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With a mercurial president in charge, it could well just be more of the same. The president said he would sign the measure next week. Stock markets, foreign officials and Republicans were rattled by the news. Stock markets fell 2 percent Thursday, before a partial recovery. Investors are worried that the tariffs could disrupt global economic growth. Russians had wondered before Mr. Putin’s speech what he planned for his last term, and they got an answer: Russia will be a superpower again. The leaks contributed to coverage critical of Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration. That does not fit neatly into President Trump’s view of Mr. McCabe as a “deep state” adversary. Canceling the order for the custom-made furniture, which had come under investigation from the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, will not be easy. In an extraordinary confrontation, the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee told the House speaker that his troops had leaked a senator’s texts with a Russia-connected lawyer. “I know it’s $100 million” for Disney, she says. “They’ll be fine.” She made the movie she wanted, about a multiracial world and the loss of a beloved parent. The silent and dutiful communications director departs. The power the president gave his daughter and son-in-law upended a basic principle of American democracy and is sowing chaos in his administration. The tax cuts may look like a gift, but the middle class will end up paying the bill. Hope Hicks said on Wednesday that she is leaving the White House. The law requires vaccination for measles and mumps. Why not for this deadly virus? Donald Trump is a bystander in his own administration — and that could be more trouble than the woes of Hope Hicks or Jared Kushner. What happened to the G.O.P. in 2016 could happen to the Democrats in 2020. A day after he was named by the mayor as New York City’s next schools chancellor, Alberto Carvalho renounced his decision during a live TV broadcast. Tea, an English breakfast and ice cream, along with icons from the obscure to the most famous, appear on coins designed for collectors and the public. The storm could cause widespread power failures and severe flooding this weekend. Officials are warning residents that they may have to evacuate. The searing testimony from the mother of the two slain children opened the murder trial of the former nanny. Sisters are often relegated to unsung, and underpaid, roles in a male-centric church that does not recognize their talents or capabilities, according to nuns interviewed by a women’s magazine. Europe is being battered by unusually frigid conditions even as temperatures in the North Pole soar well above normal. Here's the connection, according to experts. The Polish law makes it a crime to blame “the Polish nation” for the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes. Even as evidence mounts that Moscow interfered in past votes in Italy and elsewhere, it still stands to win in almost any result in Sunday’s election. We spoke to Katie Endicott, a high school English teacher, about why teachers are not returning to the classroom, despite a deal that offered them a 5 percent raise. At West Bromwich Albion, a community health program brings together fans battling memory issues and helps them remember what they’ve seen, and who they are. In these divided times, a communal meal is either an escape — or a minefield. Sometimes, though, that’s exactly the point. Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Every month, subscription streaming services add a new batch of movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are the titles we think are most interesting this month. Most drugstores are wall to wall with cosmetics. Let’s pick through the rest and find the best. When deciding what you need for your pet, it’s essential to choose the right gear for both its comfort and safety. How would New Yorkers handle requests to show ID? Would our neighbors in New Jersey be cranky when asked to pay? Sopan Deb went to find out. As Taylor Trensch takes over the title role in the Tony-winning musical, the show’s meaning and impact change too. “Pan,” a genre-defying work for the flutist Claire Chase and mass participation, is as much about community building as it is about music. Jennifer Lawrence stars as a Russian ballerina who becomes an intelligence operative in a lurid, bloody, slickly entertaining thriller. Ian Buruma, whose new book is the memoir “A Tokyo Romance,” prefers villains to heroes: “It is hard to write about a good person without making him or her look like a bore.” An emerging field, digital phenotyping, tries to assess people’s well-being based on their interactions with digital devices. 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