Wednesday's Headlines: Northam defeats Gillespie in Va., giving Democrats first key win in Trump era

Republicans seek new strategy after failure of Gillespie's 'Trumpism without Trump'; Trump just made a bad night for the GOP much worse for himself; Democrat Phil Murphy defeats...

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Northam defeats Gillespie in Va., giving Democrats first key win in Trump era Virginians came out in large numbers to elect Ralph Northam to be their next governor, choosing him 54 to 45 percent over Republican Ed Gillespie on what was a historic night for Democrats as they swept statewide offices in a wave of victories that amounted to a rebuke of the figure who loomed over the race: President Trump. By Gregory S. Schneider, Laura Vozzella and Fenit Nirappil  •  Read more » Republicans seek new strategy after failure of Gillespie's 'Trumpism without Trump' The result is a bad omen for the GOP nationally, which will face challenges across the country in 2018. "This is just an old-fashioned thumping," said one former Virginia congressman. By Michael Scherer and David Weigel  •   Read more »   Trump just made a bad night for the GOP much worse for himself By immediately tweeting that Ed Gillespie in Virginia "did not embrace me," Trump showed, yet again, that he isn't loyal. And Republicans may also take another lesson: The president can't deliver a victory for you. By Philip Bump  •   Read more »   Democrat Phil Murphy defeats Kim Guadagno in New Jersey governor's race The first-time candidate won the governor's seat back for Democrats, capping a tumultuous eight years of Republican Gov. Chris Christie leading the state. By Amber Phillips  •   Read more »   The Fix: Winners and losers from Election Day Democrats' morale is up. Trump-style nationalism? Not so much. The Fix goes beyond the vote counts to figure out where the Democratic and Republican parties currently stand in American politics. By Aaron Blake  •   Read more »   Danica Roem will be Va.'s first openly transgender elected official The Democrat unseated outspoken conservative and longtime incumbent Del. Robert G. Marshall, who once called himself the state's "chief homophobe." By Antonio Olivo  •   Read more »   Maine becomes first state to expand Medicaid by ballot initiative By a dramatic margin, voters made a move to essentially expand Obamacare — the exact opposite of what the state's Republican governor and Republicans in Washington have been trying to do. By Amber Phillips  •   Read more »   Utah Republican John Curtis to fill House seat vacated by Jason Chaffetz The mayor of Provo beat a well-financed Democrat and an third-party candidate with a famous name. By Mike DeBonis  •   Read more »   Texas gunman threatened superiors and escaped mental health facility in 2012 Interviews and police and military documents depict Devin P. Kelley as a distressed — and, at times, violent — man in the years before authorities said he fired into a church congregation. By Eli Rosenberg, Mark Berman and Wesley Lowery  •   Read more »   Senate GOP mulls delaying corporate tax cut in House bill To comply with Senate rules, Republican leaders are giving thought to lowering the corporate tax rate in 2019, rather than the 2018 date proposed in a House GOP bill. Republican senators also are planning to eliminate the state and local tax deduction, going further than the House, which retained part of the popular tax break. By Damian Paletta, Mike DeBonis and Ed O'Keefe  •   Read more »   In authoritarian China, Trump's love of free expression on Twitter will be put to the test The president is expected to continue his daily dose of high-octane missives over his three-day state visit, but it's what he might chose not to say that could send a more subtle but equally important message. By David Nakamura  •   Read more »   Trump strikes at the heart of the North Korean regime with speech  In South Korea, the president called Kim Jong Un a "dictator" running a "twisted regime." By Anna Fifield  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Opinions   Trump was on the ballot in Virginia. He lost. By Dana Milbank  •   Read more »   Trump thumped in Virginia — bigly By Jonathan Capehart  •   Read more »   A triumph of decency over dread By Editorial Board  •   Read more »   Virginia shows that anti-Trump Republicans and Democrats still have a pulse By Jennifer Rubin  •   Read more »   Mama Lucy tells us why Trump won By Kathleen Parker  •   Read more »   The 'words don't matter' president By Ronald A. Klain  •   Read more » ADVERTISEMENT More News   'A president for all Americans': A year later, Trump's promised presidency hasn't happened In a glimpse of a presidency that might have been, Donald Trump on election night gave a victory speech calling for unity as he pledged to represent all Americans. One year later, he's the most unpopular president in modern times. By Jenna Johnson  •  Read more »     The Fix • Analysis CIA director does controversial and suspiciously pro-Trump things Mike Pompeo has made a habit of doing and saying questionable things involving Russia — and those questionable things tend to lean in a pro-Trump direction. By Aaron Blake  •   Read more »   Building a library forces Obama to grapple again with Chicago politics In what local pundits are calling the irony of ironies, the former president — who cut his teeth as a South Side community organizer — finds himself in the bull's eye of neighborhood advocates worried about the impacts of the planned 20-acre Barack Obama Presidential Center. By Krissah Thompson  •   Read more »   WorldViews • Analysis The 'Paradise Papers' expose Trump's fake populism Little the president has done since coming to power suggests a meaningful interest in addressing widening social inequities, and senior Trump administration officials have been implicated in the shady world of offshore tax havens. By Ishaan Tharoor  •   Read more »   Sen. Rand Paul's painful experience shows how yards can lead to clashes between testy neighbors Gardening experts know: Outlooks and personalities collide where property boundaries meet. By Adrian Higgins  •   Read more »   Early Lead • 1977–2017 Roy Halladay, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, dies in plane crash Halladay, an eight-time all-star whose 203 wins included a perfect game and a postseason no-hitter, went down over the Gulf of Mexico in a small aircraft that he owned and piloted, law enforcement officials said. By Marissa Payne and Des Bieler  •   Read more »   Affordable Care Act sign-ups spike at start of open enrollment period More than 200,000 people chose an insurance plan through government marketplaces on Nov. 1, according to an administration official. That's more than double the number who signed up on the first day last year.  By Juliet Eilperin and Colby Itkowitz  •   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. 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