Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Wednesday's Headlines: Ryan losing grip on House GOP conference as midterms approach

 
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Today's Headlines
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
 
 
Ryan losing grip on House GOP conference as midterms approach
Some are agitating for new Republican leadership, but there is no clear alternative to Speaker Paul D. Ryan.
Prominent Southern Baptist leader is ousted after remarks about abused women
Paige Patterson was removed from his job as president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary amid a massive backlash from women upset over comments he made in the past that are being newly perceived as sexist and demeaning.
 
Philip Roth | 1933–2018
Acclaimed writer seen as 'the voice of his generation' dies at 85
Books such as "Portnoy's Complaint" and "Goodbye, Columbus" established him as a premier chronicler of sex, desire and Jewish angst. He won the Pulitzer Prize for "American Pastoral."
 
Fresh faces beat out political pedigree in Democratic primaries across the South
The results from primaries in four states marked an ongoing embrace by Democratic voters of non-politicians, women, veterans and nonwhite candidates to lead the party's effort to take back control of the House and governors' mansions this fall.
 
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House conservatives demand an investigation — of Hillary Clinton
 
Democrats' complaints about CHIP funding are hypocrisy in its purest form
 
Where are all the babies?
 
So much depends on Robert Mueller
 
Naval Academy grads will respect the president's office but not necessarily the man
 
A citizen was shot by Park Police officers. The authorities won't say why.
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Fresh from Hurricane Harvey's flooding, Houston starts to build anew — in the flood plain
The city is building again, gingerly, as it balances anxiety over a need for housing with fears of the freewheeling construction that doomed so many houses to flooding.
 
 
Congress passes rollback of banking rules put in place after financial crisis
The measure, now near certain to become law, does not repeal the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, but it does represent the most significant scaling back of the rules to date.
 
Six black girls were brutally murdered in the early '70s. Why was this case never solved?
The Freeway Phantom, believed to be the first serial killer in Washington, terrorized the capital city and was never caught. The crimes long ago faded into history, but not everyone has forgotten.
 
The Fix | Analysis
A big shoe drops in the Mueller probe, as the Taxi King flips
A former business partner of Trump attorney Michael Cohen appears to have gotten a very sweet deal from prosecutors. That should frighten Cohen and President Trump.
 
FBI repeatedly overstated encryption threat figures to Congress, public
The bureau has said for months that last year investigators were locked out of nearly 7,800 cellphones connected to crimes when the correct number was much smaller, probably between 1,000 and 2,000, The Washington Post has learned.
 
A 30-year-old demanded six months' notice for eviction from his parents' house. A judge called that 'outrageous.'
The man argued that — as a family member — he was entitled to the grace period. The judge praised his legal research, and then he ordered that he be evicted anyway.
 
Here's why there are so many coyotes and why they're spreading so fast
Coyotes were a purely North American animal that lived in the West. Now they're everywhere, largely because state-sponsored hunting obliterated wolves and mountain lions.
 
     
 
 
 
 

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