Mr. Trump escalated his feud with the courts over his travel ban, saying the judges had failed to grasp concepts even “a bad high school student would understand.” The Alabama senator survived a near-party-line vote after a racially charged nomination battle that crested with the procedural silencing of Senator Elizabeth Warren. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Senate Republicans halted her remarks after she criticized a colleague, Jeff Sessions, before his confirmation as attorney general, by reading a letter from Coretta Scott King. After Senator Elizabeth Warren’s remarks were halted during a Senate confirmation hearing for Jeff Sessions to become attorney general, many people rallied around her. The world’s largest chip manufacturer, which opposes President Trump’s immigration order but backs his tax and regulatory plans, will invest $7 billion to finish a factory conceived in 2011. Capping a strikingly contentious confirmation process, the Senate is expected to vote as soon as Wednesday evening on the nomination of Mr. Sessions to be attorney general. Yemeni officials are caught between the public outrage at home over civilian deaths and fear of losing American counterterrorism assistance. A comment by President Trump has cast a spotlight on the seizing of suspects’ property before they have been convicted of a crime. Linebacker Dont’a Hightower on Wednesday became the latest Super Bowl champion to bow out of the traditional meeting with the president. The Senate majority leader said Mr. Trump’s decisions so far had been “right-of-center things that we would have hoped” a Republican president would make. Wednesday’s temperatures reached 62 degrees in New York City, but don’t get used to it. Up to 12 inches of snow could hit the region on Thursday. Even as global stock markets climb, concerns are building that debt problems in Greece and Italy will put additional strain on the euro. Doctors and hospitals failed to tell the Food and Drug Administration about women whose cancer was spread by a surgical tool, a new report finds. Newly discovered letters from Mrs. Kennedy to Lord Harlech, whose heart she broke, explain her decision to marry Aristotle Onassis. He is nominated for best new artist, and his 2016 album, “Malibu,” is nominated as best urban contemporary album. Vanguard artists, variously known for sweet singing, savvy producing and a buttery falsetto, are looking for Grammy victories. Shrinking budgets and the specter of overexposure have reduced the ranks of megastars lending their wattage. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, an American-born Muslim convert, became the second person in the United States to be convicted of charges of supporting the Islamic State. Ukraine and Russia have denied any role in the latest separatist death, of Mikhail Tolstykh, or in previous killings of rebel leaders far from the front lines. Youths set cars and trash bins ablaze and vandalized buildings in suburbs around Paris, venting rage for the fourth straight day over the allegations. For the second time this year, a federal judge has sided with the Justice Department to derail a merger of two huge health insurers. Dozens were injured but no one was killed, officials said, as the narrow alleyways blocked fire trucks and residents tried fighting the blaze with buckets of water. A stadium clock notes that Hamburg has been in the Bundesliga since the German league was founded, a distinction it may soon lose. He played Captain Apollo, a fighter pilot, in the original 1970s television series and later a political leader, Tom Zarek, in a reboot of the series in 2004. Dorothea Lange’s photographs of Japanese-Americans interned during World War 2 capture not only the oppression of a people but also their struggle to retain their dignity. Warner Bros. offers amusement at its own expense and Will Arnett gives great voice to Gotham’s brooder, but this new movie is still a commercial. The Griffith Observatory, Pasadena and palm trees — the writer and director of “La La Land” talks about why he loves L.A. More Recent Articles |
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