Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Christopher Wray tries steer a bureau the president has said is in “Tatters.” The company’s only major deal since President Trump took office lacks customary big city flair. A strip mall is across the street. President Trump signed the most significant overhaul of the American tax system in three decades, hastily adding the ceremony after media reports questioned whether he would sign it before Christmas. Many residents in suburbs outside New York City want to prepay their 2018 property tax bills in 2017 to reduce their tax liability by thousands of dollars. White House officials say their one tax bill regret is not killing the carried interest loophole. A group of lobbyists set out to ensure the tax break survived. Other countries may need to cut corporate taxes to stay competitive. But companies outside the United States also worry the bill discriminates against them. Steelworkers thought they would see a new dawn for their industry. But the president’s pledge to do something has actually done more harm than good. The new sanctions, adopted 15 to 0, could constrict North Korea’s supplies of fuel and foreign currency, but experts say sanctions alone are unlikely to halt its nuclear program. Crass emails from pageant leaders show this contest should be on its way out. In his last Christmas sermon, Martin Luther King anticipated the links between ecology and social justice that are so pertinent today. Opposition to the bill is a gift to the G.O.P. The Great Leader stoops ever lower in pursuit of Turkmenistan-on-the-Potomac. A prescription for restorative justice. Today’s Bethlehem is a teeming refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. The words Trump has tried to erase, or change the meaning of, will come roaring back to haunt him next year. Just days after the price of Bitcoin nearly reached $20,000, the virtual currency was hit by a panicked sell-off. Reddit users posted suicide hotlines. The ruling was a procedural step but an important one, paving the way for the Supreme Court to review the case. The automaker said the vehicle could be shifted out of park without a driver’s foot on the brake. Seven injuries were linked to the defect. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn subpoenaed records about entities associated with the family company of President Trump’s son-in-law, people briefed on the matter said. Nearly 50 former winners of the Miss America pageant are calling on the pageant’s chief executive and other top leaders to resign. After a White House visit, the Fox News host has called for the firing of Robert Mueller and said F.B.I. agents should be “taken out in cuffs.” There was no Twitter to fan the flames when W.E.B. Du Bois sparred with Booker T. Washington and Malcolm X argued with Martin Luther King Jr. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain has tried to remain aloof from Catalonia’s secessionist leadership, but the election results may now make it harder to ignore. Even as Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was spared impeachment, the congressional vote on his fate revealed the limitations of his power. Workers at Melegatti, the maker of traditional Christmas cakes, have staved off layoffs by urging Italians to eat pandoro. The story of the documentary “D.O.A.: A Right of Passage” involved the founder of High Times and a race to capture the band’s only United States tour. As the economy has changed, so have the relationships between places, to the disadvantage of smaller cities and rural areas. John Skipper, president of ESPN, announced his resignation this week, surprising and confounding many of his colleagues. The popularity of streaming holiday-music classics has made record labels more reluctant to release non-Christmas albums in the final quarter. Make Music Winter, an annual explosion of participatory “parades,” included riffs on Bach, West African music and microtonality. Amid the holiday shopping season, cybersecurity researchers warn that new, interactive toys are vulnerable to many hacking threats. More Recent Articles |
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