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Supreme Court to hear potentially landmark case on partisan gerrymandering The justices accepted a Wisconsin case where a federal court has ruled that the state’s Republican leadership pushed through a plan so partisan that it violated the Constitution. By Robert Barnes  •  Read more » Officials: 17-year-old Muslim girl assaulted and killed after leaving Virginia mosque Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, of Sterling is being held in the death of Nabra Hassanen. By Faiz Siddiqui  •  Read more » The Plum Line •  Opinion The Trump team’s spin about the Russia probe sinks deeper into absurdity Dissecting the latest round of claims from Trump’s slick-talking lawyer. By Greg Sargent  •  Read more » Seattle police fatally shoot black mother of four who they say confronted officers with a knife The 30-year-old woman’s children were at the apartment when she was shot, according to police. By Katie Mettler  •  Read more »

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Russia threatens to treat U.S. coalition aircraft as targets over Syria Moscow condemned the downing of a Syrian aircraft by a U.S. fighter as a “flagrant violation of international law” and said it is suspending an air agreement with American military forces. By David Filipov  •  Read more » At height of Russia tensions, Trump campaign chairman Manafort met with business associate from Ukraine Investigators show interest in Manafort and his business colleague, a Russian army veteran. By Rosalind S. Helderman  •  Read more » Opinion The destruction of political norms started decades ago. Here’s how it happened. Negative partisanship has been built on the idea of politics as war. By E.J. Dionne Jr.  •  Read more » Monkey Cage •  Analysis Yes, Mitch McConnell’s secretive lawmaking is really unusual — in these 4 ways And here are the 3 reasons he probably won’t change course. By Sarah Binder  •  Read more » The Post‘s View •  Opinion Single-payer health care would have an astonishingly high price tag The costs would be both political and administrative. By Editorial Board  •  Read more »

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Also Popular in Opinions The State Department just broke a promise to minority and female recruits The federal government spent tens of thousands of dollars educating young scholars whose inside track to the Foreign Service has been interrupted. By Josh Rogin  •  Read more » • I’m a member of Congress. I’m going to start carrying a gun. • I worked for Obama, but I’m going to Trump’s tech meeting. Here’s why. • I attended three conferences on populism in 10 days. Here’s what I learned. • America sings the postindustrial blues

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Also Popular in National Some gun owners are disturbed by the Philando Castile verdict. The NRA is silent. While the NRA was silent, verdict drew outrage and fear among black gun owners, and a congressman said it meant “the Second Amendment does not apply to them.” By Avi Selk  •  Read more » • Jay Sekulow, Trump’s unlikely lawyer • A dog bite sent him to the ER. A cascade of missteps nearly killed him. • Long before they conquered the Internet, cats took over the world • Smartphones made his kids ‘moody’ and ‘withdrawn.’ Now he wants to ban them for preteens.

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