The confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh begins Tuesday with questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said, given that a few Senate Democrats appear willing to support Kavanaugh, he could win more than enough votes: “If he does well at the hearing, he will get … 55 or higher, if he does well, and I’m sure he will do well.”

The Pentagon has taken the final steps to cancel $300 million in planned aid to Pakistan. The Trump administration has complained that Pakistan’s government isn’t doing enough to apply pressure to the Taliban, whose leaders use Pakistan as a sanctuary.

The United States will resume military exercises on the Korean Peninsula, Defense Secretary James Mattis said Tuesday. The U.S. military had suspended a major exercise with South Korea this year as a show of good faith toward North Korea. Mattis said the military is planning to resume those activities after reports North Korea has not significantly curbed its nuclear weapons activities.

President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser said Tuesday the White House is taking a look at whether the government should regulate tech giant Google. Trump accused Google on Tuesday of rigging its search results to favor negative news about him. “They are controlling what we can & cannot see.

A suicide bomber killed at least 34 young people Wednesday in Afghanistan, many of them high school students. The group had gathered at a college prep center in Kabul to prepare for entrance exams when a man walked in and detonated his bomb belt. The strike targeted a neighborhood of mostly Shiite Muslims. Officials said the bomber may have chosen the prep center because it had young men and women studying together. Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack. Both ISIS and the Taliban have targeted Shiite Muslims in the past, calling them heretics.

President Donald Trump is revoking the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, the White House said Wednesday. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders added that the president is also reviewing the security clearances of other Obama administration intelligence officials such as former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former national security adviser Susan Rice. Some Democrats criticized Trump, saying he was targeting his political enemies, but Sanders said the president was fulfilling his responsibility to protect classified information.

State lawmakers in West Virginia voted this week to impeach all four remaining state Supreme Court justices. The justices were embroiled in a spending controversy, and one of them, Allen Loughry, faced a 23-count federal indictment. The articles of impeachment said Loughry, Beth Walker, Margaret Workman, and Robin Davis failed to control expenses, including more than $1 million in renovations to their individual offices. Republican Gov. Jim Justice will appoint new justices to replace any who are convicted.