Representative John Conyers Jr., who paid a secret settlement with taxpayer money, stepped aside from his post as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. Conservative Christian leaders are edging toward a once-improbable victory, having quietly worked for years to repeal a ban on political activity by churches. House Republicans, seeking to clean up the tax code and expand tax rate cuts, voted to eliminate a deduction for teacher spending. The Senate bill would double it. After Hurricane Maria, the reasons for leaving Puerto Rico were obvious. Still, an exodus has stirred guilt, resentment and fear it could slow the recovery. The Caribbean island of Barbuda felt the full force of Hurricane Irma. Now, a struggle to control its future is underway. On one side are Barbudans who own the land and want to preserve their unique way of life — on the other, the government and foreign investors who see opportunity in disaster. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing’s campaign to drive out Muslims, which is widely approved of by Myanmar’s Buddhist majority, may help lead him to the presidency. The pope, who is visiting on Monday, received a plea from the nation’s cardinal not to mention the Muslim minority but focus on the group in “a way that doesn’t hurt anybody.” Accelerating glacial melt in the Andes caused by climate change has set off a gold rush downstream, letting the desert bloom. But as the ice vanishes, the vast farms below may do the same. The Chinese Communist Party is reaching into Western academic communities and silencing visiting Chinese students. Proposals being considered would make it hard for these important organizations to do their work. An innocuous-seeming railway project connecting Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland is a not-so-covert attack on the city’s political autonomy. This immigration enforcement tactic scares people away from courthouses and harms us all. The justices have a good opportunity to bring the Fourth Amendment up-to-date in the digital age. Meredith Corporation, the publisher of Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens, clinches a deal in an cash transaction valued at nearly $3 billion. Rosemary Billquist was walking her dogs near her home in a small town in western New York. The man who shot her was a neighbor she had watched grow up. Our national editor responds to readers’ feedback, most of it highly critical, of our profile of a white nationalist in Ohio. Roya Sadat sold her apartment, car and jewelry to make a movie that deepens the conversation on women’s rights. It’s Afghanistan’s selection for the Oscars now. Turkish officials are watching closely as the U.S. prepares to try two prominent Turks accused of helping their country violate the embargo against Iran. Usman Lawan, 13, dreams of becoming a doctor while contending with his own hunger and irregular access to water amid Nigeria’s eight-year war against the terrorist group. Revivals of plays by Ibsen and Wilde, and a new work about the young Karl Marx, find strong women chafing under the yoke of dominating men. A four-performance run of the great choral work has been dedicated to the memory of the Russian baritone, a beloved Met artist who died on Wednesday. Ambiguities in the 50-year-old Outer Space Treaty may be getting in the way of entrepreneurs seeking opportunities elsewhere in our solar system. Rockers from the downtown scene of the 1970s and ’80s are keeping the flame alive, and their gray-haired fans are happy to party like it’s 1979. More Recent Articles |
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