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Here’s what you need to know:

Clinton in the cross hairs.

• The Justice Department is looking into whether a special counsel should be appointed to investigate political rivals of President Trump, including Hillary Clinton.

The president has said that suspicions about the Clinton Foundation and its ties to an Obama-era uranium deal with Russia should be examined.

“I’m really not involved with the Justice Department,” Mr. Trump said recently. “I’d like to let it run itself. But, honestly, they should be looking at the Democrats. And a lot of people are disappointed in the Justice Department, including me.”