“There is not a smoking gun, there’s a smoking saw,” Senator Lindsey Graham said after a briefing by the C.I.A. director, Gina Haspel. John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, said the North’s lack of progress on ending its nuclear program left room for a new meeting, likely in early 2019, to be productive. Speaking in Brussels, the secretary of state said that some institutions fail to serve their member nations, and should be revised or eliminated. Mr. Cohen has told friends that he wanted to speed up the process by confessing his crimes quickly so that he could begin serving any sentence he receives. “We both naturally despise the Chinese Communist Party,” the fugitive, Guo Wengui said, explaining his partnership with the former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon. Leslie Moonves, the former CBS chief, destroyed evidence and misled investigators looking into his alleged misconduct, according to a draft of a report prepared for the company’s board. A 59-page draft report produced by lawyers for CBS’s board contains new details and allegations about Mr. Moonves, the company’s former chief executive. Senior executives and board members at CBS knew about allegations of sexual misconduct by Leslie Moonves, the chief executive. No one acted to stop him. Stocks, which rallied Monday on the potential for a truce in the United States-China trade war, began a downward spiral on Tuesday as confusion set in about whether an agreement had truly been reached. A hastily organized White House meeting came as fears were rising in Europe that the president may follow through on threats to impose car tariffs. The National Republican Congressional Committee said it had reported the breach to the F.B.I. but acknowledged that it had otherwise kept the hack secret for months. In retirement, the 41st and 43rd presidents could finally focus on the things that parents and children focus on when the parents grows older. 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