Lost and Found: In a predictable development, the federal government admits that it’s having trouble identifying or verifying who are the parents of some of the immigrant children they are holding separate from their families. Some of the parents have been deported and others set free in the US without a system of tracking their location and re-uniting them with their children.

The government has asked for an extension of a court-mandated deadline to re-unite families while hundreds of government employees work on matching up parents and kids. About 3,000 children have been spread to holding centers all over the country.

US District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego ordered the government to return children under 5 to their parents by Tuesday. The deadline for all children is July 26. The judge ordered the government to deliver a list of the children’s names to the American Civil Liberties Union by today and said he would decide Monday whether to grant the extension.

Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the ACLU who sued on behalf of parents separated from their children, told Judge Sabraw that the government’s lack of record keeping was “startling.”

Prove It: President Trump’s lawyers say they want to see evidence that he committed a crime and proof that his testimony is essential before they agree to let the President sit for an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. It’s a new set of conditions and a combative stance presented by the Trump team.

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told the NY Times, “If they can come to us and show us the basis and that it’s legitimate and that they have uncovered something, we can go from there and assess their objectivity.” Giuliani admitted that Mueller is unlikely to agree to the conditions.

Them Too: Both Republican and Democratic leaders in Indiana are calling for the resignation of State Attorney Gen. Curtis Hill, who has been accused of groping four women at a bar in March. The women say that Hill, a Republican elected in November 2016, touched them inappropriately March 15th during a party celebrating the end of the legislative session.

Also under the microscope is a big defender of President Trump, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who’s accused of ignoring rampant sexual abuse by the team doctor back when he was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State in the 1990s. Five former wrestlers now say he’s lying when he claims he didn’t know anything about it.

Former wrestler Shawn Dailey told NBC he was repeatedly groped by the team doctor. “I participated with Jimmy and the other wrestlers in locker-room talk about Strauss. We all did,” Dailey told NBC, referring to Rep. Jordan. “It was very common knowledge in the locker room that if you went to Dr. Strauss for anything, you would have to pull your pants down.”

Tech Theft: One of President Trump’s primary trade complaints about the Chinese is that they steal US technology and it’s one thing he’s not lying about.

A federal judge has ordered China’s largest wind turbine company, Sinovel, to pay $59 million for stealing trade secrets from a Massachusetts technology company.

Sinovel was found guilty last January of  paying an Austria-based employee of the American Superconductor Corp to steal the source code for software that drives wind turbines. After stealing the source code, Sinovel suddenly began rejecting shipments of American Superconductor’s electronic components in 2011, nearly killing the company with a stock loss of $1 billion and 700 jobs.

Econ 101: Despite the rumbling of trade wars, the US economy added 213,000 jobs last month, 13,000 more than economists had predicted. Revised figures added 37,000 jobs for April and May. The unemployment rate ticked up from 3.8 to 4 percent, but overall the economy remained strong.

The Obit Page: Claude Lanzmann, the French journalist and filmmaker whose 9½-hour documentary “Shoah” depicted the Holocaust with interviews from Jewish survivors, Nazi exterminators, and Polish bystanders, died July 5 at a hospital in Paris. He was 92.

Film critic Roger Ebert said of “Shoah,” “It is one of the noblest films ever made . . . It is not a documentary, not journalism, not propaganda, not political. It is an act of witness.”

What Goes Around: Wildlife rangers in South Africa’s Sibuya Game Reserve have found the remains of what are believed to be three poachers.

The preserve’s owner said they found “a high-powered rifle, gloves, wire cutters, and the remains of a backpack with food, water and other supplies.” He said it was “All the hallmarks of a gang intent on killing rhino and removing their horns.”

It also had all the hallmarks of a pride of lions killing and eating the poachers.

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