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Analysis: Stocks are plummeting, but a recession doesn't look imminent; 13 Trump entities being subpoenaed in case targeting president's D.C. hotel

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U.S. stocks battered as U.S.-China trade deal appears to sputter The broad decline — one of the market's worst days of the year — was a swift retreat from a sense of buoyancy that fueled big gains the day before on investor optimism that the United States and China would reach an accord on trade. By Damian Paletta and David Lynch  •  Read more » Analysis: Stocks are plummeting, but a recession doesn't look imminent Despite political head winds and market jitters, U.S. consumers -- who drive 70 percent of the economy -- are optimistic and spending a lot. By Heather Long  •  Read more »   13 Trump entities being subpoenaed in case targeting president's D.C. hotel The attorneys general for Maryland and the District of Columbia are seeking financial records and other documents as part of a lawsuit alleging that President Trump's business violates the Constitution's ban on gifts or payments from foreign governments. By Jonathan O'Connell, Ann Marimow and David Fahrenthold  •  Read more »   Post Reports | Listen Now Democrats set the stage (literally) for 2020 The Democratic National Committee struggles to find a big enough stage for likely Presidential candidates. Plus, the second and final installment of our series 'An Affair. The Mob. A Murder.' By The Washington Post  •  Read more »   Senators say Saudi crown prince is complicit in Khashoggi's killing Senators emerged from a closed-door briefing with CIA Director Gina Haspel and, in some of their strongest accusations to date, said the evidence overwhelmingly pointed to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's involvement in the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. By Shane Harris and Karoun Demirjian  •  Read more »   Analysis: GOP senators are essentially accusing the Trump administration of a cover-up If Tuesday's briefing was meant to mollify GOP hawks, it backfired. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Bob Dole joins crowds gathered at the Capitol to bid farewell to Bush An aide helped the former Senate majority leader and Republican presidential nominee stand and salute the casket of the 41st president, who will lie in state until Wednesday. Mourners began lining up before sunrise, streaming in one by one around a coffin draped with an American flag. By Mark Berman, Marissa Lang and Elise Viebeck  •  Read more »   Retropolis: Bush's gift of humor, from corny duck jokes to fragrant armpits The 41st president loved jokes and making people laugh. And he knew how to laugh at himself too. By Michael Rosenwald  •  Read more »   How Trump appointees curbed a consumer protection agency loathed by the GOP In just one year, agency leader Mick Mulvaney and his political aides have constrained the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from within, achieving what conservatives on Capitol Hill had been unable to do for years, according to agency data and interviews with career officials. By Robert O'Harrow, Shawn Boburg and Renae Merle  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Treasury suggests review of postal rates — but not just for Amazon The report demanded by President Trump does not mention Amazon, a company that has consistently drawn Trump's ire. But it does recommend a reevaluation of the pricing for non-essential mail shipped by e-commerce companies. By Rachel Siegel  •  Read more »   House Democrats could refuse to seat N.C. Republican amid election-fraud probe, Hoyer says Incoming House majority leader Steny H. Hoyer's statement comes as N.C. election officials investigate whether an operative hired by Republican Mark Harris illegally collected incomplete ballots from voters. By Mike DeBonis  •  Read more »   National Republican Congressional Committee says it was hacked It wasn't known if a foreign government was behind the attack on the campaign organization for House Republicans. By Ellen Nakashima and Shane Harris  •  Read more »   Wary of repeating 2016 mistakes, Democrats prepare to shake up 2020 presidential debate plan The plan would avoid the two-tier "kiddie table" approach that divided the Republican field in the last presidential campaign. By Michael Scherer  •  Read more »   The Guardian offered a bombshell about Paul Manafort. It still hasn't detonated. The newspaper said it is standing by its report that President Trump's former campaign manager met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange several times. By Paul Farhi  •  Read more »   'A kind of dark realism': Why the climate change problem is starting to look too big to solve As the 24th U.N. conference on climate change kicks off this week, a steady drumbeat of scientific reports have sounded warnings about current climate trajectories. By Steven Mufson  •  Read more »

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