Today's Headlines: Tax Bill Thrown Into Uncertainty as First G.O.P. Senator Comes Out Against It

[Four More Women Describe Advances by Roy Moore as Campaign Pushes Back]( | View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. | [Unsubscribe]( [The New York Times]( [Most Popular]( | [Video]( | [Today's Headlines]( Thursday, November 16, 2017 IN THIS EMAIL [NYT] [World](#worldNews) | [U.S.](#nationalNews) | [Politics](#politicsNews) | [Business](#businessNews) | [Technology](#technologyNews) | [Sports](#sportsNews) | [Arts](#artsNews) | [N.Y./Region](#nyregionNews) | [Fashion & Style](#dailyFeatureNews) | [Today's Video](#videoNews) | [Obituaries](#obituaries) | [Editorials](#editorialsNews) | [Op-Ed](#opinionNews) | [On This Day](#onthisdayNews) | [CUSTOMIZE »]( Top News [Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, left, clashed with Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, right, during a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday.]( [Tax Bill Thrown Into Uncertainty as First G.O.P. Senator Comes Out Against It]( By ALAN RAPPEPORT and THOMAS KAPLAN Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said he opposed both the House and Senate tax plans as written, posing a new obstacle to Republican leaders eager to overhaul the tax code. [Roy Moore at a campaign event at Walker Springs Baptist Church on Tuesday in Jackson, Ala. ]( [Four More Women Describe Advances by Roy Moore as Campaign Pushes Back]( By ALAN BLINDER Accusations of groping and unwanted overtures surfaced as Mr. Moore's campaign tried to cast doubt on the credibility of one of his accusers. [Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs]( By ROBIN POGREBIN and SCOTT REYBURN The price was astounding, even more so because some experts criticized a Christie's marketing campaign that glossed over the painting's flaws. For more top news, go to [NYTimes.com »]( [Get the Morning Briefing in Your Inbox]( What you need to know to start your day, delivered Monday through Friday. [Sign up »]( ADVERTISEMENT Editors' Picks [[Interactive Feature] Interactive Feature: Eight Ways to Build a Border Wall]( The government could choose a design soon, but experts say picking one that works for the entire southern border would be extremely hard. OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor [Don't Let New Blood Pressure Guidelines Raise Yours]( By H. GILBERT WELCH A national goal of 130 systolic may lead many patients to be overmedicated. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "There is too much money in the world." [LAWRENCE LUHRING]( a New York art dealer, expressing his astonishment over the sale at auction of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" for $450.3 million, a new record by far. [] Today's Videos [First Lady Grace Mugabe of Zimbabwe has emerged as a fierce champion of her own presidential aspirations.]( [[Video] Video: Grace Mugabe's Fierce Battle for Power in Zimbabwe]( Grace Mugabe, Zimbabwe's first lady, is in the middle of the fight for the country's presidency. Her rising power may have prompted the military to take over. [[Video] Video: Meet Roy Moore's Defenders]( Roy S. Moore, the Senate candidate from Alabama, and his supporters are trying to discredit and diminish the mounting sexual misconduct allegations against him. [[Video] Video: Where It's Made: A Steinway Grand Piano]( Step inside one of the Steinway & Sons factories where grand pianos have been handmade for over 100 years. Follow the process from the lumber yard to the selection room. [] World [President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and his wife, Grace, celebrated Zimbabwe's Independence Day in 2012 in Harare, the capital. On Wednesday, the military placed Mr. Mugabe under house arrest.]( [With Mugabe's Era Ending in Zimbabwe, a Warning Echoes in Africa]( By NORIMITSU ONISHI and ALAN COWELL Robert Mugabe has led Zimbabwe since 1980, but he underestimated his nation's anger over his son's unrestrained spending and his wife's political ambitions. [A ]( [Signs of Russian Meddling in Brexit Referendum]( By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Researchers have found evidence that Russian-language or Kremlin-linked Twitter accounts pushed divisive messages in British politics, too. [The newly constructed wing of the Imam Khomeini hospital in Eslamabad, Iran, partly crumpled during Sunday's earthquake. The original building, 40 years old, was relatively unscathed.]( [Iranians Are Outraged Over Shoddy Construction in Earthquake Zone]( By THOMAS ERDBRINK The largest hospital in the earthquake zone nearly collapsed. Iran's president wants to investigate. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [Black Cube was thrust into the spotlight last week when The New Yorker revealed that the producer Harvey Weinstein had hired the firm to investigate the actress Rose McGowan.]( [Deception and Ruses Fill the Toolkit of Investigators Used by Weinstein]( By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM Black Cube, hired to ferret out information on a Weinstein accuser, used an elaborate ruse involving a fake job interview in another case. [House G.O.P. Tax Writers Take Aim at College Tuition Benefits]( By ERICA L. GREEN The House tax bill, up for a vote on Thursday, would tax benefits that put the children of college workers through school and help doctoral students get their degrees. [Investigators outside the Rancho Tehama Elementary School in California.]( [Northern California Gunman Killed Wife Before Shooting Rampage]( By THOMAS FULLER The death toll could have been much worse had an elementary school not ordered a lockdown, the authorities said. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [Former President Bill Clinton last month in Baltimore. Some of his behavior while he was in office has been an uncomfortable subject for Democrats.]