President Trump extended his attacks on critics of color with an early-morning Twitter blast calling Al Sharpton “a con man” and “a troublemaker.” Baltimore residents know their city has deep, ugly problems. But they say President Trump’s race-baiting insults are not going to help Charm City. A software engineer, facing federal charges in Seattle, was accused of gaining access to 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers. The breach of an irrigation canal left more than 100,000 acres of farmland in Nebraska and Wyoming without water at a critical point in the growing cycle. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. The Supreme Court has cleared the way for more partisan redistricting. We spoke to Eric Holder, the former attorney general, who believes there are other ways to fight it. Does it make sense for me, a dark-skinned black woman, to wear sunscreen? The answer is more complicated than it may seem. Robert Mueller’s testimony may have lacked thrills, but it marked a turning point in the case against the president. Joe Biden is in the hot seat. In Trump’s mind, it’s still 1989. Navigating the tension between work and relationships. White supremacy has its own peculiar logic, to which the president is peculiarly attuned. Trump and his views are the real infestations in America. Take your money. But they’ll still win. The effort to punish Israel has symbolic value for both sides — but its substance has lost all significance. More and more, conservatives don’t trust the government to get capital punishment right. We have become cheap dates to tech platforms. Readers react to President Trump’s racially charged criticism of certain members of Congress. The weaver and artist Alison Grace Martin employs non-Euclidean geometry in her small bamboo creations. Now she’s scaling up. Two hip-hop figures from different scenes and generations find that they have much more in common than not. Trying to find an unfamiliar place on a big day, casting about in Riverside Park and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary. A report from the House Oversight Committee disclosed new details of how Thomas Barrack, a close friend of the president’s, sought to employ his influence. Local politicians and educators have been killed in a spasm of violence that has taken 20 lives in the last two weeks on the central Philippine island of Negros. Attackers reached the office of Amrullah Saleh, President Ashraf Ghani’s running-mate, after setting off a car bomb. The battle lasted nearly seven hours, ending in a rooftop firefight and escape. Renee Holland sent her Facebook friend thousands of dollars. She became entwined in a global fraud that the social network and the United States military appear helpless to stop. Economists don’t know when the decade-long expansion, now the longest in American history, will end. But here are the indicators they will be watching to figure it out. Navigating the gauntlet of questions from the new people in your life. Summer is the perfect time to rediscover the pleasures of reading. Here’s how scientists and librarians say you should get started. The up-and-coming actress, who was murdered at age 26 by Manson family members, was in “Valley of the Dolls” and “The Wrecking Crew.” The 79-year-old pianist and composer talks about admiring Kendrick Lamar, making a new album, and calling jazz an international — not just an American — music. Thought to be the first black designer to run a Seventh Avenue design room, he worked ancient influences into contemporary styles. Increasingly, these ghoulish and improbable denizens of the abyss are being captured on video, revealing an array of surprising behaviors. Also called the Southern Delta Aquariids, the shower can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you’re lucky you might be able to see it. The virus has been defeated in many parts of the world. But where it persists, rabies takes a particular toll on the rural poor. The biggest problem is that there is no way to test, unequivocally, for the presence of the bacteria that cause the disease. The authorities said at least 12 other people were injured at an annual garlic festival in Gilroy, southeast of San Jose. |
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