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Otto Warmbier, who was detained in North Korea, has died, his parents announced; Russia threatens to treat U.S. coalition aircraft as targets over Syria; British prime minister says latest terrorist attack 'every bit as sickening' as those before ; A neighborhood accused of terrorist ties has become a victim of terrorism; Driver dies in Paris after ramming car into police vehicle in probable terrorist attack; At height of Russia tensions, Manafort met with business associate from Ukraine; A Republican contractor’s database of nearly every voter was left exposed on the Internet for 12 days, researcher says; Rick Perry denies that humans are the main cause of climate change; Killing of Muslim teen is being investigated as a road-rage incident, police say; Supreme Court rules that rejecting trademarks that 'disparage' others violates the First Amendment; Trump 'simply does not care' about HIV/AIDS, say 6 experts who quit his advisory council; Trump’s lawyer’s very bad and contradictory Sunday, annotated; Thousands of wildebeests die horribly in a river each year. Here’s why that’s a good thing.; Carrie Fisher had cocaine, heroin and other opiates in her system when she died, autopsy shows;   Democracy Dies in Darkness     The day's most important stories   Supreme Court to hear potentially landmark case on gerrymandering The justices declared that they will consider whether gerrymandered election maps favoring one political party over another violate the Constitution, a potentially fundamental change in the way American elections are conducted. By Robert Barnes  •  Read more » BREAKING NEWS Otto Warmbier, who was detained in North Korea, has died, his parents announced The 22-year-old University of Virginia student was returned to his family last week, comatose, after he had been held in North Korea for more than a year for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda poster while on a trip to the country. He had been sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor. By Susan Svrluga  •  Read more »   Russia threatens to treat U.S. coalition aircraft as targets over Syria Moscow condemned the downing of a Syrian aircraft by a U.S. fighter as a "flagrant violation of international law" and said it was suspending an air agreement with American military forces. By David Filipov and Louisa Loveluck  •  Read more »   ATTACK IN LONDON British prime minister says latest terrorist attack 'every bit as sickening' as those before Witnesses said the van's driver was heard shouting he wanted to kill Muslims after speeding off the road and swerving into a crowd of people who had just finished nighttime prayers for the holy month of Ramadan. Ten people were injured, and investigators were trying to determine whether a death at the scene was related to the attack. By Griff Witte and Karla Adam  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   A neighborhood accused of terrorist ties has become a victim of terrorism The relatively deprived immigrant neighborhood of Finsbury Park has been the home of a mosque infamous for housing radical Egyptian cleric Abu Hamza Masri, who was found guilty in the U.S. of terrorism charges. By Adam Taylor  •  Read more »   Driver dies in Paris after ramming car into police vehicle in probable terrorist attack The car exploded as it crashed on the city's famed Champs-Elysees. No one else was hurt in the incident, which officials are treating as a deliberate attack. The driver was said to be previously known to French authorities. By James McAuley  •  Read more »   At height of Russia tensions, Manafort met with business associate from Ukraine At one of New York City's most exclusive cigar bars, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik discussed their clients, the situation in Ukraine and the U.S. presidential campaign, according to a new detailed account provided by Kilimnik. By Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Rachel Weiner  •  Read more »   A Republican contractor’s database of nearly every voter was left exposed on the Internet for 12 days, researcher says The lapse in security was striking for putting at risk the identities of nearly every registered American voter, voting histories and views of voters across the political spectrum. By Brian Fung, Craig Timberg and Matea Gold  •  Read more »   Rick Perry denies that humans are the main cause of climate change The energy secretary said "the ocean waters and this environment that we live in" control the climate. By Steven Mufson  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Killing of Muslim teen is being investigated as a road-rage incident, police say The investigation "at this point in no way indicates the victim was targeted because of her race or religion," police said. In conversations with detectives, Nabra Hassanen's mother said she was told a driver threw beer bottles at her daughter and her friends. A Sterling man has been charged with murder in the death of the 16-year-old. By Dana Hedgpeth, Justin Jouvenal and Julie Zauzmer  •  Read more »   Supreme Court rules that rejecting trademarks that 'disparage' others violates the First Amendment The outcome is likely to affect the legal case of the Washington Redskins, whose trademark registration was revoked in 2014 under the same disparagement clause. By Robert Barnes  •  Read more »   Trump 'simply does not care' about HIV/AIDS, say 6 experts who quit his advisory council Nearly one-third of the presidential advisory council on HIV/AIDS resigned in frustration last week over a lack of dialogue with administration officials. By Amy B Wang  •  Read more »   The Fix | Analysis Trump’s lawyer’s very bad and contradictory Sunday, annotated Jay Sekulow had a pretty simple talking point. The problem was it was pretty easy to poke holes in it thanks to the president's own tweets. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   Thousands of wildebeests die horribly in a river each year. Here’s why that’s a good thing. It might look awful when the migrating animals drown and are attacked by huge crocodiles when they cross the Mara River in the Serengeti. But a new report concludes that it has to happen for the river and the ecosystem it supports to survive. By Darryl Fears  •  Read more »   Carrie Fisher had cocaine, heroin and other opiates in her system when she died, autopsy shows It's unclear what role the drugs played in her death, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office, which listed her official cause of death as undetermined. By Elahe Izadi  •  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