( ['What About Bill?' Sexual Misconduct Debate Revives Questions About Clinton]( By PETER BAKER Conservatives resurrect charges as a political cudgel, but some liberals say it may be time to rethink their defense of the former president. [A field of romaine lettuce in Yuma, Arizona, at the border of Mexico. Republicans from border and agricultural states are nervous about speaking out against the White House.]( [Trump's Trade Approach Diverges Sharply from Free Trade Republicans]( By ANA SWANSON Deep divisions over the future of trade policy threaten to disrupt a brittle coalition between free market and populist Republicans. [Senator Bob Corker, left, Republican of Tennessee, and Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, in a TimesTalks discussion on Wednesday. Their forecasts on Republican and Democratic compromise were far from rosy.]( [5 Takeaways from a TimesTalks with Senators Corker and Warner]( By NICHOLAS FANDOS Senators Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, and Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, discussed waning bipartisanship during a New York Times event. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [Earlier talks this year between Time Inc., the publisher of People and Sports Illustrated, and the Meredith Corporation fizzled out.]( [Koch Brothers Said to Back Time Inc. Deal Talks With Meredith]( By SYDNEY EMBER and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The billionaire Koch brothers are said to have tentatively agreed to support the publisher Meredith's offer with an equity injection of more than $500 million. [Richard Cordray, a Democrat, will step down this month as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His five-year term was scheduled to end in July 2018.]( [Richard Cordray's Exit From Consumer Bureau Gives Trump an Opening]( By STACY COWLEY and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Mr. Cordray, an Obama holdover, has been a zealous watchdog as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's first director. Now President Trump can reshape the agency. [Keith A. Noreika, acting comptroller of the currency, during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in June.]( [Under Trump, Banking Watchdog Trades Its Bite for a Tamer Stance]( By BEN PROTESS and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG A change in course has made the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees the nation's biggest banks, part of a campaign to roll back regulations. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [Snap and its chief executive, Evan Spiegel, center, have hit tough times since the company went public in March.]( The Shift [Snapchat's New Test: Grow Like Facebook, Without the Baggage]( By KEVIN ROOSE Under pressure from investors, Snap is making radical changes. Can it emulate Facebook without losing its innovative spirit? [The fees Amazon charges its marketplace sellers are a huge business for the company, totaling nearly $8 billion during its most recent quarter, up from $5.65 billion a year earlier. The e-commerce giant leaves collection of sales taxes up to those sellers, but few want to do so without assurances that competing merchants will do the same.]( [Amazon Sellers Brood as States Come Calling for Taxes]( By NICK WINGFIELD Most third-party sellers on Amazon do not collect sales tax. States, thirsty for the millions of dollars in unpaid revenue, are coming for the money. Tech Fix [A New Phone Comes Out. Yours Slows Down. A Conspiracy? No.]( By BRIAN X. CHEN Your smartphone is not deliberately losing speed just because your phone maker has a new gadget for sale. For devices that do slow down, here are some fixes. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [Fireworks at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. The International Olympic Committee will soon decide what penalties Russia will face for conducting an elaborate doping program at the Sochi Games. ]( [Antidoping Regulator Denies Russia's Appeal for Reinstatement]( By REBECCA R. RUIZ The decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency is expected to set off a frenzy of scrutiny and debate three months ahead of the Winter Olympics and Paralympics. [U.C.L.A. basketball players, from left, Cody Riley, LiAngelo Ball and Jalen Hill apologized Wednesday for shoplifting from multiple stores in China.]( [U.C.L.A. Suspends 3 Players; They Admitted to Shoplifting in China]( By VICTOR MATHER LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill, detained in China for shoplifting, were released after President Trump interceded with President Xi Jinping. [Derek Jeter, the chief executive and part owner of the Miami Marlins, talked to reporters on Wednesday at the M.L.B. meetings in Orlando, Fla.]( [Derek Jeter Discusses His New Job and (Sort of) Giancarlo Stanton]( By JAMES WAGNER Attending his first owners' meetings as a stakeholder and the chief executive of the Marlins, Jeter carefully addressed Stanton's future with the team. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Isaac Hayes in 1967. A new boxed set shines a spotlight on the versatile musicians who backed him.]( [Meet the Musicians Who Gave Isaac Hayes His Groove]( By SEAN HOWE A new boxed CD set helps shine a light on the band - born out of the Bar-Kays - that backed this soul star on "Hot Buttered Soul" and beyond. [Nico Muhly's new opera, ]( [Nico Muhly on His New Opera and Women's 'Pressurized' Lives]( By ROSLYN SULCAS "Marnie," based on a novel that inspired a Hitchcock film, opens in London on Saturday before coming to the Metropolitan Opera next season. [In the lectures John Leguizamo gives in ]( [Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in 'Latin History']( By JESSE GREEN Two millenniums of oppression may not seem very funny, but in his latest one-man show, Mr. Leguizamo hones the art of comic revisionism. