Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. A new proposal from House Republicans underscored how deep the divisions are between and within the two parties on immigration — just days before a deadline for a deal. As their protections disappear, hundreds of thousands of immigrants watch anxiously as each day brings hope or dismay from Washington or the courts. Agents visited 98 franchises around the country, arresting 21 people and demanding paperwork as they seek out employers who hire undocumented workers. The response was a marked change from June, when President Trump said he would be “100 percent” willing to give a sworn statement to the special counsel. At a cabinet meeting, the return of the president as press critic, after his legal maneuvers against BuzzFeed and the publisher of Michael Wolff’s book. President Trump’s suggestion that Congress revive the old practice of salting spending bills with lawmaker pet projects has revived a simmering debate. More than a dozen people are missing around Montecito in the aftermath of mudslides that killed 17 people and destroyed 100 homes. An Illinois man got into trouble with local officials after he let homeless people stay in his basement on the coldest nights. If the European Union confronts the populist, nationalist government in Warsaw, it can prove that it stands for something. A new cabinet officer could pull together the vast but uncoordinated resources of the federal government to address the problem head on. In the face of Republican complacency, Senate Democrats issue the most comprehensive public analysis thus far of Moscow’s war on the West. Half of him is feeling very bipartisan these days. He is unique among American presidents in the last century, two Harvard professors say. He didn’t regard Breitbart as platform to inform the public, but as his weapon in a war against the establishment. “In Between,” the new film by Maysaloun Hamoud, is the latest in a long line of feminist films by female Arab directors. The de Blasio administration is suing five major oil companies over climate change, and urging city pension funds to divest from fossil fuel firms. A surprise decision to exclude Florida, but not other states, from a plan to open up most of the nation’s coastline to offshore drilling raised questions about the plan’s legality. The Times reported on a secret effort by Egyptian intelligence to sway public opinion on Jerusalem. Officials say the article hurt national security. The board of a Manhattan building bearing the president’s name has asked a court to protect its right to remove it, without facing a lawsuit in return. The fate of Ma Xiaohong, and the business empire she built on trade with North Korea, has become a measure of China’s willingness to confront its neighbor. Longstanding complaints about the barriers women face in the economics profession are beginning to resonate within the male-dominated field. Jewish advocacy groups welcomed an idea to make such tours mandatory for immigrants to Germany. But some experts called the idea simplistic. For the last 14 years, a bodega owner in Brooklyn has quietly taken in the homeless, allowing them to stay in a crude shelter in the store’s cellar. Topshop, the British retailer, has made the issue into a slogan on a pair of pants. Cue controversy. Her new Jim Crow-era play, “He Brought Her Heart Back in Box,” shows that even late in an influential career, she’s not mellowing. David Frum’s “Trumpocracy” takes aim at the president and those who empower him, and “How Democracies Die,” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, reads at times like a sly subtweet of the Republican Party. Lebanon’s energetic Oscar entry is the story of a quarrel that escalates into greater conflict. Mike Isaac, a tech reporter for The Times, now uses Uber and Lyft infrequently, though he remains a steady user of Twitter and HQ Trivia. They’re tiny, colorful and harmless-looking, but these little pellets are being blamed for causing big problems. In the movie, “I, Tonya,” the disgraced figure skater looks back on the 1994 Nancy Kerrigan scandal and her struggles to tell her side of the story. More Recent Articles |
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