Tuesday's Headlines: Federal appeals court sets hearing on travel ban

Trump appears to want to pin possible terrorist attacks on the judiciary, media; Melania Trump missed out on 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to make millions, lawsuit says; Trump tried and failed to build a wall at his Irish golf course. He hasn't forgotten.; America's past has become a weapon for Trump's fans and critics;   The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Federal appeals court sets hearing on travel ban Today's hearing comes as lawyers for the Justice Department urged judges to restore President Trump's immigration order, calling it a "lawful" exercise of his authority and asserting that a U.S. District judge's decision to temporarily stop it was "vastly overbroad." Tech companies, law professors and former high-ranking national security officials joined a mushrooming legal campaign to keep the ban suspended. By Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more » Trump appears to want to pin possible terrorist attacks on the judiciary, media The president's blame-game — including accusing the media of failing to cover some attacks — is in keeping with how he ran his campaign, looking for scapegoats at nearly every turn. The move is not without risk. By Philip Rucker  •  Read more »   Melania Trump missed out on 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to make millions, lawsuit says The libel suit says an article falsely alleging the first lady once worked for an escort service hurt her chance to establish business relationships during the years in which she would be "one of the most photographed women in the world." By Tom Hamburger  •  Read more »   Trump tried and failed to build a wall at his Irish golf course. He hasn't forgotten. The dispute over the proposed two-mile barrier at Trump International Golf Links colored the president's opinion of the European Union, whose regulations he blamed for the setback. "I found it to be a very unpleasant experience," he told interviewers last month. "A very bad experience," he emphasized weeks later. By Griff Witte  •  Read more »   America's past has become a weapon for Trump's fans and critics From Andrew Jackson to import taxes to Japanese internment camps, U.S. history is suddenly inescapable as people increasingly share stories about key moments and figures to support or oppose the new president. By Michael S. Rosenwald  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions   The grizzly truth: Trump's competence problems are bigger than DeVos By Dana Milbank  •  Read more »   The 'best fortnight in a decade' for conservatives? Uh-oh. By Michael Gerson  •  Read more »   Is President Trump's executive order constitutional? By David B. Rivkin Jr., Karen Tumlin and James Downie  •  Read more »   Uncertainty is sweeping the globe. That's very bad for business. By Catherine Rampell  •  Read more »   Trump is a boy's idea of a man By Richard Cohen  •  Read more »   Refugees are part of America's fabric and its promise By Editorial Board  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   A young boy, a devastating brain tumor and parents who 'will do anything' In seeking treatments, 8-year-old Elijah Simpson-Sundell's Rockville, Md., family has discovered a small community of families grappling with the same unimaginable scenario — a child with a rare, universally fatal condition. By Laurie McGinley  •  Read more » Virtually all Senate Democrats poised to vote against remaining Cabinet picks Near-unanimous opposition to a first-term president's Cabinet picks is rare and hasn't happened in recent history. By Ed O'Keefe  •  Read more » California, Trump are going to war with each other Donald Trump threatens California's funding; California threatens to pack up and go. Neither is likely to happen. But it's interesting that a president's relationship with the Golden State could be rockier than his relationship with Russia. By Philip Bump  •  Read more » Rights group says Syria has secretly executed thousands of political prisoners Many of those executed at Sednaya prison between 2011-2015 were ordinary people who joined in the peaceful protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an Amnesty International report said. They were given cursory trials lasting just minutes, and then were hanged. By Liz Sly  •  Read more » How a U.S. team uses Facebook and guerrilla marketing to peel off potential ISIS recruits A tiny agency seeks to chip away at the militant groups' online appeal, using Facebook profile data to find young Muslims who show an interest in jihadist causes. Then they bombard them with anti-terrorism messages that show up whenever the youths go online. By Joby Warrick  •  Read more » The new gold rush: Loggers see money growing on millions of dead trees Workers are coming from across the country to cut California's drought-stricken forests, offering a silver lining to what has been an ecological tragedy. By Darryl Fears  •  Read more » Some smart TVs were apparently spying on their owners Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle a case after accusations that it secretly collected and sold data about its customers' locations, demographics and viewing habits from 11 million televisions. By Hayley Tsukayama  •  Read more »         Share Today's Headlines:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you are 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. 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