Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. More than a dozen other people were injured in what was one of the worst mass killings in the modern history of Canada. The police said the driver was in custody. As Melania Trump oversees preparations to welcome President Emmanuel Macron of France, her advice to her staff before the high-profile event is not to worry. Minutes before a committee vote, Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, bowed to pressure and backed the confirmation of Mike Pompeo to be secretary of state. Officials took the Nashville shooting suspect’s guns after a run-in at the White House last year. But his father gave the guns back. James Shaw Jr. grabbed an AR-15 from a shooter’s hands early on Sunday, most likely stopping further bloodshed at a Waffle House outside Nashville. The four young adults killed in a mass shooting at a Waffle House in Nashville early Sunday included a musician and a college student. National Democrats were shocked in 2016 when a Republican presidential nominee carried Wisconsin for the first time since 1984. Now both parties see a key Senate race as a crucial test before 2020. Facebook and Google are dealing with a privacy backlash and new European rules on data collection. The rules, though, may not be as damaging to the companies as they appear. Branded “idiots,” residents of Grimsby, England, choose romance for a dying fishing industry over another that is thriving. Those who care about vulnerable minorities need to reckon with the economic inequality that leads so many people to vote for authoritarians. The Waffle House shooting is a painful reminder of Tennessee’s failure to protect its own citizens from mass murderers with guns. “Finding a job = finding a woman.” Chinese tech companies use female employees as bait to recruit male applicants. The travel ban case is the first major legal challenge to the president’s authority that the justices have heard. President Trump violated the principle of separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution with his ban. Activist women are transforming the state’s politics. Is our unflagging fascination with royalty really so wrong? Why Republicans ended up at war with America’s schoolteachers. Saudi Arabia often talks about pushing back a dangerous Iranian threat, but the foreign policy emanating from Riyadh is driven primarily by domestic politics. A young soldier whose genitals were destroyed underwent extensive reconstructive surgery that doctors hope to offer to others who were wounded at war. Mr. Bush was “responding to treatments and appears to be recovering,” his spokesman said. The third child of Catherine and Prince William was born Monday morning, weighing 8 pounds, 7 ounces. A state news outlet reported that a person set the blaze and blocked the only entrance to the lounge, in a three-story building in Guangdong Province. Though Prince declined all testing at the Illinois hospital, the lawsuit contends the medical staff did not do enough to find the cause of the overdose. A retired Afghan wrestler was often one of the first responders helping Shiites targeted in Kabul. He was among 60 people killed in the latest attack. In a private meeting, the owner of the Eagles called Mr. Trump’s tenure a “disastrous presidency,” using a vulgarity to emphasize “disastrous.” Senegal deported two former Guantánamo detainees to Libya, raising fears of a broader collapse of Obama-era resettlement deals under President Trump. Accused of bribery, Ilmars Rimsevics, Latvia’s widely disliked central banker, seems headed for a fall, along with one of the nation’s largest banks. Where development and fragmentation have disrupted natural cycles, teams run controlled burns every spring to help sustain prairies and other ecosystems that have long been shaped by fire. The artist, on his response to the migrant crisis: “In China we say, ‘When birds pass over the sky...’ I’m just one of the birds who made some sounds.” Kushner’s gritty and persuasive book about a woman sentenced to life in prison recalls works by Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson and Charles Bukowski. We’re generally pretty awful at assessing our skills. But there’s hope. The singing competition, back after a two-year hiatus, is focusing on the fireworks onstage, rather than between the judges. And Lionel Richie is its godfather. As she prepares to retire, the orchestra’s archivist shares some favorites: a 1926 music video, the program from Leonard Bernstein’s debut and more. Two new novels — “If We Had Known,” by Elise Juska, and “How to Be Safe,” by Tom McAllister — imagine communities roiled by mass murder. A little-publicized amendment in the new tax law shows the growing political clout of American spirits producers, particularly the smaller ones. When it comes to studying the genetics of the brain, Soo-Kyung Lee is a star, yet she was stunned to discover the cause of her daughter’s devastating disabilities. A judge’s ruling on warning labels for coffee isn’t backed by evidence and could do more harm than good. “People don’t truly understand what A.D.H.D. is and why a kid who’s bright can’t just grit his teeth and get it done,” a child psychiatrist says. More Recent Articles |
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