Today's Headlines: Prosecutors Describe Driver's Plan to Kill in Manhattan Terror Attack

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RASHBAUM, AL BAKER and ADAM GOLDMAN The charges describe the driver, Sayfullo Saipov, 29, as meticulous student of ISIS propaganda who started planning the attack a year ago. [Trump Declares Suspect 'Should Get Death Penalty']( By PETER BAKER President Trump's late-night tweet capped a day in which he sought to turn the Manhattan terrorist attack into a political talking point to push his policy agenda on immigration and national security. [Sean Edgett, Twitter's acting general counsel, testified Wednesday in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee.]( [Russia-Financed Ad Linked Clinton and Satan]( By CECILIA KANG, NICHOLAS FANDOS and MIKE ISAAC After months of avoiding a public debate about whether Russia helped tip the election, Republicans sought to portray the Kremlin-backed effort as a broader misinformation campaign. For more top news, go to [NYTimes.com »]( [Get California Today in Your Inbox]( The news and stories that matter to Californians (and anyone else interested in the state). Delivered Monday through Friday. ADVERTISEMENT Editors' Picks N.Y. / REGION [Finding a Rootless Life in U.S., Sayfullo Saipov Turned to Radicalism]( By KIM BARKER, JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ The man charged in the Manhattan truck attack won the immigration lottery when he came to the United States in 2010. But a life of disappointments awakened "monsters inside." [Men praying during a protest against President Trump's travel ban, in February.]( OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor [I Want 'Allahu Akbar' Back]( By WAJAHAT ALI My all-purpose expression of gratitude has been stolen to signify terrorism, and it hurts. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "What New Yorkers showed already is we will not change. We will not be cowed. We will not be thrown off by anything." [MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO]( responding to Tuesday's truck rampage on the West Side bike path in Lower Manhattan, the deadliest terrorist attack in the city since Sept. 11, 2001. [] Today's Videos [[Video] Video: New York Terror Suspect's Neighbors React]( Residents of Paterson, N.J., where the New York terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov was living, reflect the morning after the killings. [[Video] Video: How Russian Bots and Trolls Invade Our Lives - and Elections]( How do bots and trolls work to infiltrate social media platforms and influence U.S. elections? We take a closer look at these insidious online pests to explain how they work. [Nathan Griffiths/The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.]( [[Video] Video: Big Music in Small Rooms: Throat Singing]( Experience an intimate show of Inuit throat singing from Tanya Tagaq and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory in Iqaluit, on the edge of the Canadian Arctic. Ms. Tagaq will perform at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, Nov. 5. [] World [Michael Fallon in January. Saying he had ]( [Michael Fallon, U.K. Defense Secretary, Quits Over Inappropriate Conduct]( By STEPHEN CASTLE Mr. Fallon admitted touching a female journalist's knee, but there is talk that he may have committed other indiscretions. [Xi Jinping at the Communist Party congress in Beijing last month. The Chinese president smoothed relations with South Korea on Tuesday.]( News Analysis [China Blinks on South Korea, Making Nice After a Year of Hostilities]( By JANE PERLEZ, MARK LANDLER and CHOE SANG-HUN Seoul offered assurances to Beijing as the two papered over their differences on the deployment of an American missile defense system. [President Emmanuel Macron's attempt to overhaul France's wary relationship with capitalism has left him with fluctuating popularity ratings.]( [Emmanuel Macron's Unwanted New Title: 'President of the Rich']( By ADAM NOSSITER The French president has not helped himself by trimming a wealth tax and with remarks that seem insensitive to class resentments. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [Seven sailors were killed in June when the destroyer Fitzgerald collided with a container ship near Japan.]( [Navy Collisions That Killed 17 Sailors Were 'Avoidable,' Official Inquiry Says]( By ERIC SCHMITT, THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF and HELENE COOPER Crew and basic navigational errors were to blame for two collisions between Navy ships and commercial vessels in the Western Pacific, the Navy's top officer said. [Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey with President Trump after declaring the opioid crisis a public health emergency at the White House last week. The president's commission on the crisis, led by Mr. Christie, released a report on Wednesday making wide-ranging recommendations to combat the epidemic.]