Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. An Ohio congressional special election has revealed the strategy Republicans will use to keep power in the House — or to ensure that Democrats win only a small majority. Officials could deny legal status to immigrants who accept food stamps or other benefits. Republicans are poised to make it a powerful election year issue. The prosecution’s star witness, Rick Gates, detailed a yearslong fraud by Paul Manafort. Defense lawyers assailed Mr. Gates’s credibility, pointing to thefts, lies and an extramarital affair. Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for President Trump, is being tried on charges of bank and tax fraud in a case stemming from the special counsel’s investigation. Kristin M. Davis, a former Manhattan procuress, is testifying this week before a grand jury looking at ties between Russia and President Trump’s campaign. The right-wing conspiracy theorist was defiant, depicting himself as a victim in a war on free speech, as the removal of his content from most social media platforms drastically reduced his audience. The rules that Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter follow in their roles as arbiters of online speech are often vague. Critics say they are arbitrary. The maker of Snapchat said it lost 3 million daily active users in the latest quarter, following similar drops or flattening growth from Facebook and Twitter. Tesla’s chief executive suggested that being a public company, beholden to shareholders, created perverse incentives for short-sellers. A pair of fires called the Mendocino Complex had been growing for nearly two weeks before becoming the largest fire on Monday night. The state’s rebuttal lays out a road map to California’s legal strategy against the federal government in coming months and years. The budget deficit is growing much faster than any increase in tariff revenue. One of the two pillars of the West is in jeopardy. For a generation of people with cochlear implants, technology is transforming the experience of deafness. The way we teach math in America hurts all students, but it may be hurting girls the most. I cut myself when words were not enough. “Hate speech” is extraordinarily vague and subjective. Libel and slander are not. The party’s odds aren’t great, but they look better all the time. Thanks to Trump, Democrats have a shot in Orange County. It does still need some draining. With Turkish-American relations souring, the focus should be on freeing imprisoned American citizens and the Turkish staff of the United States embassy. By expelling the Canadian ambassador for speaking up on human rights, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman undermines the reforms he has made. The Swedish furniture giant opens in Hyderabad, India, this week. To appeal to customers, it is cutting prices, offering assembly and selling samosas. Flynn McGarry, who has been charging money for meals since he was 13, gets his first real restaurant at age 19. Victory may go to the side that best understands the other — and Americans would do well not to underestimate Chinese resolve. The interim president, Wanda M. Austin, is the first woman and the first African-American to lead the private university. Moscow says three Russian journalists were killed in the Central African Republic by robbers, but others believe they were targeted for investigating mercenaries with links to the Kremlin. A manhunt is underway after two plainclothes detectives with the Camden County Police Department were shot while sitting in an unmarked car. “It was completely unprovoked,” the police chief said. It is unclear whether the body is that of a Georgia boy whose disappearance in December eventually led the authorities to raid the compound on Friday. Human visitors scared away least terns, which are considered a threatened species in the state, and used their eggs to decorate the sand. Ahmad Ishchi accused Afghanistan’s vice president and his guards of beating and raping him. But when they returned from exile, they were feted, not handcuffed. Two American cyclists had a vision of the world, or, at least, what it could be. The men who mowed them down in Tajikistan had a starkly different one. Two men were playing soccer in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park about 7:30 p.m. when they were struck, the police said. One was critically injured. In Olen Steinhauer’s “The Middleman,” a revolutionary anticapitalist movement seeks to unite the disaffected of America’s red and blue states. From “wild-goose chase” to “throw in the towel” to “there’s the rub,” these sports idioms are part of our everyday conversation. Here’s a look at their origins. Mr. Dias took aim at the 1960s ruling junta with trenchant works of bright colors, graphic immediacy and world weariness. He later went into exile. Options abound for viewing concerts and music documentaries online, but Qello curates a lot of it in one place. Here’s the best of what it offers. Randomized controlled trials, despite their flaws, remain a powerful tool. The African annual fish can reach sexual maturity in about two weeks, scientists found, the fastest known among vertebrates. The Asian long-horned tick, reported in New York’s suburbs and as far west as Arkansas, can carry lethal diseases. But no infected specimens have yet been found here. More Recent Articles |
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