Evening Edition: Tumult in Trump's national security transition

John McCain: A Trump administration thaw with Russia is 'unacceptable'; Defiant LAPD chief says department won't aid Trump's deportation efforts; Ben Carson is unlikely to serve in Trump's Cabinet; Trump narrows candidates to lead Treasury, Commerce; Why I voted for Donald Trump; President Obama warns against 'a crude sort of nationalism' taking root in U.S.; Obama in a state of denial as Democrats work through the stages of grief; W.Va. officials under fire after comments about Michelle Obama; Trump companies begin to seek to profit off election; The ethics rules that apply — and don’t apply — to Trump’s children; 'I thought, this is it': One man's escape from an Islamic State mass execution; Video shows how ISIS has turned car bombs into its version of airstrikes; Drug combo reversed plaque buildup in heart patients’ arteries; Bribery charges against Russian minister hint at power struggle within Putin's circle; Group of U-Va. students, faculty 'deeply offended' by Thomas Jefferson being quoted at school he founded; Should dogs be guinea pigs in government research? A bipartisan group says no.;   The day's most important stories   Tumult in Trump’s national security transition It was not immediately clear why national security adviser to Trump's transition team Mike Rogers resigned. Eliot Cohen, a former State and Defense department official in Republican administrations, urged career officials not to serve in a Trump administration and tweeted: "They're angry, arrogant, screaming 'you LOST!'… Will be ugly." By Jerry Markon, Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller  •  Read more » John McCain: A Trump administration thaw with Russia is 'unacceptable' "The price of another 'reset' would be complicity in Putin and Assad's butchery of the Syrian people," said the GOP senator, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. By Karen DeYoung  •  Read more »   Defiant LAPD chief says department won't aid Trump's deportation efforts "If the federal government takes a more aggressive role on deportation, then they'll have to do that on their own," Charlie Beck said. By Peter Holley  •  Read more »   Ben Carson is unlikely to serve in Trump's Cabinet "The way I'm leaning is to work from the outside and not from the inside," Carson said in an interview. By Robert Costa  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Trump narrows candidates to lead Treasury, Commerce Wall Street veterans Steven Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross are likely picks. By Ylan Q. Mui  •  Read more »   Why I voted for Donald Trump Last week, The Post invited readers to share why they voted for the president-elect. Here are some of the 1,200 responses we received. Read more »   President Obama warns against 'a crude sort of nationalism' taking root in U.S. Speaking in Athens, the president refrained from criticizing Donald Trump directly but made it clear that he sees a dark side to the kind of populist movements Trump's campaign embodied. By Juliet Eilperin and Greg Jaffe  •  Read more »   Obama in a state of denial as Democrats work through the stages of grief President Obama has deluded himself with the misguided hope that President-elect Donald Trump will not even try to follow through on many of his biggest campaign promises. By James Hohmann  •  Read more »   W.Va. officials under fire after comments about Michelle Obama "It will be so refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady back in the White House," wrote the director of a government-funded nonprofit. By Lindsey Bever  •  Read more »   Trump companies begin to seek to profit off election One Trump company is already seeking to use presidential prominence to boost private fortunes. By Drew Harwell  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   The ethics rules that apply — and don’t apply — to Trump’s children There's nothing to stop Trump from giving his children roles in the transition. The administration is a different story. By Elise Viebeck and Lisa Rein  •  Read more »   'I thought, this is it': One man's escape from an Islamic State mass execution He was among 90 former Iraqi police and army officers told by militants that they were being taken to see their families. Instead, they were slated for execution. By Loveday Morris  •  Read more »   Video shows how ISIS has turned car bombs into its version of airstrikes The group's use of carbombs — to spearhead offensives, harass advancing troops and cover retreats — has become a key tactic to counter the Iraqi military's push into Mosul. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff  •  Read more »   Drug combo reversed plaque buildup in heart patients’ arteries The results of one of the first significant trials of new cholesterol-busting PCSK9 inhibitors provided evidence to back some of the promise that has surrounded the drugs. By Ariana Eunjung Cha  •  Read more »   Bribery charges against Russian minister hint at power struggle within Putin's circle Critics say the arrest of the economy minister was an "act of intimidation." By David Filipov  •  Read more »   Group of U-Va. students, faculty 'deeply offended' by Thomas Jefferson being quoted at school he founded More than 400 students and faculty members complained in an open letter after the university president quoted him in an email. By Travis M. Andrews  •  Read more »   Should dogs be guinea pigs in government research? A bipartisan group says no. More than 1,100 dogs were used in government laboratories in 2015, according to a new report. 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