Owners of Anbang, a Chinese insurer behind a wave of multibillion-dollar deals, include relatives and friends of its politically connected chairman. The Chinese insurer has made a global splash with its deals, but its ownership lacks the marquee investors that a major company typically boasts. A document obtained by The Times shows the wording suggested by advisers for Mr. Trump’s replies to questions about race, religion and racism. Given the importance of Donald J. Trump’s visit to a black church, the Trump campaign went so far as to script Mr. Trump’s answers to the church’s pastor’s questions, which were submitted in advance. Where Donald J. Trump sees oases for criminals, some local law enforcers see policies that make their jurisdictions safer by encouraging undocumented immigrants to report crimes. The candidate’s wife, seeking $150 million in damages, said the tabloid published false statements, including one that she was an escort before she met her husband. A top aide to Hillary Clinton agreed to try to obtain a diplomatic passport for an adviser to Bill Clinton in 2009, according to newly released emails. Some of Mr. Trump’s top Hispanic Republican supporters denounced his reversal after signaling a more conciliatory approach to illegal immigrants less than two weeks ago. Fences along the frontier have only helped push smugglers underground, and experts say it may be years before the technology exists to reliably detect the tunnels. On the U.S.-Mexico border, a large fence has done little to deter enterprising drug smugglers. In Nogales, Ariz., they’ve been digging out tunnels for years in order to cross the border undetected. Tatyana McFadden, who with her mother has fought for students with disabilities to participate in sports, could leave the Rio Paralympics with seven gold medals. From the Watching team, expert TV and movie recommendations for September. The move was among new security measures unveiled by Mayor Bill de Blasio for New York City’s jail complex after a series of attacks on correction officers. The school, which in 1838 profited from the sale of 272 slaves, plans to award preferential status in the admissions process to descendants of slaves. John J. DeGioia, president of Georgetown University, said that it would apologize for its history with slaves and that their descendants would get admissions priority. The fiery blast also destroyed a satellite that Facebook had planned to use to expand internet services in Africa. Four years after he was accused of meddling in the American election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is being careful not to take sides. The suit is the biggest sign yet that youth football programs are the next front in the legal battle over head trauma. Florida announced on Thursday that for the first time mosquitoes in Miami Beach had tested positive for the virus, showing the virus was still active in the area. Throughout history, Washington and other Western powers have used the Kurds for their ends, then abandoned them when it became expedient. Opponents of President Nicolás Maduro took to the streets of Caracas to protest the nation’s economic collapse and its government. The Times’s lead story Wednesday on the G.O.P. candidate’s Mexico and Arizona immigration remarks didn’t keep up with his changing tone. Officials in Dorchester County, S.C., neglected to warn all beekeepers of a plan to spray pesticide from the air. The results were devastating. Nothing defines China’s hottest days more than the Beijing Bikini: grown men, without a hint of shame, rolling up shirts to expose often generous bellies. I did not ask to be put on this list. The Los Angeles gallery Blum & Poe, which hosted the ‘Famous’ exhibition, is projecting a hefty price tag for the work. The cocaine amounted to 370 kilograms and was stowed in a shipment of orange juice concentrate to the plant in the town of Signes. Everybody plans to keep looking, but for now the radio signal from the constellation Hercules seems destined to join the other false alarms. The decline is accelerating: Largely because of poaching, the African elephant population is dropping 8 percent a year. The depth of the conference, paradoxically, means a greater chance of two losses and being snubbed for the final four. The show “Taxidermy: Art, Science & Immortality” at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn offers a cat tableau by the Victorian Walter Potter. More Recent Articles |
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