Monday's Headlines: Trump’s go-it-alone approach on trade and immigration poses economic risks
House Republicans criticize Rep. Tlaib over remarks on Holocaust, Israel; Sweden reopens rape case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wants extradition
Democracy Dies in Darkness
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
In an unbound phase made possible by the acquiescence of many Republicans, the president has taken risky moves to pull free from Congress, seeking to cast himself as a defiant chief executive willing to act alone, no matter the global repercussions.
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Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said it gave her a "calming feeling" to think of how her Palestinian ancestors suffered to create a safe haven for Jewish people. But Republicans called her remarks anti-Semitic.
Assange is also fighting a legal battle against extradition to the United States, where he is wanted for his part in the release of a trove of classified military and diplomatic cables.
Archbishop Charles Scicluna has become the Vatican's emergency investigator — a priest-and-lawyer-turned-sex-crimes-specialist who is dispatched to scandal zones.
As Apollo 11's 50th anniversary nears, NASA — having waited for the right scientists, with the right technologies, at the right time — decided to release three new samples for scientific analysis.
As this year's Virginia elections could help set the stage for 2020, Republicans steer clear of attacks that could energize the supporters of Roem, the nation's first openly transgender state lawmaker, who has raised nearly three times the average for freshman Democrats in the Virginia House.
The 2020 presidential hopeful veered off course when he compared regulatory oversight of guns and toy guns, spinning a nuanced point into misleading rhetoric in interviews and tweets.
Democrats in the state are eager to prove they can win again, but they're hurtling toward a May 21 gubernatorial primary with three very different theories of recovery.
The episode started with (most of) us rooting for Daenerys to capture King's Landing, and it somehow ended with us feeling sympathy for Cersei and seeing Daenerys do things that not even Cersei would have dreamed of.
Leonard's last-second, series-clinching jumper lifted the Toronto Raptors past the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 7 and into the Eastern Conference finals.
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