Analysis: Flynn plea clouds Trump’s tax victory
President Donald Trump walks down the steps of Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. Trump is in New York to attend a series of fundraisers.
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The Latest: Trump gets glimpse of New York protesters
Outside his first event, several hundred protesters stood behind barricades along 42nd Street. His motorcade ducked into a side street so he saw some of the action but not most of it.
The #MeToo Moment
As the sexual misconduct scandals continue to unfold, our new gender editor, Jessica Bennett, will provide updates, analysis and reflections on the coverage and conversation in a new newsletter. Sign up here to keep up with this watershed cultural moment, and tell us what you think at nytgender@nytimes.com .
Big Apple Mayor sharpens up the long knives for his own party
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is fresh off a winning reelection bid and clearly has things on his mind which range far beyond the problems plaguing the Big Apple. One of the latest trends among Democrats is to dump on Bill Clinton and express their disappointment in the fact that he didn't resign from the presidency when he was hit with his own sex scandal back in the 90s.
The Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2017
Political news dominated not only headlines in 2017, but the biggest, splashiest book titles of the year as well, from Ta-Nehisi Coates reflecting on the Obama-Trump continuum to Hillary Clinton answering for herself the cries of "What happened?" These books covered the rise of evangelicalism to the future of humankind amid war and climate disaster. Even histories like David Grann's account of the Osage people or Tina Brown's memoirs of making it in a man's world carry a cultural relevance today.
Teens wearing burqas charged over supermarket robberies
'Did you thank the doctor for bringing you into this world?' LaVar Ball escalates Trump feud in car-crash interview where he again refused to thank President for helping free his son from China 'I finished her off, I strangled her. I got up and wiped off the blood.
First woman named top New York National Guard enlisted leader
New York Air National Guard Command Chief Master Sgt. Amy Giaquinto has been named the top enlisted leader for the 16,000 men and women of the New York Army and Air National Guard.
Dems eager to use tax bill against GOP in ’18
Democrats plan to tie the GOP tax bill to the party's failed attempts to repeal ObamaCare, a message they hope will portray Republicans as abandoning the working class in favor of businesses and the wealthy. All income groups on average would see a short-term tax cut under the House bill.
The Hillary Effect
Would the war against preying on women be blazing so fiercely had Hillary Clinton been elected? When I interviewed women in Hollywood about the ugly Harvey Weinstein revelations in The Times and The New Yorker, they told me that feelings of frustration and disgust at having an accused predator in the White House instead of the first woman president had helped give the story velocity.When I talked to Susan Fowler, after her blog post about sexual harassment at Uber that toppled its C.E.O., Travis Kalanick, she said that before Donald Trump's election, women in Silicon Valley were speaking up
Roy Moore’s lawyer challenges Alabama woman’s claim of sexual assault
The Senate campaign of Roy Moore of Alabama sought Wednesday to discredit a woman's accusation that he sexually assaulted her when she was 16, suggesting that what looks like his signature on her high school yearbook could be a forgery. Moore's attorney, Phillip L. Jauregui, Jr., also disputed a statement by Beverly Young Nelson that she'd had no contact with Moore since the alleged assault took place in 1977 in Gadsden, Ala.
De Blasio, Schumer lead Dems in rally against GOP tax overhaul
Mayor de Blasio denounced the congressional tax plan as a theft from the middle class to benefit the wealthy. He is seen at a City Hall rally on Sunday.
Senate Republicans unveil their own tax plan
Senate Republicans released their own version of a tax plan Thursday, and it varies just enough from the House's bill to set the two chambers up for a dramatic showdown over tax policy in upcoming weeks. The Senate tax bill includes more individual tax brackets than the House bill as well as fully repeals the state and local tax deduction, which has become a must-save item for moderate Republicans in the House.
Harvey Weinstein employed a team of spies to silence his accusers: report
Just weeks after he helped open the flood gates on Harvey Weinstein, investigative reporter Ronan Farrow promised another blockbuster. In an appearance Friday on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," Farrow said he had been working on a follow-up to his explosive New Yorker article detailing allegations that the Hollywood film mogul had sexually harassed or assaulted 13 women.
Ronan Farrow’s latest Weinstein piece reflects exactly why women don’t report sexual violence
A month after the start of a wave of reporting chronicling first-hand accounts of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape by producer Harvey Weinstein over decades, a new report illuminates the horrifying measures Weinstein took in an attempt to keep women silent. On November 6, reporter Ronan Farrow published his third article in The New Yorker related to reports of decades of sexual misconduct by Weinstein ; this time, it was focused on the extreme efforts Weinstein and his legal team took to surveil and intimidate women seeking to come forward.
New York’s Majestic Passage in the Sky
To enter the Port of New York, vessels have to traverse the Kill Van Kull and pass under the Bayonne Bridge. In order for today's enormous new container ships to fit, the channel had to be made deeper and the bridge's roadway higher.
Where’s Trump the negotiator when immigration reform needs him?
To my great surprise, President Donald Trump's reaction to the Halloween night terrorist attack in New York made me miss the thoughtful eloquence of President George W. Bush. Ol' Dubya wasn't known to be a master of oratory, most of the time, but when the world needed some words of comfort, hope and resolve after the shock of Sept.
New England looks to end daylight saving time
Massachusetts wants to permanently switch to Atlantic Time, which is one hour ahead of Eastern Time. It would not roll back one hour on the first Sunday of November, when daylight saving time ends, nor move the clock ahead one hour in March when it begins.
Anthony Weiner to report to prison by Monday
Anthony Weiner speaks at a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel in this June 6, 2011 file photo in New York. Former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner , who was sentenced to 21 to 27 months in prison for sending obscene material to a 15-year-old North Carolina high school student, must report to federal prison by Monday, WABC reported Friday.
Insurance loss from disasters cuts profits at Buffett’s firm
A military judge has found that Bowe Bergdahl should serve no prison time for endangering his comrades by walking off his Afghanistan post. A military judge has found that Bowe Bergdahl should serve no prison time for endangering his comrades by walking off his Afghanistan post.
Terrorist came from Uzbekistan,which has brutally repressed Islam
The terrorist who killed eight people in a Manhattan truck attack has focused the eyes of the world on Uzbekistan, an obscure country that until a string of recent attacks had been known mostly for its brutal repression. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a press conference Wednesday that President Trump is considering adding the Central Asian country, the homeland of 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov, to the list of states restricted in his travel ban.