After the election, Democrats debated whether to confront the president or seek compromise, but riled-up liberals have pushed party leaders into an all-out fight. The president’s chief strategist vowed that the “deconstruction of the administrative state” in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Top U.S. officials held a news conference in Mexico City as policy announcements from the White House continue to enrage the Mexican public. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Gavin Grimm, 17, whose initials are on a case heading to the Supreme Court, has become the new face of the transgender rights movement. There was mixed reaction nationwide to a Wednesday order by the new administration, ending an Obama-era policy that allowed transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponded to their gender identity. President Trump would welcome meeting with the singer after she criticized his rollback of rules on bathrooms for transgender students, the White House press secretary said. A study based on state and federal data estimates that nearly 150,000 American teenagers from 13 to 17 would say they were transgender if asked. The coming days may show whether President Trump will keep his campaign promises to preserve social programs or take on the views of those around him. Ernie Els drew social media fire by playing golf with President Trump, but an informal survey of P.G.A. players suggests most others would, too. Many in the field fear border tariffs and trade deals will raise the cost of American airplanes, sending shock waves though its thousands of suppliers. The Malaysian police said the substance, listed as a chemical weapon, had been identified from samples taken from the skin and eye of the North Korean leader’s estranged half brother. The criticism focused on China’s decision to suspend coal imports from North Korea, which depends on China for 90 percent of its external trade. The largest protest camp at Standing Rock was cleared on Wednesday after the governor of North Dakota ordered the evacuation of people who had occupied the land for months. Popular ideas about the working class are woefully out of date. Here are nine people who tell a truer story of what the American work force does today — and will do tomorrow. New kinds of work require new ideas — and new ways of organizing. Many Americans need jobs, or want better jobs, while employers have good jobs they can’t fill. Matching them up is the tricky part. As automation reduces the need for human labor, some Silicon Valley executives think a universal income will be the answer — and the beta test is happening in Kenya. If you’re in a car or on a cruise, look at the road or water ahead — and eat food that is easily digestible. President Trump’s new deportation rules risk increasing the burdens on undocumented immigrants and, more broadly, on society as a whole. Europeans are increasingly caught up in a debate over the treatment of immigrants as rising hostility clashes with long-held values of tolerance. A plan to pay town workers in Overtornea, Sweden, to take an hour off for sex has raised eyebrows, but some experts say it has merit. The new basic economy class seats are expected to be in many cases the same price as the existing standard economy fare. Dr. Dresselhaus, who helped transform carbon into the superstar of modern materials science, was renowned for her efforts to promote the cause of women in science. The sport is a premier event of the Winter Games, but never caught on much in South Korea. So putting together a credible team has taken some creativity. A lawsuit says an employee took thousands of secret files on self-driving car design when he left Google to start his own company, later sold to Uber. Ms. de Lima, a fierce opponent of the president’s bloody antidrug campaign, is accused of taking bribes from imprisoned drug traffickers. Reviving a law not used since 1971, officials brought charges against a man who made an anti-Islamic demonstration on Facebook. Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford star in the marvelous revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical, at the newly restored Hudson Theater. Oakley sat courtside at Quicken Loans Arena on Thursday for the Knicks’ game against the Cavaliers, saying he was merely there “to enjoy the game.” Immigrants in New York, anxious about the possibility of deportation, arrive before dawn for a legal clinic offered by Catholic Charities. In addition to the caged and battered dogs in a garage in Queens, officials found training equipment suggesting the dogs were being trained to fight. She has been a fan of his ever since they met at Le Club in 1974. Now that he is president, her cheerleading has consequences. In “Testosterone Rex,” the Australian academic Cordelia Fine argues that society’s views about gender are blinkered, hidebound and wrong. More Recent Articles |
Post a Comment