Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals  —  How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.  —  In the summer of 2017, after just half a year in the White House, Donald Trump flew to Paris for Bastille …

Exclusive photos: Trump's telltale toilet  —  Remember our toilet scoop in Axios AM earlier this year?  Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book about former President Trump will report that White House residence staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet — and believed the former president …

Axios to Sell Itself to Cox Enterprises for $525 Million  —  The digital media company's founders, Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz, will continue to run the company.  —  Axios, the digital media company that quickly gained traction since its founding five years ago …

Exclusive: Paul Manafort admits he passed Trump campaign data to a suspected Russian asset  — Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's 2016 campaign chairman, sat down for an exclusive interview with Insider.  — Manafort made his first public admission that he shared polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik …

POLITICO Playbook: How it really happened: the Inflation Reduction Act  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE WEEK —Today: The Bidens travel to flooded-damaged eastern Kentucky. ...  Tuesday: President JOE BIDEN signs the CHIPS and Science Act into law.

Exclusive: Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach, documents show  —  The Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general led a team that gained unauthorized access to voting equipment while hunting for evidence to support former President Donald …

I'm Sorry, But He's Running  —  Trump's CPAC speech was his 2024 blueprint.  —  Hey y'all, it's Tim in for Charlie with your Monday Morning Shots (you might need to make it a Jägermeister after reading today's).  —  First, a few quick housekeeping items:

Maps in Four States Were Ruled Illegal Gerrymanders.  They're Being Used Anyway.  —  A Supreme Court shift, frowning on changes close to elections, gives House Republicans a big advantage in November.  —  WASHINGTON — Since January, judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio have found …

‘Baffling and traumatizing’: Queens man arrested at Rockaway Beach after off-hours swim  —  Andre Velasquez arrived at Rockaway Beach on Friday afternoon hoping to beat the sweltering heat with a cool swim in the open ocean.  —  Instead, he was escorted from the sand in handcuffs …

Agreement on nuclear deal within reach but obstacles remain  —  VIENNA — Indirect talks between Iran and the U.S. on restoring the 2015 nuclear deal are expected to conclude Monday in Vienna, putting the final draft of an agreement in front of negotiators from Washington and Tehran.

The people behind the bizarre non-profit trying to kill Biden's climate agenda  —  This story is being published in partnership with FWIW, a newsletter tracking digital spending, strategy, and trends in our elections.  —  For more than a week, a group called United for Clean Power has run …

Stop Tiptoeing Around Russia … For the last three decades, the United States has bent over backward to acknowledge Russia's security concerns and allay its anxieties.  The United States has done so at the expense of relations with more willing partners in Eastern Europe—Ukraine in particular.

In Wisconsin, G.O.P. Voters Demand the Impossible: Decertifying 2020  —  Donald Trump's supporters have turned anger over his defeat two years ago, and the false notion that it can still be reversed, into central campaign issues ahead of the battleground state's primary.

A Drop in Murders  —  Despite the grim headlines, 2022 is less violent so far than last year.  —  Crime, murder and mass shootings have dominated headlines this year.  Just over the weekend, a shooting in Cincinnati wounded nine people, and another in Detroit killed one and wounded four.

Carlos Lozada Joins The Times As Opinion Columnist  —  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carlos Lozada will join Times Opinion in September as a columnist.  Read more in this note from Opinion Editors Kathleen Kingsbury and Patrick Healy.  —  It can be difficult in journalism to do something truly distinctive.

Nancy Pelosi's Childlike Diplomacy Mirrors America's Childlike Posture Toward China  —  The Chinese have done and will do a great deal of damage to America, but not nearly as much as we have done to ourselves.  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's sin was not in going to Taiwan per se.

Abortion bans complicate access to drugs for cancer, arthritis, even ulcers  —  Some chronically ill women face questions about critical medications that could be used to end a pregnancy.  —  Becky Hubbard, 46, has decided to get sterilized so that she can go back on the only medication …