot.

The roundup also has a voyage to the Oracle of Delphi, a review of Aziz Ansari’s latest Netflix special and the story of a philanthropist with a $13 billion checkbook.

And our editors recommend these 10 new books, a playlist of 10 new songs and a range of options for the small screen.

Have a great week.

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