( [Panel Recommends Opioid Solutions But Puts No Price Tag on Them]( By ABBY GOODNOUGH and JAN HOFFMAN The commission's 56 suggestions include expanding medication-assisted treatment and creating more drug courts but do not suggest a new approach to the crisis. [Rosa Maria Hernandez, a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, was detained by Border Patrol agents last week after being stopped on the way to undergo emergency surgery.]( [A.C.L.U. Sues Trump Administration Over Detention of 10-Year-Old Immigrant]( By REGGIE UGWU Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union said the child, who was detained after being stopped in Texas on her way to surgery, was being held unlawfully. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [Summer Zervos, right, with the lawyer Gloria Allred in January. Ms. Zervos, who claimed President Trump groped her in 2007, brought a defamation suit against him after he called her and other accusers liars.]( [Trump's Female Accusers Feel Forgotten. A Lawsuit May Change That.]( By MEGAN TWOHEY During his campaign, Mr. Trump said the women who accused him of sexual misconduct were liars. A defamation suit could give them a chance to confront him again. [Speaker Paul D. Ryan outlined the tax plan in a meeting on Tuesday with conservative groups.]( [Math Problem Bedevils Republican Tax Rewrite]( By JIM TANKERSLEY, THOMAS KAPLAN and ALAN RAPPEPORT Republicans are running into political challenges as they try to offset lost revenue to stay within the confines of the $1.5 trillion tax cut that lawmakers have voted to allow. [President Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Wednesday. Mr. Trump said in a brief telephone call on Wednesday that the special counsel investigation had not come near him personally.]( [In Call With Times Reporter, Trump Projects Air of Calm Over Charges]( By MAGGIE HABERMAN and PETER BAKER President Trump said that he wasn't 'angry at anybody' and that investigations into his campaign's links to Russia had not come near him personally. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, at a news conference in September.]( [Fed Lets Interest Rate Stand Ahead of Powell Nomination as Chairman]( By ANA SWANSON and BEN CASSELMAN The Fed signaled a rate rise remains quite likely for December as the White House prepared to tap Jerome H. Powell as its new leader. [John Weiss looked over a crop of soybeans at his farm in Dell, Ark., which he said showed signs of damage from the pesticide dicamba.]( [Crops in 25 States Damaged by Unintended Drift of Weed Killer]( By ERIC LIPTON The herbicide dicamba is intended for soybeans and cotton crops that have been genetically modified. But other crops on nearby fields are suffering. [The boxer Floyd Mayweather promoted a coin offering for a project known as Centra.]( [S.E.C. Warns Celebrities Endorsing Virtual Money]( By NATHANIEL POPPER The agency said celebrities who promoted coin offerings could be violating multiple laws. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [The iPhone X lacks a home button and includes a face scanner.]( Tech Fix [The iPhone X Is Cool. That Doesn't Mean You Are Ready for It.]( By BRIAN X. CHEN Apple's newest iPhone takes a big leap from past models by shedding a home button and including a face scanner. And remember the price: $999. State of the Art [The Upside of Being Ruled by the Five Tech Giants]( By FARHAD MANJOO What if it's not that bad that so much economic, social and political power is held by Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft? [Tesla Model 3 cars at the company's factory in Fremont, Calif. Elon Musk, Tesla's chief executive, sought on Wednesday to reassure investors that the pace of Model 3 production would pick up by early next year.]( [Tesla's Elon Musk Reassures Investors Over Model 3 Delays]( By BILL VLASIC The electric-car maker cited record output of its existing models, and its chief said bottlenecks on its first mass-market offering were being resolved. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [Alex Bregman fell to his knees after the Houston Astros got the final out against the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the World Series.]