Today's Headlines: Why a Firm Believer in Tax Cuts Could Derail the Senate Tax Cut Plan

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[For Roy Moore, a Long History of Combat and Controversy]( By JESS BIDGOOD, RICHARD FAUSSET and CAMPBELL ROBERTSON The current furor surrounding the Senate candidate has played out like a concentrated version of his battle-filled career. [Debra Curry, a nurse in Georgia, fell behind on her student loan payments when she took time off to raise her six children. Her nursing license was briefly suspended. ]( [When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work]( By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG, STACY COWLEY and NATALIE KITROEFF Twenty states suspend people's professional or driver's licenses if they fall behind on loan payments, according to records obtained by The New York Times. 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 [Crowds outside the subway in Times Square in Manhattan.]( N.Y. / REGION | System Failure [How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York's Subways]( By BRIAN M. ROSENTHAL, EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS and MICHAEL LaFORGIA Disruptions and delays have roiled the system this year. But the crisis was long in the making, fueled by a litany of errors, a Times investigation shows. OPINION | Op-Ed | Pagan Kennedy [What if You Knew Alzheimer's Was Coming for You?]( Simple blood tests may soon be able to deliver alarming news about your cognitive health. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "They haven't been spending money on the spine. They've been spending money on the limbs." [ROGER TOUSSAINT]( former head of the M.T.A.'s main union, on what he sees as a focus on flashy projects instead of maintenance for the subway. [] Today's Videos [President Trump at the White House on Wednesday.]( [[Video] Video: Trump Stirs Sexual Misconduct Debate]( By criticizing Senator Al Franken for inappropriate behavior, President Trump has reignited the debate around his own alleged misconduct. [[Video] Video: Coups: What Goes Into Toppling a Government?]( The military takeover in Zimbabwe is just the latest in a long history of government overthrows. Here are several types of coups perpetrated by rogue operators. [[Video] Video: What It's Like to Live in India's Toxic Air]( New Delhi's air quality worsens every winter. Jeffrey Gettleman, Times South Asia bureau chief, talks to residents who are suffering from the pollution and some who call it a "slow poison." [] World [Inside the camp, the men were desperate but determined. Sick. Hungry. Trapped. They wanted freedom. This is Manus Island.]( [[Multimedia Feature] Multimedia Feature: Refugees Trapped Far From Home, Farther From Deliverance]( By DAMIEN CAVE The New York Times sent journalists into a contested detention camp in Papua New Guinea to investigate Australia's refugee policy, and the resistance rising against it. [Judiciary police officers examining a crime scene in which a 17-year-old member of a drug gang was shot and killed after stealing a vehicle in São João de Meriti in Rio de Janeiro State.]( [In Rio de Janeiro, 'Complete Vulnerability' as Violence Surges]( By ERNESTO LONDOÑO After a respite that began before the Olympics, Brazil's showcase city is reeling as ever more neighborhoods fall under the control of drug gangs. [The entrance to London Victoria station. A teenage girl, a victim of modern slavery, would board a train here every Friday to travel to Eastbourne to distribute crack and heroin.]( [Slavery Ensnares Thousands in U.K. Here's One Teenage Girl's Story.]( By CEYLAN YEGINSU Across Britain, vulnerable adults and children - both citizens and migrants - have become victims of modern slavery. A teenager trapped by a drug gang tells what happened to her. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [President Trump, with Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin and Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao, announcing the ]( [Trump Wants More Big Infrastructure Projects. The Obstacles Can Be Big, Too.]( By BARRY MEIER The president is pushing for repairs to the nation's crumbling infrastructure, and he has promised to streamline government approvals. It still might not be enough. [The family of Mohamed Rafiq settled in Dallas with him last year, leaving Myanmar behind.]( The Neediest Cases Fund [He Fled Myanmar on a Deathtrap. Now He's the 'Luckiest Man Alive.']( By PATRICK McGEE Mohamed Rafiq, a Rohingya Muslim, nearly died trying to flee aboard a ferryboat in search of work. Eight years later, he resettled in Dallas and reunited with his family. [The Space Needle in Seattle, where a time capsule that was long forgotten was finally opened on Friday.]( [A Time Capsule, Long Forgotten at the Space Needle, Is Found]( By JACEY FORTIN Dozens of mementos were sealed in a box at the Seattle landmark in 1982. The capsule was supposed to be opened in 2002. Everyone forgot. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [Govs. Rick Scott of Florida and Scott Walker of Wisconsin spoke to the Republican Governors Association conference in Austin, Tex., on Wednesday.]( [Republican Governors' 2018 Dilemma: What to Do About Trump?]( By JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS Republican governors gathered in Austin amid grave misgivings over the impact that President Trump will have on the party's control over statehouses. [President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, second from left, next to Alexander Ovechkin in 2014 in Moscow.]