| Turkish invasion of Syria stops fight against Islamic State; Ousted ambassador says Trump pushed State Dept. to remove her ; Trump says he doesn't know if Giuliani is still his attorney; As Warren paints herself as a scrappy fighter, critics see a lecturing elitist ; Abiy Ahmed's Nobel Prize is deserved, but he still has work to do in his country; The Trump campaign and Russia are on the same moral plane; Donald Trump, corrupted absolutely; U.S. foreign policy is for sale. Who else is buying?; It is wrong to conflate 'unfavorable news' and 'fake news'; Coming out used to be about yourself. Now it's about everyone else.; Trump critic Shepard Smith resigns from longtime post at Fox News; At least 1 dead as fast-moving wildfire burns homes, prompts mandatory evacuations in Los Angeles; Trump says he has partial trade deal with China, lifting hopes for better relations; Investment firm whose chairman made crude comments at summit loses $600 million in assets; A Latina writer spoke at a Ga. school about white privilege. Students burned her book in response.; Why a suburb's integrated schools are still leaving black students behind |
| |  |  | | The morning's most important stories, curated by Post editors. | | | | | | | |  | | | Kevin McAleenan was frustrated with President Trump's appointments to senior immigration roles. More hardline figures attacked him as insufficiently committed to Trump's immigration agenda, and critics of those policies argued he gave cover to harsh measures. | | By Josh Dawsey and Nick Miroff ● Read more » | | | A senior official with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said anti-ISIS operations have halted because U.S. troops need partners on the ground and the SDF is too busy facing Turkey. | | By Liz Sly and Missy Ryan ● Read more » | | | | | | Marie Yovanovitch told lawmakers that the State Department's No. 2 official informed her that, although she had done nothing wrong, the department had been under pressure to push her out since mid-2018. | | By John Hudson, Karoun Demirjian, Rachael Bade and Paul Sonne ● Read more » | | | But in a text message to a Post reporter shortly after President Trump made his comments, Rudolph W. Giuliani confirmed that he's still representing him. | | By John Wagner and Reis Thebault ● Read more » | | | The senator cracks a joke about opponents of same-sex marriage, winning cheers and laughter from liberals but warnings that she risks turning off a big part of the electorate. | | By Annie Linskey ● 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 and Sarah Ellison ● Read more » | | | The wind-driven blaze sweeping through Los Angeles County's San Fernando Valley continued to spread, destroying at least 25 homes and prompting evacuation orders for more than 100,000 people. | | By Noah Smith, Kim Bellware, Andrew Freedman and Hannah Knowles ● 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. | | By David Lynch ● Read more » | | | The state of Michigan has withdrawn its pension fund from Fisher Investments after the company's founder and chairman made sexually explicit comments in San Francisco this week. | | By Katie Mettler ● Read more » | | | After Jennine Capó Crucet's talk at Georgia Southern University, students torched her novel "Make Your Home Among Strangers." | | By Alex Horton ● Read more » | | | Laura Meckler goes back to her hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio, to try to understand why integration efforts in schools there are still not closing the achievement gap. And Steve Mufson reports on Jane Fonda's plan to protest inaction on climate change. | | Post Reports | Listen Now ● By The Washington Post ● Read more » | | | | | | | | | | |
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