Tuesday's Headlines: Sessions considering a second special counsel to probe GOP concerns, letter says

Trump Jr. communicated with WikiLeaks during campaign; GOP leaders wage urgent campaign to pressure Moore to leave Senate race; New accuser says Moore sexually assaulted her when...

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Sessions considering a second special counsel to probe GOP concerns, letter says The attorney general has directed senior federal prosecutors to look into a medley of concerns raised by conservatives, including dealings of the Clinton Foundation and the controversial sale of a uranium company to Russia. By Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more » Trump Jr. communicated with WikiLeaks during campaign The president's eldest son exchanged private messages with WikiLeaks at the same time the website was publishing hacked emails from Democratic officials, according to the newly public correspondence. By Carol D. Leonnig and Rosalind S. Helderman  •   Read more »   GOP leaders wage urgent campaign to pressure Moore to leave Senate race Alabama GOP nominee Roy Moore showed no signs he was preparing to step aside even as Republican Senate leaders pressured him to withdraw from the race and threatened to expel him from Congress if elected. The move, which comes as a fifth accuser stepped forward, signals a sense that Moore's candidacy is a national crisis for Republicans. By Sean Sullivan, Robert Costa and Jenna Johnson  •   Read more »   New accuser says Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16 Beverly Young Nelson, now 55, said that Roy Moore, the Alabama GOP nominee for Senate, groped her and bruised her neck in the late 1970s. "I thought that he was going to rape me," she said at a news conference. By Robert Costa and Jenna Johnson  •   Read more »   Some Alabama evangelicals see Moore as a man of Christian values. Others are torn. Some evangelicals still consider the GOP Senate candidate a champion of their faith. Others no longer support his campaign in light of allegations that he pursued teenage girls. By Marwa Eltagouri  •   Read more »   Woman accuses former president George H.W. Bush of groping her when she was 16 Rosyln Corrigan told Time that Bush groped her 14 years ago while taking a photo with her at an event in a Texas office of the CIA. Corrigan is the sixth woman to make accusations against Bush in recent weeks. The others were adults at the times they were allegedly groped. By Marwa Eltagouri  •   Read more »   How young is too young for cellphones in school? One district is relaxing the rules and sparking debate. What has become a more settled matter for high schools is raising questions in lower grades. Maryland's largest school district has relaxed cell phone rules, causing some parents to worry about the hours their children spend on screens instead of interacting face to face. Some students reported near-silence at lunch when their middle school allowed phones for a week. By Donna St. George  •   Read more »   Mexican traffickers making New York a hub for lucrative — and deadly — fentanyl In one arrest, agents seized 141 pounds of pure fentanyl — enough to kill 32 million people, the DEA said. That cache was part of more than 350 pounds of the powerful synthetic drug that law enforcement officials have seized so far this year in New York. By Nick Miroff  •   Read more »   In meetings with Asia's autocrats, Trump largely ignores human rights abuses President Trump has focused primarily on tough talk about trade, terrorism and North Korea's nuclear program during his trip through a region that is home to some of world's most brutal authoritarian regimes. By David Nakamura and Emily Rauhala  •   Read more »   Trump offers to return Philippine fugitive, telling Duterte: "I will send him back because I know you follow the rule of law" "Do you want him back?" President Trump asked, according to the Phililppine spokesman, who said the U.S. president did not raise human rights during the course of two days of interactions with Duterte. By Emily Rauhala and David Nakamura  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Opinions   An absolutely not-made-up dossier on Trump's early years By Dana Milbank  •   Read more »   The clown goes abroad By Eugene Robinson  •   Read more »   How Rupert Murdoch destroyed the Republican Party By Richard Cohen  •   Read more »   Something really is wrong on the Internet. We should be more worried. By Christine Emba  •   Read more »   If the tax bill is so great, why does the GOP keep lying about it? By Catherine Rampell  •   Read more »   Mitch McConnell believes the women. Kellyanne Conway doesn't. By Editorial Board  •   Read more » ADVERTISEMENT More News   From an apartment in Cairo, Gaddafi's cousin sees an opening — and plots a comeback for his family in Libya The dictator Moammar Gaddafi was killed in 2011. As insecurity and violence grip the country, his cousin, Gaddaf al-Dam, believes the time is right to return to power. But will Libyans welcome back Gaddafi's family and supporters? By Sudarsan Raghavan  •  Read more »     Puerto Rico's bankrupt utility agreed to pay Whitefish Energy double what its subcontractor was charging Documents show how a tiny firm that won — and then lost — the largest contract to restore power in Puerto Rico struggled from Day One to live up to its promises, and even so, the utility agreed repeatedly to pay higher and higher prices for restoration work. By Aaron C. Davis and Steven Mufson  •   Read more »   Italy fails to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1958 The upset of Italy — the soccer country of class and grace, a four-time champion and a pillar of soccer for almost a century — is an astounding development in an autumn full of qualifying failures. By Steven Goff  •   Read more »   How this gossip columnist invented Donald Trump Trump's rise to celebrity was the product of an injection of tabloid journalism into New York's media bloodstream in the 1970s and '80s, and it was Liz Smith, the gossip columnist who died on Sunday at 94, who turned him into one of the main characters in the city's soap opera. By Marc Fisher  •   Read more »   Bill Gates joins the fight against Alzheimer's — and it's personal The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder is personally investing $50 million to help fund research to find a treatment for the disease, which he said has struck members of his own family. By Lindsey Bever  •   Read more »   That judicial nominee who's never tried a case also failed to disclose that his wife works for the White House In a Senate questionnaire designed to identify potential conflicts of interest, Brett J. Talley did not mention that he is married to Annie Donaldson, chief of staff for White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II. By Kristine Phillips  •   Read more »   These scientists say you'll probably never have heart-stopping sex Heart patients worried that they may die suddenly from having sex have no reason to fear. Sex isn't as strenuous as people think, a new study suggests. One expert says it's equivalent to walking up two flights of stairs. By Ellie Silverman  •   Read more »         Share Today's Headlines:    Twitter     Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you signed up for Today's Headlines 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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