( Astros 5, Dodgers 1 | Houston wins series, 4-3 [Astros Outlast Dodgers to Clinch First World Series Title]( By BILLY WITZ Facing a daunting Game 7 in Los Angeles, the Astros coolly put together an early lead and held off the Dodgers to win the first title in franchise history. [Lee Hee-beom, right, the president of the Pyeongchang Winter Games organizing committee, with Spyros Capralos, the president of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, during a handover ceremony of the Olympic flame on Tuesday in Athens. Ticket sales for the Winter Games in February have been sluggish.]( [Want to See Some Curling? Ticket Sales Tepid for Pyeongchang Olympics]( By ANDREW KEH With 100 days to go before the Games begin, South Koreans have shown little interest in attending. [Laura Fortino of Canada after scoring against the United States last week in Boston. She is among the players who want the two North American women's hockey leagues to merge.]( [Voices Grow Louder for Merger of Women's Pro Hockey Leagues]( By SETH BERKMAN Top players and the N.H.L. believe it is better for the sport if the Canadian Women's Hockey League and National Women's Hockey League became one league. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [A museum official presenting works from the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt at the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland in July.]( [Hidden Treasures of Nazis' Art Dealer Finally Go on Display]( By MELISSA EDDY Exhibitions in Germany and Switzerland will display the Gurlitt collection, first revealed in 2013, including works from Monet, Renoir and Cézanne. [From 1979 to 1981, Bob Dylan released three albums within three years: ]( Critic's Notebook [Bob Dylan's Songs for the Soul, Revisited and Redeemed]( By JON PARELES The latest installment in the "Bootleg Series" provides new perspective on the songwriter's controversial Christian years. Books of The Times [Walter Isaacson's 'Leonardo da Vinci' Is the Portrait of a Real Renaissance Man]( By JENNIFER SENIOR Isaacson's latest biography of a celebrated visionary captures the perfectionist, misser of deadlines and remarkably prescient genius. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] New York [Kim Guadagno, New Jersey's Republican lieutenant governor, has struggled to move out of the shadow of her boss, Gov. Chris Christie, as she campaigns to succeed him. In June 2013, she looked on as Mr. Christie announced a special election to fill the United States Senate seat of Frank R. Lautenberg, a Democrat who had died in office.]( [Guadagno, Hoping to Succeed Christie, Tries to Escape His Shadow]( By NICK CORASANITI Among small business owners, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno was well known for her accessibility. But to the wider public, she was largely unknown. [The 47-story Park Lane Hotel on Central Park South, which sits on Billionaires' Row.]( [Park Lane Hotel Draws No Bids Near $1 Billion Price]( By CHARLES V. BAGLI Potential buyers could be nervous about the continuing role of the Justice Department in a fraud case and a cooling luxury real estate market, experts say. [Workers on Wednesday were renovating a house in Carroll Gardens that prosecutors said Paul Manafort bought with laundered money.]( [Manafort's Brooklyn Brownstone Goes From Eyesore to Evidence]( By ANDY NEWMAN The empty house with broken windows and a $7 million mortgage was part of an indicted Trump adviser's money-laundering scheme, prosecutors say. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( [] Media & Advertising [Brett Ratner at a party for the 89th Academy Awards in February. Several actresses have come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against him.]( [Brett Ratner, Prominent Producer, Accused of Sexual Misconduct]( By RACHEL ABRAMS Women including the actresses Natasha Henstridge and Olivia Munn have made accusations against Mr. Ratner. His lawyer denied the allegations of inappropriate conduct. [''This is your brain on drugs,'' a 1987 ad said.]( The Upshot [Just Say No to Opioids? Ads Could Actually Make Things Worse]( By AUSTIN FRAKT and KEITH HUMPHREYS The president's idea for advertising could backfire if we don't learn from past antidrug campaigns. [The New York Times announced financial results as it is fundamentally reshaping itself into a business no longer rooted in newsprint.]( [New York Times Co. Reports Solid Digital Growth as Print Slides]( By SYDNEY EMBER Digital advertising and online subscriptions helped offset continued declines in print advertising in the third quarter. Total revenue increased 6 percent, to $386 million. For more media and advertising news, go to [NYTimes.com/Media »]( [] Fashion & Style [John Binder at his home in Slidell, La. The painting behind Mr. Binder is a portrait of him painted by his sister.]