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President Trump said Wednesday he doesn’t plan to hand over his tax returns to House Democrats, citing an ongoing audit.

“I would love to give them but I’m not going to do it while I’m under audit,” Mr. Trump told reporters as he departed the White House. “I have no obligation to do that while under audit and no lawyer would tell you to release your tax returns while you’re under audit

Primary voters in four states headed to the polls Tuesday night to determine several contested races in key elections that might sway control of Congress in November.

Voters cast their ballots in Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, and Wisconsin, with most races called by late Tuesday. Additionally, some victors emerged from primary races that were left uncalled from last week, ousting one

With the announcement Wednesday that President Barack Obama would nominate centrist appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, the White House caught the Washington political establishment by surprise. Instead of picking a jurist with an expedient, built-in constituency, whose confirmation fight with the Republican Senate could be used as leverage in the November elections,

In his decision to help gut Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell”—cases that enshrined Americans’ right to contraception, to intimate same-sex relationships, and to marriage equality. In the past week, Democrats have raced to codify same-sex