Sunday's Headlines: Cabinet members keep scrambling to clean up after Trump speaks

After Perez wins race to lead Democratic National Committee, other candidates call for unity; Trump won't attend the White House correspondents' dinner; After Trump's immigration order, anxiety grows in Florida's farm fields;   The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Cabinet members keep scrambling to clean up after Trump speaks President Trump's secretaries have found themselves softening, explaining and sometimes outright contradicting him. It adds to the sense of chaos and turmoil emanating from the White House, sending agency heads scrambling to interpret their boss's exact positions and leaving other nations confused as to who, exactly, speaks on behalf of the administration. By Ashley Parker  •  Read more » After Perez wins race to lead Democratic National Committee, other candidates call for unity Former labor secretary Tom Perez narrowly defeated Rep. Keith Ellison — who had been the choice of the party's liberal wing — to become the first Latino chairman of the DNC. After the vote, Ellison said, "We don't have the luxury to walk out of this room divided." By David Weigel  •  Read more »   Trump won't attend the White House correspondents' dinner He announced his decision on Twitter Saturday, amid his now-semi-regular tweets attacking the media as "fake news" and calls for news outlets to skip the event. By Amy B Wang and Cleve R. Wootson Jr.  •  Read more »   After Trump's immigration order, anxiety grows in Florida's farm fields A newfound fear of the future has already cast a pall over the tomato farms and strawberry fields in the largely undocumented migrant communities east of Tampa, where children have stopped playing in parks, businesses have grown quieter, and most everyone is looking for a lawyer. By Robert Samuels  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions   President Trump wants to put on a show. Governing matters less. By Marc Fisher  •  Read more »   ‘America first’ shouldn’t mean cutting foreign aid By Michael Gerson and Raj Shah  •  Read more »   H.R. McMaster is hailed as the hero of Iraq’s Tal Afar. Here’s what that operation looked like. By Jon Finer  •  Read more »   My 7-year-old daughter Henry is transgender. She’d change Trump’s mind. By Jen Aulwes  •  Read more »   Reading James Baldwin on a segregated Southern construction site By Walter Dellinger  •  Read more »   Where did Steve Bannon get his worldview? From my book. By Neil Howe  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   'Flexibility is overrated': Tightness can help runners, some coaches say For years, runners have believed they can improve by using yoga to lengthen their muscles and become more flexible. It turns out, though, that the opposite may be true: Experts now say bending like Gumby may cause problems. By Amanda Loudin  •  Read more » Robust grass-roots movement supplies key component in fight to save Obamacare The new mobilization represents a stark reversal of the recent political dynamics around health care. By Mike DeBonis and David Weigel  •  Read more » Top Republican calls for special prosecutor to probe Russian meddling in election Speaking on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," Rep. Darrell Issa, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, became one of the few GOP lawmakers to publicly call for an independent investigation into Russia's activities. By Amy B Wang  •  Read more » A ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse occurs Sunday morning — here’s how to watch The moon will cover most of the sun, and the effect will be a "ring of fire." By Blaine Friedlander  •  Read more » Twitter users who curse at politicians might find themselves in a timeout Twitter quietly introduced a new, temporary, punishment for people who tweet potentially abusive things. By Abby Ohlheiser  •  Read more » New Orleans police: Driver in crash that hurt 28 seemed 'highly intoxicated' A man accused of driving a truck into a crowd at the Krewe of Endymion parade in the Mid-City neighborhood is being investigated for DWI, according to police. "He was just kind of out of it," one witness said. By The Associated Press  •  Read more » At 80, America's most famous composer remains a maverick Few people know Philip Glass's work better than conductor Dennis Russell Davies, who has premiered many Glass symphonies. "There's a lot of people that think they don't like that," Davies said, "without knowing what 'that' is." By Anne Midgette  •  Read more » Botched Zika testing at D.C. public health lab was a failure of 'basic arithmetic' The lab was understaffed and several senior scientists had resigned before the debacle involving a watered-down solution used for tests. By Aaron C. Davis  •  Read more » Academy Awards 2017 Bradford Young, Oscar firsts and why inclusive film crews matter "Below the line" jobs such as editing and production mostly go to white males. By Ann Hornaday  •  Read more » Cars An extraordinarily ordinary Mazda6 The Mazda6 Grand Touring Sedan is safe, comfortable, attractive and enjoyable for a family on a budget. By Warren Brown  •  Read more » Magazine What is a 'semester school'? A semester-long residential school uses the city as its classroom — for a price. By Shannon Ruochong Sun  •  Read more » Sietsema Stellar wings and every fish in the sea The Tavern at Ivy City Smokehouse, owned by wholesaler ProFish does right by seafood — and more. By Tom Sietsema  •  Read more » News quiz: Mysteries and discoveries This week's 10 questions head into space but come back to Earth. The faster you correctly answer, the more points you can score. 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