Saturday, March 24, 2018

Saturday's Headlines: Trump signs massive spending bill, but not before a little drama

 
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Today's Headlines
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
 
 
Trump signs massive spending bill, but not before a little drama
President Trump began the day tweeting he might veto the package but signed the bill in the afternoon, saying he was swayed by the gains for the military. The five hours of confusion highlighted his desire to continue to be seen as an outsider.
Analysis: Bad bill is Congress's fault, says the dealmaking swamp-drainer
Why does Trump keep passing the buck?
 
With a new law in place, all sides are claiming victory in the tipping wars
Advocates say the rider is a bipartisan rebuke to a Labor Department proposal that would have allowed employers to control tips.
 
Trump issues order supporting ban on many transgender troops, defers to Pentagon on new restrictions
The decision revokes a full ban that President Trump issued last summer but disqualifies U.S. troops who have had sex-reassignment surgery.
 
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New jeans, new schools, new worries: North Korean family settles into South Korea
A fisherman and his wife wanted a better education for their teenage son and young daughter, so they fled the country. Now, the father has learned to drive, the mother washes clothes in a washing machine, and the children use the Internet and play cellphone games. But the defectors were also discovering how expensive life in the South can be.
 
John Bolton, famously abrasive, is an experienced operator in the 'swamp'
Like President Trump, the newly named national security adviser has traded insults with North Korean leaders, earning the label the "envoy of evil" and "rude human scum" from Kim Jong Il. But with a decades-long career, Bolton differs with the president on the knowledge he brings to his job.
 
SPECIAL REPORT
187,000 students have been exposed to gun violence at school since Columbine. Many are never the same.
Although school gunfire remains extremely rare, it has spread fear across the country and led to lockdowns and active-shooter drills that have changed the way kids grow up. In a year-long analysis, The Post examines the widespread damage done by this uniquely American crisis.
 
Wonkblog: More than 26,000 children and teens have been killed in gun violence since 1999
Four charts show the staggering toll of childhood gun deaths.
 
Justice Department proposes banning bump stocks, branding them machine guns
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the effort on the eve of the March for Our Lives anti-gun-violence rally. The proposed rule is expected to encounter legal challenges.
 
The Fix: Here's what Congress just did on guns — and what it probably won't do anytime soon
A Republican-controlled Congress just passed two proposals that could limit people's gun use. Or that might not change a thing.
 
Perspective: The March for Our Lives will last a few hours. Its impact will last a generation.
It may take years for the full effect to be felt, but the march is part of a building movement.
 
The March for Our Lives is Saturday. Here's what you need to know.
As many as 500,000 people are expected for the event, presenting travel challenges for participants and residents.
 
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Opponents of gun reforms say nothing can be done. Science says they're wrong.
 
Andrew McCabe: Not in my worst nightmares did I dream my FBI career would end this way
 
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How Cambridge Analytica broke into the U.S. political market through Mercer-allied conservative groups
The now-embattled firm aggressively courted organizations on the right for work on the 2014 midterms with pitches about its "psychographic" profiling that relied in part on Facebook data.
 
 
How a Trump power play upended the $30 billion Gateway project
The president's intervention to seemingly derail the megaproject — a rail tunnel and bridge connecting New Jersey and Manhattan — was less about its merits and more about who was in control.
 
And then there were eight: Duke, Kansas, Texas Tech, Villanova fill remaining March Madness field
Follow all the live updates and analysis on the second night of the tournament's Sweet 16 play.
 
Scoop. Denial. Scoop confirmed. That's business as usual for reporters covering the Trump White House.
Recent weeks have seen public pushback from the president and his press secretary against stories that have turned out to be entirely true.
 
Iowa family of four found dead while on vacation in Mexico, police say
Police confirmed they had been found, with no signs of traumatic injury, in the condominium where they were staying in Tulum, a popular destination for those looking to explore Mayan ruins or snorkel in limestone sinkholes.
 
A Pennsylvania school district's plan to stop shooters: Arming students with a bucket of rocks
"Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone," the superintendent said. "If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance into any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full students armed with rocks."
 
     
 
 
 
 

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