Thursday's Headlines: Mueller pushes back in a testimony unlikely to change political dynamic
Democrats now have one option to end Trump's presidency: The 2020 election; Mueller's final day on the national stage was a halting, faltering performance
Democracy Dies in Darkness
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
Former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III finally responded to the president's taunts. But the hearings hardly provided the made-for-TV moment for which Democrats had hoped and possibly undercut the party's push for impeachment.
By Ashley Parker, Rachael Bade, Josh Dawsey and Mike DeBonis · Read more
The Mueller testimony didn't deliver the spark the Democrats wanted. That puts the onus on House leaders and heightens the stakes for next year's presidential election.
Ricardo Rosselló, 40, faced mass protests after a series of chat messages denigrating his opponents and Hurricane Maria victims were leaked. Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez Garced will succeed him after he steps down Aug. 2.
In a filing for an enormous federal court case, drug manufacturers rejected a link between legal production of painkillers and death and addiction on U.S. streets.
The former vice president took a shot at police practices in Newark during Cory Booker's tenure as mayor and questioned the fiscal feasibility of Kamala D. Harris's plan for health care.
In blocking a days-old program that sought to bar Central Americans and other migrants from requesting asylum at the southern border, the judge said the government's frustrations with rising border crossings did not justify "shortcutting the law."
The sales would replenish part of an arsenal that lawmakers say has been used against civilians in Yemen's civil war. Many lawmakers also object to the idea of rewarding Saudi leaders after the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
By Karoun Demirjian and Colby Itkowitz · Read more
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other tech firms have tasked contractors with reviewing suicides and massacres to decide if such content should remain online — and protect the firms' reputations.
By Elizabeth Dwoskin, Jeanne Whalen and Regine Cabato · Read more
Mark Zuckerberg's power within Facebook is virtually unchallenged as the co-founder, CEO and largest stockholder. A deal that requires him to personally attest to the firm's privacy practices may bring an end to that.
A U.S. Special Operations Command statement said the platoon was sent home to San Diego "due to a perceived deterioration of good order and discipline within the team during non-operational periods" of their deployment.
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