The 203-to-32 vote showed Nancy Pelosi had most Democrats behind her, but the result kept alive the threat of a messy intraparty feud. Mr. Jeffries, an ambitious 48-year-old Brooklynite with a golden tongue, sealed his spot on the fast track by winning the No. 5 spot in House Democratic leadership. A trove of text messages details a plan by Mr. Moonves and a faded Hollywood manager to bury a sexual assault allegation. Instead, the scheme helped sink the CBS chief, and may cost him $120 million. Investors interpreted comments by Mr. Powell, the Federal Reserve chairman, as an indication that the central bank may be less inclined to continue raising interest rates. A measure of investors’ expectation for inflation over the next five years has fallen over the past two months. In a region where the president vowed that manufacturing jobs were coming back, the idling of a Chevrolet plant and its 1,600 workers is a major blow. A vote to limit U.S. military support in Yemen showed widespread disapproval of President Trump’s embrace of Saudi Arabia after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Russia’s seizure of three Ukrainian ships has complicated President Trump’s plan to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia while the two are in Buenos Aires this week. “Why would I take it off the table?” the president said of a pardon for Paul Manafort, who he said had been treated poorly by prosecutors for the special counsel. The arrangement was highly unusual, and it appeared to give Mr. Trump and his advisers ammunition in their public campaign against the special counsel investigation. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. ’Tis the season to be running. … I negotiated that deal, and G.M.’s problems go much deeper than one round of layoffs. A new study raises questions about age, maturity and overdiagnosis. The president’s strategy echoes Reagan’s Cold War battle against leftists and ignores, at Washington’s peril, the concerns of elected leaders in the region’s democracies. The Chinese government has a long history of using technology to control and manipulate reproduction. Lawyers for Manafort and Trump engaged in a brazen violation of criminal defense norms. The move could pay off, or it could blow up spectacularly. Paul Manafort may be after a pardon from President Trump, but his alleged lying to investigators may deliver far more than he bargained for. The campaign gaffes of Mississippi’s newly elected senator reveal the way that the past is always present. The president spins falsehoods solely to make us afraid — of immigrants, of the left, of one another. Traditional politics have been decimated. What’s left behind is worryingly unstable. Tariffs on Chinese imports have endangered small business around the United States — a growing nightmare that critics say the president could have avoided. The heavyweight boxer says he has overcome depression and mental illness and is living a much simpler life focused on fighting. “He achieved fame,” the playwright says of the master of magic who recently died. “But like the warrior monk or Hasidic master, he sought perfection.” In a statement to The Daily Beast, the pornographic film actress Stephanie Clifford said she had not “decided yet what to do about legal representation.” Global warming is posing immediate health hazards around the world and in the United States, from kidney disease to dengue fever, two new studies say. An administration official said on Wednesday evening that the formal ban on the devices would be introduced in the coming days to weeks. The president and governor met in Washington to discuss funding for New York’s most pressing infrastructure problem: a train tunnel under the Hudson. A Sarajevo hostel recreating the 1990s wartime experience falls under a growing global niche of “dark tourism.” There are no beds, the sound of gunfire fills the rooms, but it does offer Wi-Fi. The search was primarily for records on the Rev. Manuel LaRosa-Lopez, who was arrested in September on four felony counts of indecency with a child. Few states have held more sway on Capitol Hill because of Senate seniority and committee chairmanships, which helped bring home billions of dollars. But Tuesday’s election underscored changes afoot. Everyone knows to watch their spending: A mistake can mean the difference between making or bouncing the rent check. I tracked my spending meticulously for a month. Here’s what I learned. 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