Monday, Oct. 7

· The House impeachment inquiry continued as Democrats issued subpoenas to the Defense Department and the Office of Management and Budget.

· Federal judge Victor Marrero rejected Trump’s attempt to block Manhattan state prosecutors from accessing his tax returns. Marrero wrote that Trump’s evasive actions were “repugnant to the nation’s governmental structure and constitutional values.”

· Trump sent mixed signals in the wake of his Sunday decision to support a Turkish military operation targeting U.S.-backed Kurds on the Syrian border by promising on Twitter to both “get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars [in the Middle East]” and “totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey” if Turkey were to do anything he deems “off-limits.”

Tuesday, Oct. 8

· The White House refused to comply with the House impeachment inquiry by denying access to subpoenaed documents and testimony. In a letter to House Democratic leaders, White House counsel Pat A. Cipollone said, “Trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances.” Speaker Nancy Pelosi noted failure to comply with a congressional subpoena is itself a potentially impeachable offense.

· Sen. Bernie Sanders announced he would slow down and “change the nature” of his presidential campaign after his heart attack last week. Campaign manager Faiz Shakir said, “Instead of a breakneck series of events that lap the field, we are going to keep a marathoner’s pace that still manages to outrun everyone else.”

Wednesday, Oct. 9

· Pentagon counterterrorism analyst Henry Kyle Frese was arrested for leaking classified information to two journalists. U.S. attorney Zachary Terwilliger commented, “This indictment should serve as a clear reminder to all of those similarly entrusted with national defense information that unilaterally disclosing such information for personal gain, or that of others, is not selfless or heroic; it is criminal.”

Thursday, Oct. 10

· The House impeachment inquiry subpoenaed Secretary of Energy Rick Perry. As with prior subpoenas, it instructed Perry to provide documents shedding light on the pressure campaign in Ukraine to investigate Trump’s democratic rivals.

· Federal prosecutors unsealed charges against Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, associates of Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, for their roles in the pressure campaign in Ukraine. The two men purportedly camouflaged political donations to advance personal business interests and the political interests of government officials in Ukraine.

· The Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposal to improve national testing for lead levels in community drinking water and to implement better action plans for when the problem occurs. The EPA has not updated its lead and copper regulation in about three decades.

· Transgender activists took the spotlight in a Democratic presidential candidate town hall on LGBTQ issues, criticizing the candidates for not focusing enough on the murders of black transgender women. One woman, Blossom C. Brown, took to the microphone while Representative Beto O’Rourke was speaking, and said “Our lives matter. I am an extraordinary black trans woman, and I deserve to be here.”

Friday, Oct. 11

· Trump lost a U.S. Court of Appeals case attempting to block Democrats in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from subpoenaing his financial information from one of his accounting firms, Mazars USA. This subpoena was issued in April before the current impeachment inquiry began, and contributes to the overall congressional probe seeking evidence of conflicts of interest and foreign influence on the president.

· A nine-hour closed door hearing from former ambassador to Ukraine Marie L. Yovanovitch revealed Trump recalled her from her role last spring due to lack of trust following a long campaign against her from Giuliani and his associates. According to her opening remarks provided to the Times, she said “[The] U.S. government chose to remove an ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives.”

Saturday, Oct. 12

· Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren attacked Facebook’s policy of not fact checking political ads by deliberately releasing an ad with false information about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s political views. “If Trump tries to lie in a TV ad,” Warren said, “most networks will refuse to air it. But Facebook just cashes Trump’s checks… It’s time to hold Mark Zuckerberg accountable.”

Sunday, Oct. 13

· A conference of Trump supporters, including his son Donald Trump Jr. and former press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, at the president’s Miami resort played a fake, violent video of the president murdering the press and his political rivals. The video, an edit of a scene from the 2014 action film “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” superimposes Trump’s face over a character’s body as he butchers a church full of people whose faces are superimposed with logos of news services and activist organizations like NPR and Black Lives Matter or the faces of politicians like John McCain and Maxine Waters.