Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged a risk of a new arms race after the suspension of a 1987 treaty banning the deployment of intermediate-range missiles. The United States is withdrawing from a landmark arms-control pact with Russia. So what is the treaty and the impact of its demise? Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were celebrated this month as symbols of diversity, the House’s first two Muslim women. But on Israel, they have exposed a Democratic Party divide. The apology comes after repeated calls from tribal leaders, political operatives and her own advisers and relentless mocking by President Trump about her decision to take the DNA test. President Trump indicated he will most likely take action on his own when the talks officially end in two weeks. Among other things: Who is up and who is down, what he cares about and what he does not, what he knows and what he does not. A.G. Sulzberger asked the president to curb his anti-press remarks. Mr. Trump replied with a request for “a great story, just one,” from The Times. While the White House said the goal of the speech was to bring together a divided government and a divided nation, an official said immigration would emerge as a main theme. He is not from there, and spends a lot of time in New York. But in New England, Brady has become as close as it gets to a Kennedy. Our correspondent teleports to the past to give us this dispatch from a time when the Rams were Super Bowl-bound celebrities and the future in Los Angeles looked … O.K., it got complicated. It’s the time of year when many, many people suddenly want to find out more about extremely good owls. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. G.O.P. congressional leaders used tactics to minimize the president’s influence and maximize their own control over public policy. You can be the political life of the party. A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff doles out lessons in restraint for a hot-tempered commander in chief. Forced parity is fundamentally antidemocratic. The good news is that the downward spiral can be stopped. The left’s war on centrism bodes ill for Democratic chances in 2020. At the heart of homogenization lies emptiness. Anything-but-this anger follows. One common thread of J.D. Vance’s and Tara Westover’s memoirs is distrust of institutions. Yet it was institutions — the military in one case, college in the other — that saved them. No, Democrats aren’t trying to legalize infanticide. You’ll never have to ask “What’s the Super Bowl?” again. Hostility toward spiritual traditions may be hampering empirical inquiry. Tehranians, accustomed to periodic crackdowns by their Islamic guardians, are not taking the decree all that seriously. Nor, it seems, are the police. Three-day weekends are an antidote to seasonal doldrums and workaholism. Before we go, at least there’ll be work. British researchers found that spiny dogfish, a small shark that is also known as spurdog, was often sold as “rock salmon” for use in the traditional dish. The disclosures about the consulting firm are part of the Massachusetts attorney general’s suit against the pharmaceutical giant, which is accused of misleading doctors and patients about the safety of the medication. The law, requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, was essentially identical to one in Texas that the justices struck down in 2016. A pension plan for rickshaw pullers. Tax breaks for the middle class. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is wooing voters whose support has started to look less certain. The investment bank’s board adopted a provision to claw back, or reduce, some of the pay packages they received last year, depending on the outcome of a federal inquiry into a fraud in Malaysia. The New Jersey senator, who hopes to run on an upbeat message, becomes the latest Democrat to jump into a race with an unusually diverse field. The economy added 304,000 jobs in January, the 100th consecutive month of payroll gains. Unemployment ticked up to 4 percent, possibly a shutdown-related anomaly. Parts of the Midwest could see temperatures rise by 70 degrees in the space of a few days, bringing relief but also a new set of worries: potholes, clogs, floods. Commissioner James P. O’Neill said a law that keeps police disciplinary records secret “must change” after a report criticized his department’s record on transparency. New year, new you, right? You may be headed to the gym, but what about the health of your phone, computer and all your precious data? Here are some tips to get your digital life in order. New York foolishly traded Kristaps Porzingis. But what else is new? Except for the fact that some fed-up Knicks fans might be turning their gaze toward Brooklyn. The United States could have a first gentleman. A first partner? A first, well, something! More Recent Articles |
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