President-elect Trump has suggested a heavy tax on companies that move jobs overseas, but Republican leaders pushed back, saying they don’t want a trade war. Announcements of several of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet posts are helping to define his approach to issues at home. Experts in urban areas admire Mr. Carson’s medical clout but are concerned about his lack of experience in government. Donald J. Trump has challenged Beijing on trade and the South China Sea, rejecting suggestions that he needed China’s approval to talk to Taiwan’s president. The two groups are putting aside divisions to combat a wave of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism since Donald J. Trump’s election, and to resist whatever may come next. Hate crimes in New York City have risen in the weeks since Donald J. Trump won the presidential election. The incidents range from vicious graffiti to physical violence. Edgar M. Welch of North Carolina was charged after a shooting at a Washington pizzeria that he thought was harboring young children as sex slaves. Days before the election, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn posted on Twitter a fake news story alleging the Clinton campaign was being investigated for pedophilia and other felonies. Al Gore was to meet with Ivanka Trump on climate change, but the former vice president got to bend the ear of the president-elect himself. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. As the country’s voters emphatically rejected reforms in a referendum Sunday, they added to grave international uncertainties and prompted the prime minister to resign. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi tendered his resignation on Monday after voters rejected his constitutional overhaul plan. Reports in The Times revealed that black inmates were disciplined more than whites. Now, the state will investigate the revelations with an eye toward reform. The deadly fire in an Oakland warehouse has shed light on an illegal housing boom and prompted questions about whether the building should have been shut down. As the coroner began releasing the victims’ names, friends and family members remembered their loved ones as “honorable” and “ferociously brilliant.” Jurors could not agree on the fate of a North Charleston police officer, Michael T. Slager, in the fatal shooting of Walter L. Scott, an unarmed black man. L. Chris Stewart, the lawyer for the family of Walter L. Scott, the black man who was shot dead by the former South Carolina police officer Michael T. Slager, spoke after news of Mr. Slager's mistrial, as did Mr. Scott's mother. Mr. Stewart said that the officer had "delayed" justice but that he would not "escape" it. The presence of many hundreds of veterans — organizers were anticipating 2,000 or more — adds another potent layer to a fight that is already steeped in sharp contrasts. From tear gas to Donald J. Trump: How the Dakota Access Pipeline protests have unfolded over the past several months. Mike Rice, the disgraced former Rutgers coach who was fired for abusive treatment of his players, is gaining renewed respect on the sidelines of high school games. A sampler of television as dizzying and agitated as the year we’ve just lived through. The move cleared the way for the ascension of his Democratic challenger, Roy Cooper, and gave the national Democratic Party a rare cause for celebration. Last month, jurors convicted Justin Ross Harris of malice murder and other charges in the June 2014 death of his 22-month-old child, Cooper. In deposition testimony from a 2005 civil lawsuit, the star acknowledged obtaining quaaludes as part of his efforts to have sex with women. The ruling to remove Renan Calheiros comes as tensions have escalated between Congress and the judiciary over corruption investigations. Mr. Abe’s trip this month to the site his country attacked 75 years ago will in effect be reciprocating a visit by President Obama to Hiroshima this year. At an experimental store on the ground floor of a new Amazon office building in Seattle, shoppers will be able to pluck what they want off the shelves and leave without waiting to pay. Jayalalithaa Jayaram, 68, an imperious former starlet, died after a cardiac arrest and had groomed no successor. The case in which the federal judge found that city officials had segregated public housing and schools along racial lines stretched 27 years. The interactive hatching toys are virtually sold out, and the maker promises more stock — in January. That the actress Maria Schneider was left in the dark about details of the infamous scene in Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 film has left many outraged. Matsuyama, 24, has continued a streak that invokes Tiger Woods’s performance at the same age, but in front of the cameras, the similarities end. More Recent Articles |
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