The material was considered so potentially explosive that the intelligence agencies decided that the president and the president-elect needed to be told and that the agencies were actively investigating it. A 35-page dossier on ties between Russia and Donald Trump surfaced months ago, but other news outlets, including The Times, discounted it as unproven. The pro-Moscow tilt of Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn stands in striking opposition to the judgments of the intelligence agencies he will help oversee. James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, outlined the hacking of Republican computers to a panel of the Senate Intelligence Committee. During a Senate hearing, the senator who is in line to become attorney general promised to aggressively enforce even laws with which he disagreed. President-elect Donald J. Trump is scheduled to hold a news conference, as Rex W. Tillerson, his choice for secretary of state, headlines a slate of hearings. Mr. Sessions, a Republican senator from Alabama nominated to be Donald J. Trump’s attorney general, spent all day at the witness table. Mr. Sessions offered assurances that he would be an independent attorney general and a check on President-elect Donald J. Trump. A group supporting members of the party accused the nonpartisan agency charged with unraveling potential conflicts of interest of politicizing the process. The retired general drew bipartisan support after offering views on immigration and border security differing from those expressed by the president-elect. President-elect Donald J. Trump said he wanted to replace the Affordable Care Act as soon as it was repealed, but some Republicans want more time to consider an alternative. Privatization is being portrayed as a surefire way to deliver better services for less public money, but a body of economics suggests this belief is false. Tax experts say Exxon Mobil’s plan for Mr. Tillerson, its former chief executive and now the secretary of state nominee, may run into trouble with the I.R.S. The vaccine skeptic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said Mr. Trump had asked him to lead the commission, though a spokeswoman said no final decisions had been made. The right-wing news and opinion website hopes the new section, led by John Carney, will help to broaden its audience. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Pete Wells, restaurant critic for the Times, visits Flora Bar, a new restaurant and cafe on the lower level of the Met Breuer. We take a look inside on a snowy Saturday. In discs and cubes, the team behind Estela constructs dishes as intriguing (and satisfying) as the art on display. After eight years and one of the most contentious elections in memory, President Obama took the stage in Chicago to defend his agenda and to encourage unity in an increasingly fractured political landscape. The transcript and live video of President Obama’s farewell address in Chicago. As President Obama delivers his farewell address, here is a look at some of the best speeches of his presidency. Dylann S. Roof was found guilty of 33 counts in connection with the June 17, 2015, massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Nine people died. The impact and implications of the trial of Dylann S. Roof, who was convicted in the shooting rampage that killed nine members of a historically black church in Charleston, S.C. Mr. Roof at times represented himself and showed no remorse in court. The death-penalty decision was reached in three hours. The agreement, which would settle a federal criminal investigation into the carmaker’s cheating on vehicle emissions tests, could be put to a company vote on Wednesday. In 1939, Ms. Hollingworth was less than a week into her first job as a correspondent when she spotted troops and tanks concealed in a valley. The girls’ parents had resisted the mandatory classes on religious grounds, taking their case to the European Court of Human Rights. When Juliet Huddy rebuffed advances by Mr. O’Reilly, he tried to derail her career, according to a draft of a letter from her lawyers obtained by The New York Times. President Xi Jinping’s appearance is China’s latest attempt to compete with the United States’ dominant position in world economic and strategic institutions. The provocative move signals China’s growing naval strength and comes after a phone call between Taiwan’s president and Donald J. Trump. An activist wants a West Village building to be a prayer house, to be owned and operated by the Lenape Indians, who inhabited Manhattan before European settlers appropriated it. The opposition Labour leader said he was “not wedded to freedom of movement” in the European Union, opening the way to supporting a so-called soft Brexit. They are calling for the country’s athletes to be kept out of international competitions until it complies with antidoping rules, among other proposals. We are thrilled to announce that we have begun to enable HTTPS on NYTimes.com, an effort that helps protect the privacy of our readers and ensures the authenticity of our content. The former Republican senator from New York was removed from a Jet Blue plane in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in an incident captured on video. Hubert Edward Spires, a former Air Force sergeant, fought to have the word “undesirable” removed from his records. Mr. Innis, the leader of CORE, took a go-it-alone approach to black empowerment and had no use for desegregation and affirmative action. With 65,000 new streetlights, the city sends a message: It’s O.K. to go out after dark. Restaurants feel the glow. So do schoolchildren. Eran Neuman, the new director of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, will begin the job next month. Zachary Cole Fernandez, a 30-year-old artist who surrendered to the authorities on Monday, said he did it to bring “positivity and happiness.” The administration added the rusty-patched bumblebee, which once covered 28 states but is threatened by pesticides, disease and climate change, to the endangered species list. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron atop a former cocoa warehouse, this concert hall in Germany gears up for its inaugural event on Wednesday. Han Kang’s “Human Acts” revisits a 1980 uprising against South Korea’s authoritarian rule. After a tumultuous childhood, Julio Reyes is working toward a degree in accounting at Binghamton University. The Children’s Aid Society helped him on his way. More Recent Articles |
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