Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Democrats and liberal advocacy organizations face enormous challenges if they hope to prevent President Trump from installing a conservative justice. Its goal was to assure Justice Anthony M. Kennedy that his judicial legacy would be in good hands should he decide to step down at the end of the court’s term. Japanese-Americans who lived through internment camps in the 1940s see parallels in ruling that upheld President Trump’s travel ban. Foreign policy officials, including some in his own administration, fear a repeat of President Trump’s encounter with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader. As Republicans battered Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, in a hearing, a House resolution gave the Justice Department seven days to produce documents. The former aide, Andrew Miller, worked for Roger Stone, a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, during the 2016 campaign. As boss of the Queens County Democratic Party, Representative Joseph Crowley held sway over many things, but that did not prevent his primary defeat. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has been a waitress, a community activist and a campaign organizer for Bernie Sanders. Now she is a political rock star. Our Politics editor, Patrick Healy, answered readers’ questions on The Times’s political coverage and plans for the midterm and 2020 elections. As the harassment conversation shifts to “what’s next?”, small networks of women are helping to lay the groundwork for legal and institutional change. Adnan Januzaj curled in a left-footed shot in the second half to give Belgium a 1-0 victory over England. England and Belgium have a largely meaningless match on Thursday, since both have clinched advancement. Will they meet again in the World Cup final? Germany’s World Cup loss meant Mexico would live to fight another day — and fans had South Korea to thank. It’s good to meet with adversaries. But when Mr. Trump sits down with Mr. Putin, it will be a meeting of kindred spirits. That’s a problem. I used to think the best response to online abuse was to retreat and be quiet. Now I think we need to blaze and burn. Germany's football team has fallen in the first round, the first time in 80 years. It’s not a good German moment. Donald Trump dominates our universe. McConnell made it all possible. Three lessons the Democrats need to embrace, right now, if they have any hope of pushing back. The famous “mystery of life” passage shrugged at the big questions and hastened the march of individualism. How does a polarizing president with no mandate or compass get to reshape America? Harley-Davidson vrooms off to the trade war. With a new Trump appointee, the Supreme Court is likely to make access to the procedure practically impossible in states hostile to it. Trump knows how to provoke his opponents. But liberals — and the Democratic Party — shouldn’t take the bait. A New York Aquarium pavilion, with 115 marine species, finally opens this weekend, and the overall effect makes it more of a visible, welcoming presence and neighbor. Antonio Canova’s neo-Classical plaster statue of George Washington has left Italy for the first time. It’s an essential work of art now at the Frick. James Schwab quit his job because he did not want to lie on behalf of the Trump administration. Three months later, agents knocked on his door. Ten members of a group that said it was “fighting the Islamic peril” face terrorism charges. Guns, ammunition and explosive material were seized. The country has jailed hundreds of conscientious objectors every year, mostly Jehovah’s Witnesses. Now such men will be given the option of civilian service. The American swimmer falsely claimed in a TV interview during the 2016 Summer Olympics that he had been robbed at gunpoint. The accused, Joel Davis, 22, gained fame with his campaign against “war zone rape” after a global summit meeting. He now faces federal charges. In a bid to make Washington’s halls of power more diverse, the Senate is seeking to create a $5 million fund to compensate its interns, the first such organized congressional effort in two decades. A Brazilian woman who was separated from her son after they entered the U.S. was released from custody, but faced formidable hurdles to get her son back. The purchase of PillPack, an online pharmacy, is the latest sign of Amazon’s increasing interest in health care. This sequel to “Sicario,” starring Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin, is also a geopolitical action thriller and a samurai picture. The three-part mini-series starring Hugh Grant is coming to Amazon. Here’s a primer on the lurid tale behind it and the sensational press of its time. 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