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1. Venezuela's Machado says she presented her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump during their meeting

   Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the U.S. ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro.

2. A federal judge dismisses the DOJ's effort to get voter data from California

   The Trump administration has been dealt its first legal setback in its unprecedented effort to consolidate voter data traditionally held by states.

3. Behind the front lines of the legal battle against Trump's National Guard deployments

   As President Trump began a pattern of deploying the National Guard to democratic-led cities, several Democratic attorneys general and their staffs worked to coordinate their fight against the deployments – and, ultimately, they won.

4. Trump health care plan doesn't help people facing skyrocketing ACA premiums

   President Trump announced a plan that addresses drug costs and health savings accounts, but not the health insurance premium spikes that millions of Americans are facing.

5. Verizon just had a big outage. Here's what we know

   Verizon says a software problem caused the glitch and it is conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days.

6. Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act (again). What is it?

   As protests grow over violent ICE enforcement actions in Minneapolis, the president said he could invoke a centuries-old law that would give him sweeping powers to deploy the military in U.S. cities.

7. There's an internet blackout in Iran. How are videos and images getting out?

   Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's internet shutdown.

8. Iran's protests appear increasingly smothered after a deadly crackdown

   The nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy appear increasingly smothered a week after authorities shut the country off from the world and escalated a bloody crackdown.

9. Julian Barnes says he's enjoying himself, but that 'Departure(s)' is his last book

   Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes' hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He's been living with a rare form of blood cancer for six years.

10. 24 hours of chaos as mental health grants are slashed then restored

    For 24 hours, it was unclear which mental health and addiction programs would survive and who would still have jobs when the dust settled.