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Who will decide what the Senate's health-care bill looks like? Follow the Medicaid state senators.; Iowa congressman walks out of a TV interview and into an angry town hall meeting; Kimmel returns to the air, slams critics of his health-care plea; The Health 202: Republicans are just starting the hard part on health care; Sign up: Get the Health 202 newsletter delivered directly to you; Trump traveled half as much in his first four months as did Obama; Comey misstated key Clinton email evidence, say people close to investigation; Tunnel collapses at Hanford nuclear waste site in Washington state; Grassley, Chaffetz rebuke HHS secretary for muzzling agency employees; He says he went to Syria to rescue his wife from ISIS. Now he sits in prison.; 10 important questions raised by Yates's testimony on the 'compromised' Michael Flynn; Sessions reviewing charging guidelines telling prosecutors not to seek mandatory minimums for drug crimes; Guinea pigs or pioneers? How Puerto Rican women were used to test the birth control pill.; No, Stephen Colbert is not being investigated by the FCC for his Trump joke; In response to sex abuse allegation, Sidwell Friends joins other private schools in pursuing transparency; More airport drama: Furious passengers clash with Spirit employees in Fort Lauderdale;   Democracy Dies in Darkness     The day's most important stories   In blow to ties with Turkey, U.S. to directly arm Syrian Kurds against ISIS President Trump has approved a plan to directly arm Kurdish forces as part of a plan to capture Raqqa, the Pentagon said. Turkey views the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, as a threat and has rebuked the United States for partnering with them in its fight against extremists in Syria. By Missy Ryan, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Karen DeYoung  •  Read more » @PKCapitol | Analysis Who will decide what the Senate's health-care bill looks like? Follow the Medicaid state senators. The most powerful bloc in the Senate, based on the size and clout of its members, are the 20 Republicans who come from states that took advantage of the 2010 health law's federal expansion of Medicaid to provide insurance to millions of lower-income Americans. By Paul Kane  •  Read more »   Iowa congressman walks out of a TV interview and into an angry town hall meeting Rep. Rod Blum, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, struggled to explain his vote to support the American Health Care Act to a pre-screened audience. By Ed O'Keefe  •  Read more »   Kimmel returns to the air, slams critics of his health-care plea "I would like to apologize for saying that children in America should have health care. It was insensitive," Kimmel deadpanned. By Emily Yahr  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   The Health 202: Republicans are just starting the hard part on health care Here are five dynamics to watch that will determine if the Senate can get to the needed votes on health care. By Paige Winfield Cunningham  •  Read more »   Sign up: Get the Health 202 newsletter delivered directly to you Read more » Analysis Trump traveled half as much in his first four months as did Obama President Trump's sojourns since January have been mostly to places where he feels comfortable: Eastern states that voted for him and properties that bear his name. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, not unexpectedly, racked up thousands more miles than Trump. But President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton logged many more thousands of miles over the same time period. By Philip Bump  •  Read more »   Comey misstated key Clinton email evidence, say people close to investigation During a hearing last week, the FBI director offered new details about what agents found after they realized a laptop belonging to former congressman Anthony Weiner, husband of Huma Abedin, contained thousands of work emails involving Hillary Clinton. People close to the investigation said that Clinton aide Abedin did not forward emails to Weiner regularly and only a small number of forwarded emails were deemed to contain classified information. By Devlin Barrett  •  Read more »   Tunnel collapses at Hanford nuclear waste site in Washington state The Energy Department has activated its emergency operations protocol in Hanford, a small agricultural community in south-central Washington. By Lindsey Bever and Steven Mufson  •  Read more »   Grassley, Chaffetz rebuke HHS secretary for muzzling agency employees The Republican leaders said Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price's new policy curtailing his employees' ability to communicate directly with Congress "is potentially illegal and unconstitutional." By Juliet Eilperin  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   He says he went to Syria to rescue his wife from ISIS. Now he sits in prison. Belgian national Ahmed Abu Fouad was vacationing with his children two years ago when he got word that his young wife had run away to Syria. Belgium has adopted an uncompromising line on his case, as it has for other countrymen returning from the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate. By Joby Warrick, Souad Mekhennet and Liz Sly  •  Read more »   The Daily 202 | Analysis 10 important questions raised by Yates's testimony on the 'compromised' Michael Flynn Sally Yates's riveting testimony raised far more questions than it answered. Most of all, it cast fresh doubts on President Trump's judgment. By James Hohmann  •  Read more »   Sessions reviewing charging guidelines telling prosecutors not to seek mandatory minimums for drug crimes If new charging instructions are implemented it would mark the first significant move by the Trump administration to bring back the drug war's toughest practices. By Sari Horwitz  •  Read more »   Retropolis | The Past, Rediscovered Guinea pigs or pioneers? How Puerto Rican women were used to test the birth control pill. Some have compared the first large-scale human trial of the pill in a Puerto Rican public housing project to the Tuskegee syphilis study. By Theresa Vargas  •  Read more »   No, Stephen Colbert is not being investigated by the FCC for his Trump joke Even if he were, Colbert's joke wouldn't meet standards for obscene content, experts say. By Amy B Wang and Callum Borchers  •  Read more »   In response to sex abuse allegation, Sidwell Friends joins other private schools in pursuing transparency The school's unusually detailed and public response — and the admission within it — signifies what is described as a sea change in how schools are reacting to allegations amid a series of high-profile scandals at some of the nation's most prominent private schools. By Michael Alison Chandler  •  Read more »   More airport drama: Furious passengers clash with Spirit employees in Fort Lauderdale Cellphone video captured pandemonium as screaming passengers clustered around Spirit Airlines ticket counters after nine flights were canceled. By Amy B Wang and Luz Lazo  •  Read more »           Share Evening Edition:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you 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. Contact us for help. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071