When a pair of Democrats sought to win quick approval of a bipartisan package of policing legislation, a third rose to object, saying the party must take every opportunity to challenge President Trump. Read full article

The senator’s treatment of whistle-blowers detailing allegations against Emil Bove, the Trump loyalist and appeals court nominee, has had a chilling effect, critics say. Read full article

A federal judge recently ruled that a Republican effort to withhold Medicaid funds from the organization’s clinics was likely unconstitutional. Read full article

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