President Trump’s threats have raised questions about how much leverage the United States has left with Moscow. Read full article

The divided state’s new Democratic governor vetoed 14 bills this session, on guns, immigration, trans rights and more. Republicans are trying to enact them all anyway. Read full article

Shane Tamura is not the first former football player to shoot himself in the chest and request that his brain be examined. Read full article

It’s a race against time for some of America’s top trading partners who are negotiating furiously to reach agreements by Aug. 1. Read full article

A picture and a sketch show a person that the state police are seeking to question in the deaths of Clinton David Brink, 43, and Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, in Devil’s Den State Park. Their daughters, 7 and 9, were not physically harmed. Read full article

The government can request the employment eligibility verification forms related to citizenship and immigration status as a matter of course, but Harvard was surprised to receive such a voluminous demand. Read full article

Jewish students and a professor said the university had allowed a hostile protest. After the settlement was announced, the Department of Justice separately said it had found the university violated civil rights laws. Read full article

In a letter to Congress, the lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator says clemency would allow her to talk to lawmakers. Read full article

The legislation, led by Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican chairman of a panel that oversees air travel, has a number of high-profile supporters — but no Democrats, yet. Read full article

The president has in recent days acknowledged there is “starvation” in Gaza, a break with Israeli officials who have faced deep criticism over the humanitarian crisis there. Read full article