U.S.-Russia ties sink to new lows as Tillerson takes tough stance against Assad; Susan Rice's 4-Pinocchio claim about Obama, Syria and chemical weapons ; Post reporter David Fahrenthold wins Pulitzer Prize for stories about Trump's charitable giving; Teacher killed, two students injured in San Bernardino elementary school shooting, police say; Gorsuch takes oath to become the newest justice of the Supreme Court; What does a rookie Supreme Court justice do? Kagan tells Gorsuch it starts in the kitchen.; Sessions orders Justice Dept. to end forensic science commission, suspend review policy; Passenger dragged off United plane after refusing to give up his seat on overbooked flight; Fox News parent company investigates sexual harassment claims against Bill O'Reilly; She wanted to criticize Black Lives Matter in a college speech. A protest shut her down.; Salt from icy roads is contaminating North America’s lakes; Far-right leader says France 'not responsible' for deporting Jews during Holocaust; Trump finds his niche: Fixing problems that no longer exist; | | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | The day's most important stories | | | | | Wells Fargo orders former executives to return $75 million after sales probe | A six-month investigation revealed that the former CEO and the former leader of the retail bank operation knew that employees created millions of sham accounts more than a decade before the bank was fined $185 million by regulators last year. The decision was one of the most aggressive uses of a compensation clawback by Wells Fargo in its more than 100-year history. | By Renae Merle • Read more » | U.S.-Russia ties sink to new lows as Tillerson takes tough stance against Assad | Signaling the focus of talks Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will have in Moscow later this week, officials said Russia, in propping up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, bears at least partial responsibility for Wednesday's chemical attack and would face further deterioration in its relations with the United States if it continues to support him. | By Carol Morello • Read more » | | | | | Fact Checker | Analysis | Susan Rice's 4-Pinocchio claim about Obama, Syria and chemical weapons | In the wake of President Trump's cruise-missile strike against Syria for apparent use of sarin nerve agent, many readers asked us to examine what the former national security adviser had said earlier this year: "We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile." | By Glenn Kessler • Read more » | | | | | Post reporter David Fahrenthold wins Pulitzer Prize for stories about Trump's charitable giving | Shortly after the New Hampshire primary, Fahrenthold set out to learn what had become of $6 million Donald Trump said he'd raised for veterans. Fahrenthold noticed that the GOP presidential candidate had stopped distributing the money, despite having given out just a little more than $1 million. That was the start of a much longer reporting effort, one that eventually expanded to cover all of Trump's charitable giving — and the illusions he'd created, over his lifetime, that made his philanthropy seem more impressive than it was. | By Paul Farhi • Read more » | | | | | | | | | | | | ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071 | | | | | | | |
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