Friday's Headlines: Kerry: Americans among dead in Brussels attacks

Despite potent attacks abroad, ISIS is in retreat in Syria, Iraq; Trump's insult of Cruz's wife adds to GOP fears on women; Trump is not beating Clinton in the polls, no matter how many times he says it;   The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Kerry: Americans among dead in Brussels attacks Secretary of State John F. Kerry gave no further details about the identities or the number of the Americans who were killed. An unnamed senior U.S. official said earlier that two Americans were killed, according to a media report. By Griff Witte, Steven Mufson and Michael Birnbaum  •  Read more » Despite potent attacks abroad, ISIS is in retreat in Syria, Iraq The militants' leaders are dying in U.S. strikes at the rate of one every three days, and Syrian troops on Thursday entered Palmyra, the historic town snatched by the Islamic State nearly a year ago. By Liz Sly  •  Read more »   Trump's insult of Cruz's wife adds to GOP fears on women Donald Trump's incendiary remarks about rival Ted Cruz's wife are the latest flare-up and have Republican strategists worried that his unpopularity with women will doom their chances against Hillary Clinton, who would be the first female major-party presidential nominee. By Jose A. DelReal and Jenna Johnson  •  Read more »   Trump is not beating Clinton in the polls, no matter how many times he says it Polls serve as validation for Donald Trump's dominance, and so he talks about them as a slightly more subtle way of calling himself a winner. But he has beaten Hillary Clinton in one of 29 polls since voting began. By Philip Bump  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions   Obama's ideological holiday in Havana By Charles Krauthammer  •  Read more »   Donald Trump's shocking ignorance, laid bare By Eugene Robinson  •  Read more »   It's time to fix Europe — or lose it By David Ignatius  •  Read more »   The anti-Muslim rhetoric of Trump and Cruz only helps terrorists By Michael Gerson  •  Read more »   Millennials like socialism — until they get jobs By Emily Ekins  •  Read more »   Europe must remedy its serious security flaws By Editorial Board  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   Garry Shandling, who parodied TV's conventions in two hit comedy shows, dies at 66 The writer and comedian’s insecurities were on full view in "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and "The Larry Sanders Show." By Matt Schudel and Adam Bernstein  •  Read more » North Korea says it's holding another U.S. citizen with Virginia ties North Korea on Friday presented another American detainee, a man who identified himself as Kim Tong Chul before the media, nine days after it sentenced a University of Virginia student to 15 years in prison. By Hyung-Jin Kim | AP  •  Read more » Netflix admits it throttles video speeds for some customers The company said slowdowns for some cellular customers were designed to help them preserve their data plans. But it appears that even as the company asked regulators to ban throttling by carriers, it had no qualms about reserving that tactic for itself. By Brian Fung  •  Read more » FBI will try method it asked Apple to use to crack San Bernadino iPhone The bureau is testing an approach on other devices to try to catch any errors that might inadvertently erase the data that investigators are trying to recover. "Caution is the rule of the land," one official said. By Ellen Nakashima and Elizabeth Dwoskin  •  Read more » A tarnished Robert Griffin III joins the woebegone Browns. What could go wrong? One of the most polarizing players in professional sports has signed up with one of the most chaotic franchises in the NFL to play one of the most unstable positions, on any team, in any league. Godspeed, RGIII. By Dan Steinberg  •  Read more » Indiana bans abortion if the fetus has Down syndrome Gov. Mike Pence signed into law the bill that abortion-rights advocates — and even some female Republicans in the state House — had criticized as going too far. By Sandhya Somashekhar  •  Read more » U.S. charges Iran-linked hackers with targeting banks, N.Y. dam The indictment marks the first time the government is charging nation-state actors with disrupting or attempting to disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure or computer systems of key industries. By Ellen Nakashima and Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more »         Share Today's Headlines:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you are signed up for Headlines. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2016 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071