Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. The president chiefly blamed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, complaining that he never “took control” of the Justice Department. As he faces mushrooming legal troubles, the president evokes a place replete with shady businessmen and mob-linked politicians, raffish types with unscrupulous methods and uncertain loyalties. The post appeared to be the culmination of a lobbying effort by a right-wing South African group that falsely claims that white farmers are being systematically forced off their land and killed in large numbers. Mr. Pecker is close to President Trump and Michael D. Cohen, his former lawyer, and had been integral to a campaign effort to help protect Mr. Trump from embarrassing stories about women. The district attorney’s office is weighing whether the company’s false accounting regarding payment to silence an adult film star violates state law. The president’s high-profile pardons and commutations this year prompted his lawyers to caution him against weighing clemency for associates in the special counsel investigation. An Ohio State University report and other documents portrayed a troubled assistant coach accused of domestic violence and protected by a powerful coach. The former gymnastics coach, Kathie Klages, lied about whether she knew that Lawrence G. Nassar had abused numerous young women, prosecutors said. Many Catholics are frustrated by the church’s leadership. This is especially true in Donegal, where Francis reappointed a bishop who shielded a notorious pedophile priest. Lisa Brennan-Jobs has written a memoir about her famous father. The details are damning, but she doesn’t want them to be. The president, who gets his intelligence briefings from Fox News, repeats a white nationalist myth about murders of white South African farmers. How — and why — Silicon Valley is getting high. Big companies have squandered $4 trillion since 2007 buying their own stock. It’s time to rein them in. Why Social Security and Medicare are on the ballot. When two or more people join together to break the law, as Michael Cohen says he and the president did, the penalties can be harsh. Readers responded to the news that the president had been implicated in a crime. I used to spurn what I saw as an excess of pragmatism in my culture. After my mother had a stroke, I understood. Catholics should not keep on filling the pews every Sunday. It is wrong to support the church. Elected officials should require Orthodox Jewish schools to meet legal standards. The war in Yemen has reduced the country’s people to destitution, forcing many to beg for survival. We can only define ourselves by continually re-evaluating our humanness. Most of President Trump’s alleged transgressions offend against the etiquette of modern liberal governance, not the Constitution. Earlier this summer, President Trump described Montenegrins as “very aggressive.” A writer familiar with the country couldn’t disagree more. At the Guggenheim, an art critic and The Times’s former Shanghai bureau chief discuss a brilliant new artwork that dissects China’s economic development. The storm is threatening to be the first hurricane to make landfall in Hawaii since 1992, but officials are warning of life-threatening impacts even if it skirts the islands. Two men assaulted a black man in a garage, and a Ku Klux Klan leader fired a gun at the white nationalist rally in August 2017. Badly hurt in a suicide attack, Nepali contractors hired to protect Canadian diplomats found they had much less medical coverage than they’d thought. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that he would appoint a special envoy to North Korea, the third such announcement he has made in a week as he moves to fill depleted diplomatic ranks. A Brazilian expedition captured images of the indigenous peoples and their tools, along with an aerial photo of a thatched hut. The death of Ms. Tibbetts in Iowa sharpened the focus of Republicans, who had already been campaigning on dire warnings about violence and insecure borders. Meyer was suspended by the university for 3 games after an investigation found fault with the way he handled the case of Zach Smith, an assistant coach who was accused of domestic violence. The appeal to recognize Capt. Michael Perozeni’s acts of valor in the Oct. 4 firefight contrasts with earlier findings that he filed misleading plans for the mission. Polls show Ms. Nixon trailing far behind Gov. Andrew Cuomo. But her campaign insists she’s reaching a new electorate not captured by the old metrics. Grief is common when you leave a job you love. Small things can have huge ramifications. At the New Museum, a survey of John Akomfrah’s ambitious videos shows the artist reflecting on politics, nature, postcolonial history, migration and race. The Ruhrtrienniale festival in Germany presents unpredictable works in postindustrial settings. But this year controversy has overshadowed the event. We provide suggestions about recordings and upcoming live performances focused on the conductor and composer whose 100th birthday is Aug. 25. Genetic analysis of bones discovered in a Siberian cave hints that the prehistoric world may have been filled with “hybrid” humans. Jessica Bennett, gender editor for The Times, talks about diversifying reporting subjects, monitoring how many times she gets interrupted and why you should follow her dog. More Recent Articles |
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