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Trump's Day: President Trump holds a cabinet meeting and has lunch with Vice President Mike Pence. The White House sought on Monday to tamp down speculation about President Trump’s health.

Impeachment Inquiry: Jennifer Williams, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Kurt Volker and Tim Morrison testify before the House Intelligence Committee. Follow along with our live updates and analysis. 

Vaping: Mr. Trump's decision to hold off on a possible ban of flavored e-cigarettes triggered a harsh response from some members of Congress. His FDA nominee is expected to face tough questions on vaping on Wednesday.

The impeachment probe is examining whether President Trump lied in statements to former special counsel Robert Mueller, a top lawyer for the Democrat-led House told a federal court. It's an indication that the accusations against the president could go beyond his interactions with Ukraine, report Byron Tau and Michael C. Bender.

• The president said Monday he would consider testifying in the House impeachment probe despite calling it a witch hunt.

Four impeachment witnesses are set to testify publicly today, including three who have previously told investigators they listened in on President Trump’s July 25 call with his Ukrainian counterpart and were concerned by his push for investigations. Rebecca Ballhaus, Brody Mullins and Gordon Lubold report on the witnesses.

State Department official David Holmes gave a detailed account to House investigators of a conversation he overheard between President Trump and a U.S. ambassador about investigations the president was seeking in Ukraine, according to a transcript, Siobhan Hughes reports.

House Republicans asked fellow Republican Sen. Ron Johnson to tell what he knows about Mr. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, a step they portrayed as needed to provide balance to the impeachment probe, Siobhan Hughes reports. Mr. Johnson has been at the center of some key moments related to the Ukraine controversy.

As concern among some of President Trump’s top national-security advisers grew over his interactions with Ukraine, they confided repeatedly in an official whose role impeachment investigators are now examining: John Eisenberg. Vivian Salama reports.

President Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell met at the White House to discuss an economy hindered by faltering global growth prospects, reports Nick Timiraos. The Fed said Mr. Powell didn't discuss his expectations for monetary policy.

• Mr. Trump has frequently attacked Mr. Powell in statements on Twitter, but on Monday said their meeting was “very good and cordial.”

The Trump administration extended a license allowing rural telecom providers to continue working with China's Huawei, a move that prevents escalating new restrictions on Huawei’s business during a key period for U.S.-China negotiators, reports Katy Stech Ferek.

U.S. shifts its stance on Israeli settlements. Officials said the U.S. will no longer consider Israeli settlements to be illegal under international law, drawing swift praise from Israelis and condemnation from Palestinians, European officials and rights groups who say the stance could hinder peace efforts, report Felicia Schwartz and Courtney McBride.

Western hostages freed by Taliban. Two Western hostages, one American and one Australian, have been freed by the Taliban after more than three years in captivity, reports Craig Nelson, in a prisoner exchange that could spur the resumption of negotiations to end the 18-year Afghan war.

A Democratic campaign committee will only support candidates who publicly announce their support for abortion rights, the latest indication of how the party considers the issue central to its voters.

The Democratic Attorneys General Association, which supports Democratic candidates for state attorneys general positions, announced its new position Monday, calling its new litmus test a “first-of-its-kind for any Democratic campaign committee.”

The new policy provides two insights into the state of Democratic Party politics.

First, anti-abortion Democrats are in an increasingly isolated position. A primary challenger to Rep. Dan Lipinski (D., Ill.), one of the few anti-abortion Democrats in Congress, has earned the endorsement of several national Democrats.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat who won re-election in the conservative state on Saturday, openly opposes abortion, indicating that anti-abortion Democrats may still find electoral success in some conservative pockets of the country.

The new posture from the attorneys general association comes at a key moment. The rollout of the new policy repeatedly alludes to recent efforts in GOP-controlled state legislatures to restrict abortion access. Several Democratic fundraising juggernauts, including Emily’s List, have put supporting abortion rights at the center of their platforms, and the new policy could help the DAGA raise more money and gain stature in liberal circles.

Write to Andrew Duehren at andrew.duehren@wsj.com

Federal deficits still matter on the campaign trail, even if they have piled up for years without causing the harm many policy makers and economists feared, report Kate Davidson and Tarini Parti. “How will you pay for it?” is a litmus test—and an attack line—for 2020 candidates.

Most Democratic lawmakers in districts President Trump won in 2016 are avoiding the impeachment issue, focusing instead on legislative action, report Natalie Andrews and Lindsay Wise. It's a strategy the House Democratic campaign arm has proposed to highlight that vulnerable Democrats, who will need independent voters, are legislating.

The Justice Department plans to terminate longstanding legal rules for movie distribution, concluding that the rules have outlived their usefulness, report Brent Kendall and Erich Schwartzel. The termination of the decrees could speed up a consolidation in the industry.

The FCC is backing a public auction of 5G airwaves, choosing a plan that could steer more cash to the federal government over some satellite operators’ objections, reports Drew FitzGerald.

The FTC has multiple ongoing antitrust investigations into online platforms, the agency’s chairman said Monday, suggesting a broader review of the tech sector than previously known, reports Ryan Tracy.

New government tools flag nursing-home abuse. The federal government has begun marking nursing homes with a history of resident mistreatment, opening a new window into abuse and neglect in as many as one in 20 elder-care facilities across the U.S., reports Yuka Hayashi.

• A surprise win in Iowa's caucuses by Pete Buttigieg might hurt Sen. Elizabeth Warren the most. (fivethirtyeight.com)
• Sen. Amy Klobuchar is positioned to make a late move in Iowa. (Washington Examiner)
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom is getting only lukewarm approval ratings for his handling of California's fires. (Bloomberg)

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