Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. A Justice Department lawsuit to block the merger sets up a showdown over the first blockbuster acquisition to come before the Trump administration. AT&T's many tangles with antitrust law over the years are a reminder of the complicated balancing act the government must strike in regulating ever-changing companies. Chancellor Angela Merkel says she would prefer a new round of elections to leading a minority government, if the quest for a majority coalition fails. The White House asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to allow President Donald Trump's latest travel ban to take full effect after an appeals court in California ruled last week that only parts of it could be enacted. A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked President Donald Trump's executive order to cut funding from cities that limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities. The long-fought pipeline got a final approval, but its fate still seemed uncertain. TransCanada, the pipeline company, did not say whether it would move forward. Allegations by women who worked with Mr. Rose over a dozen years led CBS to suspend him from its morning program and PBS to stop distributing his interview show. Men get away with bad behavior under the guise of show business in both comedy and politics. Too often, women are just the material. Lindsay Menz told CNN that in 2010, when Mr. Franken was a senator, he grabbed her rear end as they took a photo. Mr. Franken says he does not remember it. The Supreme Court has narrowed the use of life sentences without parole for juveniles. Now it can end it for good. The collapse of coalition talks on Sunday doesn’t mean the country is collapsing. But it does show how much the far right has changed German politics. If anything, he was a harbinger of today’s far right. The case of Al Franken shows how painful and confusing it is when the #MeToo juggernaut comes for men we respect. Colin Kaepernick and Rosa Parks are more alike than we think. Our devices consume our time and dilute our social interactions. Con men get really angry when someone points out their con. In 1967 the White House undertook a massive P.R. campaign on the Vietnam War. It worked — too well. The work of saving the planet is not technical, it’s political. The F.B.I. is investigating the possible attack on two border officers in the Texas desert, which killed one and came amid a rise in assaults on agents. North Korea had been removed from the list under the George W. Bush administration in an attempt to salvage negotiations for a nuclear deal. Six days after the ARA San Juan lost contact, with hopes raised and dashed, families of its 44 crew members are growing increasingly anxious. Joseph J. Lhota, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said in an interview that he wants to instill wholesale change in how the subways are managed. As Democrats grapple with a short bench of possible candidates in 2020, the Los Angeles mayor is offering himself as part of “an impatient next generation” ready to lead. Britain’s longest-serving monarch and her husband celebrated with the release of new photographic portraits of the royal couple. A nearly yearlong standoff has paralyzed its institutions and is threatening a 1998 treaty that largely ended three decades of fighting. Many of the country’s more than 900,000 temporary foreign workers make less than minimum wage but feel they can’t complain, a new survey showed. A social media star, the former labor secretary extends his critique of big money’s influence on politics with a new documentary, “Saving Capitalism.” Welcome to the latest edition of the Smarter Living newsletter. Hidden for decades behind crude wooden boards, an ornate ceramic frieze at the former Aux Belles Poules tells a story of the city’s once-thriving sex business. Almost alone in today’s fashion industry, he understood the value of time to the creative mind and the struggle it took to follow his own direction. The Bedlam production of the J.M. Barrie classic is both too childish to tell the story properly and too adult to access its wonder. Steven Stoll’s “Ramp Hollow” is a powerful and outrage-making analysis of the forces, over centuries, that have shaped the region. Engravings in the Saudi desert may be the earliest depictions of human-canine companionship. More Recent Articles |
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