• Investigators for the inspector general recently interviewed Christopher Steele, the former British spy whose infamous dossier with links between Trump associates and Russia ended up in the hands of the F.B.I. in 2016. They spent two days with Mr. Steele to try and determine whether the F.B.I. misstepped in the inquiry.
• Tensions between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her “squad” of freshmen congresswomen have burst into the open this week over the $4.6 billion border aid package, testing House Democratic unity.
• Amy McGrath, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and combat pilot who lost her bid for a House seat last year, wants to challenge Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, for his seat in 2020.
• The midterms were catastrophic for Republican women. But as of last month, 187 of them had filed or expressed interest in running for the House in 2020 — more than ran in the entire 2018 cycle.
• Joe Biden and his wife earned more than $15 million since he left office, filings show, contradicting his longtime political persona of “Middle-Class Joe.”