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18 million would lose insurance with repeal of Obamacare, study says; For the director of the CIA, Trump has finally gone too far; Donald Trump waits in his tower — accessible yet isolated; Betsy DeVos will face Senate committee, though her ethics review is not yet complete; Hill Republicans move full speed ahead with push to slash Obama-era rules; Nigerian military 'mistake' kills at least 50 in attack on safe-haven camp; Interior secretary nominee says overhaul of national parks should be part of Trump infrastructure plan; 'We have to end it': Trump takes over the Islamic State fight, vowing to finish it; Britain's prime minister calls for a clean break from the E.U.; Hair stylist to Marla Maples: No free services in exchange for Inauguration Day 'exposure'; Underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane ends after nearly three years with few answers ; Supreme Court case asks whether government officials can be sued over unconstitutional treatment; A movie about three black female mathematicians is beating Affleck and Scorsese at the box office; A ‘militant archaeologist’ is famous for finding a lost city. Some say he just stole the credit.;   The day's most important stories   BREAKING NEWS Obama to release Chelsea Manning in WikiLeaks case The Army private who had been sentenced to 35 years in prison for disclosing secret diplomatic and military documents to WikiLeaks will be set free in May. Obama also pardoned Ret. Marine General James E. Cartwright for lying to the FBI in a probe of a leak of classified information about a covert U.S.-Israeli cyberattack on Iran's nuclear program By Ellen Nakashima and Sari Horwitz  •  Read more » 18 million would lose insurance with repeal of Obamacare, study says If Republicans repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act without a replacement, millions of people would lose their health insurance in the first year, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The study was based on a 2015 plan that GOP leaders expect to use as a model for current repeal efforts. By Kelsey Snell  •  Read more »   For the director of the CIA, Trump has finally gone too far CIA Director John O. Brennan said he found Donald Trump's comments invoking Nazi Germany while talking about the intelligence community to be "very repugnant." By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   Donald Trump waits in his tower — accessible yet isolated The president-elect is a man isolated, increasingly closed off from the voters who lifted him to his seemingly improbable victory. He favors his own people and his own places, creating the veneer of accessibility — his tweets reach millions and he still answers his cellphone — while placing himself in almost entirely habitual settings. By Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Betsy DeVos will face Senate committee, though her ethics review is not yet complete DeVos, whose confirmation hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, faces an unusual degree of pushback. By Emma Brown, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Ed O'Keefe  •  Read more »   Hill Republicans move full speed ahead with push to slash Obama-era rules Congress is poised to undo key environmental and labor rules soon after Trump's inauguration. By Mike DeBonis  •  Read more »   Nigerian military 'mistake' kills at least 50 in attack on safe-haven camp The bombardment happened during an operation to target Boko Haram militants in the area. It remains unclear how the military could have mistaken a camp of displaced people for a terrorist enclave. By Kevin Sieff  •  Read more »   Interior secretary nominee says overhaul of national parks should be part of Trump infrastructure plan Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke's comments are some of the first by a Trump nominee on infrastructure spending, a topic that congressional Republicans have been eyeing warily amid concerns about the cost and scope of Trump's ambitions. By Ed O'Keefe and Darryl Fears  •  Read more »   'We have to end it': Trump takes over the Islamic State fight, vowing to finish it The president-elect may find that efforts to accelerate Obama's war come with drawbacks. By Missy Ryan  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Britain's prime minister calls for a clean break from the E.U. Her remarks pointed to Britain jettisoning the single market — which guarantees the flow of goods, services and people across national boundaries — and the customs union, which dictates the terms of trade between Europe and the outside world. By Griff Witte  •  Read more »   Inauguration 2017 Hair stylist to Marla Maples: No free services in exchange for Inauguration Day 'exposure' Freelance stylist Tricia Kelly said she was contacted by a longtime client with ties to the Trumps about a job coiffing Marla Maples and daughter Tiffany Trump for the big event. By Emily Heil  •  Read more »   Underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane ends after nearly three years with few answers The jet carrying 239 people had vanished from civilian radar in the early hours of March 8, 2014, without even so much as a distress call from its pilots. By Simon Denyer  •  Read more »   Supreme Court case asks whether government officials can be sued over unconstitutional treatment Six plaintiffs seek permission to sue former attorney general John Ashcroft and others over the way they were treated when they were swept up in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. By Abigail Hauslohner and Ann E. Marimow  •  Read more »   A movie about three black female mathematicians is beating Affleck and Scorsese at the box office "Hidden Figures," set during the space race, dominated the box office for the second weekend in a row, proving that movies about black women are not inherent commercial risks, its stars said. By Elahe Izadi  •  Read more »   A ‘militant archaeologist’ is famous for finding a lost city. Some say he just stole the credit. A toll booth worker spent everything he had to buy a field, convinced it hid the ruins of a mysterious Welsh settlement. By Avi Selk  •  Read more »           Share Evening Edition:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you 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. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071