Mueller drew up obstruction indictment against Trump, Michael Wolff book claims  —  A new book from Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff says special counsel Robert Mueller drew up a three-count obstruction of justice indictment against Donald Trump before deciding to shelve it …

Supreme Court compromise on Indiana abortion law keeps issue off its docket  —  The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to a compromise on a restrictive Indiana abortion law that keeps the issue off its docket for now.  —  The court said a part of the law dealing with disposal of the “remains” of an abortion could go into effect.

Transportation Secretary Still Owns Stock She Pledged to Divest  —  Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has retained shares in a construction-materials company more than a year after the date she promised to relinquish them, federal disclosure forms show.

Missouri's last abortion clinic says it may lose its license this week  —  St. Louis, Missouri — The last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri says it expects to be shut down this week, effectively ending legal abortion in the state.  —  In a statement to be released later Tuesday …

Texas secretary of state resigns after leading botched voter purge that questioned the citizenship of almost 100,000 people  —  Texas's acting secretary of state David Whitley (R) resigned Monday just months after leading the botched voter purge of nearly 100,000 suspected noncitizens …

Ex-defense secretary Jim Mattis has book coming this summer  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has a book coming out this summer, but he warns that it will not be a “tell-all” about President Donald Trump.  —  “Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead” will be published July 16, Random House announced Tuesday.

Elizabeth Warren Gains Ground in 2020 Field, One Plan at a Time  —  NEWTON, Iowa — To the crowd of Iowans gathered in a school gym on Saturday night, Senator Elizabeth Warren made a request: They should pose a question to the other presidential candidates who come to Iowa seeking their vote.

Netflix says it will rethink its investment in Georgia if ‘heartbeat’ abortion law goes into effect  —  KEY POINTS  — After Georgia earlier this month passed a law to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, some in the entertainment industry are speaking out.

Japan Rolled Out the Red Carpet.  Trump Veered Off Into Personal Fixations.  —  TOKYO — It was just after 6 a.m. on the final day of a state visit to Japan designed to flatter and entertain him, and President Trump was in his comfort space: Twitter.  —  Hours earlier, he had been the honored guest …

MacKenzie Bezos, worth nearly $37 billion, will give half her fortune to charity … The newly minted billionaire has signed the Giving Pledge, which encourages the world's richest people to dedicate a majority of their wealth to charitable causes, either during their lifetimes or in their wills.

Democrats need to get past impeachment jitters.  It's not 1998 and Trump is no Clinton.  —  If Democrats think Trump committed impeachable acts, launch the process and stop assuming it will be a political loser.  That misreads history.  —  CONNECT  —  As House Democrats consider impeaching …

Bernie's Pro-Sandinista Past Is a Problem, and His Response Is Not Good  —  A week ago, the New York Times reported on Bernie Sanders's 1980s-vintage foreign-policy stands, which at times crossed over from mere opposition to American policy to outright support for communist governments.

Exclusive: Beto O'Rourke Apologizes to Campaign Staff for Being a ‘Giant Asshole’  —  In a revealing exclusive clip from the HBO doc ‘Running With Beto,’ which premieres May 28, the Texas Senate candidate apologizes to his staffers for his domineering behavior.  —  05.28.195:17 AM ET

AOC returning to her bartending roots to advocate for raising minimum wage for restaurant employees and other tipped workers  —  ALBANY — AOC will be waiting tables once again.  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is returning to her restaurant roots this week to show support for the federal Raise …

Knife-wielding man attacks schoolgirls in Japan, killing 2  —  KAWASAKI, Japan (AP) — A man carrying a knife in each hand and screaming “I will kill you!” attacked a group of schoolgirls near a school bus parked at a bus stop just outside Tokyo on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring …

‘My Rudy’: Trump's lawyer wants to be the campaign's No. 1 hatchet man  —  Get ready for more Rudy.  —  Done sparring with Robert Mueller, Donald Trump's personal attorney is now training his attacks on the president's reelection rivals.  Giuliani plans to meet with the president …

Senate GOP vows to quickly quash any impeachment charges  —  GOP senators say that if the House passes articles of impeachment against President Trump they will quickly quash them in the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has broad authority to set the parameters of a trial.

Sanders 2020 looks like Sanders 2016, challenges and all  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was supposed to be different this time.  —  But three months into his second presidential campaign, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is struggling with some of the same challenges that sank his last bid …

Joe Biden is the front-runner by every measure — except big crowds  —  He's dominating in the polls, his fundraising is going gangbusters and he's showing broad support from key political players in the early presidential states.  —  So where are the big energetic crowds, the lines around the block to get into Joe Biden's events?

The Abortion Debate Is No Longer About Policy  —  Abortion politics in 2019 is a morality play about what happens when one side has all the political power, yet feels culturally embattled.  In this atmosphere, victories are not satisfying if they leave the other side with a foothold, a vestige of respectability.

Decency Is No Barrier to Justice or the Common Good  —  My mentor in the practice of law, the person who taught me more than anyone else about life as a lawyer and an advocate, is a former Marine JAG officer and former chairman of one of the largest law firms in the Southeast.

Trump Character Ratings Improved, but Still a Weakness  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — More Americans today (40%) than two years ago (33%) believe President Donald Trump has the personality and leadership qualities a president should have, although that still represents a minority of the public.

Trump's narrative is nonsense.  So why is the media buying it?  —  Yes, Democrats can walk and chew gum at the same time.  The problem right now is that all anyone ever asks about is the gum-chewing.  —  President Trump is steadily advancing a narrative that Democrats are unable to focus …

Dear Candidates: Here Is What Black People Want  —  We long for the same things as everyone else, and yet few campaigns treat us as if our experiences matter.  —  Ms. Garza, a founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, is the head of the Black Futures Lab.

Amid censorship fears, Trump campaign ‘checking out’ alternative social network  —  Parler is like Twitter, but for Trump fans.  —  They've been banned from Facebook, purged from Twitter and blocked from Instagram.  Some of them have been barred from setting foot on the continent of Australia.