Mana grew up in a nominally Muslim family in Iran, but at the age of 20, she married a devout Islamic man. He became physically abusive when she failed to read the Quran or pray according to Islamic customs. On two occasions Mana said her husband beat her badly enough that she believed he meant to kill her. Then things got worse when he found her watching online classes on Christianity.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden took another veer leftward last week with his new economic policy proposal. But he appears to have accomplished a vital objective: avoid stoking an intra-party fight.

While the “Build Back Better” plan won sparse praise on the left, it also drew little progressive fire—which may be more important in a divided Democratic Party.

On the final opinion day of a blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court term, the justices ruled in two landmark separation-of-powers fights—one between President Donald Trump and New York prosecutors and one between Trump and Congress. The two decisions, each a 7-2 vote, clear the way for those investigating the president to continue their pursuit of his financial records.

WASHINGTON—Nicole Puerta works as a branch manager at Meador Staffing Services in Houston. For three years, she’s helped people get jobs. But she said the COVID-19 pandemic dealt a severe blow to temp agencies and the industry is just starting to recover.

“It just shocked us with how much business we lost,” Puerta said. “Our temps, our employees got laid off. And they couldn’t find another job; they kept calling us.”

For three months, from March to May, Puerta’s agency hardly had any work to offer.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that presidential electors may not act as free agents and must vote for the candidate a state’s voters choose. The unanimous decision means states with laws forbidding so-called “faithless electors” are constitutionally allowed to remove or fine delegates who go rogue.

The two cases stem from 2016, when four “faithless electors” from Colorado and Washington sued their states. They argued that individual electors have agency and discretion in how they vote and that states only have the authority to decide how to choose delegates.

WASHINGTON—The name Elon Musk brings to mind the rocket ships and luxury electric cars his businesses developed. But fewer people know the entrepreneur behind the companies SpaceX and Tesla is an immigrant twice over and now a citizen of three countries: South Africa, Canada, and, most recently, the United States. He moved to California’s Silicon Valley at the age of 20 and founded his first company.

WASHINGTON—Lawmakers want to know what the president knew and when about a report that a Russian spy unit allegedly backed violence toward U.S. troops by Taliban militants in Afghanistan.

On Friday, The New York Times reported Russian spies offered bounties to the Taliban for killing coalition forces, including U.S. troops. The Times attributed the report to American intelligence officials who spoke anonymously.