Evening Edition: House leaders postpone vote on health-care plan

With no carrots to dangle, cajoling recalcitrant lawmakers on a nail-biter vote is hard; Police identify attacker in London rampage; American man is among three killed; Democrats will seek to filibuster Gorsuch's Supreme Court nomination, Schumer says; House Intelligence Chair Nunes apologizes for his handling of revelations about potential surveillance; Israeli man arrested in connection with threats against Jewish Community Centers in U.S., other nations; President Trump’s cascade of false claims in Time’s interview on his falsehoods; The fresh evidence Trump's Russia headaches are not going away; Former Russian lawmaker who defected and became a Putin critic is gunned down in Ukraine; John Thompson III will not return as Georgetown basketball coach; New study renews debate on how much people can do to prevent cancer — and how much is random; Texas teen made up widely publicized story of being kidnapped, raped by 3 black men, police say;   Democracy Dies in Darkness     The day's most important stories   House leaders postpone vote on health-care plan As they struggled to meet demands of conservative lawmakers who said they could not support the bill, House leaders postponed the vote that had been scheduled for today. Earlier, conservative House Republicans rebuffed an offer by President Trump to strip a key set of mandates from the nation's current health-care law, raising doubts about whether House Speaker Paul D. Ryan had the votes to pass the bill. The White House said it expects a vote early Friday. By Mike DeBonis, Juliet Eilperin and David Weigel  •  Read more » @PKCapitol | Analysis With no carrots to dangle, cajoling recalcitrant lawmakers on a nail-biter vote is hard The modern congressional whip operation shifted into high gear as the House Republican leadership scrambled to find support for its plan to overhaul the health-care industry. But House Speaker Paul D. Ryan does not have the tools that previous speakers once used to win over the uncooperative before cliffhanger votes. By Paul Kane  •  Read more »   Police identify attacker in London rampage; American man is among three killed The lone attacker, Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old British citizen, had a criminal record but had not been convicted of any terrorism offenses. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack that killed three people, including a man from Utah who was celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary. By Karla Adam and Brian Murphy  •  Read more »   Democrats will seek to filibuster Gorsuch's Supreme Court nomination, Schumer says Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer's announced that Democrats will require that 60 senators vote to close debate on Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination bid. In nearly five decades, in only one other instance was a Supreme Court nominee forced to clear the 60-vote procedural hurdle to break a filibuster. By Ed O'Keefe, Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   House Intelligence Chair Nunes apologizes for his handling of revelations about potential surveillance The California Republican came under heavy fire from Democrats after going first to the press, then to the White House before consulting with colleagues about what he said was fresh intelligence about the president. By Karoun Demirjian and Ellen Nakashima  •  Read more »   Israeli man arrested in connection with threats against Jewish Community Centers in U.S., other nations Authorities said the 19-year-old suspect seemed to be behind the bulk of the threats, though it was unclear exactly how many. By Ruth Eglash and Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more »   Fact Checker | Analysis President Trump’s cascade of false claims in Time’s interview on his falsehoods The president defended himself for spreading false claims by repeatedly doubling down on previously debunked statements. By Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee  •  Read more »   The Daily 202 | Analysis The fresh evidence Trump's Russia headaches are not going away The drip of damaging Russia revelations continues as White House efforts to change the narrative backfire. By James Hohmann  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Former Russian lawmaker who defected and became a Putin critic is gunned down in Ukraine Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called the murder of Denis Voronenkov, who fled to Kiev in October 2016, "an act of state terrorism by Russia." By Andrew Roth and Natalie Gryvnak  •  Read more »   John Thompson III will not return as Georgetown basketball coach Thompson, the coach since 2004, guided the Hoyas to one Final Four appearance but just completed a second straight losing season. By Gene Wang  •  Read more »   New study renews debate on how much people can do to prevent cancer — and how much is random More than two-thirds of cancer-causing mutations are the result of random mistakes in DNA replication that occur when normal cells divide, according to research. By Laurie McGinley  •  Read more »   Texas teen made up widely publicized story of being kidnapped, raped by 3 black men, police say The allegations from 18-year-old Breana Harmon Talbott made "many in the community fearful there were individuals abducting women," police said. By Travis M. Andrews  •  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. 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