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Wildfires, Impeachment, Facebook: Your Monday Evening Briefing

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Oct. 28, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Kyle Grillot for The New York Times1. Californians are increasingly using the word “apocalypse” to describe the raging wildfires, evacuation orders, forced power outages and worsening air conditions…

Impeachment, Prince Harry, Diahann Carroll: Your Friday Evening Briefing

Oct. 4, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Pete Marovich for The New York Times1. House leaders have requested documents for the impeachment inquiry from Vice President Mike Pence related to “any role you may have played” in the Ukraine matter.In a letter, the chairmen of three…

A Jim Crow-Era Law Could Change The Results of Today’s Election In Mississippi

If Jennifer Riley Collins, a former a military intelligence officer who served as head of the Mississippi American Civil Liberties Union, wins her race for Mississippi Attorney General today, she will become the first black woman elected to a statewide office in this historically red state. But the 53-year-old Democrat has more to worry about…

Ed Clark, Pioneering Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 93

He used a broom for the sense of speed and monumentality it imparted to his paintings. He hit on the idea as young artist living hand-to-mouth in Paris. Ed Clark at his home studio in Chelsea in 2014.Credit...Chester Higgins Jr./The New York TimesPublished Oct. 19, 2019Updated Oct. 21, 2019Ed Clark, an African-American abstract painter who…

Impeachment, Chicago, Halloween: Your Thursday Evening Briefing

Oct. 31, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times1. The bitterly divided House voted on nearly exact partisan lines regarding the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The Democrats’ victory laying out the impeachment rules set up a critical public phase of the process.The…

Ed Clark, Pioneering Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 93

He used a broom for the sense of speed and monumentality it imparted to his paintings. He hit on the idea as young artist living hand-to-mouth in Paris. Ed Clark at his home studio in Chelsea in 2014.Credit...Chester Higgins Jr./The New York TimesPublished Oct. 19, 2019Updated Oct. 21, 2019Ed Clark, an African-American abstract painter who…

Syria, White House, Opioids: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Oct. 16, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times1. President Trump lashed out on Syria.Mr. Trump essentially washed his hands of the Turkish assault on the United States’ Kurdish allies,…

How Kanye West’s Controversial “Jesus Is King” Is Dividing the Christian Community

On Jesus Is King, Kanye West depicts himself as a lonely martyr barred from the Christian kingdom. “They’ll be the first one to judge me / Make it feel like nobody love me,” he says of Christians in “Hands On.” In another track, “Selah,” he compares himself to a Biblical patriarch: “Before the flood, people…

Owe Lunch Money? Don’t Plan on Going to Prom

Caroline Torres, right, and Lamar Robinson prepare after-school meals at the Community Food Bank of New Jersey.Credit...Sarah Blesener for The New York TimesNov. 1, 2019Updated 11:08 a.m. ETA suburban New Jersey school system has wrestled for months with a problem common in other districts: an accumulating pile of student lunch debt.The policy in Cherry Hill…

Brexit, California Wildfires, Floppy Disks: Your Thursday Evening Briefing

Oct. 24, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images1. Boris Johnson is anteing up the Brexit stakes.The British prime minister challenged lawmakers to approve a general election on Dec. 12, his latest effort to break the deadlock and throw Brexit back to voters.He is…

Everything You Need to Know About the October Democratic Debate

October’s Democratic presidential primary debate is a big one, literally. Twelve candidates will appear onstage together tonight, which The New York Times reports makes the debate the largest presidential primary debate in recorded American political history. So who made the cut? The same 10 candidates from the September primary debate will appear, including front runners…

The MoMA Will Soon Reopen Following Extensive Renovations. Here’s What to Expect From the Revamped Museum

Among the most influential museums of modern art in the world, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City has been closed since mid-June as it undergoes renovations for a highly anticipated reopening. Set to open its doors later in October, the revamped institution will offer everything from a Creativity Lab to new,…

The South Sudanese Bishop Trying to Bring War to an End in the World’s Newest Country

South Sudan ranks just above Syria and Afghanistan as the least peaceful country in the world. Its people are being force-fed the full toxic stew of warfare: violence, child soldiers, warlords (remember Joseph Kony?), famine, displacement, statelessness. Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, who heads the Catholic church in the Tombura-Yambio diocese in the country’s southwest, is…

Israel, Opioids, Canadian Elections: Your Monday Evening Briefing

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Oct. 21, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Ronen Zvulun/Reuters1. The Israeli prime minister conceded coalition talks to his rival.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, above, gave up his attempt at forming a government, clearing the way for…

Meghan Markle Says British Tabloids Have Made Her Marriage to Prince Harry ‘Challenging’

(LONDON) — The Duchess of Sussex says her first year of marriage to Britain’s Prince Harry has been difficult because of the pressure from Britain’s tabloid press. In an interview broadcast Sunday, Meghan Markle told British TV channel ITV that her British friends warned her not to marry the prince because of the intense media…

American Women Are Dying. To Save Them, We Need to Depoliticize Women’s Health Care

