Tuesday's Headlines: With new West Wing cast, Trump calls the shots and aides follow
Rep. Thomas Garrett (R-Va.) announces he is an alcoholic and will not seek reelection; Europe is rejecting thousands of Afghan asylum seekers a year. But what awaits them back...
Democracy Dies in Darkness
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
Largely gone are the warring factions that dominated life at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in the first year of President Trump's term, replaced by solo players — many with personal connections to the president and their own miniature fiefdoms — laboring to do their jobs and survive.
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A member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, he said that he is struggling with alcoholism and will devote time to focusing on recovery and his family. He becomes the 48th Republican expected to leave the House.
During three decades of war and upheaval that ended with the fall of Taliban rule in 2001, millions of Afghans were accepted — if not always eagerly welcomed — by other countries. Hundreds of thousands reached the West and built new lives. But Western Europe has recently tightened borders, and now the migrants face deportation back to a nation little prepared to receive them.
When a woman was trapped by rising flood water in her pet store in Ellicott City, Md., one man volunteered to help. As parked cars were dislodged and buildings were swamped amid the relentless downpour, Eddison "Eddie" Hermond ran to help her and was swept away. "He's an absolute hero for what he did," the woman said.
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The action was riveting but unfortunate for the Capitals as they kept pace with the speedy Golden Knights until they couldn't, playing a game that wasn't to Washington's tight-checking identity. The high-scoring match-up yielded plenty of fodder for complaints about the officiating.
By Isabelle Khurshudyan, Roman Stubbs, Jesse Dougherty, Scott Allen, Neil Greenberg and Dan Steinberg • Read more »
Kim Yong Chol, who has been at the forefront of North Korea's diplomatic outreach, was seen at Beijing's airport. He would be the most senior North Korean to visit the United States in 18 years.
The Republican Senate candidate, one of the president's most vocal congressional surrogates, shares his hard-line views on immigration and often adopts a similarly pugilistic tone, calling herself "politically incorrect and proud of it." If elected, the longtime House member would be the first female senator from her state.
Model Karen McDougal and J.J. Rendón spoke for hours over two days in his Miami penthouse in May 2016, talking through whether she should sell her account of a decade-old relationship with the newly minted Republican presidential nominee.
The Rockets went cold from deep, missing 27 straight three-pointers during one stretch in which they went from up 13 in the middle of the second quarter to down 10 midway through the fourth.
Italy's president blocked the parties' choice for finance minister — citing his long-held opposition to the euro — but that may stoke an even greater anti-establishment backlash.
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