Monday's Headlines: Cambridge Analytica sent foreigners to advise U.S. campaigns, former workers say

Trump's legal team in disarray as new lawyer will no longer join in representing him in Russia probe; Trump wants to oust Shulkin as VA secretary, confidant says; Why Republicans...

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Cambridge Analytica sent foreigners to advise U.S. campaigns, former workers say The 2014 effort to provide campaign strategy and messaging advice to Republican candidates came as executives were cautioned by an attorney to abide by U.S. laws limiting foreign involvement in elections. Whistleblower Christopher Wylie said the "dirty little secret was that there was no one American involved in it, that it was a de facto foreign agent, working on an American election." By Craig Timberg and Tom Hamburger  •  Read more » Trump's legal team in disarray as new lawyer will no longer join in representing him in Russia probe As lawyer Joseph diGenova bows out, President Trump is left without a traditional criminal defense attorney as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's team appears to be entering a critical phase in its investigation. By Josh Dawsey, Carol D. Leonnig and Rosalind S. Helderman  •   Read more »   Trump wants to oust Shulkin as VA secretary, confidant says Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is "likely to depart the Cabinet very soon," said Christopher Ruddy, the chief executive of Newsmax and a friend of the president. Trump also said he wants to keep his chief of staff, John F. Kelly, and his housing secretary, Ben Carson. By John Wagner and Josh Dawsey  •   Read more »   Why Republicans who pushed for tight budgets are now bragging about their investments in education The backlash that boiled over into a teacher walkout in West Virginia is playing out in several states, as teachers and the public demand more money after years of fiscal austerity and a Republican focus on tax cuts. By Michael Scherer  •   Read more »   Stormy Daniels says threats kept her quiet about alleged Trump affair until now "A guy walked up on me and said to me, 'Leave Trump alone. Forget the story,' " the adult film actress said in a much-anticipated "60 Minutes" interview. Daniels said she believed she was doing the right thing when she accepted $130,000 from a company linked to Trump attorney Michael Cohen to stay quiet. By Emma Brown and Frances Stead Sellers  •   Read more »   The Fix: Five takeaways from Stormy Daniels's '60 Minutes' interview The porn star who claims to have had an affair with President Trump continues to play coy about evidence. By Callum Borchers  •   Read more »   Perspective: 'Turn around, drop 'em' was memorable, but the Stormy Daniels story is really about intimidation Her "60 Minutes" interview provided salacious quotes but they weren't the most important part. By Margaret Sullivan  •   Read more »   Brazil deployed troops to fight urban crime. Human rights groups were outraged. Residents were overjoyed. "They want to check my ID? Fine!" one resident said. The response illustrates a national reality: Brazilians want security — and are backing heavy-handed tactics to get it. But there are indications that the military deployments may not be working. By Anthony Faiola and Marina Lopes  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Opinions   The march of the hope-mongers By E.J. Dionne Jr.  •   Read more »   The Fed just sent Congress a message By Editorial Board  •   Read more »   The U.S. is finally confronting China's economic aggression By Josh Rogin  •   Read more »   This is a story about American democracy working By Fred Hiatt  •   Read more »   The real cyberthreat By Robert J. Samuelson  •   Read more »   The most radical part of the Stormy Daniels interview By Alyssa Rosenberg  •   Read more » ADVERTISEMENT More News   BREAKING NEWS Deadly fire in Russian shopping mall kills 64, many of them children It took hundreds of firefighters 19 hours to extinguish the blaze at a crowded mall Sunday in the Siberian city of Kemerovo. Many victims were trapped in movie theaters on the fourth floor where the fire may have started. Rescuers are still searching for almost 60 missing people — most of them children. By Matthew Bodner  •  Read more »     A fake photo of Emma González went viral on the far right, where Parkland teens are villains The reaction to the March for Our Lives is exposing the starkly different ways the nation sees the Parkland students. By Alex Horton  •   Read more »   Rebel group in Yemen launches ballistic missile attack on Saudi Arabia, killing one Saudi Arabia claimed it had intercepted seven missiles, including three targeting Riyadh, the capital. The multipronged attack represented a sharp escalation of the Houthi campaign. By Kareem Fahim  •   Read more »   Fact Checker | Analysis President Trump's claim that China caused 60,000 U.S. factories to close Trump says the United States has lost 6 million manufacturing jobs because of China. Economists say he's onto something but shoots wide of the mark. By Salvador Rizzo  •   Read more »   Today's WorldView | Analysis The return of John Bolton paves the way for more war Bolton's appointment as national security adviser shows how President Trump cares little for the lessons of the Iraq war. By Ishaan Tharoor  •   Read more »   Kansas beats Duke and its Elite Eight demons with an overtime classic The top-seeded Jayhawks defeated No. 2 seed Duke, 85-81, to join Villanova, Michigan and Loyola Chicago in the national semifinals Saturday in San Antonio. By Chuck Culpepper, Cindy Boren and Des Bieler  •   Read more »   Villanova ousts Texas Tech, reaches second Final Four in three years Villanova set an NCAA record for wins in a four-year period with a defense-first performance that might not have been possible two months ago. By Roman Stubbs and Cindy Boren  •   Read more »   Duke's Grayson Allen gave his haters one last chance to hate The senior guard missed most of his shots, including one that would have given his Blue Devils a berth in the Final Four, allowing his many detractors to revel in a final round of schadenfreude. By Des Bieler  •   Read more »   Supreme Court rule: (Other) justices shouldn't conduct independent research After Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she looked at the website of a party in a pregnancy clinic case, Justice Anthony Kennedy took exception. The Internet was later filled with remembrances of other justices — including Kennedy — doing research similar to Sotomayor's. By Robert Barnes  •   Read more »   Facing an unfriendly new map, Pennsylvania GOP congressman will retire Rep. Ryan Costello's 6th District changed from one that had narrowly backed Democrat Hillary Clinton for president into one that had given her a 10-point margin of victory over Donald Trump. 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