Friday's Headlines: 84 DEAD AFTER TRUCK RAMS CROWD IN FRANCE

'The truck of death': Bodies, limbs and blood; Texas man and 11-year-old son among the dead ; A VP process spins out of control. Or did it?; Trump delays VP announcement; Pence emerges as probable choice; 10 things to know about Pence; He said it was consensual. She said she blacked out. U-Va. had to decide: Was it assault?;   The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories 84 DEAD AFTER TRUCK RAMS CROWD IN FRANCE The truck struck a crowd celebrating Bastille Day and the driver opened fire in the French Riviera city, killing at least 84 people and leaving 18 others critically injured before the driver was shot to death by police, French officials said. There was no immediate information on the driver's identity or motivation. French President François Hollande condemned the attack as terrorism and extended the country's state of emergency. By Michael Birnbaum, William Branigin and Sarah Kaplan  •  Read more » 'The truck of death': Bodies, limbs and blood A local reporter was leaving the celebration when he heard the crack of gunshots. A fraction of a second later, a huge white truck went roaring past. By Sarah Kaplan  •  Read more »   Texas man and 11-year-old son among the dead Sean Copeland, 51, and Brodie Copeland, 11, were celebrating a birthday with a European vacation, a relative said. By Mary Hui  •  Read more »   A VP process spins out of control. Or did it? Trump has been master of the media, but on Thursday things turned messy. And this time the candidate lost control of the story. Was this a process that revealed indecision on the part of a candidate who has tried to project decisiveness and strength? By Dan Balz  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Trump delays VP announcement; Pence emerges as probable choice Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump said he was scrapping his plans to announce a running mate because of the terrorist attack in southern France, following a day of strong signals that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence was the likely pick. By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker  •  Read more »   10 things to know about Pence Mike Pence was among the safer choices on Donald Trump's short list, in part because there were few options more different than Trump himself. By Amber Phillips  •  Read more »   He said it was consensual. She said she blacked out. U-Va. had to decide: Was it assault? They met at a raucous, drunken party and ended up in a bathroom together. The case, in many ways typical of those on U.S. campuses, tore through both their lives. By T. Rees Shapiro  •  Read more »   Opinions   Resisting the revisionists: Finally, a first step By Charles Krauthammer  •  Read more »   Why Justice Ginsburg's Trump Derangement Syndrome is a bad sign By Fred Hiatt  •  Read more »   Why Republicans' new anti-immigrant platform likely spells doom for them By Catherine Rampell  •  Read more »   Obama's Whac-A-Mole strategy By Fareed Zakaria  •  Read more »   Obama has helped us peer into the racial divide By Eugene Robinson  •  Read more »   You can't carry a tennis ball near the GOP convention. But you can bring a gun. By Editorial Board  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   Kerry arrives in Moscow with a proposal for Syria in hand Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to pitch a deal designed to "integrate" the two sides' air operations against terrorists while stopping attacks by Syrian and Russian aircraft against civilians and moderate rebels. By Carol Morello and Karen DeYoung  •  Read more » 'It's a really scary number': BP's bill for Gulf oil spill reaches $61.6 billion The energy giant's final estimate for the Gulf of Mexico spill exceeds the value of brand-name automakers and matches the market cap of the biggest U.S. utility. By Steven Mufson  •  Read more » The diversity of life across much of Earth plunges below 'safe' levels More than 10 percent of species abundance has been lost across the globe, according to an ambitious study described as the "most comprehensive quantification of global biodiversity change to date." By Chris Mooney  •  Read more » How Trump uses insults, threats and lawsuits to quiet critics The candidate relies on strict confidentiality agreements and other tactics that are unusual in politics. By Frances Stead Sellers  •  Read more » Paul Manafort: How Donald Trump beat back the 'Never Trump' movement Trump's campaign chairman says 'Never Trump' is nevermore. By Ed O'Keefe  •  Read more » Ginsburg has 'regret' for Trump remarks The Supreme Court justice said her disparagement of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee was "ill-advised." Those comments were criticized even by allies, who said the high court's members should not insert themselves into elections. By Robert Barnes  •  Read more » Goth at 40: The enduring appeal of bleakness and black lipstick Over the decades, the remarkably hardy subculture has established itself as the dark yin to our country's relentlessly optimistic yang. But the question of "what is goth?" has lately become fraught. Or maybe it always was. By Libby Copeland  •  Read more » Three monkeys dead after dogs leave them ‘basically chewed up’ at Baton Rouge Zoo "We suspect ... the monkeys tried to reach out and grab the dogs, and then got their arms caught by the dogs," a zoo official said. By Sarah Larimer  •  Read more » Bill Simmons accuses Stephen A. Smith, ‘multiple’ ESPN employees of being NFL stooges It had been quite some time since the HBO host took a shot at his former employer. By Matt Bonesteel  •  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