The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities deemed to have discriminated against whites, a document says. The moves were a remarkable response to the president’s repeated threats to send health insurance markets into a tailspin. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Tuesday: Welcoming the Summer Games to Los Angeles, new obstacles for the bullet train, and the dangers of navigating the California coast. After last week’s legislative failure, Senate Republicans are newly emboldened when it comes to their independence from President Trump. The investigation, focused on alleged intellectual property violations, marks a shift in policy toward Beijing after President Trump had emphasized greater cooperation. The former federal prosecutor has pledged to protect the F.B.I. from political pressure after the firing of the former director, James B. Comey. The attorney general has been silent about the president’s remarks urging the police not to be “too nice,” even as other officials have denounced them. About 40 years after Jimmy Haakenson disappeared, his family now knows he was the victim of a serial killer, John Wayne Gacy, opening up a new set of haunting questions. By the time Noura Jackson’s conviction was overturned, she had spent nine years in prison. This type of prosecutorial error is almost never punished. Leaving behind immense crowds in Tokyo, the writer and her family make a getaway to Tottori and its unlikely landscape on the west coast of Japan. In high schools of the performing and visual arts, race, sexual identity and ZIP code are beside the point. But not academics. Alex Lacamoire, Cote de Pablo and Tarell Alvin McCraney on auditioning, passion and the value of college. The New World School of the Arts, a small, rigorous magnet high school in Miami, draws a diverse group of talented actors, musicians, dancers and visual artists. Sit in on a few classes in 360 degrees. Government agents hauled two prominent opposition politicians back to jail from house arrest on Tuesday, raising fears that the crackdown could extend from Venezuela’s legislature to its attorney general’s office. Dalian Wanda, once one of China’s biggest real estate developers, is trying to reinvent itself as a slimmed-down operator of shopping malls. Lewis Pugh, a British endurance swimmer, swam 22 minutes in the freezing Arctic Ocean to call attention to climate change’s effect on the world’s oceans. Federal border agents are testing a biometric scanning system to better track undocumented immigrants, focusing on those who have overstayed visas. A day after Phillips Academy cited abuse, Kent Denver, a Colorado prep school, says that Frederic Lyman also acted inappropriately toward students there. At least 20 people were killed when suicide bombers targeted worshipers in a mosque in Herat. The Taliban denied responsibility. Bill Shine, a former co-president of the network and an ally of Sean Hannity, was said to have discussed a position on President Trump’s communications team. Critics of the government have suggested that a police operation that left 15 people dead was a summary execution disguised as legitimate law enforcement. Heat will engulf the Pacific Northwest this week, sending temperatures as high as 104 in Seattle and 107 in Portland, Ore. A new law outlaws violence against women, forbids sexual harassment in public and calls for the police and judges to be trained to handle abuse cases. The “Harry Potter” author had assumed — incorrectly — that the president had snubbed a three-year-old boy with spina bifida. The declaration from Jamal Adams drew cheers at a fan forum and created an awkward moment, with the N.F.L. pushing for player safety. The actress recounts trying to build an adult relationship with her father on a cross-country journey in a rental truck. More Recent Articles |
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