Monday's Headlines: ‘The Shape of Water’ wins best picture at a show laced with social and political statements

Oscars 2018: Complete winners list; That boring Oscars show might have helped soothe Hollywood's year of being fed up; Critic's Notebook: On the red carpet, fashion statements were...

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   'The Shape of Water' wins best picture at a show laced with social and political statements Frances McDormand and Gary Oldman took home top acting awards at the first Oscars of the #MeToo era. By Dan Zak and Monica Hesse  •  Read more » Oscars 2018: Complete winners list All of the winners from the 90th Academy Awards. Read more »   TV | Review That boring Oscars show might have helped soothe Hollywood's year of being fed up Host Jimmy Kimmel unveils another useful skill in the outrage era: Keeping things cool. By Hank Stuever  •   Read more »   Critic's Notebook: On the red carpet, fashion statements were personal, not political Amid months of activism, stars showed a different type of solidarity — through their actions and attitude — on the red carpet. By Robin Givhan  •   Read more »   The 2018 Oscars celebrated inclusion. Real progress is still to come. The awards emphasized tolerance and representation, from the voices of women to transgender artists to a strong Latino presence. By Ann Hornaday  •   Read more »   Kimmel skewers a 'clueless' Hollywood over its treatment of women "Here's how clueless Hollywood is about women. We made a movie called 'What Women Want' and it starred Mel Gibson," Kimmel said. By Emily Yahr  •   Read more »   Senate prepares to roll back banking rules, with red-state Democrats voicing support More than a dozen Democrats in the Senate, some of whom face tough midterm election contests, are ready to give Republicans the votes they need to weaken the Dodd-Frank banking regulations passed after the 2008 financial crisis. The move would sap one of President Barack Obama's largest legislative achievements. By Erica Werner and Damian Paletta  •   Read more »   'Like a pinball machine': Lawmakers struggle to negotiate with an erratic Trump Members of both parties have no sense of what President Trump wants on guns and other key agenda items — a pattern that lawmakers say has hindered their ability to move forward on issues that could benefit from presidential leadership. By John Wagner and Seung Min Kim  •   Read more »   Today's WorldView | Analysis Italy's election is another blow to the European establishment Once-fringe populist parties won almost half the vote, and a stable government is nowhere in sight. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warned of potential political chaos. By Ishaan Tharoor  •   Read more »   Fragmented Italian election result reveals power of populists Sunday's results plunged Europe's fourth-largest economy into an uncertainty unique even to a nation known for cycling through leaders at a rapid clip. By Michael Birnbaum  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Opinions   Jimmy Kimmel's #MeToo Oscars monologue revealed a painful truth By Alyssa Rosenberg  •   Read more »   We're witnessing a war on public life. This is the cost. By E.J. Dionne Jr.  •   Read more »   The coming Trump inflation? By Robert J. Samuelson  •   Read more »   Gratuitous cruelty by Homeland Security: Separating a 7-year-old from her mother By Editorial Board  •   Read more »   Putin and Sissi are putting on elections. Why bother? By Jackson Diehl  •   Read more »   A threat to Reagan's 'infrastructure of democracy' By Josh Rogin  •   Read more » ADVERTISEMENT More News   China warns about attacks on free trade, even as it keeps its own barriers in place President Trump's protectionist rhetoric has allowed China an opportunity to seize the high ground, "even if the reality is very different." By Simon Denyer  •  Read more »     Trump says American workers are hurt by immigration. But after ICE raided this town, they never showed up. Despite a high demand for workers and attractive wages, few Americans sign up to do the grueling work at the JBS USA meatpacking plant in deep-red Cactus, Tex. By Nick Miroff  •   Read more »   2018 is the year of scientists running for Congress Named for the first three digits of pi, 314 Action describes itself as the vanguard of "the pro-science resistance" and is working with 30 congressional candidates across the country. By Ben Guarino and Laurie McGinley  •   Read more »   Brazil's angry millennials are forming their own tea party and Occupy movements Reacting to a giant corruption scandal that has tarred a large swath of elected officials in South America's largest country, a new generation is trying to organize a political earthquake in October elections. By Marina Lopes  •   Read more »   An Illinois gun show bans AR-15 sales, landing it at the center of a national gun-control debate After the Parkland, Fla., massacre, organizers of the longtime event canceled a raffle for an AR-15 and told vendors they would not be allowed to sell the weapon at the monthly show. By Mark Guarino  •   Read more »   'A moment of awe': Photo of little girl captivated by Michelle Obama portrait goes viral Parker Curry, 2, who is a big fan of the former first lady, wouldn't turn around to her mother for a photo. A man standing to the side snapped a priceless picture. Obama reacted with three heart-eye emoji. By Michael S. Rosenwald  •   Read more »   Paris Fashion Week | Analysis These colors should clash. Somehow, they're gorgeous together. Mint green and lime? Emerald with beet red? In the hands of Dries Van Noten and other skilled designers, it was pure alchemy. 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