Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. In a televised meeting in the White House, the president appeared to stun giddy Democrats and stone-faced Republicans by calling for comprehensive gun control. The two retailers, responding to the school shooting in Florida, tightened their sales policies. Dick’s Sporting Goods said it would also stop selling assault-style rifles. Her bloodstained shoes were taken away as evidence. Her backpack has a bullet hole in it. On Wednesday, Brooke Harrison returned to the school where she saw her classmates die. The President mixed facts and falsehoods while discussing gun policy and potential solutions with legislators. Apollo, the private equity firm, and Citigroup made large loans last year to the family real estate business of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s senior adviser. The president scolded Jeff Sessions after he suggested that the Justice Department’s inspector general would look into accusations of surveillance abuses. Ms. Hicks, who had been considering a departure for several months, did not indicate what her next job would be, but she said that she plans to leave the White House in the next few weeks. The American military is looking at everything from troop rotations to surveillance to casualty evacuations should it be ordered to take action against North Korea. Kurdish fighters in Syria who have been key in the American-led campaign against the Islamic State are peeling off to respond to Turkish attacks. Why do we identify with millions of strangers, just based on borders? In this video from The Interpreter, we explain the myth that built the modern world. China kept a half-century of global democratic growth at bay by at least nodding to the importance of institutions and rules. Now what? China has sent a top economic adviser to the United States to restore dialogue and quash a trade war. He faces long odds. In the guise of pursuing U.S. foreign policy, maybe the president’s son-in-law was serving the financial interests of his family. Using children as bargaining chips with parents who seek refuge in America is horrifying. The guys who like legroom stand out in the administration. None of the rights in the Bill of Rights are absolute. Michael Ian Black addresses comments from readers about America’s broken boys. Three bored judges decided my destiny, writes a Turkish novelist from prison. A Q. & A. with the former president of Brown University and Smith College as she takes charge of a historically black university. How culture war became a tool of corporate self-interest. Pay stagnation is often caused not by market forces or trends but by employer design. Mayor Bill de Blasio has picked Alberto M. Carvalho, the superintendent of the Miami-Dade Public Schools, the nation’s fourth largest district, as his next schools chancellor. Instead of a traditional public offering, the streaming music service will pursue a direct listing of its shares, which will be traded under the ticker symbol SPOT. The police in Oslo said they were in contact with the F.B.I. about the forgeries, which suggests that they originated in the United States. Doctors, nurses and midwives have thrown their support behind the bill, which would ban circumcisions in children without a medical reason. No students were reported injured by gunfire. It appears the teacher, who was alone in the room, shot through a window, the authorities said. He was arrested. The ICE chief said Mayor Libby Schaaf’s announcement of impending arrests allowed hundreds to elude capture, and “was no better than a gang lookout yelling ‘Police!’” “I don’t know that there is a particular lesson from the last two years,” the chairman of the committee’s board said in discussing his chief executive’s departure. An unparalleled economic powerhouse and megacity of 24 million people, the Chinese city was a frugal challenge. But it can be done (plenty of delicious dumplings helped). There are more inked women than men in the United States now, and many are more comfortable with a female tattoo artist. The space is filled with mementos both reputable (a presidential cup) and disreputable (a frame used for famous drug-taking). Bruce Norris, the Pulitzer-winning playwright, brings “The Low Road,” a Colonial-era free market spoof inspired by the financial crash, to the Public Theater. In “Enlightenment Now,” the psychologist continues his argument that conditions are improving for the species as a whole. Becoming the most decorated Winter Olympics athlete in history requires snow, fortitude, technique, squats, more squats, and more. Persians? That’s Paul Manafort money! Now rich people are trying not to spend millions on something that they and their little dogs walk over. “Get Out” is the latest horror film to garner several Oscar nominations, but the Academy has a history of snubbing movies from that genre. More Recent Articles |
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