Good Economic News May Not Be Enough to Save GOP in Midterms

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, real economy reporter Mark Niquette looks at what the latest economic reports mean for the midterms. Sign up here. Email our editors here. President Donald Trump and Republicans got some good news from the latest batch of data today: The economy is doing well. But there are also warning signs. Apple Is Finally Ready to Enter Its Next Big Category: the Smart Home Apple’s New CEO Seeks to Make Company Run Faster and Leaner Passengers Avert Crash by Tackling Pilot Who Stabbed Colleague David Fincher, Director of ‘Fight Club,’ to Exit Netflix Deal Bose Returns to Wired Earbuds With New $99 Noise-Canceling Pair Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Is Spending Billions to Bypass Iran’s Grip on Hormuz by Alex Dooler, Dinesh Nair and Laura Gardner Cuesta China’s Tax Grab Squeezes Rich Elite Harder Than Ever by Trista Xinyi Luo and Lulu Yilun Chen China Has an 18-Wheel Answer to Soaring Global Diesel Prices by Bloomberg News Europe’s LNG Shift Is Breaking the Economics of Gas Storage by Elena Mazneva, Eva Brendel and Alberto Brambilla