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| Good morning. It’s Thursday, August 6, and a new type of flu shot will probably be available in the coming weeks. Check whether you might be eligible here. Let’s catch up. | |  |  | President Donald Trump clashed with Pete Hegseth at Camp David. | -
Last Friday: Trump demanded answers from the defense secretary on why he had apparently been misled about munitions shortages that threaten to limit military options in Iran. -
Hegseth defended himself: He blamed his deputy for the shortages and for not keeping Trump fully informed. The episode underscores Trump’s growing frustration over the war. | |  | Trump privately told donors he wants to see JD Vance win the 2028 presidential election. | | Advisers say the remark about the vice president doesn’t mean Trump has settled on a preferred candidate. (Emily Elconin/Bloomberg/Getty) | -
Last month: Trump said “we need to elect JD” during an Oval Office meeting. Publicly, Trump has encouraged a contest for his favor between Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. -
What else to know: Trump is filling ambassador posts with more donors and loyalists than any recent president, a Post analysis found. We illustrated the trend in these three charts.  | A Republican senator said he obtained a copy of Anthony Fauci’s phone. | -
How? Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) said he was given it by the Trump administration. The senator said it may answer questions Fauci declined to answer at a hearing last week. -
Fauci faces a contempt vote in Congress today: The retired government scientist may soon face criminal charges. We laid out a few theories about why Republicans are targeting him.  | A progressive Democrat won a crucial Senate primary in Michigan. | -
Who? Former health official Abdul El-Sayed, who campaigned on getting money out of politics. The upset win suggests the Democratic establishment is losing its grip on the party. -
Looking ahead to November: Democrats are favored to flip the House, but Republicans could still save their majority. We laid out the exact conditions the GOP requires here.  | A new video captured the sun’s surface in unprecedented detail. | | The images were captured in a resolution roughly equivalent to spotting a blueberry from 70 miles away. (National Science Foundation National Solar Observatory/AP) | -
What you’re looking at: The highest-resolution images of the surface of the sun ever captured. They show vortices of plasma that ebb and flow like bubbles in a pot of boiling water. -
Beyond being stunning to look at: The video could help scientists unravel a big mystery in the study of the sun — why its outer atmosphere is so much hotter than its visible surface.  | A top dermatologist shared what she eats each day for better skin. | -
What you eat affects how your skin looks: Some nutrients can reduce inflammation, protect against sun damage and potentially even help your skin appear more youthful. -
Meet Michelle Henry: She recommends a Mediterranean diet, featuring lots of fatty fish, brightly colored produce and olive oil. See what she eats in a typical day here.  | How quickly can you prove that you’re human? Try our quiz. | | Since they first appeared in the early 2000s, captchas have trapped internet users in a humans-vs.-machines arms race. (Tilde Oyster/The Post/reCAPTCHA) | -
Bots account for about 60% of web traffic: Visual puzzles called captchas aim to block them from websites. With the rise of AI, these puzzles have had to get more challenging. -
Are you a human? Try your hand at 25 years of captchas, and see if you can beat ChatGPT, in this frustrating but fun new quiz. (We are pleased to say that we are officially human.) | |
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