WASHINGTON—Former FBI Director James Comey finds himself back on Capitol Hill Friday to testify behind closed doors before two House committees. Republicans subpoenaed Comey to appear before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, a summons he initially fought in court. He eventually struck a deal that allows him to talk about the questioning afterward and have a transcript released. Comey’s demands sprung from fears that lawmakers might selectively leak details about the hearing out of context.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump announced Friday he will nominate former U.S. Attorney General William Barr to once again serve as the nation’s top law enforcement official. Barr, 68, is currently a corporate lawyer at the Kirkland & Ellis law firm. He previously served as attorney general in the George H.W. Bush administration from 1991 to 1993. He worked at the CIA from 1973 to 1977 and served in Ronald Reagan’s administration. If confirmed by the Senate, Barr will succeed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who resigned last month at Trump’s request. Sessions, a former U.S.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump announced Friday he is nominating State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to succeed Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The former Fox News reporter became acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs earlier this year after first joining the State Department under the Trump administration in April 2017.

WASHINGTON—After years of delays, persecuted religious minorities victimized by Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014 in Iraq and Syria are set to get some relief from the U.S. government.

Congress last week unanimously passed The Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act, designed to provide aid to Christians, Yazidis, Shia Muslims, and other religious minorities that underwent displacement and genocide at the hands of ISIS.

Dairy quotas and steel tariffs do not bring to mind progressive sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) policies. But that’s exactly what negotiators slipped into the new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) that leaders of all three countries signed in late November.

About 1,200 guests attended an invitation-only funeral service for former President George H.W. Bush on Thursday in his adopted state of Texas. Bush died Friday at the age of 94. After a state funeral Wednesday in Washington, D.C., his body was transported back to Houston, where it lay in repose at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church.

After suffering a sharp defeat in the 2018 midterm elections, Republican state lawmakers in Wisconsin are working to limit the powers of incoming Democrats. Legislators passed a package of bills to limit gubernatorial authority Tuesday, and outgoing Republican Gov. Scott Walker is expected to sign off on the move Thursday.