Good Wednesday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today.

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• A new American intelligence assessment of global threats concluded that North Korea is “unlikely to give up” all of its nuclear stockpiles and that Iran is not “currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activity” needed to make a bomb. Their conclusions challenged President Trump’s assertions on both countries.

• As Senator Kamala Harris attempts her own version of former President Barack Obama’s historic rise from first-term senator to the White House, she is likely to need the same strong support from black voters that Mr. Obama attracted in 2008. It may not come easily.

• The State Department said that it had given the Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, the right to control assets and property in the United States bank accounts of the government of Venezuela.