Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
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Good evening. Here’s the latest.
1. President Trump is digging in against Congress.
He said he might want to assert executive privilege over documents subpoenaed by House investigators from the former White House counsel Donald McGahn, pictured above in 2018. The documents relate to key episodes of possible obstruction of justice identified by the special counsel.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised new suggestions that Mr. Trump was obstructing justice, while the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, urged Congress to move on from the Mueller report: “Case closed.”
Separately, stocks fell sharply as investors worried that a U. S.-China trade deal was unlikely this week. The Trump administration intends to impose new tariffs on Chinese imports on Friday.
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2. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo abruptly canceled his first official trip to Berlin and made an unexpected trip to Baghdad.
The trip comes a day after the Trump administration said Iranian forces had put American troops in Iraq and Syria at heightened risk. Mr. Pompeo met with Iraq’s prime minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, and other top officials during a four-hour visit.
Earlier, Mr. Pompeo attended the Arctic Council gathering, above, in Finland, where foreign ministers lined up to talk about the threat of climate change. But the U. S. objected to using the term in a joint declaration — so there wasn’t one.
In Australia, climate change has become a factor in next week’s national elections. Our climate reporter drove around the country to see how climate change might sway voters.
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3. We’re following a school shooting in Highlands Ranch, Colo., near Denver. At least seven students have been injured at the STEM School Highlands Ranch.
Two suspects are in custody. Above, students were marshaled outside.
The shooting overwhelmed the other big news in the area: Denver’s vote on whether to effectively decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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4. Myanmar freed two journalists, but it’s far from a paradigm shift.
The prizewinning Reuters journalists had been in prison for more than a year for covering the country’s brutal crackdown on the Rohingya minority group.
