The Best of the Week’s News: 

• The president wants his border fence painted black to scald people, with spikes to rip human flesh–and he wants it to be pretty. 
   
• Time to play everyone’s favorite game: Which Florida elections offices were hacked by the Russians? 
   
• In this tiny Alaskan village, sex offenders outnumber the police 7 to 1. 
   
• Did the Tennessee House Speaker’s Office try to frame an activist?
   
• Ben Carson poised to evict 55,000 children from public housing.