Wednesday's Headlines: Draft IRS memo says Congress should get tax returns unless privilege is invoked
Trump officials present their case of an imminent threat by Iran, leaving lawmakers divided; Trump administration considers banning another major Chinese firm
Democracy Dies in Darkness
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
The confidential memo, written last fall by an Internal Revenue Service attorney, contradicts the Trump administration's justification for denying the president's tax returns to lawmakers.
Some Democrats accused the administration of being eager to attack at the slightest provocation. Republicans said the information pointed to "new," "credible" and "consistent" threats.
By Karoun Demirjian, Shane Harris and Karen DeYoung · Read more
The administration is preparing to blacklist Hikvision, the world's largest maker of video surveillance technology, according to a person familiar with the debate.
The loss of empire and the looming Brexit be damned, nobody does puttering in the backyard quite like Britain, still the globe's greatest gardening nation.
The hiring of Ken Cuccinelli II appears to fulfill the president's desire to have a forceful personality and a loyalist at the highest levels of the Department of Homeland Security.
Gregory, 71, was loudly cheered by eight cardinals, 50 bishops and hundreds of Catholic faithful as he walked the aisles of the grand Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
By Julie Zauzmer and Michelle Boorstein · Read more
The U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary was grilled during a three-hour hearing before the House Financial Services Committee and appeared not to know what the term stood for.
Demonstrators rioted in the capital and burned vehicles to protest President Joko Widodo's victory, despite widespread consensus that the election was largely well run.
By Stanley Widianto and Shibani Mahtani · Read more
Months after West Point cadet Peter Zhu died from injuries in a skiing accident, a judge has ruled that his parents may use his frozen sperm to create a child.
O'Rourke, the former Texas congressman, dropped from third to eighth. Happily for him, though, de Blasio has a lower net approval than President Trump.
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