WASHINGTON—A federal judge ruled Wednesday that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort intentionally lied to investigators involved in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Manafort misled investigators on at least three matters in violation of a plea deal he made with Mueller’s team, according to U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s ruling. In particular, Manafort lied about his communications with another unspecified Department of Justice investigation.

Lyndon LaRouche, an American political activist who pushed eclectic—and in his latter years mostly conspiratorial—views on American policies, died Tuesday, his political action committee confirmed. He was 96.

LaRouche grew up in Massachusetts, where he first joined the Socialist Workers Party in 1949. While teaching classes on Marxism to university students in New York in the late 1960s, he organized the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), a political activist network he hoped would control America’s trade unions and overthrow the government.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump thanked Republicans on Tuesday for working toward a compromise on border security but didn’t say for certain whether he would sign the budget proposal to avert another partial government shutdown on Friday. The House and the Senate are expected to pass the funding plan after congressional negotiators reached an agreement Monday night.

WASHINGTON—Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, delayed his testimony before Congress for a third time Tuesday, and time is running out for lawmakers to interview him before he goes to prison. He was scheduled to appear Tuesday at a closed-door hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election but canceled due to post-surgery medical needs.

With a partial government shutdown looming at the end of the week, President Donald Trump will hold a rally in El Paso, Texas, on Monday evening to demand a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. It will be the president’s first political rally of 2019.

Democratic state Delegate Patrick Hope on Monday backed off a plan to introduce articles of impeachment against Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who has faced calls to resign after two women accused him of sexually assaulting them in the 2000s. Hope said Friday he would begin the process of impeachment if Fairfax had not resigned by Monday. Then on Monday, Hope tweeted that he had circulated a draft impeachment bill and realized that “additional conversations … need to take place before anything is filed.”

WASHINGTON—In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee Friday morning, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said he “has not interfered in any way,” with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. During a contentious hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., asked Whitaker why he has not recused himself from overseeing the investigation and what President Donald Trump hoped to gain by appointing him.