The Justice Department wants information about Skadden’s work on behalf of a Russia-aligned former president of Ukraine. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Thursday: Checking in on California’s earthquake warning system, pro surfers compete in the San Joaquin Valley, and snow arrives in Tahoe. An executive order that the president announced suggested that for now at least he was still committed to economic pressure, rather than military action. After President Trump threatened to “totally destroy” his country, Kim Jong-un vowed countermeasures and called the American leader a “frightened dog” and a “dotard.” Sticking to a speech or veering off script, the president often seemed like a fish out of water at the General Assembly gathering. On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, business leaders schmooze with diplomats — and one another — at private dinners and opulent events. The president’s national security advisers have advised relaxing certain Obama-era rules outside war zones, laying the groundwork for counterterrorism missions in more countries. The former Patriots tight end was convicted of murder in 2015. He was found dead in his prison cell in April. Jojutla, a town south of Mexico City that is unaccustomed to earthquakes, was heavily damaged by Tuesday’s quake and is struggling to cope with a scarcity of resources. Hundreds of volunteers, military personnel and city workers came together to try to find survivors after a textile factory collapsed during Tuesday’s earthquake, burying several people in Mexico City. The Graham-Cassidy bill would turn federal funding for a law Republicans loathe into block grants to states, realizing a long-held goal of the party. For an island long crippled by enormous debt and an essentially bankrupt financial system, Puerto Rico’s road back has gone from long to seemingly endless. Puerto Ricans are facing the crushing devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria — splintered homes, uprooted trees and floodwaters coursing through streets. With all power out and most cell towers down, many Puerto Ricans found themselves unable to communicate with loved ones on the storm-ravaged island. In Latin American Los Angeles, bridges soar, walls fall. A grand exchange beckons the art traveler to “Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.” After witnessing Moscow’s meddling in the American and French elections, Germany had its guard up. But the Kremlin seems to be sitting this one out. Emma Stone plays Billie Jean King and Steve Carell plays Bobby Riggs in a movie about the 1973 tennis match that became a referendum on equality. The sitting senator, Luther Strange, took every opportunity to mention the president’s endorsement, and the candidate he trails, Roy Moore, needled him for it. Two female inmates claimed in court papers that several guards, in some cases, provided a prisoner with access to the victims and materials used in the assaults. Five other men remain in custody over the Parsons Green subway explosion, which injured 30 people. The budget airline has faced a wave of customer anger over the cancellation of 2,100 flights over a six-week period in September and October. The firm’s move, spurred by a borrowing spree that it said threatens the world’s No. 2 economy, comes just before a sensitive Communist Party meeting. The former Fox News host says her daily NBC morning show, which starts Monday, is one she was “born to do.” Others aren’t so sure. Facing a backlash, the museum put out a statement defending an exhibition by Chinese conceptual artists that is to open on Oct. 6. Mrs. Bettencourt, ranked as the world’s richest woman, tried to live down her family’s fascist associations, and her final years were overtaken by scandal. In the middle of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech at a Times Square hotel, a protester screamed: “You’re a terrorist. Get out of my country!” The elephants died after they knocked into the line and the power came into contact with water from a broken pipe, officials said. When Jimmy Kimmel talked seriously about health care, it was an uncommon moment for him, but other late-night hosts have substituted politics for punch lines. Many Republican voters support DACA, especially G.O.P. elites, and he could always change his mind. He’s done it before. What started as a midnight excursion of curious graduate students turned into a study with implications for basic questions about sleep. The spacecraft will make a flyby of Earth on Friday, using the planet’s gravity to steer it toward Bennu, an asteroid it will visit next year. The new, new, new age is all about “defragging our nervous systems.” She’s done with Bond but back in play for “Victoria & Abdul,” dating a jolly nice chap and giving Iago higher marks than Trump. Stanley Elkin’s “The Dick Gibson Show,” about a talk-radio host, is a landslide of language, offering gags, wordplay and flights of fancy, sexual and otherwise. More Recent Articles |
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