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California, N.C.A.A., Inflation: Your Monday Evening Briefing
(Want to get this newsletter in your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. Credit...Patrick McDermott/Getty Images 1. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the N.C.A.A. cannot ban relatively modest payments to student-athletes. The N.C.A.A. has long advanced the notion that students should play sports in exchange for no more than a scholarship, books, room and board, and, more recently, the estimated cost of attending college.
Reopening Day, Amazon, Summer Travel: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing
(Want to get this newsletter in your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. Credit...Calla Kessler for The New York Times 1. A “return to life as we know it.” With 70 percent of adults in New York having received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, Gov. Andrew Cuomo lifted nearly all restrictions on businesses and social gatherings. That includes ending capacity limits, social distance requirements, disinfection protocols and health screenings.
How I paid off over $70,000 in debt in 2 years
In 2013, when I was laid off from the small New Hampshire newspaper where I worked, I did what any other functional unemployed person would do: I decided I should move — to a city I couldn’t afford, without any savings! We’ve all heard that famous New York City motto — you know, “The city so nice they named it twice” — but allow me to propose an updated version: They named it twice because everything here costs double.
How I paid off nearly $70,000 in debt in 2 years
In 2013, when I was laid off from the small New Hampshire newspaper where I worked, I did what any other functional unemployed person would do: I decided I should move — to a city I couldn’t afford, without any savings! We’ve all heard that famous New York City motto — you know, “The city so nice they named it twice” — but allow me to propose an updated version: They named it twice because everything here costs double.
China, College Football, 2020: Your Weekend Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Human rights in China may offer a rare moment of bipartisanship among congressional lawmakers in 2020. Republicans and Democrats are planning to try to force President Trump to take a more active stand on human rights by preparing veto-proof legislation that would punish China over its treatment of ethnic Uighur Muslims.
Holiday Travel, AIDS, Sea Snakes: Your Weekend Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Travelers headed home after Thanksgiving are likely to face flight delays and treacherous roads on one of the busiest travel days of the year. A winter storm, which had formed as a “bomb cyclone” in the Northwest, is predicted to move into the Northeast on Sunday, bringing with it heavy snow and gusty winds. Some airlines are offering waivers for passengers.
Impeachment, Michael Bloomberg, Black Friday: Your Weekend Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. The impeachment inquiry is moving into a new phase of public hearings. Following weeks of testimony behind closed doors, House investigators will begin holding public hearings on Wednesday with three senior U.S. diplomats involved in the Trump administration’s Ukraine policy.
Twitter, Elizabeth Warren, N.Y.C. Marathon: Your Weekend Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re starting today with a Times investigation into the first Twitter presidency. 1. President Trump’s aides once considered asking Twitter to impose a 15-minute delay on him. That didn’t happen. Over 11,000 tweets later, his use of the social platform has reshaped the presidency.
Impeachment, California, Halloween: Your Weekend Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. This week, atop American diplomat told impeachment investigators that the Trump administration had made repeated quid pro quo demands to Ukraine. Now, all eyes are turning to John Bolton. There may be no witness investigators want to question more than Mr. Bolton, above, the president’s former national security adviser.
Brexit, Syria, Hong Kong: Your Weekend Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Brexit can be counted on to deliver ... uncertainty. On Saturday, with a million anti-Brexit protesters in London crowding outside Parliament, lawmakers distrustful of Prime Minister Boris Johnson delayed a vote on his hard-won departure deal with the European Union. That forced him to request an extension from the E.U. past Oct.
Impeachment, Syria, M.L.B. Playoffs: Your Weekend Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. The impeachment inquiry into President Trump continues to intensify as Congress returns from recess this week.
Impeachment, China, Black Holes: Your Weekend Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) It’s been quite a week. We’ll break it down for you, and take a look ahead. 1. For the fourth time in American history, an impeachment inquiry into a sitting president has begun. This time, the focus is whether President Trump courted foreign interference to hurt a leading political rival.
Whistle-Blower, United Nations, Jonathan Van Ness: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Details of a secret whistle-blower complaint that is said to be about President Trump continue to unravel. Mr. Trump pressed the Ukranian president in a July call to investigate former vice president Joe Biden’s son, an apparent mix of foreign policy with his re-election campaign.