( [Yes, Breitbart News Has a Fashion Critic]( By RUTH LA FERLA That would be John Binder, whose acid-tongued commentary covers the runways and the beltway. [The horror film producer Jason Blum outside the White House. Despite all the terrifying movies he has worked on, Mr. Blum says nothing scares him more right now than the White House and its current occupant.]( [In the Time of Trump, a Horror-Movie Maker Rules Hollywood]( By MAUREEN DOWD "I think 'Get Out' did four times the business it would have done if Hillary had been president," says Jason Blum, also producer of "Happy Death Day." [From left, Kelly Osbourne, Joan Rivers, Giuliana Rancic and George Kostiopolous from the 2012 season of ]( [The Last of Joan Rivers]( By VINCENT BOUCHER There is a certain symmetry in the end of "Fashion Police" and the publication of "Joan Rivers Confidential," a book of ephemera from her career. For more fashion news, go to [NYTimes.com/Fashion »]( []Obituaries [Muhal Richard Abrams at Alice Tully Hall in Manhattan in 2004.]( [Muhal Richard Abrams, 87, Individualistic Pianist and Composer, Is Dead]( By HOWARD MANDEL Mr. Abrams was known both for his diverse, unclassifiable music and for helping to found a long-running Chicago-based musicians' collective. [Jane Juska at her home in Berkeley, Calif., in 2006, three years after the publication of her memoir ]( [Jane Juska, 84, Who Drew Notice Writing of Late-Life Sex, Dies]( By RICHARD SANDOMIR "Before I turn 67," she wrote in a personal ad, "I would like a lot of sex with a man I like." Her encounters were the basis of a well-received book. [The 1982 Porsche 911, one of the company's signature cars. Mr. Schutz, as chief executive, was credited with halting plans to retire it.]( [Peter Schutz, Executive Who Saved a Signature Porsche, Dies at 87]( By JACK EWING Mr. Schutz, whose family had fled the Nazis, returned to Germany to be the only American to lead the sports car maker. He stopped it from killing the 911 model. [David Vaughan, left, and Merce Cunningham, in an undated photograph. His biography of Cunningham was called ]( [David Vaughan, Chronicler of Dance History, Dies at 93]( By SAM ROBERTS He was the Merce Cunningham company's archivist and wrote definitive biographies of choreographers. He also did some dancing and choreography himself. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial Editorial [While New York Mourns, the President Postures]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Mr. Trump sends condolences, then returns to fantasies of fighting terrorism with an immigration crackdown. Editorial [About John Kelly's Racist History Lesson]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The White House chief of staff was supposed to be a calming force, but he has now echoed President Trump's sympathy for white nationalists. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed Op-Ed Contributor [America Is Not a 'Center-Right Nation']( By ERIC LEVITZ In fact, on economic policy, America is a center-left nation. Op-Ed Columnist [Seven Bizarre Notions Trump and His Team Have About America]( By ANDREW ROSENTHAL The president and the Republicans claim to have a special understanding of American values and history. But a lot of what they say is very strange. [President Trump speaking at the White House on Tuesday about changing tax laws.]( Op-Ed Columnist [Trump, Taxes and … You Know]( By GAIL COLLINS I'm sure you have questions. [Parents picking up their children from schools near the scene of the terrorist attack in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday.]( Op-Ed Columnist [A Terrorist Attack in Real America]( By BRET STEPHENS My kids learned to ride their bikes on the same path that became Tuesday's scene of carnage. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On Nov. 2, 1976, former Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated Republican incumbent, Gerald R. Ford, becoming the first American president from the Deep South since the Civil War. [See this Front Page]( | [Buy this Front Page]( FOLLOW US: [Facebook] [Facebook]( | [Twitter] [@NYTimes]( | [Pinterest] [Pinterest]( | [Instagram] [Instagram]( [NYT]( Access The New York Times from anywhere with our suite of apps: [iPhone®]( | [iPad®]( | [Android]( | [All]( [.] Save 15% at [The NYTimes Store »]( [.] Have questions? [Help Section »]( [.] Visit our mobile website at [m.nyt.com »]( About This Email This is an automated email. 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