Wake Up Call: Trump Eyes Five Candidates to Take Sessions’ Job as AG, Report Says

• President Trump is considering as many as five possible replacements for Attorney General Jeff Sessions later this year, the Wall Street Journal reports. The paper names candidates including former AG Bill Barr, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Transportation Department general counsel Steven Bradbury, Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, and Janice Rogers Brown, a retired appeals court judge on the District of Columbia Circuit. ( Wall Street Journal )

• New York City prosecutors abandoned part of their sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein after evidence surfaced that a police detective coached a witness to stay mum about evidence ...