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Comey memos showed Trump wanted a faster response to Putin call; 'A factory of bad ideas': How Scott Pruitt undermined his mission at EPA

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Democratic Party sues Russia, Trump campaign and WikiLeaks over 2016 election The multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee alleges a far-reaching conspiracy to disrupt the presidential campaign and tilt the election to Donald Trump. By Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman and Ellen Nakashima  •  Read more » Comey memos showed Trump wanted a faster response to Putin call President Trump became irate at his then-national security adviser Michael Flynn, when he learned that Flynn had failed to tell him about a congratulatory phone call from Russian President Vladi­mir Putin after Trump's inauguration. The president's ire was compounded when Flynn scheduled a return call to the Russian leader six days later, according to a newly released memo written by then-FBI Director James B. Comey. By Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima and Devlin Barrett  •  Read more »   'A factory of bad ideas': How Scott Pruitt undermined his mission at EPA As he fights to hang onto his job, the administrator faces a profusion of investigations into allegations of excessive spending and unethical conduct. By Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis and Josh Dawsey  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT The Yellowstone supervolcano is a disaster waiting to happen Yellowstone National Park sits squarely over a giant, active volcano that's 44 miles across. It wasn't until the 1980s that scientists grasped that it is fully alive and threatens to erupt thousands of times more violently than the blast that blew apart Mount St. Helens in 1980. Geologists now have new insight into the volcano's restless magma chambers. By Joel Achenbach  •  Read more »   Outlook | Perspective Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes. An investigative journalist describes a 1984 conversation in which Donald Trump — posing as a Trump Organization official named John Barron — claimed that he owned most of his father's real estate empire. By Jonathan Greenberg  •  Read more »   The Fix: The Forbes 400 and how Trump's shameless self-promotion helped make him president Trump built the image of success personified, which he later parlayed into a winning campaign to "Make America Great Again." By Callum Borchers  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT A train from New York with the stink of sewage befouled a small Alabama town — until the town fought back For two months, this two-square-mile coal town found itself mired in other people's problems, the unwilling custodian of a train filled with 10 million pounds of treated human waste. By Erin Shaw Street  •  Read more »   Nasal spray of party drug shows promise as fast-acting antidepressant, researchers say But a rare editorial signed by the majority of the board of the American Journal of Psychiatry that appeared in the same issue as the study expressed deep concerns about the danger of a drug with a history of abuse. By Amy Ellis Nutt  •  Read more »   Interactive Tracking gun violence at schools in the nearly two decades since Columbine The federal government does not track school shootings, so The Post spent the past year compiling a database from news articles, law enforcement reports and calls to schools and police departments. By John Woodrow Cox, Steven Rich, Allyson Chiu, John Muyskens and Monica Ulmanu  •  Read more »   Civil rights prosecutors again recommend charges in death of Eric Garner in NYC The case will now be considered by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein and then by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. By Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more »   Avicii dead at 28: Swedish DJ became an EDM star with hits 'Levels' and 'Wake Me Up' The DJ and producer, born Tim Bergling, was found dead in Oman. He was one of the decade's first breakout performers in the electronic dance music genre as it surged into the mainstream. No cause of death was given. By Sonia Rao  •  Read more »   'The kids, they love Madeleine Albright': How a veteran diplomat got turned into a girl-power icon The former secretary of state draws young fans who know more about her TV cameos than her foreign policy. By Jessica Contrera  •  Read more »

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