In the days other news: The U.S. House of Representatives voted to limit U.S. involvement
in the war in Yemen, in a rebuke to President Trump.
It would force a withdrawal of U.S. military assistance to a Saudi-led bombing campaign
against Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen.
The measure goes to the Senate now, where a similar resolution passed last year.
The White House has promised to veto.
We will hear reaction to this from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in our interview.
That airs in just a few minutes.
President Trump sought today to step up the pressure on Venezuela's President Nicolas
Maduro.
He said again that he is looking at all options if Maduro refuses to surrender power.
But at a congressional hearing, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee warned
against using the U.S. military in Venezuela, unless Congress approves.
REP.
ELIOT ENGEL (D), New York: I want to make clear to our witnesses and to everyone else
watching, U.S. military intervention is not an option.
Congress decides when, where and how the U.S. military is used around the world, and Congress
wouldn't support military intervention in Venezuela.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The U.S. has recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's rightful
leader.
A former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer has been charged with revealing U.S. national
defense secrets to Iran.
Monica Witt defected to Iran in 2013.
The Justice Department announced the indictment today.
It said that she also helped hackers target her former colleagues.
Witt remains at large.
The socialist government of Spain may have to call early elections after it lost a crucial
budget vote today.
Catalan separatists joined conservatives in opposition.
The Catalan deputies are unhappy with the government's refusal to consider an independence
referendum for their region.
Back in this country, New Jersey's Roman Catholic Diocese named more than 180 priests who have
been credibly accused of sexually molesting minors.
The allegations span several decades.
Many of those listed are now deceased.
Others have been removed from the ministry, and some have been charged with crimes.
Separately, the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, named 42 accused priests.
The superintendents of the U.S. service academies faced bipartisan criticism in Congress today
over sexual assault and harassment.
A Pentagon study last month found a 50 percent jump in incidents at the schools in the last
two years.
At a House hearing, California Democrat Jackie Speier said she's putting the academies on
notice.
REP.
JACKIE SPEIER (D), California: This isn't a blip, a MeToo bump or some accident.
It is a clear illustration of a destructive trend and a systemic problem.
It's time for us to recognize that this is a crisis.
And I intend to watch it like a hawk.
JUDY WOODRUFF: The ranking Republican on the committee joined in, saying the problem needs
immediate attention.
An investigation has found that no evidence that Catholic school students used racist
or offensive language in an incident at the Lincoln Memorial.
The encounter last month involved teenagers from a school in Covington, Kentucky, and
Native American activists.
Videos of it quickly went viral.
The investigation was done for the Catholic Diocese of Covington.
Brock Long is resigning as head of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
He notified his staff in a letter today.
Long's departure comes several months after an investigation found that he misused government
vehicles.
He agreed to reimburse the government.
NASA said goodbye today to its Opportunity rover, after nearly 15 years of exploring
the surface of Mars.
The golf-cart-sized vehicle was launched in 2003, alongside its twin, Spirit, for a mission
of just over 90 days.
Instead, Spirit lasted until several years ago, and Opportunity carried on until a ferocious
dust storm last June.
JOHN CALLAS, NASA: We tried valiantly over these last eight months to try to recover
the rover, to get some signal from it.
We listened every single day, and we heard nothing.
And so it comes time to say goodbye.
But we want to remember the 14-and-a-half years of phenomenal exploration.
JUDY WOODRUFF: We're sad too.
Opportunity set endurance and distance records, and along with it -- along with Spirit, it
found evidence that water once flowed on the surface of Mars.
Longtime conspiracy theorist and eight-time presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche has
died.
He was known for extremist views and outrageous claims, including one that Britain's Queen
Elizabeth was a drug trafficker.
Lyndon LaRouche was 96 years old.
T-Mobile and Sprint pledged again today not to raise prices for three years if their merger
wins federal approval.
But Democrats at a House hearing questioned whether the Trump administration would hold
the companies to that pledge.
The merger is worth $26.5 billion.
It would unite the nation's third and fourth largest wireless carriers.
And on Wall Street, stocks made modest gains, over optimism about U.S.-China trade talks.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 117 points to close at 25543.
The Nasdaq rose five, and the S&P 500 added eight.
And a wire fox terrier named king is this year's top dog at the Westminster Kennel Club
dog show in New York.
The 7-year-old won best in show last night in the nation's most prestigious canine competition.
Overall, more than 2,800 dogs took part.
Wire fox terriers have won Westminster 13 times, far more than any other breed.
They have it wired.
Still to come on the "NewsHour": a wide-ranging conversation with Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo; Republican Senator John Thune on the effort to avert another government shutdown;
forms of universal health care pick up steam among Democrats; and much more.