Notre-Dame, Vaping, Black Cowboys: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. We start today with an exclusive Times investigation. 1. The Notre-Dame fire exposed schools, day care centers and parks to alarming levels of lead. French authorities responded with delays and denials. The April fire destroyed the cathedral’s roof and spire, which were covered with 460 tons of lead tiles.
G7, Brazil, U.S. Open: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. America’s closest allies are convening in France under the weight of President Trump’s tariff war with China, and tensions are simmering. As he arrived in Biarritz for the annual meeting of the Group of 7 powers, Mr. Trump, above with Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, asserted that he had the authority to make good on his threat to force all American businesses to leave China.
Markets, Israel, Hong Kong: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Global markets rode a roller coaster, feeding speculation that the U.S. could be nearing a recession. Analysts cited the uncertainties of the trade war and its damage to major economies, notably China and — a red flag for the European Union — Germany. Investors stampeded to safety in long-term bonds, creating what’s called an inverted yield curve. That’s a phenomenon that has preceded every recession in the past 60 years.
Here are the weekâs top stories, and a look ahead. Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock 1. Global markets rode a roller coaster, feeding speculation that the U.S. could be nearing a recession. Analysts cited the uncertainties of the trade war and its damage to major economies, notably China and â a red flag for the European Union â Germany. Investors stampeded to safety in long-term bonds, creating whatâs called an inverted yield curve.
Jeffrey Epstein, Gun Control, Simone Biles: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Jeffrey Epstein, the financier indicted on sex trafficking charges who was able to cultivate a stream of high-profile friends despite his lurid lifestyle, committed suicide at a Manhattan jail, officials said. Mr. Epstein, pictured above in 2017, hanged himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, and his body was found Saturday morning.
El Paso, 2020, Trade: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Two mass shootings in less than 24 hours. A gunman opened fire on Saturday in a crowded Walmart store in El Paso, a majority-Hispanic border city, killing at least 20 people and injuring dozens. One suspect, a white man in his 20s, is in custody. Law enforcement officials are studying an anti-immigrant manifesto that was posted online shortly before the attack to determine whether it was written by the gunman.
Robert Mueller, Boeing, Summer Reading: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. House Democrats are raising the prospect of impeaching President Trump. Just two days after Robert Mueller, above, testified before Congress, the House Judiciary Committee asked a federal judge to unseal grand jury evidence related to the special counsel. The court filing effectively declares that lawmakers have already started an impeachment investigation into the president. One hundred House members support an impeachment inquiry.
Iran, Heat Wave, Robert Mueller: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Tensions between Iran and the West are simmering once again. Britain threatened Iran with “serious consequences” for seizing a British-owned oil tanker, above, and warned ships to stay out of the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route for the world’s oil supplies.
Barry, ICE Raids, Jeffrey Epstein: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Tropical Storm Barry is inundating parts of Louisiana and coastal Mississippi. Check out these photos of the storm’s slow progression. It strengthened only briefly to hurricane-force winds, and the more urgent danger comes from flooding rains — possibly 25 inches in some areas. Above, a bar on Lake Pontchartrain in Mandeville, La. Tens of thousands of people have lost electricity. Here’s the latest.
Iran, 2020, World Cup: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Facing an intensifying confrontation with Iran, President Trump has few appealing options. His last-minute decision to pull back from a retaliatory strike on Iran underscored the larger, more complex showdown over containing its nuclear program, our national security correspondent writes. The administration is relying first on economic sanctions, but it has recently conducted cyberattacks and continues to weigh military options.
Iran, Hong Kong, Father’s Day: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Tensions between the U.S. and Iran are simmering. The attacks in the Gulf of Oman this past week, in which two tankers were crippled, embolden the hard-liners in Washington and Tehran, each able to argue their longtime adversary is itching for war, our reporters explain. Our video journalists examine what the evidence shows. Why have two disabled ships set the world on edge? Here are the basics.
Mexico Tariffs, World Cup, Tony Awards: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. President Trump hailed his new deal with Mexico to avoid tariffs. But the terms were actually agreed on months ago during secret negotiations, officials in both nations said.
Virginia, Trade, Stonewall: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. Image 1. “This is the most devastating day in the history of Virginia Beach.” That was Mayor Bobby Dyer after 12 people were killed in a shooting at a municipal center there. Most of the victims worked for the Virginia Beach government, several of them for decades. The gunman, who also died, was identified as a longtime city worker, and was “still employed” by the city at the time of the attack, said David Hansen, the Virginia Beach city manager.
