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Rick Bowmer / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Howdy, Pardoner
President Trump pardoned Dwight and Steven Hammond, two ranchers in Oregon who were sentenced to prison for arson on public lands.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: America’s Next Top Magistrate
President Trump is expected to announce his nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy at 9 p.m. ET.
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Stephen B. Morton / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Trading Insults
China imposed $34 billion in retaliatory tariffs on American goods, including soybeans and pork, after President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products took effect early Friday.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: EPA Scott-Free
Embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: (Still) Fraught Pruitt
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt reportedly urged President Trump this spring to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and let him run the Department of Justice instead.
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Seth Wenig / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Cohen Cohen Gone
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, signaled that he’s willing to cooperate with the special counsel, telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he plans to “put family and country first.”
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Patrick Semansky / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: A Community Grieves
Authorities identified the five people killed in Thursday’s attack at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: A Shooting in Annapolis
At least five people were killed and several others injured after a gunman opened fire in the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, local authorities said. A suspect is in custody.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Just(ice) in Time for the Midterms
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The Ban Stands
In a 5–4 ruling, the Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s travel ban.
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Denis Poroy / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Troubled Waters
California Representative Maxine Waters call to publicly confront Trump administration officials elicited responses from congressional leadership and the president.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: You've Barely Got Mail
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt reportedly sent only one email to anyone outside the EPA during his first 10 months in office.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Do U Care?
On her way to McAllen, Texas, to see what’s been happening at the border, first lady Melania Trump donned an olive green jacket that read, “I don’t really care. Do U?”
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: A Sign of the Times
President Trump signed an executive order he said would end his administration’s policy of separating families at the border.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Hagin Out
Joe Hagin, the White House deputy chief of staff for operations who led the planning for Trump’s meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has resigned.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley ... The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Zero Tolerance
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy amid mounting pressure from Democrats and Republicans to stop the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Locked Up
A federal judge ordered former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to jail to await trial.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: A Crack in the Trump Foundation
A new lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general alleges that the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its board of directors engaged in a years-long pattern of illegal behavior.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Cohen Flip?
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is reportedly parting ways with the lawyers who are representing him in a federal investigation into his business dealings, and is likely to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Merger Moves
A federal judge approved AT&T’s proposed $85 billion purchase of Time Warner.
