Tuesday's Headlines: Trump is seeking to build a diverse team, aides insist

Retired general who clashed with Obama could head Homeland Security; How Trump naming Mattis as Pentagon chief would break with 65 years of U.S. history; British P.M.'s office dismisses Trump's suggestion of Nigel Farage as ambassador to U.S.; What will the White House be like with Melania Trump living in New York?; Defiant Trump meets TV journalists, execs in private — and lets them have it; Analysis: Are Trump's tweets 'weapons of mass distraction'?; The secretive brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders helping Trump; Unearthed letter shows Trump's grandfather begged to stay in Germany;   The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Trump is seeking to build a diverse team, aides insist Though President-elect Donald Trump's first five picks for top jobs in his administration have all been white men, transition officials said the team he ultimately puts together will represent a cross-section of America. Meanwhile, Trump released a video in which he outlined a series of executive actions he intends to take on his first day in office, including issuing notification of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and canceling restrictions on energy production. By Karen Tumulty and Jerry Markon  •  Read more » Retired general who clashed with Obama could head Homeland Security Marine Gen. John Kelly, who retired as chief of U.S. Southern Command, is reportedly under consideration for the critical security post. By Jerry Markon  •  Read more »   How Trump naming Mattis as Pentagon chief would break with 65 years of U.S. history Congress allowed Gen. George Marshall to become defense secretary. Will it allow Mattis? By Dan Lamothe  •  Read more »   British P.M.'s office dismisses Trump's suggestion of Nigel Farage as ambassador to U.S. In the world of diplomacy, a foreign leader suggesting publicly to another government whom it should send as ambassador is what one British newspaper described as "unusual" and a break with protocol. By Fred Barbash  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   What will the White House be like with Melania Trump living in New York? News that Donald Trump's wife plans to stay, at least initially, in Manhattan with their young son instead of moving into the White House upends one of the most enduring rituals of the presidential transition. But some observers say there's no reason to think things will operate much differently without a resident first lady. By Krissah Thompson  •  Read more »   Defiant Trump meets TV journalists, execs in private — and lets them have it The president-elect told a gathering in New York that coverage of him was "dishonest," specifically calling out reporting by CNN and NBC that he deemed unfair. He told the group they failed to understand him or his appeal to millions of Americans. By Paul Farhi  •  Read more »   Analysis: Are Trump's tweets 'weapons of mass distraction'? President-elect Donald Trump knows how to change the subject — and the entire news cycle. All politicians want to talk about their issues, but Trump is a cruise missile when it comes to butting in. He's the distractor in chief. By Paul Farhi  •  Read more »   The secretive brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders helping Trump Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is putting together a prominent group to share ideas with the Trump transition team. But he's having trouble finding takers. By Elizabeth Dwoskin  •  Read more »   Unearthed letter shows Trump's grandfather begged to stay in Germany A letter publicized this week reveals how Friedrich Trump asked local authorities in southern Germany to revoke an expulsion order for avoiding military service as a teenager. By Ishaan Tharoor  •  Read more »   Opinions   Trump isn't draining the swamp. He's deepening it. By Eugene Robinson  •  Read more »   Our next president, the Godfather By Richard Cohen  •  Read more »   The real winner of the 'Hamilton' scrap By Catherine Rampell  •  Read more »   Trump needs to disown his white nationalist hangers-on By Dana Milbank  •  Read more »   Pushing back against the mortal risk of politics By Michael Gerson  •  Read more »   Can Trump tolerate dissent? By Editorial Board  •  Read more » ADVERTISEMENT   More News   Wisconsin legislative map ruled illegally partisan; case will go to Supreme Court Federal appeals court judges decided, 2 to 1, that a violation occurred when the state's Republican assembly and Gov. Scott Walker drew the legislative districts in 2011. By Robert Barnes  •  Read more » Education Secretary calls on all states to abandon corporal punishment While corporal punishment is banned in 28 states and the District of Columbia, there are 15 states that permit the practice and seven more that do not expressly prohibit it. By Joe Heim  •  Read more » Chattanooga school bus driver arrested after at least 6 children killed in crash The 24-year-old driver faces preliminary charges of vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving, police said. At least 24 children were taken to hospitals after Monday's crash. By Sarah Larimer and Samantha Schmidt  •  Read more » The worst-case scenario for the economy under Trump just happened in another country More than any U.S. politician's platform, Donald Trump's agenda on the economy resembles those of populist leaders abroad. By Max Ehrenfreund  •  Read more » Japan's Fukushima region rocked by 7.4-magnitude quake After a tsunami threat, officials said they were monitoring the area's nuclear plant, which suffered a triple meltdown after a 2011 earthquake. By Anna Fifield  •  Read more » Obama setting the record for the most Presidential Medals of Freedom Although awarding the Medal of Freedom is perhaps less critical than the domestic and foreign policymaking that occupies most of a president's time, it is still an important — and revealing — act for several reasons. By E. Fletcher McClellan, Kyle C. Kopko, Christopher J. Devine, Jillian E. Casey and Julia L. Ward  •  Read more » Kanye West hospitalized in Los Angeles, placed on psychiatric hold Reports cited exhaustion as possible factor in the hospitalization, which followed a bizarre weekend in which West delivered a long, stream-of-consciousness rant at one concert and canceled another hours before it was set to begin. By Travis M. Andrews  •  Read more »         Share Today's Headlines:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you are 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