Women’s health in the United States is in a state of emergency. In the last five years, the death rate among women ages 15 to 54 has steadily risen. An American woman today is 50% more likely to die in childbirth than her mother. Half of all U.S. counties lack a single obstetrician-gynecologist, and more…

The Director of the NIH Lays Out His Vision of the Future of Medical Science

Our world has never witnessed a time of greater promise for improving human health. Many of today’s health advances have stemmed from a long arc of discovery that begins with strong, steady support for basic science. In large part because of fundamental research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which traces its roots…

China, Harvard, Jessye Norman: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing

Oct. 1, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times1. The police shot a protester in Hong Kong, resulting in a split-screen contrast with the pageantry of China’s National Day.As Beijing celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Communist Party’s rule with…

Syria, N.B.A., Nobels: Your Monday Evening Briefing

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Oct. 7, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Delil Souleiman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images1. “It is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars.”That was President Trump, defending on Twitter his decision to…

Samuel Little Is Most Prolific Serial Killer in U.S. History, F.B.I. Says

Mr. Little, 79, has confessed to 93 murders, and the agency believes “all of his confessions are credible.”The F.B.I. released five sketches drawn by Samuel Little of unidentified women he says he killed. Their locations, clockwise from top left: New Orleans, 1982; Las Vegas, 1993; Miami, 1971-72; Covington, Ky., 1984; North Little Rock, Ark., 1992-94.Credit...F.B.I.After…

How Iran’s President Left Trump Hanging, and Macron in the Hall

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday.Credit...Brittainy Newman/The New York TimesPublished Sept. 30, 2019Updated Oct. 4, 2019The telephone line had been secretly set up. President Trump waited on the other end. All President Hassan Rouhani of Iran had to do was come out of his hotel suite and walk…

Former Rep. John Conyers, One of Congress’ Longest-Serving Members, Dies at 90

(DETROIT) — Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, one of the longest-serving members of Congress whose resolutely liberal stance on civil rights made him a political institution in Washington and back home in Detroit despite several scandals, has died. He was 90. Conyers, among the high-profile politicians toppled by sex harassment allegations in 2017, died at…

He’s the First African American to Receive a Face Transplant. His Story Could Change Health Care

Robert Chelsea turned down the first face he was offered. It was a fine face, one that could have taken him off the transplant waiting list after just a couple months. But Chelsea—severely disfigured after a catastrophic car accident five years earlier—was in no hurry. He’d gotten used to tilting his head back so food…

Hillary Clinton Urges Defense of Democracy at Cummings’s Funeral

Comparing the congressman to a biblical prophet, the former secretary of state said Elijah Cummings “stood against the corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel.”VideoIn her remarks at the funeral for Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Hillary Clinton honored him as a fighter for democracy.CreditCredit...Justin T. Gellerson for The New York TimesOct. 25, 2019Speaking at…

Rudy Ray Moore AKA Dolemite Early Rap Pioneer

Many people say that hip-hop was birthed by DJ Kool Herc on a 1973 summer evening in the Bronx. Others point to the release of the 1979 Sugarhill Gang song “Rapper’s Delight” as the moment when the genre was catapulted into the national consciousness. But several years before either of those moments, Rudy Ray Moore…

President Trump’s Record 2020 Cash Isn’t Trickling Down to Vulnerable Senate Republicans

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is raising record amounts of cash for his 2020 reelection. But that fundraising might isn’t spilling over to the most vulnerable Republicans fighting to hold onto their seats in a narrowly divided Senate. During the third quarter, former astronaut Mark Kelly took in $2.5 million more than Republican Sen. Martha…

How California’s Historic NCAA Fair Pay Law Will Change College Sports for the Better

After word broke around 10 a.m. ET Monday that California governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 206, the historic bill that would allow college athletes in the state to profit off their name, image, and likeness and sign endorsement deals despite NCAA rules forbidding them, Pennsylvania state representative Dan Miller sensed an opportunity. He…

I Ran the VA Under President Trump Until He Fired Me. Our First Trump Tower Meeting Was a Job Interview Unlike Any Other

David Shulkin, a physician and former healthcare executive, was an under secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs under President Obama and the Secretary of the VA under President Trump. In March 2018, he was abruptly fired amid charges of improperly accepting gifts and misusing taxpayer funds for personal travel. Shulkin has consistently denied…

Syria, Google, California: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing

Briefing|Syria, Google, California: Your Wednesday Evening BriefingOct. 23, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times1. Two dozen Republicans disrupted the impeachment proceedings on Capitol Hill, storming a secure House Intelligence Committee suite. They refused to leave for five hours.The demonstrators, seen above outside…

Greta Thunberg, Ukraine, Emmys: Your Monday Evening Briefing

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Published Sept. 23, 2019Updated Oct. 1, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCreditCarlo Allegri/Reuters1. “You all come to us young people for hope? How dare you!” At the United Nations climate summit, dozens of presidents, prime…