Evening Edition: Trump’s charity admits to IRS it violated ban on ‘self-dealing’

Trump backs away from pledge to pursue criminal charges against Clinton; Trump will shut down investigations? That's not how it's supposed to work.; Trump shrugs off concerns about conflicts of interest, appears to reverse himself on global warming; Trump lost most of the American economy in this election; Obama grants clemency to 79 federal drug offenders, a policy the Trump administration is unlikely to continue; Q&A: What a Trump presidency could mean for federal workers; CDC says Zika babies can develop microcephaly months after birth; The worst-case scenario for the economy under Trump just happened in another country; Kanye West hospitalized in Los Angeles, placed on psychiatric hold;   The day's most important stories   Trump's charity admits to IRS it violated ban on 'self-dealing' That admission was contained in the Donald J. Trump Foundation's IRS tax filings for 2015, which were posted online. The Post has reported cases in which Trump appeared to use foundation money to buy items for himself or to help one of his for-profit businesses. By David A. Fahrenthold  •  Read more » Trump backs away from pledge to pursue criminal charges against Clinton Appearing to shift course on an incendiary campaign pledge, President-elect Donald Trump said he doesn't "want to hurt the Clintons." He said in an interview with the New York Times that prosecuting the former first lady is "just not something that I feel very strongly about." By Jerry Markon, Sari Horwitz and Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more »   Trump will shut down investigations? That's not how it's supposed to work. There are safeguards in place to prevent the dangerous practice of presidents targeting political opponents. By Philip Bump  •  Read more »   Trump shrugs off concerns about conflicts of interest, appears to reverse himself on global warming The president-elect said he could "in theory" continue to run his company from the White House, and he said he believes there is "some connectivity" between human activity and rising global temperatures. By Elise Viebeck  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Trump lost most of the American economy in this election In the modern era of politics, no candidate has ever won the popular vote by more than Hillary Clinton and still manage to lose the Electoral College. In that sense, 2016 was a historic split. But there's another divide exposed by the election: The divide is economic, and it is massive. By Jim Tankersley  •  Read more »   Obama grants clemency to 79 federal drug offenders, a policy the Trump administration is unlikely to continue The announcement pushes the number of inmates the president has granted clemency to more than 1,000. By Sari Horwitz  •  Read more »   Q&A: What a Trump presidency could mean for federal workers Washington Post reporter Lisa Rein takes your questions on the president-elect's plan to reform the federal government. By Lisa Rein  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   CDC says Zika babies can develop microcephaly months after birth The latest data shows a small group of Brazilian infants infected with the virus were born with a normal head size, but developed microcephaly months later. By Lena H. Sun  •  Read more »   The worst-case scenario for the economy under Trump just happened in another country More than any U.S. politician's platform, Donald Trump's agenda on the economy resembles those of populist leaders abroad. By Max Ehrenfreund  •  Read more »   Kanye West hospitalized in Los Angeles, placed on psychiatric hold Reports cited exhaustion as possible factor in the hospitalization, which followed a bizarre weekend in which West delivered a long, stream-of-consciousness rant at one concert and canceled another hours before it was set to begin. By Travis M. Andrews and Lindsey Bever  •  Read more »           Share Evening Edition:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you signed up for Headlines. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2016 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071