Here are the weekâs top stories, and a look ahead. Â 1. âThis is the most devastating day in the history of Virginia Beach.â That was Mayor Bobby Dyer after 12 people were killed in a shooting at a municipal center there. Most of the victims worked for the Virginia Beach government, several of them for decades.
Trade War, Australia, ‘Game of Thrones’: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. The threat of an all-out global trade war has been quelled, at least for now. President Trump delayed a decision on whether to impose tariffs on automobiles imported from Europe, Japan and other countries, while also reaching agreements with Canada and Mexico to lift import tariffs on metals. Above, a shipment terminal in Fukuoka, Japan.
Trade, Colorado, Mother’s Day: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. “We’ve got decades of painful negotiating with China ahead.” That was the assessment of a China scholar at Stanford after a yearlong trade war between the U.S. and China ended without a deal. Above, a factory in Dongguan, China. But even if the countries reach a deal, it may do little to resolve tensions between the world’s largest economies. The U.S. is wary of China’s growing role in the global economy and its tactics for getting ahead.
Overlooked No More: Barbara Johns, Who Defied Segregation in Schools (Published 2019)
At 16, Johns led a strike by the student body that ultimately became one of five court cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education. Barbara Johns in a high school graduation photo from 1952.Credit...via Moton Museum May 8, 2019 Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.
William Barr, Kentucky Derby, Met Gala: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Attorney General William Barr has a deadline to meet Monday or else he may face contempt of Congress. House Democrats want the Justice Department to hand over special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report and its underlying evidence, and gave Mr. Barr until tomorrow to do so. The threat came days after Mr. Barr had testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, above, but had skipped a House hearing on the same topic.
2020, Sri Lanka, Sun-Maid Raisins: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Election interference topped the news in Washington this week, and will next week. The F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray, said the bureau was shoring up its counterintelligence operations in advance of next year’s elections, calling the 2018 midterms “a dress rehearsal for the big show in 2020.” There were also more revelations from the Mueller report.
Space, Julian Assange, the Masters: Your Weekend Briefing
By Remy Tumin and Lance Booth April 14, 2019 Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Space dominated the news this week. Astronomers captured the first-ever images of a black hole, peering inside one of the deepest, darkest abysses in the cosmos. Here’s how they did it. Back on Earth, NASA studied the twin astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly while one was on Earth and one was in space. The results show just how much space can change you.
Brexit, Offshore Drilling, N.C.A.A.: Your Weekend Briefing
By Remy Tumin and Lance Booth March 31, 2019 Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. You may have had enough Brexit news to last a lifetime, but wait: There’s more. After Parliament rejected a third plan from Prime Minister Theresa May to extricate Britain from the E.U., Britons on both sides of the issue are angry and embarrassed. And they are losing faith in their political system. “We’re in the last hour,” a firefighter said. “I’m wondering: What does more damage?
New Zealand, Boeing, College Admissions: Your Weekend Briefing
By Remy Tumin, Melina Delkic and Lance Booth March 17, 2019 Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. “I was prepared to give my life to save another life.” More details and stories of heroism are emerging from the terrorist attack that left 50 people dead at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Abdul Aziz was in one of the mosques when he heard gunshots. Rather than turning from the sound, he ran toward it in an effort to distract the attacker.
Paul Manafort, Border Crisis, Cowboy Poets: Your Weekend Briefing
By Remy Tumin, Melina Delkic and Lance Booth March 10, 2019 Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. And don’t forget — daylight saving time begins in the U.S. at 2 a.m. on Sunday, so move your clocks one hour forward. 1. 47 months. The sentence for Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, struck many as lenient, compared with the 19 to 24 years recommended under sentencing guidelines.
Michael Cohen, SpaceX, Michael Jackson: Your Weekend Briefing
By Remy Tumin and Lance Booth March 3, 2019 It was a week with a crushing streak of news, so we’ll break it down into manageable parts. 1. In Washington: President Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer painted a damning picture of life inside the president’s inner circle. While Democrats are not likely to immediately pursue impeachment, Michael Cohen’s statements may open a new phase of political turbulence for Mr. Trump heading into the 2020 election.
