Evening Edition: Trump wants to ‘greatly’ expand nuclear capability, a radical break from U.S. foreign policy

Trump chooses Sean Spicer for press secretary, rounds out communications staff; Why the attorney general didn't stop the FBI's bombshell Clinton letter; Racing the clock, medical detectives saved him from a rare, 'universally lethal' disease; Syrian military says it has retaken control of key city of Aleppo; Manhunt intensifies with 'violent and armed' Berlin suspect still at large; Trump, Obama on possible collision course over Israeli settlement vote; Drug makers hired dozens of officials from the DEA as the agency tried to curb opioid abuse; Coach Krzyzewski suspends Grayson Allen — 10 months too late; North Pole hits melting point as abnormally warm air pushes through the Arctic ; Two Belgian teens started an Ikea sleepover craze. Now police are trying to stop copycats.; ‘Tell them to go back where they belong': J.C. Penney customer’s racist tirade caught on video;   The day's most important stories   Trump wants to 'greatly' expand nuclear capability, a radical break from U.S. foreign policy It has been the longstanding policy of Republican and Democratic presidents since Ronald Reagan to seek to reduce the number and the role of nuclear weapons. By Carol Morello  •  Read more » Trump chooses Sean Spicer for press secretary, rounds out communications staff The Republican National Committee official fills what is likely to be a challenging role given Donald Trump's sometimes hostile relationship with the media. By Elise Viebeck  •  Read more »   Why the attorney general didn't stop the FBI's bombshell Clinton letter As James Comey's boss, Loretta Lynch could have ordered the FBI director not to send the letter to Congress announcing the discovery of more emails possibly related to the investigation of Hillary Clinton's private server. The two officials repeatedly underestimated how their actions would reverberate in a closely contested race. By Sari Horwitz  •  Read more »   Racing the clock, medical detectives saved him from a rare, 'universally lethal' disease It is often what went wrong that dictates the course of stories about exotic diseases. But in Erich Burger's case, when he returned sick after travels in Botswana and Zambia, health-care workers did the right thing at the right time, with little precedent for their decisions. By Lena H. Sun  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Syrian military says it has retaken control of key city of Aleppo Rebel forces have lost control of their last enclave in the strategic city as President Bashar al-Assad's troops capture their biggest battlefield prize in more than five years of war. By Hugh Naylor  •  Read more »   Manhunt intensifies with 'violent and armed' Berlin suspect still at large Authorities found a fingerprint of 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri on the truck that crashed into the market, further linking him to the attack, a German security official said. By Anthony Faiola, Naveena Kottor and Stefano Pitrelli  •  Read more »   Trump, Obama on possible collision course over Israeli settlement vote The president-elect warned the Obama administration against a possible abstention in a key U.N. Security Council vote that would declare illegal all Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory in the West Bank and mostly Arab east Jerusalem. By Karen DeYoung  •  Read more »   Drug makers hired dozens of officials from the DEA as the agency tried to curb opioid abuse Since 2005, the pharmaceutical companies and law firms that represent them have hired at least 42 officials from the DEA — 31 of them directly from the division responsible for regulating the industry, according to a Post investigation. By Scott Higham, Lenny Bernstein, Steven Rich and Alice Crites  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Barry Svrluga | Columnist Coach Krzyzewski suspends Grayson Allen — 10 months too late The Duke University basketball coach missed a chance to teach a lesson in February, and his player shows he didn't learn anything. By Barry Svrluga  •  Read more »   North Pole hits melting point as abnormally warm air pushes through the Arctic A weather buoy about 90 miles south of the North Pole registered a temperature at the melting point and the entire region has witnessed a sharp temperature spike of nearly 30 degrees. By Jason Samenow  •  Read more »   Two Belgian teens started an Ikea sleepover craze. Now police are trying to stop copycats. Nearly 2 million watched a YouTube video of their sleepover in the furniture store — then came a wave of imitators, reports of trespassing arrests and criticism in the international press. By Avi Selk  •  Read more »   ‘Tell them to go back where they belong': J.C. Penney customer’s racist tirade caught on video Officials at Jefferson Mall in Louisville said the belligerent customer will be "permanently banned" once she is identified. By Lindsey Bever  •  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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