Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. President Trump promoted arming specially trained teachers to fend off school shooters, but rejected active-shooter drills to survive a rampage. Last week’s school massacre in Florida set the well-worn machinery of America’s gun debate in motion. But angry students inject new passion into a stale fight. Consoler in chief has been a role that President Trump has been slow and somewhat reluctant to embrace — especially in contrast to his predecessor. Mr. LaPierre leveled a searing indictment against liberal Democrats, the news media and political opportunists he said were joined together in a socialist plot to “eradicate all individual freedoms.” Many teachers reacted with alarm at the idea they would be trained and armed. The charges do not involve President Trump or his campaign, but they compound the legal problems for Mr. Manafort, his former campaign chairman. The troubled Chinese company had spent billions of dollars buying up hotels and other high-profile properties around the world. Concern about the self-governing island’s fate seems to be building in Washington, even as President Trump seeks China’s help on other issues. Workers in a small Illinois town are worried that a Supreme Court decision curbing union power would hurt their community. Even police officers often fail to hit their target when they shoot. How much worse would such an unintended consequence be in a crowded school? Much of what I learned in the Army is horrifyingly relevant in the classroom. He understood that the ends to which science could be used were forever bound up with the moral choices of its practitioners. America’s gun madness is part of an assault on the very idea of community. Every American should be able to cast a ballot. What was most disconcerting about the indictment of Russian operatives is what it says about the state of democracy in America. Journalism under the siege of the perpetually enraged reader. School-age skaters in charge of clearing the ice are stealing the show at the Olympic figure skating arena. The United States had never beaten Canada in Olympic competition. Now it has done it twice in four days. The indictment comes weeks after Mr. Greitens, a first-term Republican, acknowledged an extramarital affair before he took office. A revision of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services mission statement omits the phrase “nation of immigrants.” The 14-month investigation was triggered by the discovery of $60 million of cocaine at the Russian Embassy in Argentina. Mr. Joyce, who admitted having impregnated a former staffer, was also accused of sexual harassment and of accepting gifts from supporters. Teachers from across the state converged on the Capitol to protest pay raises they say are too stingy. The president’s son is in India on behalf of the family business, but word that he planned a speech on foreign policy took the controversy to a new level. Mr. Feinberg was accused of sexually abusing a female student in the late 1990s. An investigation found the claim credible, though he has denied it. It is unclear how or when Viktor and Amalija Knavs got green cards, but immigration experts said the most likely way would have been a program the president has railed against. Jury selection in the case of a nanny accused of killing two children in her charge put attitudes toward child care, and raw emotions, on display. Marianne Ways is a tastemaker in the Brooklyn comedy scene, but putting together a show also requires connections and a lot of persistence. We’ve compiled free, low-cost, reversible and take-it-with-you changes renters can make in their homes to save on their heating bills. “The Oscars should be a spectacle,” one of the show’s lead producers said, a sign that the industrywide reckoning over sexual harassment may not take center stage during the March 4 telecast. Five of the city’s emerging musical talents in spring’s crop of retro-inspired Hawaiian shirts. In “The New Negro,” Jeffrey C. Stewart recounts the life of Alain Locke: scholar, critic and impresario of the Harlem Renaissance. The names may be daunting: zwickelbier and kellerbier. But the results are easier to drink than I.P.A.’s, and gaining ground with American brewers. Cave paintings in Spain were made by Neanderthals, not modern humans, archaeologists reported. The finding adds to evidence that Neanderthals were capable of symbolic thought and perhaps language. More Recent Articles |
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