Evening Edition: GOP lawmakers, in closed session, fret about quick Obamacare repeal

Pence vows 'full evaluation' of voter rolls in private GOP meeting, recording shows; Trump, Mexican president speak by phone after canceling meeting; Trump meets with British leader, pledges to defer to defense secretary on 'torture' ; At march, Pence tells abortion opponents: 'Life is winning again in America'; Reality check: Many of Trump's early vows will probably never happen; In unprecedented move, pension plan cuts benefits promised to retirees; What we talk about when we talk about Trump and 'gaslighting'; Sen. Franken: No Democrat will vote for Betsy DeVos as education secretary; How a Secret Service controversy turned a professor's life into an online nightmare; No, the White House didn’t Photoshop an image of the president’s hand; A 14-year-old extorted $28,000 from the teacher he was having sex with, police say; Onlookers yell at man drowning in a Venice canal: ‘Go back where you came from’; Tom Brady and Bill Belichick's secret? It's not personal; it's just business.; My mom has Stage 4 cancer, and I'm grieving already; Can the president make official policy statements on Twitter?;   The day's most important stories   GOP lawmakers, in closed session, fret about quick Obamacare repeal Lawmakers aired sharp concerns about the push to quickly repeal the Affordable Care Act at a private meeting Thursday, according to a recording of the session obtained by The Post. By Mike DeBonis  •  Read more » Pence vows 'full evaluation' of voter rolls in private GOP meeting, recording shows The vice president's comments give the clearest picture yet of how the Trump administration intends to investigate whether 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 election, an unsupported claim President Trump has made. By Mike DeBonis  •  Read more »   Trump, Mexican president speak by phone after canceling meeting Amid one of the worst crises in U.S.-Mexico relations in years, President Trump and President Enrique Peña Nieto spoke by phone for about an hour, a conversation that Trump said was "very, very friendly" but one that he suggested was a prelude to tough negotiations over what he described as an unfair trade relationship. By Joshua Partlow and William Branigin  •  Read more »   Trump meets with British leader, pledges to defer to defense secretary on 'torture' President Trump said he continues to believe torture methods can be effective to combat terrorism but pledged to defer over whether to implement such tactics to Defense Secretary James Mattis, who has opposed them. "He will override," Trump said in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May at the White House. By David Nakamura  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   At march, Pence tells abortion opponents: 'Life is winning again in America' He became the first vice president to address the March for Life since demonstrations began in 1974. Top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway also addressed the crowd: "I am a wife, a mother, a Catholic, counselor to the president of the United States of America and, yes, I am pro-life." By Julie Zauzmer and Sarah Pulliam Bailey  •  Read more »   Reality check: Many of Trump's early vows will probably never happen Many of the sweeping actions President Trump vowed this week are impractical, opposed by Congress, or full of legal holes. This reality underscores his chaotic start, which includes executive actions drafted by close aides rather than experts and without input from the agencies tasked with implementing them. By Ashley Parker and Sean Sullivan  •  Read more »   In unprecedented move, pension plan cuts benefits promised to retirees The cuts were made possible under a 2014 law that for the first time allowed financially troubled pensions to reduce payments to retirees if it would prevent the fund from running out of money. By Jonnelle Marte  •  Read more »   What we talk about when we talk about Trump and 'gaslighting' The term — which refers to a deliberate attempt to deceive someone into questioning their own perception of reality — has jumped from cinema to psychology to politics. By Caitlin Gibson  •  Read more »   Sen. Franken: No Democrat will vote for Betsy DeVos as education secretary The Minnesota Democrat said his party is recruiting Republicans to join their opposition to the billionaire, who displayed a lack of understanding of key education issues. By Valerie Strauss  •  Read more »   How a Secret Service controversy turned a professor's life into an online nightmare New York University's Kerry O'Grady was confused for a Secret Service agent by the same name. The agent is under investigation for appearing to indicate that she would not take a bullet for President Trump. By Peter Holley  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   No, the White House didn’t Photoshop an image of the president’s hand Was a photograph of the famously thin-skinned Trump doctored to make his hand look larger? The theory took off on social media. Upon closer inspection, however, the idea doesn't hold up. By Philip Bump  •  Read more »   A 14-year-old extorted $28,000 from the teacher he was having sex with, police say It's unclear whether the 27-year-old suspected the real source of the blackmail messages on her cellphone, but for nearly a year, she left thousands of dollars at drop-off locations across Dallas. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.  •  Read more »   Onlookers yell at man drowning in a Venice canal: ‘Go back where you came from’ The death of an African migrant in Italy is a bleak reminder of how deep tensions run between local citizens and immigrants. By Amanda Erickson  •  Read more »   Sally Jenkins | Columnist Tom Brady and Bill Belichick's secret? It's not personal; it's just business. The Patriots quarterback and his coach have built Hall of Fame careers together without ever becoming close friends. By Sally Jenkins  •  Read more »   My mom has Stage 4 cancer, and I'm grieving already The advice columnist takes your questions about the strange train we call life. By Carolyn Hax  •  Read more »   'Can He Do That?' Can the president make official policy statements on Twitter? This episode looks at President Trump's tweets and the pros and cons of a president having a direct line to the people. 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