Evening Edition: Trump wonders whether Western civilization has ‘will to survive’

The Fix: Trump heads to foreign soil, promptly bashes intelligence community; The Fix: Trump takes question from reporter he considered hiring; Phone taps, power plays and sarcasm: What it's like to negotiate with Putin; Police, protesters clash at site of G-20 summit; Hamburg reflects global discord as police and activists face off at G-20 summit; Japan, Europe counter Trump with trade deal that will cover nearly 30% of global economy; Love and marriage at the gay rodeo; Federal ethics chief who clashed with White House says he will step down; Republicans in red states push back against Trump's election panel; Attorneys general sue DeVos over delaying overhaul of rules to protect students from predatory colleges; One reason the GOP health bill is a mess: No one thought Trump would win; The GOP tried to troll Hillary Clinton on health care. It backfired.; Trump tweets a video with a very unfortunate Fox News chyron; It's 'like we're lepers or something': Disabled list makes baseball players 'feel dead'; Summer scandals are exposing the ugly truths of reality TV;   Democracy Dies in Darkness     The day's most important stories   Trump wonders whether Western civilization has 'will to survive' In a dark and provocative address with nationalist overtones, President Trump argued that Western values are increasingly imperiled by terrorism and extremism. "Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost?" Trump said during a speech in Poland. By Abby Phillip, John Wagner and Michael Birnbaum  •  Read more » The Fix: Trump heads to foreign soil, promptly bashes intelligence community Trump's full answer on Russian hacking, annotated. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   The Fix: Trump takes question from reporter he considered hiring Trump's message to the world on Thursday was that the U.S. president's idea of a free press is one based on favors. By Callum Borchers  •  Read more »   Phone taps, power plays and sarcasm: What it's like to negotiate with Putin The Russian leader is not "theatrical" like President Trump, but he has his own set of tricks to bully and bluster his opponents. By David Nakamura  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Police, protesters clash at site of G-20 summit Police used water cannons against thousands of anti-capitalist protesters in Hamburg, Germany on July 6, the day before the start of the G-20 summit. Read more »   Hamburg reflects global discord as police and activists face off at G-20 summit Thousands of anti-capitalist protesters massed in a harborside square and engaged in small-scale skirmishes with police ahead of massive demonstrations planned as an angry counterpoint to a summit of the world's top industrialized powers. This year the protests have gained added momentum as a stand against President Trump and his brand of "America First" populism. By Isaac Stanley-Becker  •  Read more »   Japan, Europe counter Trump with trade deal that will cover nearly 30% of global economy Coming on the eve of the Group of 20 meeting of global leaders in Germany, the announcement appeared to be a calculated rebuke of both the United States and Great Britain. By Ana Swanson  •  Read more »   Love and marriage at the gay rodeo The International Gay Rodeo Association has seen its numbers dwindle over the years, with more chapters now defunct than operating. The remaining members wonder: Is general interest in rodeo dying? Or has growing acceptance of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community rendered their organization less essential? By Roman Stubbs  •  Read more »   Federal ethics chief who clashed with White House says he will step down As head of the independent Office of Government Ethics, Walter M. Shaub Jr. was the federal government's most persistent critic of the Trump administration's approach to ethics. By Rosalind S. Helderman and Matea Gold  •  Read more »   The Daily 202 | Analysis Republicans in red states push back against Trump's election panel Opposition from the right has imperiled the work of the "Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity." By James Hohmann  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Attorneys general sue DeVos over delaying overhaul of rules to protect students from predatory colleges The complaint accuses the Education Department of violating federal law by halting updates to a regulation that wipes away federal loans for students whose colleges used illegal or deceptive tactics to get them to borrow money to attend. By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel  •  Read more »   @PKCapitol | Analysis One reason the GOP health bill is a mess: No one thought Trump would win Every important Republican leader expected Hillary Clinton to win, and that left Republicans paralyzed about how to proceed when she didn't. By Paul Kane  •  Read more »   The GOP tried to troll Hillary Clinton on health care. It backfired. The former presidential candidate told Republicans they're more than welcome to use her health-care plan. By Lindsey Bever  •  Read more »   The Fix | Analysis Trump tweets a video with a very unfortunate Fox News chyron We're not picking on chyron writers. But when you mess up, you probably hope the president doesn't use that as the still image in his tweets. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   Perspective It's 'like we're lepers or something': Disabled list makes baseball players 'feel dead' For athletes, the long, empty summer days recovering from an injury are as challenging mentally as they are physically. By Barry Svrluga  •  Read more »   Analysis | The Past, Rediscovered Summer scandals are exposing the ugly truths of reality TV Between Rob Kardashian's social media rant and the "Bachelor in Paradise" controversy, viewers have seen a rare glimpse at what can happen to people's psyches when they agree to live on camera. By Emily Yahr  •  Read more »           Share Evening Edition:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. 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