| Trump misleads and exaggerates to make his case against impeachment; Trump announces partial trade deal with China, lifting hopes that tensions could ease; Shepard Smith resigns from Fox News; Shaker Heights has been a model for racial integration. Yet an achievement gap persists.; Trump administration threatens sanctions against Turkey if incursion into Syria destabilizes region; At least 1 dead as fast-moving wildfire burns homes, prompts mandatory evacuations in Los Angeles; U.S. to send an additional 1,800 troops to Saudi Arabia to boost defenses against Iran; Some patients with vaping-related lung injuries are being hospitalized a second time; How China called foul on American businesses |
| |  |  | | The day's most important stories, curated by Post editors. | | | | | | | |  | | | Marie Yovanovitch told lawmakers that the State Department's No. 2 official informed her that, although she had done nothing wrong, President Trump had lost confidence in her and that the department had been under significant pressure to remove her since mid-2018, according to a copy of her prepared remarks obtained by The Washington Post. | | By John Hudson, Karoun Demirjian and Paul Sonne ● Read more » | | | President Trump's propensity to misconstrue and obfuscate is escalating as he confronts the threat of becoming just the third president in U.S. history to be impeached. | | By Seung Min Kim ● Read more » | | | President Trump announced the progress during an Oval Office meeting with China's vice premier, Liu He. Trade tensions between two of the world's largest economies have escalated since last year, weighing on global growth. | | By David Lynch and Rachel Siegel ● Read more » | | | Smith, one of Fox News' leading anchors and a frequent critic of President Trump, said the decision to leave was his own, but gave no further reason for doing so. He announced his resignation on the air on his Friday program, which Fox said would be his last. | | By Paul Farhi ● Read more » | | | | | | A yawning achievement gap has led the school district in this Ohio community to grapple with hard questions of implicit bias, family responsibility and the wisdom of tracking students by ability level. | | By Laura Meckler ● Read more » | | | The decision to authorize potential new sanctions came as U.S. officials stepped up criticism of Turkey's military operation against U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish fighters. | | By Karen DeYoung ● Read more » | | | Dry, windy weather contributing to the fire's spread may be worsening, officials said. | | By Kim Bellware, Alex Horton and Andrew Freedman ● Read more » | | | | | | The deployments come as the Pentagon wrestles with how to deter Iran while simultaneously pivoting itself for greater competition with China across the globe. | | By Dan Lamothe ● Read more » | | | The relapses are a disturbing new development in the ongoing national outbreak that has spread to every state except Alaska. | | By Lena Sun ● Read more » | | | | | | Jeanne Whalen examines how Western businesses are bowing to political pressure from China. Samantha Schmidt on how a vulnerable community of transgender sex workers takes care of its own. And Luisa Beck unpacks the implications of a shooting in Germany. | | Post Reports | Listen Now ● By The Washington Post ● Read more » | | | | | | | | | | |
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