White House blocked intelligence agency's written testimony saying climate change could be ‘possibly catastrophic’  —  Officials sought to excise the State Department's comments on climate science on the grounds that it did not mesh with the administration's stance.

YouTube Is a Very Bad Judge and Jury  —  Nobody knows how to run YouTube.  Especially not YouTube.  —  Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large.  Ms. Jeong is a member of the editorial board.  —  Charlie Warzel: It's been a rough week for YouTube, even by tech backlash standards.

U.S.-Mexico Joint Declaration  —  The United States and Mexico met this week to address the shared challenges of irregular migration, to include the entry of migrants into the United States in violation of U.S. law.  Given the dramatic increase in migrants moving from Central America through Mexico …

4 Disturbing Details You May Have Missed in the Mueller Report  —  Some troubling-to-outright-damning episodes have been lost in the noise around its release.  —  Ms. Jurecic is the managing editor of Lawfare.  —  After two years of silence, the special counsel Robert Mueller recently …

Decades of Being Wrong About China Should Teach Us Something  —  Thirty years ago this week, I watched the news from Beijing and started shredding my bedding.  It was the night before my college graduation, I had been studying Chinese politics, and news had just broken that college students …

I gave the University of Alabama $26.5 million.  They gave it back when I spoke out about abortion.  —  Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. is an alternative and real estate investor and lawyer who resides in Miami.  —  I am proud to have been born and raised in Alabama.

VERDICT: Jury awards Gibson's Bakery $11 million against Oberlin College  —  Punitive damage phase to start next Tuesday, which could increase the damages to $33 million.  —  The Jury in the Gibson's Bakery v. Oberlin College case has reached a verdict.  —  According to our reporter in the Courtroom, the jury awarded $11 million.

Trump's $3.6 Million Ireland Detour Brings Taxpayer-Funded Golf Tab To $105.8 million  —  His for-profit golf course there posted promotional videos of him teeing off and his helicopter's arrival — but deleted them after HuffPost began making inquiries.  —  President Donald Trump wrapped …

U.S. Ambassador Says Israel Has Right to Annex Parts of West Bank  —  JERUSALEM — Israel has a right to annex at least some, but “unlikely all,” of the West Bank, the United States ambassador, David M. Friedman, said in an interview, opening the door to American acceptance of what would be an enormously provocative act.

Joe Biden asked for a pen.  Then he reversed a position he'd held for four decades.  —  Joe Biden was in the car on the way to a Democratic gala in Atlanta on Thursday night when he turned to an aide and asked for a pen.  The former vice president began scrawling his evolving thoughts on the Hyde Amendment …

Mystery company off the hook from Mueller subpoena and contempt of court charge  —  Mystery company fighting Mueller: New details emerge  —  (CNN)The anonymous foreign-government-owned company that fought a subpoena in the special counsel investigation for months appears to be off the hook …

New Election Security Bills Face a One-Man Roadblock: Mitch McConnell  —  WASHINGTON — A raft of legislation intended to better secure United States election systems after what the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, called a “sweeping and systematic” Russian attack in 2016 is running …

Nearly 800 signatures gathered in effort to block homeless shelters in Park Slope  —  PARK SLOPE -  —  Community members in Park Slope are pushing back against a plan to build two homeless shelters a block away from each other.  —  The proposed shelters, which will consist mainly …

Too much money (and too few places to invest it)  —  A truly bizarre trend is having an impact on the economy — wealthy people and corporations have so much money they literally don't know what to do with it.  —  Why it matters: At a time when growing income inequality is fueling voter discontent …

Banned from guns, Texas gave him a license anyway.  Citizens paid the price.  —  If you wanted to invent an avatar to represent the type of person who should not have easy access to firearms, you might come up with someone like Heon “Hank” Yoo.  —  In 2013, after threatening to shoot …

Vatican cardinal, other priests to return cash gifts from ousted West Virginia bishop Michael Bransfield  —  A cardinal at the Vatican and eight other Catholic clerics pledged on Friday to return money to the diocese of West Virginia after revelations that the bishop there used church funds …

Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles  —  The administration is rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to fly the rainbow flag on flagpoles during June, LGBTQ Pride Month, say 3 U.S. diplomats.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is rejecting requests …

Trump Is More Vulnerable to Democratic Attacks on Trade Than You Might Think  —  An opening to criticize him from the right as well as the left.  —  To President Trump, tariff “is a beautiful word indeed.”  Just in the last few weeks, he increased tariffs on billions of Chinese imports and threatened Mexico with big new tariffs.

After Virginia Beach, the list of mass shooting victims grows yet again  —  LAQUITA C. BROWN, 39.  Ryan Keith Cox, 50.  Tara Welch Gallagher, 39.  Mary Louise Gayle, 65.  Alexander Mikhail Gusev, 35.  Joshua O. Hardy, 52.  Michelle “Missy” Langer, 60.  Richard H. Nettleton, 65.

London bus attack: Arrests after gay couple who refused to kiss beaten  —  Two women say they were subjected to a homophobic attack and left covered in blood after refusing to kiss on a bus.  —  Melania Geymonat, 28, said the attack on her and partner Chris happened on the top deck …

Male Feminist Tech Journalist Charged With Soliciting Child Sex  —  The FBI has arrested Ars Technica writer and male feminist ally Peter Bright.  He is charged with soliciting sex with children online.  —  Bright allegedly sought to molest a 7- and 9-year old and disclosed his intentions …

Dodgeball is a tool of ‘oppression’ used to ‘dehumanize’ others, researchers argue  —  One of gym classes' most common games is being used as a tool of “oppression,” according to a team of Canadian researchers.  —  Dodgeball in phys-ed classes teaches students to dehumanize and harm their peers …

Fact check: What is the moon?  —  “For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon — We did that 50 years ago.  They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!”

For China's Leading Investigative Reporter, Enough Is Enough  —  BEIJING — Late at night, a senior police officer guided Liu Wanyong, then a budding investigative journalist, through the inner sanctum of one of the scariest domains in China, the Ministry of Public Security.  —  The rooms were empty.

Prominent Republicans move swiftly to shore up Trump in Wisconsin  —  Prominent Republicans are moving swiftly to shore up support for President Trump in Wisconsin, anxious that a state critical to his path to a 2020 Electoral College victory could slip away under the weight of political and organizational challenges.

After a rough year, NC Republicans want to do a better job reaching minority voters  —  Last November Republicans took a beating in urban counties like Mecklenburg, where they saw all but one incumbent fall in county and legislative races.  It was a similar pattern in other cities.