Saturday's Headlines: 12 killed in shooting at Virginia Beach office complex

Trump defies close advisers in deciding to threaten Mexico with disruptive tariffs; U.S., Mexico plan summit on trade dispute

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12 killed in shooting at Virginia Beach office complex As the workday ended, police said, the municipal employee "fired indiscriminately" with a .45 caliber semiautomatic handgun. By Jim Morrison, Peter Hermann and Justin Jouvenal · Read more Trump defies close advisers in deciding to threaten Mexico with disruptive tariffs An inside account of how the president pressed ahead with his plan, despite multiple warnings. By Seung Min Kim, Josh Dawsey and Damian Paletta · Read more   U.S., Mexico plan summit on trade dispute The foreign minister said he would meet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo next week to discuss the president's plan to use import penalties to pressure Mexico to stop migrants from crossing the border. By Damian Paletta, Taylor Telford and Mary Beth Sheridan · Read more   Tariffs are hitting dollar store shoppers For more than 30 years, Dollar Tree has made a singular promise to its customers: "Everything's $1." Not anymore. By Abha Bhattarai · Read more   DHS to deploy to Guatemala-Mexico border Dozens of Department of Homeland Security agents and investigators will work with Guatemalan police and migration authorities to target smugglers, aiming to limit the number of migrants at the U.S. border. By Nick Miroff and Kevin Sieff · Read more   Justice Department is preparing antitrust investigation of Google The move marks a new chapter in the tech giant's war with regulators around the world who contend the company is too large and threatens rivals and consumers. By Tony Romm · Read more     ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions A lot has changed since the 1994 crime bill. But not Trump's racism. By Colbert King · Read more New documents on the census confirm: Trump's raison d'etre is white power By Dana Milbank · Read more My trip to Mount Everest almost killed me. I still want to go back. By Svati Kirsten Narula · Read more Britain is in crisis. So why is President Trump coming to visit? By Anne Applebaum · Read more 'Bible literacy' in public schools violates separation of church and state By Editorial Board · Read more William Barr: Death is inevitable, legacies are meaningless By Alexandra Petri · Read more   ADVERTISEMENT   More News Despite court order, prosecutors don't release transcripts of Flynn, Russian ambassador The Justice Department also declined to give an unredacted version of parts of the Mueller report related to Michael Flynn. By Carol Leonnig and Rosalind Helderman · Read more   Campaign 2020 Marianne Williamson draws crowds and sells millions of books. Can she make a mark on the 2020 field? The self-help guru aims to prove that the country needs a spiritual awakening led by someone who knows how to heal emotional hurt. But even some of her friends appear wary. By Holly Bailey · Read more   Iranians are more worried about a battered economy than a war with U.S. Iranians have been growing increasingly anxious amid threats of military action by the Trump administration but say that, regardless of whether there is an armed conflict, they are already struggling with daily life in a war economy. By Tamer El-Ghobashy · Read more   Italy disrupts Bannon's plan for right-wing academy in monastery Former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon intends to train nationalists and right-wing culture warriors at the site outside Rome. But the Italian government now says it will revoke the rights to the property. By Chico Harlan · Read more   A boy, a chicken sandwich and a federal case over dinner at Colonial Williamsburg After a child with a gluten allergy was told he could not bring his own gluten-free sandwich into a restaurant, judges ruled in his favor, citing disability protections. By Ann Marimow · Read more   Why Hollywood isn't actually in a rush to leave Georgia Hollywood studios may not be leaving Georgia anytime soon, despite their criticism of a restrictive antiabortion bill. By Steven Zeitchik · Read more   Post Reports | Listen Now The Great Forgetting: How China erased the Tiananmen Square massacre Abby Hauslohner reports that Border Patrol often holds unaccompanied minors for far longer than is legal. How the government erased the Tiananmen Square massacre from memory in China. And book critic Ron Charles on breaking the rules of summer reading. By The Washington Post · Read more

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