Thursday's Headlines: Trump and his aides sow confusion with mixed signals on foreign affairs

Fact Checker: Trump's claim that Korea 'used to be a part of China'; White House denies misleading public on carrier movements; Bill O'Reilly is out at Fox News amid sexual harassment claims; O'Reilly's downfall has a good lesson for working women; Roger Stone helped Donald Trump get elected president. Now he's helping himself.; Berkeley cancels Ann Coulter's speech over fears of more violent protests;   Democracy Dies in Darkness     The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Trump and his aides sow confusion with mixed signals on foreign affairs Jarring statements on Syria, Turkey and North Korea have fostered uncertainty among lawmakers and foreign diplomats about the administration's goals and about who speaks on its behalf. By David Nakamura and Karen DeYoung  •  Read more » Fact Checker: Trump's claim that Korea 'used to be a part of China' It would be worthwhile for Trump to get his history lesson about Korea from his own State Department instead of the Chinese president. By Michelle Ye Hee Lee  •  Read more »   White House denies misleading public on carrier movements White House press secretary Sean Spicer disputed the notion that the Trump administration, eager to illustrate its hawkish stance on a range of national security issues, was using deceptive means to send a message to Pyongyang. By Missy Ryan, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and John Wagner  •  Read more »   Bill O'Reilly is out at Fox News amid sexual harassment claims The downfall of the network's biggest star was swift after it was disclosed earlier this month that O'Reilly and Fox paid settlements for sexual harassment complaints. O'Reilly continued to deny the allegations. By Paul Farhi  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Perspective O'Reilly's downfall has a good lesson for working women Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly — whose accusations sped the undoing of two of the most powerful men in media — prove there's strength in numbers when fighting harassment. By Margaret Sullivan  •  Read more »   Roger Stone helped Donald Trump get elected president. Now he's helping himself. The caustic campaigner for Nixon and Trump is back in the limelight and knee-deep in scandal as Congress threatens to haul him before a committee probing alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election. It comes at a good time for Stone: He has a book to sell. By Manuel Roig-Franzia  •  Read more »   Berkeley cancels Ann Coulter's speech over fears of more violent protests University officials said that they made the decision to cancel the conservative commentator's appearance after assessing the violence that flared on campus in February when the same college Republican group invited right-wing provocateur and former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos to speak. By William Wan  •  Read more »   Opinions   No, Mr. President, you can't do what you want By E.J. Dionne Jr.  •  Read more »   Bill O’Reilly is out, but don’t get too excited By Christine Emba  •  Read more »   The Supreme Court jumps into a playground fight over a phony war on religion By Dana Milbank  •  Read more »   The risks of the Trump administration hollowing out American leadership By William J. Burns  •  Read more »   Why Thailand’s military is trying to erase me from the Internet By Pavin Chachavalpongpun  •  Read more »   The March for Science could save lives By Editorial Board  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   The Fix | Analysis Why is Chaffetz suddenly retiring from Congress? One word: Ambition. Life's not as fun when you've got a job investigating your own party's government. Also, we hear a governorship in Utah is open in 2020. By Amber Phillips  •  Read more » Fact Checker | Analysis Trump's claim that 'no administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days' It's rather silly for any president to suggest that his first 100 days somehow topped Franklin D. Roosevelt's achievement. We check the history books. By Glenn Kessler  •  Read more » Trump blasts foreign worker program — at firm that pays its foreign workers less Trump signed his "Buy American, Hire American" executive order at Snap-On Tools, which pays below-average wages to the handful of workers for whom the company has sought H-1B visas. The practice, critics say, lowers pay for Americans. By Tracy Jan  •  Read more » 'I don't like to be touched': Video shows autistic boy arrested at school "I didn't know I was going to get arrested like this," cried 10--year-old John Benjamin Haygood as school resource officers in Florida secured handcuffs around his wrists. By Lindsey Bever  •  Read more » Perspective Aaron Hernandez was no innocent bystander in his bloodstained life The former New England Patriots star, who hanged himself in his prison cell, had a talent for posturing and posing that failed to compensate for the destruction that followed in his path. His death ends a stunning fall from grace. By Sally Jenkins  •  Read more » Scientists search for 25 'lost' species These animals haven't been officially declared extinct. But collectively, they haven't been seen in more than 1,500 years, according to the Global Wildlife Conservation. By Karin Brulliard  •  Read more » Absent Tom Brady, the Patriots and the president celebrate a Super Bowl The NFL champions praised Trump for overcoming the same long odds they faced in their come-from-behind victory in Super Bowl LI. By Kent Babb  •  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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