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

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• Former President George H.W. Bush was remembered at his funeral on Wednesday as a “kinder and gentler” leader who steered the country through storms at home and abroad, and whose essential decency set a standard for others to meet. Read how the nation bade farewell to the 41st president.

• With Mr. Bush’s death, a generation of Cold War leaders has passed from the stage. In today’s very different era, the European and global institutions Mr. Bush and his contemporaries built are under threat.

• Federal prosecutors in Virginia are investigating a secret Turkish lobbying effort that once involved Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, even as Mr. Flynn’s role in the special counsel’s investigation winds down.