Promising Brexit, the new Conservative Party leader will take over with less political clout than just about any prime minister since World War II. As the country’s first single leader in more than 40 years, he brings an unsettled domestic situation unique in the annals of modern-day prime ministerial politics. The astronaut’s sons contended that incompetent medical care had cost him his life, and threatened to go public. His widow says she wanted no part of the payout. The former special prosecutor has vowed to stick to his report, making it unlikely he will serve as the dramatic accuser Trump critics yearn to see. A top aide to Robert S. Mueller III, Aaron Zebley, will sit next to Mr. Mueller during back-to-back hearings on Wednesday, and will be sworn in as a witness before the House Intelligence Committee. Congress gave final approval to legislation that would extend lifetime compensation to emergency workers who became ill after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Under a rule proposed by the Agriculture Department, more than three million people would no longer be eligible for food stamps. The agency said it would look into concerns about anticompetitive behavior by some of the industry’s biggest companies. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. We look at what Democrats hope the former special counsel will say, what Republicans don’t want him to say and what he’s likely to actually say. The Pulitzer Prize winner discusses his new novel, and Jon Gertner talks about “The Ice at the End of the World.” “One of the last things that my grandmother said was, ‘When you grow up, come visit me.’” Calculation and impulse collide to produce one of the ugliest stretches of the president’s first term. Or he could, like his hero Churchill, be remembered for a single act of bravery. For those who have read it, the special counsel’s report speaks for itself. For those who haven’t, he can speak for it in Congress. The feds are no match (for now). Judges on state supreme courts don’t reflect the diversity of their communities. We went onboard a ship that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean and witnessed a standoff between the captain and Italian officials, who view the crew as criminals. But that doesn’t mean we should stop using them. “Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda” claims to contain the fullest collection of Zelda’s side of the correspondence. Search warrants were issued for phones belonging to people in Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló’s inner circle who traded sexist and homophobic messages. For decades, critics called for Mr. Li, who became known as the “butcher of Beijing,” to face trial or a public reckoning for his role in the 1989 bloodshed. An 18-year-old Texas man, born in the United States, was detained at an immigration checkpoint while he was on his way to a college soccer tryout. Employees at Deutsche Bank reported potentially illicit transactions to a federal regulator. Mr. Epstein, who is charged with sex trafficking, had dozens of accounts at the bank. Summer is the perfect time to rediscover the pleasures of reading. Here’s how scientists and librarians say you should get started. When the big one hits, be prepared with this gear for enough water, light, communication, power, first aid, and contact info. People find corny jokes funnier when they are paired with laughter, a new study found. (Though, as you will see, “funny” is a relative term.) Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. The AMC spy thriller, newly available to stream, lasted only one season, but its paranoid conspiracy themes are as relevant as ever. Summer brings with it a certain set of private rites and rituals. Salvatore Scibona writes about the joys of lying nude on a hot day. Sometimes the interests of humans and animals are the same, but humans have to save the animals first. There are no universally accepted, consistent standards for using headlights to communicate. “It means something different to everybody,” one expert said. Even when older plaintiffs win their suits, correcting institutional biases can take years. It happens to people who think it could never happen to them. |
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