California Primary Election Results  —  At the top of the ballot in California is the race to replace Gov. Jerry Brown, a term-limited Democrat.  The big question on Tuesday is not so much who will place first — that's almost certain to be Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a former mayor of San Francisco — but who will place second.

APNewsBreak: Secret Obama-era license let Iran tap dollars  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access — albeit briefly — to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite repeatedly telling Congress and the public it had no plans to do so.

Bid to recall Judge Aaron Persky appears successful in Santa Clara County  —  Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky was on his way to being voted out of office Tuesday, two years after he set off national outrage by sentencing a Stanford athlete to six months in jail …

Trump Wants Kim to Commit to Disarmament Timetable in Singapore  — Mar-a-Lago summit possible if talks go well between leaders  — White House hasn't described schedule beyond first meeting  —  The White House wants North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to commit to a timetable to surrender …

Giuliani says Mueller's team is trying to frame Trump  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says special counsel Robert Mueller's team is trying to frame President Trump.  —  Giuliani, who has been serving as Trump's lawyer amid the Russia scandal, says Wednesday in Israel …

Democrat Arthur wins Missouri special election days after Greitens resigns  —  Democratic Rep. Lauren Arthur prevailed by a double-digit margin over Republican Rep. Kevin Corlew in a special election for a state Senate seat Tuesday night.  —  Republicans won't risk losing control …

Secret Service arrests White House contractor with outstanding attempted murder warrant  —  The Secret Service arrested a contractor outside the White House on Tuesday for an outstanding warrant that includes an attempted murder charge, CBS News Washington correspondent Paula Reid reports.

There will be no Trump collapse  —  I've tried everything to avoid thinking about the next election — family travel, yard work, crossword puzzles.  But now it's only five months away, barely longer than the gestation period of a North American beaver, or the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Press aide who mocked McCain is out at the White House  —  White House still won't apologize for McCain joke  —  (CNN)Kelly Sadler, the White House communications aide who made a imprudent comment about Republican Sen. John McCain's health last month, no longer works in the administration …

The New Yorker Staff Has Unionized  —  The era of white-collar organized labor is fully upon us: the editorial staff of The New Yorker wants to unionize.  This morning, organizers sent a letter to the magazine's editor, David Remnick, asking that the institution and its corporate owner …

Facebook Gave Data Access to Chinese Firm Flagged by U.S. Intelligence  —  Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant that has a close relationship with China's government, the social media company said on Tuesday.

Trump Transition Team Goes to War Over Rogue FBI Agent … At the time, it was one of the more controversial moments of Robert Mueller's probe: Late last year, news broke that a federal agency turned over tens of thousands of private emails of Trump transition team officials to the special counsel's team …

Trump to sign veterans health bill as White House works against plan to fund it  —  President Trump is preparing to sign a sweeping new law Wednesday aimed at expanding veterans' access to private-sector health care.  But behind the scenes his administration is fighting a bipartisan Senate effort to fund the legislation.

Why Is Trump Mad at Sessions?  A Tweet Provides the Answer  —  WASHINGTON — For nearly a year, President Trump has been relentlessly attacking his handpicked attorney general for recusing himself from the Russia investigation that has so nettled him.  And so in that sense …

The Post has mapped more than 52,000 homicides in major American cities over the past decade and found that across the country, there are areas where murder is common but arrests are rare.  —  Christopher Dickson felt justice had been served.  For weeks, he'd bragged around his neighborhood …

Cambridge Analytica director ‘met Assange to discuss US election’  —  Brittany Kaiser also claims to have channelled payments and donations to WikiLeaks  —  A Cambridge Analytica director apparently visited Julian Assange in February last year and told friends it was to discuss what happened during …

McCabe seeks immunity for testimony in congressional hearing over FBI handling of Clinton email probe  —  Justice IG submits criminal referral on McCabe  —  (CNN)Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has requested the Senate Judiciary Committee provide him with immunity from prosecution …

It Looks Like America Is Finally Going To Have A Native American Congresswoman  —  Deb Haaland won her Democratic primary in New Mexico's congressional race.  She's likely to win in November, too.  —  Deb Haaland won the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico congressional seat on Tuesday …

Kate Spade suffered years of mental illness, sister says.  Suicide ‘not unexpected’  —  Grieving deeply, Kate Spade's older sister told The Star on Tuesday that her famous designer sister suffered debilitating mental illness for the last three or four years and was self-medicating with alcohol.

The Enlightenment's Dark Side  —  The Enlightenment is having a renaissance, of sorts.  A handful of centrist and conservative writers have reclaimed the 17th- and 18th-century intellectual movement as a response to nationalism and ethnic prejudice on the right and relativism and “identity politics” on the left.

Steve Mnuchin Blacked Out Schedule on Days of Controversial Trips … Before stepping off a military jet in Kentucky last summer where he viewed a solar eclipse at Fort Knox, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was doing something else in secret.  —  Mnuchin and his wife's trip on August 21 …

GOP elects white supremacist who rioted in Charlottesville  —  Emboldened by Trump's racism, a record number of white supremacists are making their way into mainstream Republican politics.  —  A participant in last summer's deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville has been elected …

Paul Manafort tried to hide from the feds using encrypted WhatsApp—but forgot about iCloud  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller has accused Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort of witness tampering.  Manafort allegedly tried to hide his communications with potential witnesses using …

Witnessing the Obama Presidency, from Start to Finish  —  Ben Rhodes was the President's speechwriter, foreign-policy adviser, and confidant.  His book records the Administration's struggle to shape its own narrative.  —  Barack Obama was a writer before he became a politician, and he saw his Presidency as a struggle over narrative.

A HuffPost Reporter Was Bombarded With Threats.  Twitter Suspended Him.  —  When Twitter outsources policing its platform to victims of harassment, it empowers brigades of trolls and extremists.  —  Last week HuffPost reporter Luke O'Brien published a story identifying the woman behind @AmyMek …

Playbook scoop: Senate Democrats' August messaging plan  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  STRATEGY MEMO ... SENATE DEMOCRATS, forced by Republicans to stay in Washington during the August recess, are planning to try to turn the session into a referendum on Republicans' handling of health-care policy.