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Testimony in Manafort trial turns to alleged tax crimes Federal prosecutors questioned a former accountant of Paul Manafort, going through business and personal tax returns from 2010 to 2014. The former Trump campaign chairman is accused of failing to pay taxes on millions he made from his work for a Russia-friendly Ukrainian political party. By Justin Jouvenal, Rachel Weiner, Matt Zapotosky and Moriah Balingit  •  Read more » NASA unveils nine astronauts who will relaunch human flights from U.S. soil The crews would fly on spacecraft developed not by NASA, but by two corporations, SpaceX and Boeing, which are under contract to provide a taxi-like service to the International Space Station. By Christian Davenport  •  Read more »   Wonkblog | Analysis Trade deficit on track to be the biggest in a decade The U.S. trade deficit hit $291 billion in the first half of 2018 despite President Trump's efforts to reduce it. By Heather Long  •  Read more »   China threatens to impose tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods The warning came in response to a plan by the United States to raise tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods to 25 percent. By Emily Rauhala and Damian Paletta  •  Read more »   The Finance 202: Trump team ramps up currency claims against China The yuan is sliding. By Tory Newmyer  •  Read more »   Revenue at Trump's N.Y. hotel rose in the spring, thanks to big-spending Saudis The March visit by travelers accompanying the Saudi crown prince highlights how little is known about President Trump's business dealings with foreign governments. By David Fahrenthold and Jonathan O'Connell  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Analysis Meet a real-life believer in QAnon, the online, pro-Trump conspiracy theory that's bursting into view Paul Burton is a 55-year-old living in Atlanta and working in real estate. He thinks government insiders are feeding him information online about the president's war on the "deep state." By Isaac Stanley-Becker  •  Read more »   The Fix | Analysis If Democrats fail to retake House in November, this might be why A look at the counterpoints to the conventional wisdom in Washington that Democrats will probably win the lower chamber. By Amber Phillips  •  Read more »   California's Carr Fire may have unleashed the most intense fire tornado ever observed in the U.S. A tornado? Scary. Wildfire? Horrific. A tornado made out of fire? Just about the most terrifying thing Mother Nature can whip up. By Matthew Cappucci  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT The Fix | Analysis Sarah Huckabee Sanders indicts the media — on bogus, Trumped-up charges It's one thing to make a case for media bias and unfairness; it's another to constantly exaggerate the evidence. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   A wife's 'nagging' text about the car seat may have saved her son's life Rebecca Tafaro Boyer texted her husband about adjusting their son's straps minutes before they were involved in a wreck. By Lindsey Bever  •  Read more »   Suspect in slaying of George H.W. Bush's former doctor killed himself, police say Joseph James Pappas, who was accused of killing Mark Hausknecht, committed suicide as officers confronted him, authorities said. By Lindsey Bever and Erin B. Logan  •  Read more »   New York Times hire's old tweets ignite a debate: Is it okay to make fun of white people online? Sarah Jeong, a technology writer recently hired by the Times for its editorial board, said she wrote the remarks while fending off harassment. But many conservatives compared the tweets of Jeong, who is Asian American, to racism. By Eli Rosenberg and Erin B. Logan  •  Read more »   A small-town couple left behind a stolen painting worth over $100 million — and a big mystery A stolen Willem de Kooning painting with an estimated worth of $160 million was discovered among a deceased couple's possessions. It had disappeared from the University of Arizona Museum of Art more than 30 years before. By Antonia Farzan  •  Read more »

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