1/ The House Judiciary Committee is officially conducting an impeachment inquiry into Trump and will decide by the end of the year whether to refer articles of impeachment to the House floor. In a July court filing to get the full, unredacted Mueller report, the Judiciary Committee argued that it needed the information because it “is conducting an investigation to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment.� Today, chairman Jerry Nadler clarified that “This is formal impeachment proceedings.� That timeline would put an impeachment battle in the middle of the Democratic presidential primary contests. (Washington Post / Politico)

2/ The El Paso shooter that killed 22 people told police that his target was “Mexicans� and confessed that “I’m the shooter� when he was arrested. Patrick Crusius also said he had used an AK-47-style rifle and brought multiple magazines with him to carry out the killings. Authorities believe Crusius was the author of a “manifesto� posted online shortly before the attack, saying he wanted to stop the “Hispanic invasion of Texas.� (New York Times / Washington Post)

3/ The Trumps posed for a photo with an orphaned two-month-old, whose parents were shot dead in El Paso. Melania Trump smiled broadly and held the baby, while Donald flashed a thumbs-up and grinned. The picture was circulated by Melania Trump and not the family. White House aides had not allowed journalists into the hospital during the visit, saying it was “not a photo op.� (The Guardian / Yahoo)

4/ The State Department suspended a foreign affairs official in the energy bureau after his ties to a white nationalist group were revealed. The State Department refused to name the official, but the Southern Poverty Law Center identified him as Matthew Gebert. The SPLC published a report on Wednesday that Gebert hosted white nationalists at his home and published white nationalist propaganda online using a pseudonym. (Reuters)

5/ The White House has prepared an executive order that would give the FCC oversight over tech companies and how they monitor and manage their social networks. “Protecting Americans from Online Censorship� tasks the FCC with developing new regulations to clarify how and when the law protects social networks when they remove or suppress content on their platforms. The draft order also calls for the Federal Trade Commission to take those new policies into account when investigatin...