Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. The episode raises questions about whether the president’s lawyer was trying to influence Mr. Trump’s former advisers and their cooperation with the special counsel. The campaign official, Rick Gates, has pleaded guilty in the investigation by the special counsel into Russian election interference. The department’s inspector general announced that he would examine whether law enforcement officials followed the law in seeking permission to surveil a former Trump campaign adviser. The move punctuated what has been a sharp fall from favor for David J. Shulkin, who delivered President Trump a string of bipartisan legislative victories. The North Korean leader’s first diplomatic trip since taking power was a reminder of how much he has set the agenda over his nation’s nuclear arsenal. A series of looming deadlines will put pressure on U.S. partners to reach deals, in a high-risk strategy that may not solve deeper and more persistent problems. As the Trump administration prepares to roll out tariffs on Chinese goods, it is also planning a much more strategic strike, this time on investment. The department is aiming to roll back Obama administration attempts to curtail racial, ethnic and income segregation in federally subsidized housing and development projects. A top Morgan Stanley broker was repeatedly accused of violence against ex-wives and girlfriends. Bank managers were told. But he kept his job. Some in the Trump administration saw me as an obstacle to privatization. The president announced late last week that he is trying again to keep many transgender people from being able to defend their country. Routine job destruction, innovation and changing tastes destroy a lot more jobs than China does. All together now: We love a parade. … On my win-a-trip journey, a visit to a dirt-floor schoolhouse where kids struggle, but still manage to inspire. Many experts have tried to quantify team chemistry. Easier said than done. The comedian says he doesn’t care whom he offends. But he appears to be obsessed with the topic. Marielle Franco, a Brazilian City Council member who was assassinated this month, fought racism and oppression, not “violence.” The suit accuses the president of violating the Constitution by refusing to divorce himself from the Trump Organization, and could allow the plaintiffs to scrutinize its records. The viral video of Vicki Momberg’s 2016 rant against black police officers has set off a national debate about the limits of free speech. The entertainer had pleaded guilty to tax evasion after federal investigators said he had failed to pay taxes on earnings from his music. After the Skripals were found unconscious, investigators looked at how they could have been poisoned, like a bouquet or a car ventilation system. The shooting of Stephon Clark has reignited the kind of protests against police killings that spread across the country in the past several years. The government said it was concerned that Mr. Assange, who lives in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, was harming the country’s international relationships on social media. Thousands marched against anti-Semitic violence. Ms. Knoll, 85, was stabbed and burned in her home. Winds of change may be blowing through the desert kingdom, but a sudden postponement of its first fashion week suggests bumps in the road. Robert D. Kaplan’s new collection of essays, “The Return of Marco Polo’s World,” examines recent developments in international affairs. When thousands of women get together on social media, wryly invoking the suicidal author Virginia Woolf as their muse, what could possibly go wrong? Back on the West Coast, where she grew up, our columnist does bodywork with a Pilates witch and consults a healer to reclaim her feminine power. Teenage subway aficionados help with the upkeep of every one of New York City’s 472 subway stations — at least on Wikipedia. In “The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand,” Dyer’s essays accompany 100 photographs that capture the fallout from the midcentury American moment. More Recent Articles |
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