Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Facebook has reached a deal with its chief information security officer to depart after disagreements over how to address its role in spreading disinformation, said people briefed on the matter. Sure, third-party Facebook apps collected data about users’ lives. But they seemed convenient and harmless, and, really, what could go wrong? A woman in Tempe, Ariz., died after being hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber, in what is believed to be the first fatality of a pedestrian from an autonomous vehicle on public roads. The president and former law enforcement and intelligence officials are trading Twitter insults, turning a conflict that would have once stayed private into a public brawl. President Trump has discussed firing one lawyer, and another has considered quitting. A third, who has pushed theories on television that the F.B.I. framed the president, was hired. His plan calls for reducing the supply of illicit drugs with better interdiction and tougher penalties, reducing opioid prescriptions and overall demand, and expanding access to treatment. Pentagon leaders are said to be troubled by draft conclusions of an inquiry that blames low-level officers in an ambush that killed four American troops. One of the American soldiers ambushed by militants in Niger was wearing a helmet camera – we analyzed the footage to understand what happened. A fourth bomb triggered by a tripwire suggests a higher level of sophistication in the wave of bomb attacks that have unnerved the residents of Austin. In the wake of Andrew McCabe’s firing, and the president’s gloating tweets, Republicans once again could take action to protect democracy — but they refuse. It’s true that the Cambridge Analytica incident wasn’t a security breach. It was something far worse. Coming soon: a battle of bad ideas that refuse to die. Yi Gang’s next moves as head of the People’s Bank of China will have a big impact on the world economy. Undercover video shows the president’s digital consultants acting like thugs. I am a high school junior, and I shoot guns and hunt. Many of the kids protesting guns right now don’t seem to know that much about them. Walt Whitman had a prescription for national renewal. The Iraq war began 15 years ago. Realism demands that we remember how badly it failed. Removing arguments of individual morality from the equation is the best way to find consensus and determine public policy. Let’s stop calling the invasion of Iraq a “blunder” and call it what it is: a crime. Sheriff’s deputies stopped Zachary Cruz on Monday afternoon after he rode a skateboard onto the school’s property, the authorities said. School officials had told him to stay away. A two-game series in 2019 would give baseball a rare chance to showcase itself for a country where the sport is not ingrained into the culture. The court rejected a request from Republican lawmakers unhappy with a court-imposed congressional map said to favor Democrats. As part of the filing, the studio said it released anyone “who suffered or witnessed any form of sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein” from nondisclosure agreements. “We are saving more of the unborn than any state,” Gov. Phil Bryant said. Abortion rights advocates called the bill clearly unconstitutional. As his soldiers wage a brutal offensive near Damascus, President Bashar al-Assad takes a leisurely drive into the heart of the civil war. Officials said Western pressure had galvanized “the consolidation and unification” of support for the Russian president in Sunday’s presidential vote. Native American women are running for office in record numbers. Some are fighting pipelines. Others are fighting environmentalists. Cinco Ranch was designed to be flooded. So after Hurricane Harvey hit, the Texas suburb was sacrificed to save the city of Houston. We followed homeowners as they decided whether to cut their losses or rebuild, knowing it could happen again. Sugar sneaks into our diets in many, many ways. Here’s how to cut it out. The Australian stand-up Hannah Gadsby examines a culture that excuses abuse and takes on comedy’s pieties. Laughter is not good medicine, in her view. Like a pair of supersleuths, Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian reconstruct the golfer’s life and offer new angles on old stories. Emily Chang examines a tech culture that has become a boys’ club, hostile and averse to women. Paul Taylor American Modern Dance’s “Icons” featured Sara Mearns dancing Isadora Duncan, Trisha Brown’s “Set and Reset” and Mr. Taylor’s “Esplanade.” In “Dear Madam President,” the Clinton campaign’s former communications director Jennifer Palmieri tells young women how to succeed in politics. Thousands of entrepreneurs gathered near Washington this week for an annual government conference. On the agenda: unusual solutions to major clean-energy problems. More Recent Articles |
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