Tuesday's Headlines: FBI chief confirms probe of possible coordination between Kremlin and Trump campaign

Trump is dealt his hardest truth: He was wrong; Trump's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Twitter day; House Republicans unveil health-care-bill changes to corral votes; Trump takes another shot at quarterback who wouldn't stand for national anthem; Gorsuch's first day of hearings features sharp-edged differences alongside a familiar confirmation script;   Democracy Dies in Darkness     The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories FBI chief confirms probe of possible coordination between Kremlin and Trump campaign James B. Comey acknowledged his agency's wide-ranging investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election during a hearing before lawmakers. But he refused to answer whether specific individuals close to the president had fallen under suspicion of criminal wrongdoing. The FBI does not typically disclose the existence of probes, but Comey said he was authorized by the Justice Department to do so in this case. By Ellen Nakashima, Karoun Demirjian and Devlin Barrett  •  Read more » Trump is dealt his hardest truth: He was wrong The FBI director's testimony on wiretapping and the Russia probe put the White House on the defensive, and threatens to damage the president's credibility not only with voters, but also with lawmakers of his own party. By Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker  •  Read more »   Fact Checker | Analysis Trump's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Twitter day The president's Twitter accounts were active during testimony on Trump-Russia ties. But the posts were misleading, inaccurate or simply false. By Glenn Kessler  •  Read more »   House Republicans unveil health-care-bill changes to corral votes Changes unveiled late Monday addressed numerous GOP concerns about the legislation, ranging from the flexibility it would give states to administer their Medicaid programs to the amount of aid it would offer older Americans to buy insurance. Backers also appeared to overcome a major obstacle after a key group of hard-line conservatives declined to take a formal position against the American Health Care Act. By Mike DeBonis  •  Read more »   Trump takes another shot at quarterback who wouldn't stand for national anthem During a rally in Kentucky, the president cited a report that NFL owners are avoiding Colin Kaepernick out of fear of drawing "a nasty tweet from Donald Trump." By Des Bieler  •  Read more »   Gorsuch's first day of hearings features sharp-edged differences alongside a familiar confirmation script Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch promised to remember the "modest station we judges are meant to occupy in a democracy" if he is elevated to the nation's highest court, as the hearings began amid Democratic doubts about his impartiality and whether he should be before them in the first place. By Robert Barnes, Ed O'Keefe and Sean Sullivan  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions   Republicans read Trump's cue cards on Russia and wiretapping By Dana Milbank  •  Read more »   Trump Madness: What’s the quintessential quote of the Trump administration? By Alexandra Petri  •  Read more »   The American presidency is shrinking before the world's eyes By Michael Gerson  •  Read more »   These ordinary Americans enrolled in Obamacare to protect their futures. Now what? By Catherine Rampell  •  Read more »   Bannon's origin story doesn't add up By Richard Cohen  •  Read more »   No, Republicans, the 'real story' is not the leaks By Editorial Board  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   Rex Tillerson will visit Russia but skip NATO meeting next month The announcement of the secretary of state's mid-April trip comes as the FBI and Congress are scrutinizing the Kremlin's alleged cyberattacks during the presidential campaign and its meetings with several Trump campaign officials. By Carol Morello  •  Read more » Trump aide Paul Manafort laundered payments from Ukraine party with Russia ties, according to new documents Manafort resigned as Trump's campaign manager in August after his name surfaced next to payments totaling $12.7 million in a registry of secret payments from the Party of Regions called the "black ledger." Manafort has denied receiving those payments. By Andrew Roth  •  Read more » Andrew Napolitano reportedly pulled from Fox News over debunked wiretapping claims His assertions that British intelligence officials spied on Trump at the request of then-president Barack Obama have been cited by President Trump and his press secretary Sean Spicer. The British as well as National Security Agency Director Michael S. Rogers have denounced the allegations as false. By Derek Hawkins  •  Read more » A cop fires. A teen dies. Yet six police body cameras somehow miss what happens. Controversy over a 2014 fatal shooting highlights the possibility that body cameras — used by nearly every major department in the nation — may be selectively edited to bolster police accounts of incidents without providing the transparency sought by reform advocates. By Craig Timberg  •  Read more » Martin McGuinness | 1950–2017 IRA revolutionary who fought British rule — then negotiated peace — dies at 66 McGuinness helped forge the Good Friday peace agreement and served for a decade as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, a position created as part of a power-sharing agreement between Catholic nationalists and Protestant loyalists. By Harrison Smith  •  Read more » U.S. said to ban carry-on electronic devices on flights arriving from certain countries beginning Tuesday The ban was made public in a tweet from Royal Jordanian Airlines that was later deleted. Two sources have confirmed the new restrictions on items including laptops, tablets and other portable electronic devices. By Lori Aratani  •  Read more » She thought she'd saved her daughter from MS-13 by smuggling her to the U.S. She was wrong. Maria Reyes sent for her daughter, Damaris, when she was 12 to protect her from gang violence in El Salvador. It found her in the Washington suburbs instead. By Michael E. Miller  •  Read more » Trump wants to defund PBS. 'Sesame Street' brutally parodied him for decades. There are only three known episodes in which "Donald Grump" or "Ronald Grump" appears, each time playing the villain in a moral allegory. By Avi Selk  •  Read more » Ivanka Trump moves into a West Wing office, acknowledging there's 'no modern precedent' for her role Ivanka Trump will not be on the government payroll or officially bound by its ethics rules, but she said in a statement to Politico that she will "voluntarily" follow those restrictions anyway. By Danielle Paquette  •  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. 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