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] New York [In September, the Trump administration canceled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allowed young immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children to work and go to school without fear of deportation. Crowds across the country protested the decision.]( [In Reversal, Immigration Agency Will Consider Delayed DACA Requests]( By LIZ ROBBINS The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services agency is allowing applicants whose renewal permits were rejected because of mail delays to resubmit their paperwork. [Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, has been beset by criticism over campaign donations he accepted from defense lawyers. He said he supports reforming funding rules around district attorney elections.]( [A Growing Call to Limit Lawyers' Donations to Prosecutors]( By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. After criticism in cases that involved the Trumps and Harvey Weinstein, the Manhattan district attorney says it's time to limit contributions from defense lawyers. [After years of increasing subway ridership, the number of riders has been steadily decreasing, a drop some blame on poor service.]( [Subway Ridership Falls as M.T.A. Scrambles to Improve Service]( By MARC SANTORA Even as the New York City's population grows and new jobs are added, both subway and bus ridership have fallen, partly as a result of faltering service. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( [] Science [An artist's impression of a newly discovered planet and its red dwarf star, Ross 128. The planet, 11 light-years away, is roughly the size of Earth but closer to Ross 128 than our planet, or even Mercury, is to our sun.]( [A Nearby Earth-Size Planet May Have Conditions for Life]( By KENNETH CHANG Astronomers have found a planet circling Ross 128, a quiet red star in our own galactic neighborhood. [Two examples of chimpanzees in Uganda's Budongo Forest warning others of a potential threat]( Trilobites [Chimps Tailor Alarms to What Other Chimps Know]( By JAMES GORMAN Experiments show that the animals change their communications depending on how much their audience knows. [A patient gets her blood pressure checked in New York. New guidelines released by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology lower the threshold for high blood pressure.]( [How to Lower Your Blood Pressure]( By GINA KOLATA Medical guidelines have changed, and now about half of Americans may qualify for the diagnosis of hypertension. Here's what to do about it. For more science news, go to [NYTimes.com/Science »]( [] Fashion & Style [Tatum O'Neal, right, and her daughter, Emily McEnroe, in Beverly Hills, Calif.]( [Now Pass the Mic to Tatum O'Neal]( By HAYLEY KRISCHER After many public struggles, the actress is the latest to turn to podcasting, and has a painful #MeAt14 story to tell. [Kanye West at his Yeezy Season 3 fashion show in 2016 in New York.]( [Memorial T-Shirts Create a Little Justice, a Tiny Peace]( By JASMINE SANDERS On the South Side of Chicago and around the U.S., memorial T-shirts are a way to remember, to celebrate - and to indict. [It's Melania 2.0, as Mrs. Trump Iterates in Asia]( By VANESSA FRIEDMAN The first lady had a subtle new look to go with her itinerary. Did you notice? For more fashion news, go to [NYTimes.com/Fashion »]( []Obituaries [Uwe Reinhardt surrounded by Princeton University students at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in the late 1970s.]( [Uwe Reinhardt, 80, Dies; a Listened-to Voice on Health Care Policy]( By SAM ROBERTS A Princeton economics professor, he was an adviser to Washington policymakers and an advocate of Obamacare. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial Editorial [The Senate Questions the President's Power to Launch Nukes]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Mr. Trump has brought on himself this examination of his authority to order the launch of the world's most deadly weapons. [President Trump's hostility toward CNN may affect the proposed merger between the cable news channel's parent company, Time Warner, and AT&T.]( Editorial [Mr. Trump Casts a Shadow Over the AT&T-Time Warner Deal]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD He politicizes everything he touches, so unless his appointees act with utmost integrity they will be tainted as his henchmen. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed [President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, center, during the country's 37th Independence Day celebration in April.]( Op-Ed Contributors [For Zimbabwe, a Coup Isn't the Answer]( By GLEN MPANI There is evidence this intervention is driven by the self-interest of the military, which makes prospects for economic and democratic reforms bleak. [Police officers in Washington using pepper spray on protesters on Inauguration Day.]( Op-Ed Contributor [How Prosecutors Turn a Protest Into a 'Riot']( By ELIZABETH ARIADNE LAGESSE I protested President Trump's inauguration. Little did I know I would be swept up into a legal nightmare. [Roy Moore is still supported by many at his home church, First Baptist Church in Gallant, Ala.]( Op-Ed Contributor [Roy Moore and the Sorry State of Evangelical Politics]( By WILLIAM S. BREWBAKER III I'm a conservative Christian and a Republican. I'm ashamed of Roy Moore. [Clergy members leading a protest in Ferguson, Mo., after a police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager.]( Op-Ed Contributors [The F.B.I.'s Dangerous Crackdown on 'Black Identity Extremists']( By KHALED A. BEYDOUN and JUSTIN HANSFORD The effort to target racial justice activists has chilling echoes of Cointelpro. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On Nov. 16, 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations. President Roosevelt sent a telegram to Soviet leader Maxim Litvinov, expressing hope that United States-Soviet relations would "forever remain normal and friendly.'' 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