Washington * Robert Mueller testified before Congress Wednesday. Meanwhile, out there in the real world:
• A federal judge in California was issuing an injunction blocking a new Trump administration policy that would have flatly denied most Central American migrants the right to lawfully seek asylum at the southern border.
• Attorney General William Barr was preparing an announcement, released Thursday, that the federal government will resume carrying out the death penalty after an effective 16-year moratorium. He promptly ordered prison officials to set execution dates for five federal death-row inmates.
• Europe was roasting in an unprecedented heat wave, with triple-digit temperature records being set across the continent.