National News at a Glance

Ellison Denies Abuse Allegations About Ex-Girlfriend

Ahead of Minnesota’s primaries on Tuesday, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has denied allegations that he had emotionally and physically abused a former girlfriend, including once trying to pull her off a bed while yelling obscenities at her. The allegations surfaced Saturday in a Facebook post published by Austin Monahan, the son of the ex-girlfriend, Karen Monahan. The post referred to a two-minute video that the Austin Monahan claimed showed Ellison “dragging my mama off the bed by her feet.” The denial Sunday by Ellison, 55, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for state attorney general, was forceful. "This video does not exist because I never behaved in this way, and any characterization otherwise is false.”

Florida Prosecutors Charge Man in ‘Stand Your Ground’ Killing

Florida prosecutors filed a manslaughter charge Monday against a white man who shot and killed an unarmed black man July 19 in a dispute over a parking space, three weeks after the local sheriff had refused to arrest the man, citing the state’s sweeping and controversial Stand Your Ground law. Prosecutors in Pinellas County charged Michael Drejka, 48, with one count of manslaughter with a firearm in the killing of Markeis McGlockton, 28. Drejka was taken into custody Monday and held on a $100,000 bond. The maximum sentence he could face is 30 years in prison. His first appearance in court is scheduled for Tuesday.

Trump Appears to Admit White House Aides Signed Nondisclosure Agreements

President Donald Trump appeared to acknowledge on Monday that his White House had aides sign nondisclosure agreements. The president made the statement in a Twitter post about Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former assistant to the president whose new book makes unflattering claims about Trump and his family. “Wacky Omarosa already has a fully signed Non-Disclosure Agreement!” Trump tweeted. Trump has for decades demanded that people sign such agreements. Former West Wing officials have said that while they were enacted, members of the White House counsel’s office signaled that they could not be enforced, and that they were being executed to reassure Trump.

FBI Agent Peter Strzok, Who Criticized Trump in Texts, Is Fired

Peter Strzok, the FBI senior counterintelligence agent who disparaged President Donald Trump in text messages and helped oversee the Hillary Clinton email and Russia investigations, has been fired for violating bureau policies, Strzok’s lawyer said Monday. Trump and his allies seized on the texts, exchanged during the 2016 campaign with a former FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, in assailing the Russia investigation as an illegitimate “witch hunt.” Strzok was a key figure in the early months of the inquiry. Along with writing the texts, Strzok was accused of sending a highly sensitive search warrant to his personal email account. Trump on Monday expressed satisfaction that he had been sacked.

Baltimore Officer Resigns After Video Shows Him Punching a Man

A police officer in Baltimore has resigned after a video emerged showing him repeatedly punching a man and pinning him on the sidewalk, police said. Police officials said in a message on Twitter that the officer’s partner during the episode had been assigned to administrative duties. The police commissioner on Monday said that the department and state attorney’s office had opened a criminal investigation into the officer’s actions. The video, which was taken by bystanders and lasts about 30 seconds, shows the officer pushing the man, who is against a wall, in the chest, and then punching him repeatedly in the head before pinning him on the sidewalk.

Stephen Miller’s Uncle Calls Him a Hypocrite in an Online Essay

Stephen Miller, one of the architects of President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda, is the descendant of Jewish immigrants who arrived to a welcoming United States at the turn of the 20th century. But in an essay posted online Monday by Politico, Dr. David S. Glosser, Miller’s uncle, argues that the family would have been turned away if the immigration policies backed by Trump and Miller were in place at the time. The article was a notable rebuke by a family member to Miller, who is one of the most fervent public defenders of Trump’s immigration policies.

Clues to Your Health Are Hidden at 6.6 Million Spots in Your DNA

Scientists have created a new tool to calculate a person’s inherited risks for heart disease, breast cancer and three other serious conditions. By surveying changes in DNA at 6.6 million places in the human genome, investigators at the Broad Institute and Harvard University were able to identify many more people at risk than do the usual genetic tests, which take into account very few genes. The researchers are now building a website that will allow anyone to upload genetic data from a company like 23andMe or Ancestry.com. Users will receive risk scores for heart disease, breast cancer, Type 2 diabetes, chronic inflammatory bowel disease and atrial fibrillation. People will not be charged for their scores.