Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. Mr. Trump has described the investigation as a politically motivated effort to undermine his presidency. But time and again, agents took steps that ultimately benefited him. The records, part of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s inquiry into contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians, produced few major revelations. The special counsel’s office has told the president’s lawyers that prosecutors will follow existing guidelines that say that sitting presidents cannot be indicted. Mr. Trump’s financial disclosure included a payment made to his personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, who has said he paid a porn star who claimed an affair with Mr. Trump. The ex-secretary of state, who didn’t mention the president by name in a commencement speech at the Virginia Military Institute, said efforts to hide the truth amounted to going “wobbly on America.” The president unspooled a lengthy diatribe before TV cameras, warning that dangerous people were clamoring to breach the United States’ borders and castigating Mexico. Officials said they believed the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un would still happen, but the threats brought a diplomatic high-wire act temporarily back to earth. Libya’s denuclearization of 15 years ago is playing a key role in North Korea’s hesitations over upcoming talks with the United States. In the first few months of Gov. Philip D. Murphy’s tenure, New Jersey has taken a decidedly liberal turn, with new laws and executive orders reading like a progressive wish list. All of us — including the #MeToo movement — need to think about a future in which repentant sexists have a place. David Sadler, a State Senate candidate in Alabama, wants people with a criminal record — like him and millions of other Americans — to have a voice in American politics. Why is nothing expected of Palestinians, and everything forgiven, while everything is expected of Israelis, and nothing forgiven? Riding along that old campaign trail. For the poor, higher education may hurt more than it helps. “The Right Stuff” helped me, a terrible student with severe attention problems, find purpose and become an astronaut. Asking whether men or women enjoy sex more is pointless. From Italy to Hungary, the European crisis pits nations against a soft imperium, not just illiberals against liberals. In a rant caught on video in a Manhattan cafe, a man berated a manager for workers’ language, but even immigration officials distanced themselves from him. Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he saw “no reason to dispute” the findings of the United States’ spy agencies. Layla Ghandour, an 8-month-old Palestinian girl whose grandmother carried her to Monday’s protest in Gaza, died after they were engulfed by a cloud of tear gas. No matter who wins in the fight over the proposed reunion of CBS and Viacom, both companies will be profoundly affected and the media landscape will be transformed. Didi Chuxing said it would overhaul its app, as well as safety and security practices, after the death of a passenger focused attention on the company. In Portland, Ore., the photographer Ricardo Nagaoka records a community pushed to the margins. In his latest and likely last book, McCain expresses concern about the state of the union, but generally stops short of calling out President Trump. The maestro of lush, soft-drama music is on tour celebrating his breakthrough 1993 performance in Athens. The long-running historical video game franchise has debuted an educational mode for its latest release, set in Ptolemaic Egypt. “My problem is really that I’m a crowd-pleaser,” or so says the director, who has a new movie — and a new scandal — at the Cannes Film Festival. More Recent Articles |
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