Sunday's Headlines: After brutal three months, market volatility likely to continue in 2019

Lawyer: Investigators gathered evidence of undocumented immigrants who say they worked at Trump club; Whitaker's role in 2006 raid previewed stance at Justice Dept. ; Trump's focus...

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   After brutal three months, market volatility likely to continue in 2019 "We aren't in a good spot," one economist says, as uncertainty and drags on the economy threaten stocks. Analysts see a greater risk of downturns than at any point in recent years. By Heather Long and Thomas Heath  •  Read more » Lawyer: Investigators gathered evidence of undocumented immigrants who say they worked at Trump club The interest by the FBI and New Jersey officials indicates they may be launching a probe into the hiring practices at the president's club. By Emily Wax-Thibodeaux  •   Read more »   Whitaker's role in 2006 raid previewed stance at Justice Dept. Officials in Marshalltown, Iowa, said the arrests of undocumented immigrants did not make their community safer. By Michael Kranish  •   Read more »   Trump's focus on pleasing his base puts him on a risky path In the midst of a partial government shutdown, President Trump has rejected the advice of GOP pollsters and strategists to declare that he holds a winning hand, predicting in a series of tweets that even losing the clash over border-wall funding will lead him to reelection. By Robert Costa and Michael Scherer  •   Read more »   Trump cites deaths of two immigrant children in tweets arguing for wall The president sought to shift blame away from his administration over the government's care of the Guatemalan children. By David Nakamura and Robert Moore  •   Read more »   You thought 2016 and 2017 were bad? Dave Barry looks back at 2018. Don't get too excited about 2019. Our emotional state, going forward, should be hopelessness leavened with despair, as we can see when we look back at the grotesque boof-a-palooza that was 2018. By Column by Dave Barry | Illustrations by Ryan McAmis  •   Read more »   In Yemen, food is available, but priced out of reach for 20 million residents Economic measures, largely imposed by a Saudi-led military coalition backed by the United States, have helped produce what the United Nations considers the world's most severe humanitarian catastrophe. By Sudarsan Raghavan  •   Read more »   The U.S. put a Yemeni warlord on a terrorist list. One of Washington's closest allies is still arming him. Abu al-Abbas acknowledges backing from the United Arab Emirates, a partner of Saudi Arabia in the war in Yemen. That is at odds with U.S. counterterrorism goals in the country. By Sudarsan Raghavan  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Opinions   Trump's tweets on children dying in U.S. custody are a new low By Karen Tumulty  •   Read more »   Five myths about New Year's Eve By Linda McRobbie  •   Read more »   2019: The Year in Preview By Post Staff  •   Read more »   Suicide prediction technology is revolutionary. It badly needs oversight. By Mason Marks  •   Read more »   Troops coming home? That's more likely to mean a war is lost than won. By Elliot Ackerman  •   Read more »   18 good things that happened in 2018 By Editorial Board  •   Read more » ADVERTISEMENT More News   Alabama handles Oklahoma, will renew CFP rivalry with Clemson in final In a surprise to just about no one, Crimson Tide and Tigers will meet for the national championship Jan. 7. By Chuck Culpepper  •  Read more »     Suspect and 7 others arrested in fatal shooting of California police officer The arrest of 32-year-old Gustavo Perez Arriaga has sparked a renewed debate about illegal immigration and California's sanctuary state law. By Michael Brice-Saddler  •   Read more » Chinese court orders Canadian man retried, raising possibility of death sentence China and Canada have been feuding over the respective seizures of the other country's citizens By Gerry Shih  •   Read more »   Computer virus hits Tribune Publishing, Los Angeles Times A computer virus hit newspaper printing plants in Los Angeles and at Tribune Publishing newspapers across the country By Associated Press  •   Read more »     McConnell at center of shutdown impasse but uncharacteristically disengaged The sideline is an unusual place to find the Senate leader with Washington in the throes of a budget breakdown — one he may have difficulty resolving next week. By Erica Werner and David Weigel  •   Read more »   Letter suggesting furloughed workers do chores to cover rent was posted by accident, agency says The suggestion, which specified carpentry and painting, was included in a sample letter provided by the Office of Personnel Management to federal employees. By Michael Brice-Saddler  •   Read more »   Perspective Ordering a box of crickets online went about as well as you'd expect A shipment of 250 crickets seemed like a reasonable amount for a pet dragon lizard. But there was no immediate way to transfer the clearly active and ravenously hungry creatures from the box to a storage container. By Christopher Ingraham  •   Read more »   American health worker taken to Nebraska after possible exposure to Ebola The person who was treating patients in Congo was evacuated Saturday, officials said. The person has no symptoms and is not contagious, but will be monitored closely for up to two weeks, officials said. By Lena Sun  •   Read more » Retropod | Podcast The policeman who arrested a president After receiving complaints about carriages driving too fast, D.C. officer William H. West arrested a presidential speed demon. By Michael S. Rosenwald  •   Read more »   Travel Mexico City: Lower your expectations for Frida's house, and don't miss Trotsky's These two Mexico City homes offer insights into the lives of the artist and the Communist revolutionary, who were briefly lovers. By Maya Kroth  •   Read more »   Magazine What is it like to cast a ballot while facing death? One man's story. How cancer changed his political views — and influenced his vote. By Jennifer Miller  •   Read more »   Wellness Don't think of it as a New Year's resolution. Think of it as a new skill. There's a reason those ambitious vows so often fail. By Jae Berman  •   Read more »         Share Today's Headlines:    Twitter     Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. 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