Evening Edition: Trump on DNC hacks: ‘I think it was Russia’

Trump outlines plan to shift assets, give up management of his company; Fact-checking 15 fishy claims from Trump; How BuzzFeed crossed the line in publishing salacious 'dossier' on Trump; Donald Trump's news conference, annotated; Secretary of state nominee calls findings of Russian interference 'troubling'; Trump taps physician David Shulkin for Veterans Affairs secretary; Sen. Booker: Jeff Sessions won't seek justice for all as attorney general; This is a super-cool story about science and a really cold thing; Palestinians: Pray that Trump won't move U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem; Six Volkswagen executives indicted in emissions-cheating scandal; Trump on drug prices: Pharma companies are ‘getting away with murder’; Summer league aims to offer football prospects a paid alternative to college; Google's parent bails on a big project; Victims' families offer forgiveness to S.C. mass shooter Dylann Roof; A woman claims she was denied an abortion in jail. Now she's suing for $1.5 million.;   The day's most important stories   Trump on DNC hacks: 'I think it was Russia' At a much-anticipated news conference, the president-elect acknowledged for the first time that he believes Russian operatives hacked the Democratic Party during the election, but he continued to dispute intelligence reports that Moscow acted to help him win. By David Nakamura and Abby Phillip  •  Read more » Trump outlines plan to shift assets, give up management of his company The move, along with a pledge from a Trump lawyer that the company will make "no new foreign deals whatsoever" during his presidency, is intended to help the president-elect move closer to resolving potential conflicts of interest. By Drew Harwell  •  Read more »   Fact-checking 15 fishy claims from Trump We put together a guide to Donald Trump's notable and often debunked claims he made at his news conference. By Glenn Kessler  •  Read more »   Margaret Sullivan | Media Columnist How BuzzFeed crossed the line in publishing salacious 'dossier' on Trump Once BuzzFeed published, of course, the dam burst. Slate followed, publishing the documents itself, and anyone in the world had access with a few keystrokes. By Margaret Sullivan  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Donald Trump's news conference, annotated Here's what the president-elect said in his first news conference since July — and here's what it meant. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   Secretary of state nominee calls findings of Russian interference 'troubling' Under combative questioning from Sen. Marco Rubio, Rex Tillerson did not dispute the overall finding of Russian meddling — the extent and intent of which Trump has openly questioned. By Ed O'Keefe and Anne Gearan  •  Read more »   Trump taps physician David Shulkin for Veterans Affairs secretary The decision ends a protracted search for a leader of the second-largest federal agency and makes Shulkin, who is currently the VA under secretary, the first non-veteran to head the agency. By Lisa Rein  •  Read more »   Sen. Booker: Jeff Sessions won't seek justice for all as attorney general The N.J. Democrat testified that the attorney general nominee's lengthy record in Congress exposed views that are inconsistent with the venerated job he is now seeking. By Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more »   This is a super-cool story about science and a really cold thing Researchers said they've found a way to make stuff colder than previously thought possible, opening the door to a better understanding of one of the most mysterious branches of physics. By Sarah Kaplan  •  Read more »   Palestinians: Pray that Trump won't move U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem Palestinian leaders are pleading with President-elect Donald Trump not to follow through on his pledge to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv. They have asked mosques worldwide to offer prayers against the move. By William Booth and Carol Morello  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Six Volkswagen executives indicted in emissions-cheating scandal The executives were charged for their roles in a nearly 10-year conspiracy that enabled the company's cars to cheat U.S. emissions standards, investigators said Wednesday. By Steven Overly  •  Read more »   Trump on drug prices: Pharma companies are ‘getting away with murder’ At his first news conference as president-elect, Donald Trump said that he would change the way the country bids on drugs to bring spending and prices down. By Carolyn Y. Johnson  •  Read more »   Summer league aims to offer football prospects a paid alternative to college With experienced NFL figures such as Mike Shanahan involved, Pacific Pro Football will feature players less than four years removed from high school graduation to give them a professional outlet to prepare for the NFL.  By Rick Maese  •  Read more »   Google's parent bails on a big project Alphabet disbanded the team that was developing drone-based Internet service. Instead, a separate project using balloons offers "a much more promising way to connect rural and remote parts of the world," the company said. By Brian Fung  •  Read more »   Victims' families offer forgiveness to S.C. mass shooter Dylann Roof Roof hoped his actions at a Charleston church would spur a race war, but at Wednesday's sentencing hearing, his victims' relatives shared a message: he failed. By Dustin Waters  •  Read more »   A woman claims she was denied an abortion in jail. Now she's suing for $1.5 million. Kei'choura Cathey found out she was pregnant about two weeks after her arrest in Tennessee. But by the time she was released on bond, she was more than halfway into her pregnancy, a federal complaint said. Abortions past the second trimester are illegal. By Kristine Guerra  •  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