Airstrikes hit Syria after deadly chemical attack, state TV reports  —  Syrian state TV and witnesses said late Sunday that airstrikes had hit a military airport near the city of Homs shortly after a suspected chemical attack that killed at least 40 people in a suburb of the capital city, Damascus, over the weekend.

White House has no plan for countering Comey  —  Former FBI director James Comey is about to return to the national spotlight with the release of his memoir next week — but the White House is doing little to prepare for the onslaught, according to two officials.

How Trumpworld is winging a trade war  —  When the president threatened China with $100 billion in new tariffs, there had hardly been any White House discussion.  —  What I'm hearing: There wasn't one single deliberative meeting in which senior officials sat down to debate the pros and cons of this historic threat.