Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. A furious back-and-forth turned what can be an emotionally wrenching encounter into an ugly spectacle between the president and a bereaved citizen. President Trump’s condolence call to the widow of a slain soldier was outside the usual range of encounters with presidents, wounded service members and families of those killed said. “That is not what you say to a grieving widow,” congresswoman says of president’s comment that soldier “knew what he was signing up for.” With the fall of its capital and loss of territory, the Islamic State may be reeling but not vanquished. Kurdish and Iraqi forces, both armed by the Americans, fought each other in Kirkuk. Analysts think Iran played a key role in the dispute’s resolution. The Naem traffic circle in Raqqa teemed with life before the Syrian civil war. Then it came to symbolize death. The treatment will be for adults with aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma when chemotherapy has failed. It re-engineers a patient’s own cells to fight cancer. After voicing support, the president offered a different take on the plan, while its Republican architect predicted it would pass before the end of the year. State regulators and insurers have found a way to funnel more federal money into the markets and protect consumers from big rate hikes. President Trump has repeatedly called payments made to health insurers “a bailout” but they lower out-of-pocket costs for low-income people. Ksenia Sobchak, a TV journalist who has long paraded her glamorous life on social media, says she will be the voice of Russians without one. The Children’s Health Insurance Program has had bipartisan support, as does a compromise to save Obamacare. Republicans could wreck both. A word that once promised revolution has been made business-friendly and bloodless. It’s time to reclaim it. For his own sake, the president should reappoint the Federal Reserve chairwoman. Since 2010, the government has more than doubled its education budget. But it has misdiagnosed the problem. They rely on bad data in opinions — and they shouldn’t simply dismiss evidence they don’t understand as “gobbledygook.” For three years, we have battled terrorists — and the odds. We will not allow the Kurds to rip our country apart. Big Pharma has helped get America hooked on opioids. With subterfuge and an ear for those who can gain financially, the administration pushes to drill oil and mine gold in fragile areas. At issue is whether the Trump Hotel in Washington violates a provision banning federal officials from accepting economic benefits from governments at home or abroad. Gov. Roy Cooper and transgender rights advocates said they had drawn up a settlement on the state’s longstanding bathroom dispute. Lawyers for the teenager accused federal officials of blocking her access to an abortion by not letting her leave a Texas shelter. Sweeping changes include introducing partisan ballots to judges’ races, the first state to do so in almost a century. Residents of Moran, Tex., depend heavily on the company whose products enable high-speed gunfire, and say a ban would be disastrous, and unconstitutional. Under Janet L. Yellen, unemployment has declined and inflation has remained low. But that may not be enough for her to keep the job. Guiyang has built a museum and park to Wang Yangming, a 16th-century philosopher at the center of a propaganda drive by China’s leader, Xi Jinping. As a young social psychologist, she played by the rules and won big: an influential study, a viral TED talk, a prestigious job at Harvard. Then, suddenly, the rules changed. Hidden in a church basement and forgotten, the books and documents recently discovered provide sharp new insights into Jewish life and literature. The Rolling Stone founder seemed to enjoy opening up his life to Joe Hagan. Now that the book is about to come out, they are no longer speaking. As the zombie apocalypse drama returns for Season 8, the AMC series is looking to rebound from a stretch of storytelling shenanigans that alienated viewers. Daniil Trifonov, Khatia Buniatishvili and more talented pianists (and one harpsichordist) share their favorite albums by the great Argentine musician. The Borromeo Quartet will perform selections from its transcription of Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier” on Friday at Carnegie Hall. When scientists salvaged recordings from a remote spot in a national park in Alaska, they heard footsteps, sniffs, huffs, a series of crunches, then silence. The incidence of mouth and throat cancers caused by the human papillomavirus in men has now surpassed the incidence of HPV-related cervical cancers in women. More Recent Articles |
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