Thursday's Headlines: Trump’s threat to North Korea clashes with reassurances of his senior officials

Obama warned Trump about North Korea. But 'fire and fury' wasn't what the ex-president's aides expected.; Dodging blame, China urges U.S. to stop hurling threats at North Korea; Trump's saber-rattling sparks fears and puts China in a bind; 'Nothing you can do': It wasn't even a hurricane this time, but New Orleans flooded anyway; The KKK once attacked her family. Now she was writing to a former neo-Nazi.;   Democracy Dies in Darkness     The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Trump's threat to North Korea clashes with reassurances of his senior officials Members of the administration rushed to tell a suddenly jittery world that they stood behind President Trump's sentiments on North Korea, if not his fiery language. But U.S. allies, a number of Trump aides and some lawmakers saw a disturbing dissonance and lack of coordination. By Philip Rucker and Karen DeYoung  •  Read more » Obama warned Trump about North Korea. But 'fire and fury' wasn't what the ex-president's aides expected. To a degree that former president Barack Obama might not have anticipated, his warning in the Oval Office last year pushed Donald Trump to elevate North Korea to his top foreign policy concern. By David Nakamura and Anne Gearan  •  Read more » Dodging blame, China urges U.S. to stop hurling threats at North Korea Beijing, which has failed to rein in its trading partner and volatile ally, argues that now is the time to resume six-party talks involving North and South Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia that were abandoned in 2009. By Simon Denyer  •  Read more »   Today's WorldView | Analysis Trump's saber-rattling sparks fears and puts China in a bind The tension between North Korea and the United States is not welcome in Beijing, which is coping with a series of political disputes on its borders. By Ishaan Tharoor  •  Read more »   'Nothing you can do': It wasn't even a hurricane this time, but New Orleans flooded anyway Panic and rough memories surfaced in New Orleans this week as residents faced a reminder of what can happen with heavy rains, even though U.S. taxpayers have spent nearly $15 billion rebuilding the city's flood protections since 2005. By Tim Craig  •  Read more »   The KKK once attacked her family. Now she was writing to a former neo-Nazi. "It's weird to find yourself identifying with someone who once had so much hostility toward people who look like you," Stacy Nelson said after exchanging letters with Sean Gillespie, who is in prison for firebombing a synagogue in Oklahoma City. By Michael E. Miller  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Opinions   The Trump cleanup patrol just had its biggest job yet By Dana Milbank  •  Read more »   What Trump should know about the Cuban Missile Crisis By Michael Dobbs  •  Read more »   Why the GOP might kill the filibuster after all By Charles Lane  •  Read more »   America keeps on failing in Afghanistan By Ronald E. Neumann  •  Read more »   New York Times guilty of large screw-up on climate-change story By Erik Wemple  •  Read more »   Trump ignores his own commission's advice on opioids By Editorial Board  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   FBI raided ex-Trump campaign chairman's home for Russia probe Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort's Virginia home July 26, the same day he met voluntarily with staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. By Carol D. Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman  •  Read more » Foxconn deal Trump boasted about won't make Wisconsin money for 25 years, report says The deal, which Gov. Scott Walker hailed as a "once-in-a-century" opportunity to bring the electronic manufacturing giant to Wisconsin, wouldn't generate profits for the state until 2042, a new legislative analysis projects. By Danielle Paquette  •  Read more » Russian surveillance plane soars over the Pentagon, Capitol and other Washington sights The unarmed Tupolev Tu-154 flew over the District under the terms of the Treaty on Open Skies, a pact that allows its signers to make observation flights over other treaty nations, the State Department said. By Dan Lamothe  •  Read more » U.S. expelled two Cuban diplomats after embassy employees in Havana developed unexplained ailments Officials said Americans suffered non-life-threatening symptoms, but they didn't directly blame Cuba. The FBI is conducting an investigation. By Anne Gearan  •  Read more » Discovery of 13 million-year-old ape skull shows what human ancestors may have looked like Scientists have nicknamed the ape skull "Alesi," after a word in the local Turkana language for "ancestor." By Amy B Wang  •  Read more » Rep. John Conyers might have broken rules with staffer's pay, watchdog says The report from an independent ethics monitor is the latest headache related to Cynthia Martin's employment for Conyers, the leading Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and the longest-serving member of Congress. By Elise Viebeck  •  Read more » Which dinosaur is the biggest? There’s a new contender — and it’s alarmingly large. The giant plant-eating beast, which weighed more than 10 African elephants, has been officially named Patagotitan mayorum by the Royal Society and is fueling debate about which dinosaur species was the largest ever. 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