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Gates admits affair and using money embezzled from Manafort for trysts Rick Gates also said he may have improperly submitted personal expenses to President Trump's inaugural committee for reimbursement. Earlier, he testified that he had spent as much as $3 million, some of it embezzled from Trump's onetime campaign chairman, to help fund an extramarital affair in London. By Justin Jouvenal, Rachel Weiner, Matt Zapotosky and Rosalind Helderman  •  Read more » Tesla shares resume trading after being halted in wake of founder Elon Musk's tweet The Silicon Valley company's shares jumped after Musk said he had the funding lined up to take the carmaker private at $420 a share. By Drew Harwell  •  Read more »   North Korea has not taken steps to denuclearize, U.S. national security adviser says The remarks by John Bolton were a dismal acknowledgment that little progress has been made nearly two months after the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore. By Felicia Sonmez  •  Read more »   Francisco Joaquin is 63 and retired. He's also quite possibly D.C.'s oldest intern. Joaquin's mom wanted him to get an education. Decades later, he's still at it. By Ellen McCarthy  •  Read more »   The Fix | Analysis Donald Trump Jr.'s red-herring-filled defense of the Trump Tower meeting, annotated In a radio interview, Trump Jr. responded to questions raised by a tweet in which President Trump conceded explicitly for the first time that the purpose of the 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-aligned Russian lawyer was opposition research on Democrats. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   GSA chief may have misled Congress about White House involvement in FBI headquarters, report says A draft of the inspector general's report, a portion of which was obtained by The Post, said the General Services administrator's testimony "was incomplete and may have left the misleading impression that she had no discussions with the President or senior White House officials about the project." By Jonathan O'Connell  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT The Energy 202 | Analysis How to make sense of Trump's 'nonsensical' tweets on California's wildfires President Trump did not have a word for the residents who lost their homes or the firefighters who lost their lives. Instead, he wanted to talk about water politics, launching a series of tweets that baffled experts. By Dino Grandoni  •  Read more » 'This president trafficks in racism': Don Lemon on Trump's comments about LeBron James The anchor's polemic on "CNN Tonight" felt especially personal. By Avi Selk  •  Read more »   Iraqi leader's political fortunes dim as protests rage on, posing challenge for U.S. If Haider al-Abadi fails to secure a second term, the United States faces the prospect of a new Iraqi administration that is less sympathetic to Washington and more open to Iran. By Tamer El-Ghobashy and Mustafa Salim  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Kris Kobach used flawed research to defend Trump's voter fraud panel, experts say Election experts say that there is no evidence that voter fraud is a widespread issue of any statistical significance. By Eli Rosenberg  •  Read more »   Campaign 2018 Hotly contested Ohio special election tops crowded Election Day in five states Voters on Tuesday will also choose nominees for governor of Kansas and Michigan, along with primaries for the House and the Senate. By David Weigel  •  Read more »   Here's where to find the most frequent ideal weather in the U.S. California has the top five cities with great weather, led by Long Beach and its 210 nice days per year, followed by Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and Oakland. Phoenix clocks in at number six. By Brian Brettschneider  •  Read more »   Is this biblical food the next foodie fad? This chef hopes so. Todd Gray named one of his restaurants Manna, and he wants to be able to serve it, too. By Mikaela Lefrak  •  Read more »

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