WASHINGTON—The White House suspended CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s press credentials following a tense exchange with President Donald Trump during a Wednesday news conference. Acosta asked a question about Trump’s characterization of a migrant caravan headed for the U.S. southern border as an invasion. Trump became frustrated with the line of questioning and called on another reporter. A White House aide attempted to take the microphone from Acosta, but he held on and began asking a follow-up question about the Russia investigation.

Max Boot’s The Corrosion of Conservatism: How I Left the Right (Liveright, 2018) is the sad tale of a former Wall Street Journal op-ed page editor driven to despair by Donald Trump and his final acceptance by GOP leaders: Boot is now a man without a party. He accurately points out Trump’s character problems and attacks “Trump toadies.” But Boot leans over so far to discount the threat on the other side that he describes Hillary Clinton as “resolutely centrist” and applauds “the Clintons’ moderate views.”

SAUDI ARABIA: London-based Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz returned to Riyadh, fueling rumors of intensified opposition within the House of Saud to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman continuing as heir apparent.

UPDATE: Robert Bowers, the 46-year-old truck driver suspected in the Saturday shooting rampage at a Pittsburgh synagogue, was charged in a 44-count indictment with murder, hate crimes, and other offenses that could bring the death penalty. U.S. Attorney Scott Brady announced the grand jury’s findings Tuesday. “Today begins the process of seeking justice for the victims of these hateful acts and healing for the victims’ families, the Jewish community, and our city,” he said.

WASHINGTON—Special counsel Robert Mueller has asked for an FBI investigation into an alleged plot to discredit him by offering women money to make false accusations against him. Mueller spokesman Peter Carr told The Atlantic on Tuesday that the matter was brought to the attention of the special counsel’s office by several journalists who were contacted by a woman about the alleged plot.

Last weekend, I attended the fourth annual Politicon at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Politicon is a bipartisan convention billed as the Comic-con for political nerds, though from my experience, it’s more like the WWE for politics—it’s a rambunctious, theatrical wrestling match of the minds, in which political bigheads wing it out in the ring, each side trying to “destroy” the other with the Camel Clutch of logic, snark, and verbal gymnastics.

When the show formerly known as Roseanne premiered Tuesday, it was missing more than just its matriarch and namesake. ABC fired Roseanne Barr in May for tweeting a racist insult about Valerie Jarrett, a former White House adviser to President Barack Obama. But network execs were loath to give up the show’s millions of viewers, so they came up with The Conners, a Barr-free continuation of the family’s story that opened with Roseanne’s family mourning her unexpected death.