Tuesday's Headlines: Trump removes Secret Service director in widening purge of DHS leaders
Grassley warns White House not to oust any more top immigration officials; Federal judge blocks administration plan forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings
Democracy Dies in Darkness
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
A day after Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, the president continued to dismantle the Department of Homeland Security with the removal of U.S. Secret Service Director Randolph D. "Tex" Alles.
By Nick Miroff, Toluse Olorunnipa, Josh Dawsey and Carol Leonnig · Read more
Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) is "very, very concerned" by reports that Lee Francis Cissna, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, could be the next to go.
Migrant Protection Protocols must cease by the end of the week, a judge in California ruled — a major blow to a program the U.S. government had hoped would curb an influx of families at the southern border.
Several agencies have also informed the National Security Council, which launched the Trump administration's initiative, that they do not anticipate taking part. Others said no one has contacted them about it.
By Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis and Missy Ryan · Read more
Just when U-Va. fans had grown accustomed to their team's NCAA tournament shortcomings, the Cavaliers turned their story into a redemption tale that even imagination doesn't have the capacity to eclipse.
The Cavaliers defeated the Red Raiders in overtime to complete their remarkable turnaround from a year ago, when they became the first men's team to lose to a No. 16 seed as a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.
Charlottesville, in many ways an idyllic college town, made headlines in 2017 when a white supremacists descended on the town to demonstrate, leading to violence and the death of a local counterprotester.
In the 1980s, Donald Trump envisioned a 150-story skyscraper on Manhattan's West Side. Jerrold Nadler, then a state assemblyman, fought it. Now, the congressman is leading an extensive investigation into Trump's presidency.
The online giant's mixed reputation in its home city offers a glimpse of what the Washington, D.C., region can expect when its new headquarters open there.
A blatant effort to squelch scrutiny, the proposal would establish a "Journalism Ethics Board" to create professional standards and would require reporters to surrender recordings and notes to an interviewee upon request.
The story of Gen. Casimir Pulaski, considered the "father of the American cavalry," is spotlighted on an episode of the Smithsonian Channel's "America's Hidden Stories."
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