On the day before Martin Luther King’s Birthday, churchgoers said President Trump’s denigration of immigrants was one more turn toward an uglier past in America. When a federal judge in California ordered a stop to a key plank of President Trump’s immigration agenda, he revived a debate over the impartiality of the judiciary. The government complied with a judge’s order to resume accepting renewal requests from immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children. It’s normal for American commanders to draw up combat plans. But recent exercises signal that the military wants to be ready for options on the Korean Peninsula. Security experts called it a frightening warning of how a technical error could trigger an unintended conflict with North Korea. The false alarm and its delayed retraction added to criticism of Gov. David Ige and raised worries about the state’s reputation with tourists. A willingness by members of Iran’s mainstream society to dispute official versions of protester deaths suggest that the fallout may be just beginning. Mitt Romney’s expected return to politics in a run to be the next senator from Utah has set off a debate over whether he should actively counter President Trump. Mudslides left the coastal community of Montecito, Calif., in ruins, and rescuers were racing against time on Sunday to find four people still missing. Haste and zeal to please an increasingly authoritarian government have created unexpected problems. Inequality is rising in Iran. The rural poor are angry and living increasingly precarious lives. The introduction, 50 years ago, of a black character into the Schulz comic strip was a major social statement. Three years of record sales mask signs that harder times lie ahead: bigger incentives, more fleet purchases and higher used-car values. Harvey was considered firm and fair during a 31-season career spent entirely in the National League. He worked five World Series and six All-Star Games. The Palestinian Authority leader assailed the Trump administration over its handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, vowing to reject American leadership of any peace talks. A presidential vote will help decide whether the Czech Republic continues to be drawn east toward Russia and China or fully re-embraces the European Union. Eric Greitens has found himself politically isolated after reports of an extramarital affair tarnished his image. In Rishikesh, which hit the world’s eye when the Fab Four went there to study with the Maharishi in 1968, renovations and remembrances are underway. Queen Elizabeth II, who has never granted an interview, relaxes her longstanding reticence to reminisce on camera about her 1953 coronation. Enda Walsh’s wild cosmic farce, in which two men act out the life of a fantasy village, finds the aching emptiness in words, words, words. In “Fellow Travelers,” a story of persecuted gay love during the 1950s, the composer Gregory Spears demonstrates how to be original. More Recent Articles |
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