• The U.S. government’s top ethics watchdog, who is stepping down today, said the country is “pretty close to a laughingstock at this point.” President Trump’s repeated trips to his family’s business properties — including 40 to a family golf course — “creates the appearance of profiting from the presidency,” he said.

Mr. Trump continued to defend his eldest son, though revelations continued to grow about his meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer last year.

The Republicans health-care bill appears stalled for at least a week or two because of the absence of Senator John McCain, above. The cranial surgery he had on Friday may be more serious than initial descriptions implied.