We Regret to Inform You: President Trump escalated his fight yesterday over which president has done more to console the families of soldiers killed in action. “You could ask General Kelly, did he get a call from Obama. You could ask other people.”

John Kelly, a retired Marine general who is Trump’s chief of staff, lost his son to a land mine in Afghanistan. Kelly has been very private about it and has not said what President Obama did or did not do.

The Associated Press has located the families of two soldiers killed in action who say they never received a letter or a call from the president.

Last night Trump called the families of four Green Berets killed in Niger. He told the wife of one of them, “I guess he knew what he was getting into.”

Swamp Things: In a surprising turn, Senators Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, and Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, reached an agreement to keep paying Obamacare subsidies to insurance companies for the next two years.

The payments, which President Trump announced he’s cutting off, were originally designed to keep premiums down for low-income health insurance customers. Without them, premiums likely would skyrocket. Of course, the agreement is not assured of passing into law, but it’s got a chance. — A federal judge in Hawaii has issued a nationwide stay on President Trump’s third version of a travel and immigration ban targeting mostly Muslim countries. — Rep. Tom Marino, who was instrumental in passing a law that helped drug companies flood the market with opioid drugs and tied the hands of the DEA, has withdrawn his name from consideration to be President Trump’s anti-drug czar. Trump tweeted, “Tom is a fine man and a great Congressman!” Marino had been skewered in a Washington Post/60 Minutes investigation. — President Trump, who lies every time he says the US is the most heavily taxed country in the world, tweeted yesterday, “So much Fake News being put in dying magazines and newspapers. Only place worse may be @NBCNews, @CBSNews, @ABC and @CNN. Fiction writers!”

The Big Snit: President Trump warned yesterday that if Sen. John McCain isn’t careful, “I’m being very nice. I’m being very, very nice. But at some point I fight back, and it won’t be pretty.”

McCain, who’s had a long feud with Trump, said in a speech aimed at Trump that the country has to ward off “half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems.”

Deadline Journalism: Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, a well-known muckraker in her country, was killed by a bomb in her car.

Just 30 minutes earlier, she had posted on her blog, “There are crooks everywhere you look now.” She wrote, “The situation is desperate.”

Caruana Galizia, 53, led the coverage of Maltese politicians involved in the big Panama money laundering scandal that included her country’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his wife. The couple denied using offshore bank accounts to hide payments from the ruling family of Azerbaijan.

Muscat issued a statement after the bombing saying, “I condemn, without reservations this barbaric attack on a person and on the freedom of expression in our country.”

A NY Times editorial says, “For journalists around the world, this is the new normal. They are rounded up en masse and imprisoned in Turkey and murdered in Russia and the Philippines.”

Nation: Writer George Saunders has been awarded the Man Booker prize for his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” a surrealist tale of ghosts surrounding Lincoln’s dead son Willie. — The NFL announced that it will not punish players who take a knee in protest during the national anthem. — Two Chicago airport security officers have been fired for dragging a passenger off a plane last April in a video-recorded incident that made United Airlines a late-night punchline.

Dept. of Corrections: Yesterday, we said Iraqi troops celebrated the liberation of the Syrian city of Raqqa, so, yeah, we should have had more coffee. Raqqa was liberated from ISIS by Syrian troops.

Dietarily Correct: Google Maps has pulled an App that tells people how many calories they might burn if they walk to a destination rather than drive. It even translated burned calories into mini-cupcakes, which seemed to upset the eating-sensitive.

Stephanie Zerwas, the clinical director of the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders at the University of North Carolina, said that because of reducing nutrition to numbers “more people who may develop eating disorders might be triggered into that pathway.”

Of course, they could also just not use Google Maps.