Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Evening Edition: FBI once planned to pay former British spy who authored Trump dossier

Trump prepares to address a divided audience: The Republican Congress; Fight over debt ceiling could accelerate Trump's budget clash with GOP; Trump's tough talk on leaks is one thing. His actions tell another tale.; Trump-branded hotel grand opening shunned by Vancouver officials; @PKCapitol: An unlikely ally for Trump: Liberal actress Jennifer Garner; Analysis: The real story in this photo is not about Kellyanne Conway; Betsy DeVos called historically black colleges 'pioneers' of 'school choice.' It didn't go over well.; FBI investigating shooting of two Indian men in Kansas as a hate crime; Colorectal cancer rates rising sharply among young and middle-aged adults; It's not just you: A whole slew of websites are suddenly down or working slowly; Israeli government watchdog slams Netanyahu, army over 'failures' in 2014 Gaza war; With aging jets and a shortage of pilots, the Air Force weighs buying throwback 'light-attack' planes; Stock plunges, owner of Kay and Jared jewelry chains responds after Post report; Once Time's 'Person of the Year,' an Ebola fighter dies in childbirth due to the stigma of the virus;
 
Evening Edition
The day's most important stories
 
 
FBI once planned to pay former British spy who authored Trump dossier
The agreement to pay Christopher Steele, who compiled a controversial dossier on behalf of Trump's political opponents, ultimately fell apart but shows that U.S. investigators considered him to be credible on the president's alleged Russia ties. Trump has derided the dossier as "fake news."
Trump prepares to address a divided audience: The Republican Congress
GOP lawmakers have differing ideas on health care, tax reform and federal spending, and they are looking for marching orders.
 
Fight over debt ceiling could accelerate Trump's budget clash with GOP
Denisha Merriweather's attendance offers a clue about how President Trump might fulfill his promise to spend $20 billion on expanding vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public schools.
 
Perspective
Trump's tough talk on leaks is one thing. His actions tell another tale.
The president and his aides despise and condemn anonymous leaks to reporters. Except, of course, when they are the ones doing the leaking.
 
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Trump-branded hotel grand opening shunned by Vancouver officials
Multiple protests are planned for the lavish grand opening of the new Trump International Hotel and Tower in this Canadian city, reflecting the tensions surrounding the unavoidable connection between the Trump presidency and the family's global real estate and branding empire.
 
@PKCapitol: An unlikely ally for Trump: Liberal actress Jennifer Garner
The West Virginia native, unlike others in Hollywood, is willing to help the president make good on his promise to aid rural America.
 
Analysis: The real story in this photo is not about Kellyanne Conway
In a tee-ball public relations moment, the Trump team struck out.
 
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Betsy DeVos called historically black colleges 'pioneers' of 'school choice.' It didn't go over well.
Sean Spicer said questioning the raid did a disservice to the Navy SEAL who died. Then the SEAL's father questioned it.
 
FBI investigating shooting of two Indian men in Kansas as a hate crime
The suspected gunman apparently thought the two men he shot were Iranian. One man who was killed and one who was injured were actually Indian nationals who received master's degrees in the United States.
 
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Colorectal cancer rates rising sharply among young and middle-aged adults
The rising rates of the disease raise questions about whether screening should routinely start earlier than age 50.
 
It's not just you: A whole slew of websites are suddenly down or working slowly
Amazon Web Services, the platform that many websites rely on to keep their pages humming, is suffering an outage in one of its regional data centers.
 
Israeli government watchdog slams Netanyahu, army over 'failures' in 2014 Gaza war
The report said a lack of intelligence and strategy resulted in failure to neutralize the threat of Hamas tunnels.
 
With aging jets and a shortage of pilots, the Air Force weighs buying throwback 'light-attack' planes
Vietnam War-era propeller planes already have carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State.
 
Stock plunges, owner of Kay and Jared jewelry chains responds after Post report
Signet Jewelers, which also owns Jared the Galleria of Jewelry, said the complaints involve "a very small number of individuals." About 250 former employees made sworn statements about harassment as part of a class-action lawsuit alleging pay discrimination that covers 69,000 women.
 
Once Time's 'Person of the Year,' an Ebola fighter dies in childbirth due to the stigma of the virus
Liberian nurse Salome Karwah survived Ebola and became a hero. But no one at the hospital would touch her when she lapsed into convulsions after she delivered a healthy boy by Caesarean section.
 
 
     
 
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