Venezuela, Amy Klobuchar, Academy Awards: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. President Trump has openly criticized the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, calling it a “witch hunt” and those who cooperate with investigators “rats.” But our team of Washington reporters uncovered a more secretive layer of Mr. Trump’s public war on the investigations encircling him.
Donald Trump, Theodore McCarrick, Colin Kaepernick: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. President Trump declared a national emergency on the border with Mexico on Friday in an effort to access billions of dollars that Congress refused to give him to build a wall there. The president asserted that the “invasion of drugs and criminals” coming across the border constituted a threat to national security and justified unilateral action. But illegal crossings are already down and critics are accusing him of manufacturing a crisis.
Justin Fairfax, Matthew Whitaker, Grammys: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. Virginia’s lieutenant governor, Justin E. Fairfax, above, has refused to resign in the face of sexual assault allegations, giving Democrats an excruciating choice: whether to impeach a black leader at a moment when the state’s two other top leaders, both white, are also resisting calls to quit after admitting to racist behavior.
Super Bowl, Ralph Northam, Cory Booker: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. President Trump had invited the publisher of The New York Times to an off-the-record dinner. The publisher, A. G. Sulzberger, said he preferred an on-the-record interview with reporters in the room. Mr. Trump agreed. That led to a wide-ranging interview in the Oval Office on Thursday, during which Mr. Trump called negotiations with Congress over the border wall “a waste of time” and said the job of president was a “loser” financially.
Roger Stone, Novak Djokovic, Government Shutdown: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. The partial government shutdown is over — for now. President Trump signed a bill on Friday reopening the federal government for three weeks, but he said he was ready to renew the confrontation or to bypass Congress altogether if Republicans and Democrats didn’t agree on funds for a wall at the southern border by Feb. 15. The bill opened the way to paying the 800,000 federal workers who had been furloughed or had been working without pay.
Trump Announcement, Winter Storm Warning: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. The government shutdown lives on, but there have been hints of movement. President Trump is still insisting on $5.7 billion for his wall on the southern border, and he announced Saturday that he would extend deportation protections for some undocumented immigrants in exchange for the wall money.
Shutdown, Julián Castro, Jayme Closs: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. Image 1. The government shutdown is now the longest in history. At midnight on Saturday, the partial shutdown reached 22 days, surpassing the previous record of 21 under the Clinton administration in 1995. President Trump, above, used an Oval Office address and a visit to Texas to push for his long-promised border wall, the central issue of the shutdown.
Shutdown, Elizabeth Warren, Golden Globes: Your Weekend Briefing
Good morning. Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. Image 1. The partial government shutdown is entering its third week. Negotiations between Vice President Mike Pence and congressional aides from both parties yielded little progress on Saturday. The two sides are scheduled to meet again this afternoon, but there is little hope that President Trump’s demand for more than $5 billion for a wall at the southern border will be met anytime soon.
Government Shutdown, Ginsburg, Mattis: Your Weekend Briefing
By Joumana Khatib, Ashley Calloway-Blatch and Lance Booth Dec. 23, 2018 Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. It’s a showdown over President Trump’s wall. The federal government shut down early Saturday after congressional and White House officials could not reach a compromise on a spending bill. The shutdown will continue for the next several days because Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, adjourned the Senate until Thursday.
Manafort, China Trade, William Barr: Your Friday Evening Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. Image 1. Federal prosecutors accused Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, of lying to them about his contacts with Trump administration officials and other matters.
George Bush, G-20, Russia Investigation: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. George Bush, who saw the nation out of the Cold War as the 41st president of the United States, died on Friday at age 94. Mr. Bush was the last president to have fought in World War II, and served in Congress, the United Nations and the C.I.A. before winning the White House.
Black Friday, Climate Change, China: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. Image 1. Global warming threatens American lives, cities and jobs, according to a major report by 13 federal agencies, unless the U.S. takes significant steps to rein it in. At the report’s heart: Predictions are coming true — record wildfires, increasing floods, disrupted supply chains — and it could get much worse.
California, Facebook, Thanksgiving: Your Weekend Briefing
Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. 1. The Camp Fire, still tearing across Northern California, has become the deadliest wildfire in the state’s recorded history. The fire has incinerated more than 10,000 homes and businesses — a small city’s worth — and reduced the town of Paradise to ash. We have reported the tales of those who fled, some of whom escaped through tunnels of flame, and on some of the 71 lives lost.
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