It took Sayfullo Saipov less than an hour to rent a truck in New Jersey, drive 21 miles to the West Side Highway and plow into a bike lane in Lower Manhattan. Eight were killed and 12 more were injured in the attack. The New York attack brought scrutiny to a program that every years admits up to 50,000 foreigners who need no family ties to the United States or special skills. Few topics touch so raw a nerve after massacres as what constitutes terrorism. New York Times readers weighed in on the debate. The eight victims of Tuesday’s terror attack on a Manhattan bike lane came from as far as Argentina, and as near as a few blocks away. After months of avoiding a public debate about whether Russia helped tip the election, Republicans sought to portray the Kremlin-backed effort as a broader misinformation campaign. A look at some of the ads designed by Russia to exploit divisions in American society and to tip the 2016 election in favor of Donald J. Trump. What if it’s not that bad that so much economic, social and political power is held by Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft? Republicans are running into political challenges as they try to offset lost revenue to stay within the confines of the $1.5 trillion tax cut that lawmakers have voted to allow. During his campaign, Mr. Trump said the women who accused him of sexual misconduct were liars. A defamation suit could give them a chance to confront him again. Women including the actresses Natasha Henstridge and Olivia Munn have made accusations against Mr. Ratner. His lawyer denied the allegations of inappropriate conduct. Mr. Fallon admitted touching a female journalist’s knee, but there is talk that he may have committed other indiscretions. The White House chief of staff was supposed to be a calming force, but he has now echoed President Trump’s sympathy for white nationalists. The president and the Republicans claim to have a special understanding of American values and history. But a lot of what they say is very strange. My all-purpose expression of gratitude has been stolen to signify terrorism, and it hurts. Our government belongs to us, so let’s start acting like it. I’m sure you have questions. If President Trump fires the special counsel, will we rise up? My kids learned to ride their bikes on the same path that became Tuesday’s scene of carnage. In fact, on economic policy, America is a center-left nation. President Trump said that he wasn’t ‘angry at anybody’ and that investigations into his campaign’s links to Russia had not come near him personally. The herbicide dicamba is intended for soybeans and cotton crops that have been genetically modified. But other crops on nearby fields are suffering. The agency singled out businesses claiming their products could cure cancer or diabetes, and vanquish other illnesses. Over five months, they say, they faced vicious sharks, fierce weather and an engine failure. But experts suggest there may be reason to doubt parts of their story. The French president has not helped himself by trimming a wealth tax and with remarks that seem insensitive to class resentments. The commission’s 56 suggestions include expanding medication-assisted treatment and creating more drug courts but do not suggest a new approach to the crisis. Springer Nature, one of the world’s largest academic publishers, was the latest company to acknowledge acquiescing to Chinese demands to limit free speech. Seoul offered assurances to Beijing as the two papered over their differences on the deployment of an American missile defense system. Exhibitions in Germany and Switzerland will display the Gurlitt collection, first revealed in 2013, including works from Monet, Renoir and Cézanne. There is a certain symmetry in the end of “Fashion Police” and the publication of “Joan Rivers Confidential,” a book of ephemera from her career. Isaacson’s latest biography of a celebrated visionary captures the perfectionist, misser of deadlines and remarkably prescient genius. A film critic and a music critic discuss a new work at the Metropolitan Opera: Thomas Adès’s “crazily varied” adaptation of Luis Buñuel’s 1962 film. In works like “School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play,” Jocelyn Bioh aims to tell stories that buck expectation and defy stereotype. The enthusiasm for science education rests on the assumption that these fields are flush with opportunity. Physicists, go digital. A species of nudibranch was found to engage in what researchers call kleptopredation — “steal your meal and eat you, too.” More Recent Articles |
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