EXCLUSIVE
The confidential memo, written last fall by an Internal Revenue Service attorney, contradicts the Trump administration’s justification for denying the president’s tax returns to lawmakers.
The agreement means the House Intelligence Committee will not vote today to enforce a subpoena against Attorney General William P. Barr.
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Analysis 
“It’s very difficult to unring a bell,” said Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) as some House lawmakers clamor to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump.
A model poses with a peony design body paint and hat at the Chelsea Flower Show. (AP)
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, shows Queen Elizabeth II around the “Back to Nature” garden she designed for the show. (AFP/Getty Images)
Chelsea pensioners pose for photographers on a stand at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. (AP)
The loss of empire and the looming Brexit be damned, nobody does puttering in the backyard quite like Britain, still the globe’s greatest gardening nation.
Campaign 2020
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has far outpaced the Democratic field in outlining specific policies and detailing how she would pay for them. But skeptics question her math.
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The hiring of Ken Cuccinelli II appears to fulfill the president’s desire to have a forceful personality and a loyalist at the highest levels of the Department of Homeland Security.
The Housing and Urban Development secretary was grilled during a three-hour House committee hearing.
A move against Hikvision, the world’s largest maker of video surveillance technology, would broaden a U.S. campaign to sever China’s access to American know-how and inflame a deepening trade conflict.
Some Democrats accused Trump officials of being eager to attack at the slightest provocation. Republicans said information shared by the administration pointed to “new,” “credible” and “consistent” threats.
Today’s WorldView
Analysis A bid to push economic development, rather than a political solution, has been rebuffed by the Palestinians.
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Few people outside government have more influence over judicial appointments than Leonard Leo, an unofficial adviser to President Trump who has helped nonprofits raise $250 million from mostly undisclosed donors to promote conservative judges and causes.
Months after West Point cadet Peter Zhu died from injuries in a skiing accident, a judge has ruled that his parents may use his frozen sperm to create a child.
The pop singer triumphed over finalists from Blake Shelton’s team, not an easy feat on a show that loves country artists.
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Filthy rich and dominated by a tech monoculture, it’s gone from America’s great romantic city to what one of its residents calls “a train wreck.”
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Art Review
Artist Martin Puryear’s work for the Venice Biennale is a profound display of humility and vision.
(Hugh Van Es)
Retropolis
The 10-day battle inspired a movie and congressional hearings, symbolizing for some the bravery of the U.S. infantry and for others the futility and waste of the war.
