Wednesday's Headlines: Trump, White House attack new book from Bob Woodward

Woodward's book reveals a 'nervous breakdown' of Trump's presidency; Southern Republican senators reject Trump's criticism of Sessions; A Supreme scrum: It's slam-bam in first...

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Trump, White House attack new book from Bob Woodward Despite rumors for weeks that Woodward's latest project would likely prove disastrous for President Trump and his team, the White House found itself ill-prepared and scrambling to obtain a copy of "Fear" as scenes from the book first emerged. It eventually mounted a forceful defense.  By Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey  •  Read more » Woodward's book reveals a 'nervous breakdown' of Trump's presidency Aides routinely stole documents off President Trump's desk. Military leaders ignored his orders. And the backstabbing went both ways. Bob Woodward's forthcoming book paints a harrowing portrait of the Trump presidency, based on in-depth interviews with administration officials and other principals. By Philip Rucker and Robert Costa  •   Read more »   Southern Republican senators reject Trump's criticism of Sessions The senators rallied behind Jeff Sessions after Bob Woodward's new book recounted how President Trump called his attorney general a "dumb Southerner." By Gabriel Pogrund  •   Read more »   A Supreme scrum: It's slam-bam in first round of Kavanaugh hearings The first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on President Trump's nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court featured name-calling, protesters escorted out of the room by the Capitol Police and a world-class display of bickering across party lines. By Marc Fisher  •   Read more »   After high court nominee is heckled, Trump suggests protesting should be illegal "I think it's embarrassing for the country to allow protesters," the president said in an interview with the Daily Caller following demonstrations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. By Felicia Sonmez  •   Read more »   The story behind the withheld documents of the Kavanaugh hearing Democrats seized on the decision by the White House and Republicans to withhold hundreds of thousands of documents about Brett M. Kavanaugh's record as a way to protest his nomination to the Supreme Court. By Michael Kranish  •   Read more »   Partisan fury bursts into the open as Senate committee meets Supreme Court nominee The opening session made clear that the public fight over the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court will be intense. By Robert Barnes, Seung Min Kim, Ann Marimow and John Wagner  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Opinions   Protecting democracy is an arms race. Here's how Facebook can help. By Mark Zuckerberg  •   Read more »   Never have we seen such a spectacle By Dana Milbank  •   Read more »   Trump's contempt for justice discloses his @real character By David Von Drehle  •   Read more »   Trump's tweets criticizing Jeff Sessions mark a grotesque new low By Editorial  •   Read more »   McCain's death didn't teach Republicans anything. The Kavanaugh hearing proves it. By Ruth Marcus  •   Read more »   Why the New Yorker's concerns about normalizing Steve Bannon miss the point By Megan McArdle  •   Read more » ADVERTISEMENT More News   Campaign 2018 In Mass. primary, another Democratic House veteran falls to insurgent challenger from left The liberal insurgency inside the Democratic Party claimed another victory as Boston city councilor Ayanna Pressley defeated 10-term Rep. Michael E. Capuano, who has been one of the House's most reliable left-wing votes, with a message of generational change. By David Weigel  •  Read more »     Tropical Storm Gordon makes landfall at Alabama-Mississippi border; 1 killed in Florida The storm made landfall with sustained winds of 70 mph, just below hurricane-force. One person has died, according to the National Weather Service, when a tree fell on a trailer near Pensacola. By Jason Samenow  •   Read more »   The education of Betsy DeVos: Why her school choice agenda has not advanced The education secretary emerged badly damaged from a brutal confirmation process, with few people — even in her own party — interested in taking up her pet cause. By Laura Meckler  •   Read more »   Top executives at Facebook, Twitter are about to face grilling from Congress over Russia, censorship Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey are expected to try to assuage lawmakers who seem increasingly eager to subject them to intense public scrutiny. By Tony Romm  •   Read more »   Mueller tells Trump's legal team that he will accept written answers on questions of any Russia coordination The special counsel did not rule out interviewing the president as part of his wide-ranging inquiry. His Friday letter indicated that he may revisit his long-running request to pose questions to President Trump directly about Russia's activities. By Carol Leonnig  •   Read more »   Fact Checker | Analysis Does the U.S. lead the world in mass shootings? A widely cited study has come under fire from a gun-rights researcher. And the numbers do change depending on what you count as a mass shooting. By Glenn Kessler  •   Read more »   Pope Francis hosted embattled Cardinal Donald Wuerl in Rome, told him: Talk with your priests Under scrutiny for his handling of clerical sex abuse, the archbishop of Washington traveled to Rome last week to meet with the pope. He also gathered his priests Monday night for a conversation about the scandals. 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