Wednesday's Headlines: Republicans join Obama in rebuking Trump

FBI investigating whether shooter's wife knew of attack; After dropping probes of 3 attackers, FBI faces skepticism ; 'The guilt of being alive is heavy'; The stories behind the lives lost in Orlando; Russian government hacks DNC, steals research on Trump;   The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Jim Cole / AP Republicans join Obama in rebuking Trump The remarkable bipartisan outcry over Donald Trump's comments on Muslims after the Orlando massacre set off a new wave of alarm within the GOP over whether the presumptive nominee's promised pivot to the general election would ever materialize. By Sean Sullivan and Mike DeBonis  •  Read more » FBI investigating whether shooter's wife knew of attack One official said the FBI has learned that Noor Z. Salman accompanied her husband to the club on at least one occasion to do "reconnaissance." By Adam Goldman, Mark Berman and Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more »   After dropping probes of 3 attackers, FBI faces skepticism As in the Orlando massacre, assailants at the Boston Marathon and at a Texas cartoon exhibition had crossed the bureau's radar well before carrying out their attacks. By Jerry Markon and Adam Goldman  •  Read more »   'The guilt of being alive is heavy' As the world mourns for the dead in Orlando, those who survived confront a deluge of emotions: the burden of guilt, new fears of being alone, and the knowledge that a safe haven had been destroyed. By Katie Zezima and Kevin Sullivan  •  Read more »   The stories behind the lives lost in Orlando Promising artists, a young couple in love, a devoted father of three: The 49 victims of the shooting shared much in common, but their lives were richly varied. By Washington Post staff  •  Read more »   Russian government hacks DNC, steals research on Trump The intruders so thoroughly compromised the Democratic National Committee's system that they were able to read all email and chat traffic, said DNC officials and security experts. The intrusion into the DNC was one of several targeting American political organizations. By Ellen Nakashima  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions   Rep. Jim Himes: Why I walked out of the House's moment of silence for Orlando By Jim Himes  •  Read more »   The right response to Donald Trump? A media blackout. By Dana Milbank  •  Read more »   Trump demonizes the media, again By Kathleen Parker  •  Read more »   Can Venezuela be helped off the ledge? By David Ignatius  •  Read more »   Donald Trump’s new favorite slogan was invented for Nazi sympathizers By Eric Rauchway  •  Read more »   Orlando reveals holes in the security net By Editorial Board  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   Alligator drags 2-year-old boy into lagoon at Disney resort in Orlando The parents watched the alligator grab the boy, and the father rushed into the water to try and save him at the Grand Floridian Resort and Spa located just south of the Magic Kingdom theme park. By Katie Mettler  •  Read more » Judge in Stanford sexual assault case is blocked from new case A district attorney exerted a rarely used authority to prevent Judge Aaron Persky, who is at the center of a recall campaign, from handling a different sexual assault case. By Susan Svrluga  •  Read more » The cat-and-mouse game between China's censors and Internet activists A small group of developers work undercover to circumvent the Great Firewall. For now, they're getting away with it. By Simon Denyer  •  Read more » Kansas education board votes to ignore Obama's transgender decree It's unclear whether federal funding will be at risk after the unanimous vote to rebuff the president's directive that public schools must let transgender students use the bathroom that reflects their gender identity. By Melissa Hellmann | AP  •  Read more » Does it matter that Donald Trump has banned The Post? Not in the way you'd think. Does Trump believe in the well-established role of the press in American democracy? It certainly doesn't look that way. By Margaret Sullivan  •  Read more » Clinton, Sanders talk after the former wins D.C. primary Both campaigns characterized the meeting as "positive," even though the senator earlier withheld his endorsement. By John Wagner, David Weigel and Abby Phillip  •  Read more » Deposition of specialist in Clinton email case will be videotaped, sealed Bryan Pagliano's attorneys argued against a video recording, saying his statements were at risk of being manipulated into "sound bites" for political attacks. By Spencer S. Hsu and Ann E. Marimow  •  Read more » 'Until the very end': D.C. conquers the last primary in the land Like some persistent vestigial organ, the District of Columbia needed to assign its Democratic delegates before the first phase of electoral chaos could officially come to an end. In Precinct 58, poll workers made sure the appendix of democracy soldiered on. By Monica Hesse  •  Read more » Boeing nears landmark deal to sell airliners to Iran The agreement, ​made possible by​ the easing of economic sanctions in October, would be the biggest sale of U.S. goods to Iran since the 1970s. 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