| Airstrike on top Iranian commander sharply divides Congress; What Iran's 'severe revenge' means for the U.S.; Who was Qasem Soleimani, Iran's powerful military leader?; United Methodist Church is expected to split over gay marriage, fracturing the nation's third-largest denomination; White House quietly threatened to veto spending bill over a plan to let lawmakers hire 'dreamers'; One store, 16 surveillance cameras and two murders in seven months; Schumer says Senate is no closer to setting rules for trial; Democrat-led states ask Supreme Court to quickly review Affordable Care Act's legality; Ghosn walked out of his home alone, security camera footage shows; FBI raids home, office of lobbyist who claimed ties to Trump |
| | | |  |  | | The day's most important stories, curated by Post editors. | | | | | | | |  | | | The Pentagon said that it will deploy 3,500 additional troops to the Middle East after Iran vowed to exact "severe revenge" on the United States over an airstrike that killed Qasem Soleimani, one of the country's top military figures. | | LIVE UPDATES ● By Louisa Loveluck and Adam Taylor ● Read more » | | | | | Republicans called President Trump's move a decisive blow against a war criminal, while Democrats expressed concern that the escalation of tensions with Iran is a dangerous step toward war. | | By Colby Itkowitz and Hannah Knowles ● Read more » | | | | | Missy Ryan examines the fallout of a U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. Plus, Sebastian Smee describes the stunning photo that changed how we see our planet. | | Post Reports | Listen Now ● By The Washington Post ● Read more » | | | | | The 62-year-old ultimately bore responsibility for Iran's clandestine operations overseas. | | By Adam Taylor ● Read more » | | | | | Leaders of the church announced they had agreed to spin off a "traditionalist Methodist" denomination, which would continue to oppose same-sex marriage and to refuse ordination to LGBT clergy. The remaining portion of the United Methodist Church would permit same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy for the first time in its history. | | By Julie Zauzmer ● Read more » | | | | | The provision in Congress's legislation would have applied to immigrants who had received temporary work permits under the Obama-era DACA program that the Trump administration is trying to end. Democratic lawmakers agreed to scrap the language in final talks ahead of a Dec. 20 government shutdown deadline. | | By Erica Werner ● Read more » | | | | | Semere Abraha had seen fights, thefts and drug dealing outside his store in struggling Southeast Washington. After witnessing two teens gunned down outside the Holiday Market, the man who fled political repression in East Africa has learned what people in the nation's capital are capable of doing to one another. "Here," he says, "life is cheap." | | By Story by Peter Jamison | Photos by Jahi Chikwendiu ● Read more » | | | | | | | | Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said his chamber would continue with "ordinary business" while it waits for the House to deliver articles of impeachment. | | IMPEACHMENT | LIVE UPDATES ● By John Wagner and Michael Brice-Saddler ● Read more » | | | | | The request comes two weeks after a federal appeals court struck down part of the law and sent back to a lower court the question of whether the rest of the sprawling statute can stand without it. | | By Amy Goldstein and Robert Barnes ● Read more » | | | | | The video is one more piece of the puzzle as authorities try to figure out how the former Nissan executive jumped $14 million bail and fled the country to evade charges of financial misconduct. | | By Simon Denyer and Akiko Kashiwagi ● Read more » | | | | | Michael Esposito's business has boomed in the Trump era, but President Trump, White House officials and senior Republicans have said he greatly exaggerated his claims of access to the president and his inner circle. | | By Devlin Barrett, Jonathan O'Connell and Beth Reinhard ● Read more » | | | | | | | | | |
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