• “You have children watching. You have nations watching.”

That was just one of the many shocked reactions after President Trump said he did not want immigrants from “shithole” countries. It came from Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin.

But another senator who attended the meeting forcefully denied that Mr. Trump had used that phrase, saying a Democratic colleague’s account of the session was “a gross misrepresentation.”

The president’s vulgar comments, our national immigration correspondent writes, were a sad reminder of racist attitudes that once shaped American policy.

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• South Korea proposed that North Korea join it in fielding a joint women’s hockey team at the Pyeongchang Games next month.

It would be a first for the Games and a dramatic emblem of the recent warming of relations on the Korean Peninsula. The North’s Olympic representative said it was “under discussion.”

And in South Korea, there’s a growing push to overturn an abortion ban. Activists say it puts women at risk and creates a culture of shame.