Flanked by coal miners at the Environmental Protection Agency, President Trump signed an order directing the agency to start the process of rewriting the Clean Power Plan. President Trump’s move aiming to roll back environmental regulations elated many in coal country who felt bullied by his predecessor. But expectations for a comeback remain muted. Reversing clean power rules may lead to more drilling and pipelines, but economics and state initiatives still favor natural gas and renewable energy. President Trump claimed undue credit for job gains and miscast the effect of his executive orders on energy. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Democrats’ concerns about his impartiality were “their problem.” The president’s failure to push through broad health care overhaul has raised questions about the prospects of a sweeping rewrite of the tax code. Under pressure from conservative activists, House Republican leaders and the White House say they have restarted negotiations. Following the Senate, the House voted to dismantle rules requiring broadband providers to get permission before collecting data on a user’s online activity. The administration said the entire White House staff would not attend the event next month, in solidarity with the president, who had already said he would not attend. A stream of Chinese visitors reportedly stopped to see the house between when it was listed for auction in January and when the sale closed last week. A vote by the Scottish Parliament sets the stage for a tussle between London and Edinburgh, with Scottish voters preferring to stay in the European Union. BlackRock is merging many actively managed mutual funds with peers that rely more on algorithms and models to pick stocks. Researchers are surprised to see very little employment increase in other occupations to offset the job losses in manufacturing. What draws so many black fans to Korean pop music? We explore the question on a Friday night in Newark, where thousands of fans pour in to see BTS, one of the most popular Korean pop bands in the world. The refusal was the latest strain to relations as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey pursues a referendum next month to expand his powers. Three storm chasers were killed when their vehicles collided at a rural crossroads during severe West Texas storms on Tuesday. The suit says that Judith Slater, then the company’s comptroller, made racially charged comments, including suggestions that black men were “women beaters.” The terrorist, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, was convicted of tossing a hand grenade into a Paris drugstore in 1974, killing two and wounding 34. On the front lines of the fight against ISIS in west Mosul, a photojournalist for The Times documents the toll on Iraqis who have no safe way to escape. The remarks by a general were the fullest acceptance of responsibility by an American commander for a March 17 strike that killed scores of civilians. Read about how the other side thinks. We have collected political writing from around the web and across ideologies. No partisanship here. Just great stories about the world’s greatest book deal, the man who wrote “Groundhog Day” twice and famous love letters. “Sunshine State,” Sarah Gerard’s essay collection, and “Gulf: The Making of an American Sea,” Jack E. Davis’s environmental history, each explore the terrain of an unmoored state. The drug, Ocrevus by Genentech, can also be used to treat patients with the more common form of the disease. The drug makers Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi made a rare move, negotiating with insurers in advance over the price for Dupixent. Has an outspokenly anti-immigrant congressman finally gone too far, even for his loyal constituents? Their attitudes seem to be shifting. The picture that L.P.G.A. golfers paint of the president as a respectful supporter of women stands in contrast to his record of speaking about women in degrading terms, our columnist writes. The 11 people arrested, who told prosecutors they were trying to send an antiwar message, face criminal charges for their stunt near the gate of the former Nazi death camp. Michael Sharp of Kansas and Zaida Catalan, a Swede, were investigating a new rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Fox has signed on to produce the film, inspired by elements of Mr. Williams’s childhood in Virginia Beach, and Michael Mayer will direct. A front page with Theresa May, Britain’s prime minister, and Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister of Scotland, elicited immediate outrage. He spent 26 years in prison, many alongside his close friend Nelson Mandela, for resisting white minority rule. Women are increasingly taking up this traditional masculine pastime, looking to connect with nature and the food chain. Some with wealth and renown are finding that insufficient and, like President Trump, are contemplating the political life. According to Tiffany Dufu’s “Drop the Ball” and Stephen Marche’s “The Unmade Bed,” there’s a solution to those impossible household to-do lists: Quit. More Recent Articles |
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