Mueller drew up obstruction indictment against Trump, Michael Wolff book says  —  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.

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.

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 …

Ocasio-Cortez featured among America's ‘enemies of freedom’ in baseball team's Memorial Day video  —  Among the “enemies of freedom” portrayed in a Memorial Day tribute video at a minor league baseball game: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, former Cuban president Fidel Castro and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

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.

Trump's Campaign Manager Has a Plan to Punish Twitter  —  Brad Parscale is reportedly nudging his boss to join Twitter competitor and far-right hub Parler.  —  Donald Trump's beef with social-media giants is well-documented—just last month, he brought Twitter C.E.O. Jack Dorsey to the White House …

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 …

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 …

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

Supreme Court won't hear case on transgender school bathroom policy  —  The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a case challenging a Pennsylvania school district's bathroom policy allowing transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice.  —  The conservative Alliance Defending …

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.

‘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 training his attacks on the president's potential 2020 campaign rivals.  Giuliani plans to meet with the president …

GOP candidate expects Roy Moore to announce Senate bid in June  —  Roy Moore hasn't jumped into the 2020 Alabama Senate contest yet, but one potential GOP rival is already welcoming him into the race.  —  Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.), who launched his Senate campaign in February …

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.

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 …

How Joe Biden worked with and praised a longtime opponent of civil rights  —  (CNN)In August 1985, 42-year-old Delaware Sen. Joe Biden was preparing for his first presidential bid.  Courting southern support, Biden traveled to Mississippi to honor the 84th birthday of Democratic Sen. John Stennis …

What do you do with a problem like Al Franken?  —  Storm clouds blotted out the afternoon sun, turning the day into night.  On Capitol Hill, in downtown restaurants and Metro cars, phones blared an emergency alert in unison: Seek shelter.  Avoid windows.  Office workers crowded …

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.

It's the middle of the night.  Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?  —  Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.”  Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week.  —  It's 3 a.m. Do you know what your iPhone is doing?

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?