Legislation would favor immigrants based on skills and education while curtailing those brought into the country through family ties. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Wednesday: A movement to start the school day no earlier than 8:30 a.m., a profile of Oakland’s earnest mayor, and a plan for Big Sur’s massive mudslide. The stock surge of recent months, ignited by policy prospects, is now driven by strong earnings and other factors that seem impervious to politics. The shuttering of the C.I.A. program, one of the most expensive efforts to arm and train rebels since the 1980s, has forced a reckoning over its successes and failures. The White House has spent considerable time and effort cultivating the right, the one constituency it knows it cannot afford to alienate. Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who succeeded Mr. Flynn as national security adviser, has slowly been removing some of his appointees, angering conservatives. The new law fixes some flaws, modernizes benefits and restores education benefits to thousands of veterans hurt when for-profit colleges failed. The White House admitted the president was not phoned with praise by the head of the Boy Scouts or the president of Mexico. But there was an explanation. The president signed legislation imposing sanctions on Russia and limiting his own authority to lift them, but called some provisions “clearly unconstitutional.” Exchanges between the senior White House adviser and Glenn Thrush of The New York Times and Jim Acosta of CNN became combative at a news briefing on Wednesday. Researchers have found a way to reliably remove disease-causing mutations from human embryos, an achievement sure to renew concerns over so-called designer babies. A lawsuit against Harvard raises the issue of whether there has been discrimination against Asian-Americans in the name of creating a diverse student body. The Justice Department said it is gearing up to investigate a complaint by Asian-Americans about a college’s affirmative action admissions practices. The network said in an internal memo that it did not believe its email system was compromised. The scope of the stolen materials, which include show episodes, is unknown. An officially vetted journal has sown rancor by depicting the U.S. church as overly political, captive to the right and out of step with the mainstream. The electric-car maker lost more than $400 million in the second quarter, but its revenue doubled, with its first mass-market model in the offing. Italian officials worry that the famed, sinking city is being further swamped by a “low-quality tourism” that is making life almost unbearable for residents. The agonies of being overweight — or running a diet company — in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size. More than 3,500 workers, most of them African-American, will decide on unionization this week at a Mississippi plant. The acquisition of Australia’s largest dairy was funded by loads of debt, the type of opaque deal-making that worries regulators around the world. The chef has found success by running her small, idiosyncratic restaurant in Freedom, Me., exactly the way she likes. Erin French has mastered the art of improvisation at her restaurant in Freedom, a tiny town in central Maine. Follow the chef as she forages ingredients and prepares for dinner service one summer evening. After years of plunder, countries will begin treaty talks at the United Nations to create marine reserves in international waters. Married to Queen Elizabeth II for nearly 70 years, the Duke of Edinburgh is retiring from most official engagements. The police in New York City said that the performer, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, stabbed a homeless man in Midtown on Monday. Amazon’s nationwide jobs fair on Wednesday offered a vivid illustration of its ascendance and seemingly insatiable need for workers to fuel its growth. P.S.G. is poised to more than double the world transfer record, paying $263 million for the rights to the Brazilian forward. A case underscores the complications of peer-to-peer sharing, even through an established company that says it does background checks on hosts and guests. Parseghian took over a program that had been in decline for years, and led it to national titles in 1966 and 1973. A new film about the 1980 massacre in Gwangju has an unlikely protagonist: the taxi driver who made sure a foreign journalist got there to document it. The Breakdown: conversation starters and context, drawn from the day’s news in Australia. Mr. Chappelle, blending comedy with his singular approach to storytelling, will perform through Aug. 24 with fellow headliners like Chris Rock and Leslie Jones. Ms. Jones discovered Julia Child and other venerated culinary writers, and pushed for the American publication of Anne Frank’s diary. More Recent Articles |
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