Evening Edition: Trump halts covert arming of Syria rebels, a move likely to please Russia

Justices let refugee restrictions stand, but allow exemptions for travel order; Trump changes course, tells senators to stay in D.C. to finish health-care bill; Pence tries his best to keep unsaid what Trump then says about election integrity; Trump promised a wall. As president, he knows he needs to build one.; Across Trump's government, some workers are elated, others downcast; Postal Service broke law in pushing time off for workers to campaign for Hillary Clinton, investigation finds; Why did Trump meet with Putin again? Here are three possibilities.; There’s literally a ton of plastic garbage for every person on Earth; Australian woman fatally shot by Minneapolis police called 911 twice to report hearing a possible rape; PET scans show many Alzheimer's patients may not actually have the disease; Justice Department turns a $65 million asset forfeiture spigot back on; Is it bad when waiters don't remember who ordered each plate?; Fla. mayoral candidate had a message for activists who want reparations: ‘Go back to Africa’;   Democracy Dies in Darkness     The day's most important stories   Trump halts covert arming of Syria rebels, a move likely to please Russia Officials said phasing out the CIA program reflects the president's interest in finding ways to work with Russia, which saw the anti-Assad program as an assault on its interests. Trump decided to scrap the program nearly a month ago, before he met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit in Germany. By Greg Jaffe and Adam Entous  •  Read more » Justices let refugee restrictions stand, but allow exemptions for travel order The Supreme Court refused the Trump administration's request to stay a lower court's decision that said officials had too severely interpreted a decision about exempting travelers from six majority-Muslim countries with close family relationships. But the court did say that it could enforce a refugee ban for now. By Robert Barnes  •  Read more »   Trump changes course, tells senators to stay in D.C. to finish health-care bill A day after the GOP strategy to roll back the Affordable Care Act appeared dead, Trump invited Republican senators to lunch at the White House and challenged them to work out an agreement, even if it means remaining in Washington through next month's summer recess. By David Nakamura  •  Read more »   Analysis Pence tries his best to keep unsaid what Trump then says about election integrity The president says what he wants. The vice president reads the stuff that goes on the teleprompter. By Philip Bump  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Trump promised a wall. As president, he knows he needs to build one. President Trump is often dismissed by critics as uninterested in the policy process and unwilling to delve into minutiae. But on illegal immigration, officials credit him for being relentless in framing it as a threat to public safety and to the economic security of American workers, and for turning a border wall into a populist rallying cry. By Ashley Parker, David Nakamura and Philip Rucker  •  Read more »   Across Trump's government, some workers are elated, others downcast The president's stark priorities — sharp cuts here, fattened funding there — are keenly felt throughout the career civil service. By Lisa Rein  •  Read more »   Postal Service broke law in pushing time off for workers to campaign for Hillary Clinton, investigation finds USPS violated the Hatch Act, which restricts federal employees from working for or against a political candidate or party during election season, investigators said. By Lisa Rein  •  Read more »   The Fix | Analysis Why did Trump meet with Putin again? Here are three possibilities. We boiled down Trump's undisclosed meeting with the Russian president to three explanations. By Aaron Blake  •  Read more »   There’s literally a ton of plastic garbage for every person on Earth Seven billion tons is stuck on Earth as garbage in landfills or littering the environment, including deep oceans, a new study found. By Darryl Fears  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Australian woman fatally shot by Minneapolis police called 911 twice to report hearing a possible rape Eight minutes after calling 911, police say, Justine Damond called again because "no one's here" and she was "wondering if they got the address wrong." By Mark Berman  •  Read more »   PET scans show many Alzheimer's patients may not actually have the disease A four-year study is testing over 18,000 people with mild cognitive impairment or dementia, and, so far, the results have been dramatic. By Tara Bahrampour  •  Read more »   Wonkblog | Analysis Justice Department turns a $65 million asset forfeiture spigot back on A lucrative program for state and local police is back in business. By Christopher Ingraham  •  Read more »   Chat Transcript Is it bad when waiters don't remember who ordered each plate? Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema entertains your dining questions, rants and raves. By Tom Sietsema  •  Read more »   Fla. mayoral candidate had a message for activists who want reparations: ‘Go back to Africa’ Paul Congemi has received bad press before: He was charged with abusing his elderly mother, and also banned from a KFC. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.  •  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. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071