Evening Edition: Republicans see their influence slipping away — and they are unsure what to do

Why the DACA 'deal' is another humiliation for Jeff Sessions; Once again, Trump rushes to use terrorist attack for leverage on Twitter

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The day's most important stories   Top Stories Republicans see their influence slipping away — and they are unsure what to do The GOP thought that after it won both the White House and Congress in November, conservatives would have control. But Republicans in Congress are laboring to project leverage over efforts to rewrite tax laws and craft a bill to decide the fate of young undocumented immigrants. By Sean Sullivan and Mike DeBonis  •  Read more » The Daily 202 • Analysis Why the DACA 'deal' is another humiliation for Jeff Sessions The attorney general has tolerated indignities that might cause most people to quit because he hoped to influence immigration policy. But it took less than 10 days for President Trump to undercut him again, signaling a plan to grant permanent legal status to "dreamers" as part of a deal with Democrats. By James Hohmann  •   The Daily 202   •   Read more »   Once again, Trump rushes to use terrorist attack for leverage on Twitter After the explosion in the London Underground, the president took to social media with his thoughts. He is quick to ascribe incidents of violence to terrorism, particularly those he believes to have been committed by Islamist terrorists. He is much slower, however, to weigh in on incidents in which Muslims or his political opponents have been targeted. By Philip Bump  •   Analysis   •   Read more »   London police seek assailant behind subway bomb that injured dozens The explosion near central London was confirmed to be from a makeshift bomb, and the BBC reported a timer on the device. "This was a device intended to cause significant harm," Prime Minister Theresa May said of the attack that injured at least 22 commuters. President Trump decried the "loser terrorist," saying "sick and demented people ... were in the sights of Scotland Yard." By William Booth, Karla Adam and Rick Noack  •   Read more »   Road rage, a bullet to the head and the frantic effort to save a 4-year-old In an extraordinary act of road rage, Carter Hill was shot in the head while riding in his mother's car, an incident that set off a frantic effort to save the boy's life. Carter's story is not unique: Almost two dozen kids are shot daily in the U.S., leaving children across the country maimed or dead. By John Woodrow Cox  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Taxpayers were billed $1,092 for an official who stayed two nights at Mar-a-Lago The receipt from the president's Florida club, obtained in recent days by the transparency advocacy group Property of the People and verified by The Post, offers one of the first concrete signs that Donald Trump's use of Mar-a-Lago as the "Winter White House" has resulted in taxpayer funds flowing directly into the coffers of his private business. By Drew Harwell and Amy Brittain  •   Read more »   Former St. Louis police officer who shot driver after car chase found not guilty in murder trial Demonstrators began to march in the St. Louis region after the acquittal of a white former police officer charged with murder last year for fatally shooting a black driver and accused by prosecutors of planting a gun on the victim. By Mark Berman and Wesley Lowery  •   Read more »   North Korea fires a missile over Japan for the second time in three weeks The launch, which immediately sparked condemnation, came a day after North Korea issued an alarming threat that Japan's four islands "should be sunken into the sea" by its nuclear bomb. By Anna Fifield and Dan Lamothe  •   Read more »   Vatican diplomat in Washington recalled due to child-porn investigation U.S. officials found evidence implicating the unidentified diplomat. Like envoys from other countries, Vatican diplomats have immunity from prosecution in the United States. By Julie Zauzmer, Michelle Boorstein and Carol Morello  •   Read more »   Tropical Storm Jose is a threat to the East Coast — whether it makes landfall or not The amount of uncertainty in this storm is abnormally high, which means the future path is extremely difficult to forecast. By Angela Fritz  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT In north Florida, Irma transformed waters from tranquil to dangerous The cascading nature of watersheds in this part of the state has resulted in a series of floods. Days after the storm hit, water is still rising. By Lori Rozsa  •   Read more »   NASA's Cassini completes fiery plunge into Saturn, ending a successful 20-year mission As it ended a billion-mile trip that began Oct. 15, 1997, the pioneering spacecraft transmitted an infrared image of the place where it took its final descent. By Sarah Kaplan  •   Read more »   Rams' Goff may show how college quarterbacks can adjust to NFL NFL executives have lamented the difficulty of using quarterbacks from college's spread offenses. But the early success this year of Rams signal-caller Jared Goff suggests that new Los Angeles coach Sean McVay has found a way. By Adam Kilgore  •   Read more »   Trump lets an 11-year-old boy mow the White House lawn Frank Giaccio's lawnmowing business just scored a high-profile customer in the Washington region. By Justin Wm. Moyer  •   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 Evening Edition or because it is included in your subscription. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. 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