Evening Edition: Trump meets with President Peña Nieto in Mexico ahead of key speech

Trump's high-risk, low-reward trip to Mexico is sort of baffling; Supreme Court won't let North Carolina use strict voting law; Risky alone, deadly together; 3.7-billion-year-old fossils may be the oldest signs of life on Earth, scientists say; Brazilian President Rousseff ousted in impeachment vote; Attendance fraud at patent office cheated taxpayers out of millions, watchdog finds; Tropical Storm Hermine could trigger dangerous storm surge and flooding in Florida; Trump repeatedly claims more Hispanics are in poverty under Obama. He's repeatedly wrong.; A record number of Americans now dislike Hillary Clinton; Most young people don't vote. Condescending to them isn’t helping.; Latino influx is upending GOP politics in Florida ; Russia claims responsibility for airstrike that killed senior Islamic State militant; The largest-ever survey of elephants in Africa reveals startling declines; Mother of three survives a car crash — only to be gunned down by the other driver, police say; Here’s how scientists got dogs to lie still in a brain scanner for eight minutes; I'm a woman who dines alone. How do I make friends so I can bypass the two-person reservation minimum?;   The day's most important stories   Yuri Cortez / AFP/Getty Images Trump meets with President Peña Nieto in Mexico ahead of key speech In his first formal international trip as the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump visited a country where he is broadly despised for his vilification of illegal immigrants. By Joshua Partlow, Robert Costa and Sean Sullivan  •  Read more » Trump's high-risk, low-reward trip to Mexico is sort of baffling Given the low gains for Trump and the high possibility that something might go wrong, there's a decent chance that the politician for whom this trip is most beneficial is Hillary Clinton. By Philip Bump  •  Read more »   Supreme Court won't let North Carolina use strict voting law The justices said they wouldn't stay a lower court's ruling that the voter-ID law was unconstitutional because it would blunt the influence of African American voters. By Robert Barnes  •  Read more »   Risky alone, deadly together While death rates are falling for blacks and Hispanics in middle age, whites are dying prematurely in growing numbers, particularly white women. One reason: a big increase in overdoses, primarily from opioids, but also from anti-anxiety drugs, which are often prescribed in tandem. By Kimberly Kindy and Dan Keating  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   3.7-billion-year-old fossils may be the oldest signs of life on Earth, scientists say If confirmed, the discovery would push the established fossil record back more than 200 million years and provide support for the view that life appeared very soon after the planet formed. By Joel Achenbach  •  Read more »   Brazilian President Rousseff ousted in impeachment vote Brazil's Senate voted overwhelmingly to impeach the leftist leader in the culmination of a protracted process that divided the country. Her former vice president, Michel Temer, will assume full power. By Marina Lopes and Dom Phillips  •  Read more »   Attendance fraud at patent office cheated taxpayers out of millions, watchdog finds The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was billed at least $18.3 million for almost 300,000 hours that employees never worked, according to an independent probe. The findings are not expected to result in repercussions for any no-show employees. By Lisa Rein  •  Read more »   Tropical Storm Hermine could trigger dangerous storm surge and flooding in Florida The center of the storm is expected to hit the state's vulnerable Big Bend area tomorrow night, but its effects will be felt well in advance of landfall. By Brian McNoldy  •  Read more »   Trump repeatedly claims more Hispanics are in poverty under Obama. He's repeatedly wrong. We previously covered this claim in a fact-checking roundup. But since it keeps turning up in his speeches, it's time for a full-fledged examination. By Glenn Kessler  •  Read more »   A record number of Americans now dislike Hillary Clinton She hit her stride after the Democratic National Convention, but now registered voters view her about as negatively as they do Trump. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Most young people don't vote. Condescending to them isn’t helping. Many efforts to lure the youngsters to the polls — with marketing campaigns that attempt to speak their language — have been memorably mortifying. By Jessica Contrera  •  Read more »   Latino influx is upending GOP politics in Florida Unlike a generation ago, new Latino voters are less likely to support the GOP — and they are increasingly unlikely to register with either major party. By Ed O'Keefe and Sean Sullivan  •  Read more »   Russia claims responsibility for airstrike that killed senior Islamic State militant Russia's claim could not be independently verified. It also came after the Pentagon said it had targeted Abu Muhammad al-Adnani in an airstrike in a different location in Aleppo, and was still assessing the results of the attack. By Andrew Roth, Liz Sly and Thomas Gibbons-Neff  •  Read more »   The largest-ever survey of elephants in Africa reveals startling declines The numbers have plunged faster than almost anyone predicted, with almost 30 percent of the population lost between 2007 and 2014. By Kevin Sieff  •  Read more »   Mother of three survives a car crash — only to be gunned down by the other driver, police say Witnesses told police Deborah Pearl had her hands up in the air when she was shot several times after the collision in a Cleveland suburb. By Amy B Wang  •  Read more »   Here’s how scientists got dogs to lie still in a brain scanner for eight minutes To get dogs to cooperate with a study that found the animals understand human words and intonation, researchers made the procedure "a big party" for the dogs. By Karin Brulliard  •  Read more »   I'm a woman who dines alone. How do I make friends so I can bypass the two-person reservation minimum? Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema entertains your dining questions, rants and raves. By Tom Sietsema  •  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 Headlines. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2016 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071