( [A Star on Washington's Ice With a No. 1 Fan at the Kremlin]( By MATT FLEGENHEIMER Alexander Ovechkin's play for the Capitals has made him a cherished import, but his ties to Russia and President Vladimir V. Putin have raised eyebrows. [Senator Al Franken in January. He was accused by a woman of kissing and groping her in 2006.]( [Franken Case Sets Off Debate Over Line Between Abuse and a Mistake]( By KATIE ROGERS and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Politicians and comedians were left trying to assess the line between predatory behavior and an inexcusable mistake as calls mounted for Senator Al Franken to resign. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [Philip Baker. ]( [A Hedge Fund Manager Committed Fraud. Would the U.S. Let Him Go?]( By DAVID ENRICH Philip Baker admitted that he defrauded his hedge-fund clients. He was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Then he devised an escape plan. [As part of a course on how to find love, Zhang Zhenxiao, 27, was taught about grooming and how to flirt his way into a woman's smartphone contacts.]( [In China, an Education in Dating]( By SUI-LEE WEE A new type of coach teaches courtship in a country where the one-child policy left a deficit of women and where flirting remains relatively new. [A Ryanair flight attendant gives directions before departure at Dublin Airport. Employees of the European carrier have tried to organize.]( [Jet Pilot Might Not Seem Like a 'Gig,' but at Ryanair, It Is]( By LIZ ALDERMAN and AMIE TSANG The biggest European budget airline employs many of its pilots as contract workers - many of whom are pushing back after a recent flight cancellation episode erupted into a clash. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [The Honda Odyssey minivan displayed at the 2013 New York International Auto Show.]( [Honda Recalls 800,000 Odyssey Minivans Because of Seat Latches]( By MATT STEVENS The recalled minivans, which include model years 2011 to 2017, have second-row seats that may tip forward if they aren't properly latched, the company said. [Charlie Mossman at the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mr. Mossman has worked at the company for 30 years.]( [Milling 66 Acres of Oats (Every Hour) Without a Hitch]( As told to PATRICIA R. OLSEN With the help of a "run right" board and a conveyor for traveling between floors, a shift lead keeps processes at Quaker Oats running smoothly. [Bitcoin, the virtual currency, can now be bought by a small subset of Square users through the Square Cash app.]( [Mike and Nathaniel's Week in Tech: Everybody Loves Bitcoin]( By MIKE ISAAC and NATHANIEL POPPER In this week's tech newsletter, Mike Isaac and Nathaniel Popper delve into the popularity of Bitcoin, and the new troubles at Twitter. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [Why People in Mississippi Have to Watch the Giants]( By KEVIN DRAPER The process of determining which N.F.L. games will be shown in which TV markets can be simple - unless there's flexing, cross flexing, prime flexing, mandatory pullouts... [Toño Sempere, center, and other hosts of a Primero y Diez podcast. Primero y Diez began as a blog in 2008 and has grown into a site with four podcasts and a paid staff of 12.]( [A Big N.F.L. Game Comes to Mexico City. These Guys Have it Covered.]( By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD The podcast Primero y Diez, or First and 10, exemplifies the passion for American football in Mexico and the kind of fans the league is cultivating. [Evander Holyfield, 55, left, pictured with Bernard Hopkins at a boxing convention in Medellín, Colombia, in October, is trying to make it as a boxing promoter.]( [Now a Promoter, Evander Holyfield Tries to Find the Next Real Deal]( By WALLACE MATTHEWS The former heavyweight boxer's young company has a stable of 36 little-known fighters and will hold its fourth card on Saturday night in Queens. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Mduduzi Madela putting on his lion mask before going onstage as Simba in ]( [The 'Lion King' Effect: How a Broadway Smash Changed South African Lives]( By MICHAEL PAULSON Over 20 years, hundreds of performers have joined the show in cities around the globe. These are some of their stories - laced with hope, tragedy, homesickness and triumph. [John Adams in the Sierra Buttes, the setting for his new opera, ]( [John Adams Writes a New Opera, and It's a Western]( By MICHAEL COOPER Hiking in California's gold country with John Adams, an enfant-terrible-turned-elder-statesman. His new Gold Rush opera is definitely not Puccini's. [Armie Hammer, left, and Timothée Chalamet hadn't met before being cast in ]( ['Call Me by Your Name': A Love Story Fueled by Strangers' Chemistry]( By CARA BUCKLEY Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet play lovers with a connection that crackles in this movie from Luca Guadagnino. Yet they first met on set in Italy. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] New York [Judge Freier speaking with her eldest son in her office at the courthouse.]( [Judge Ruchie, the Hasidic Superwoman of Night Court]( By SHARON OTTERMAN The first ultra-Orthodox woman elected judge in the country got there not by breaking the rules of her community, but by observing them religiously. [The building at 535 Carlton Avenue in Brooklyn was designed for low- and middle-income families, but it has been unable to find tenants for its more expensive units.]( [At $3,700 a Month, 'Affordable' Apartments Go Begging]( By GINIA BELLAFANTE Qualified renters at the upper range of the subsidized housing market have been hard to find, leaving units in some buildings empty as shelters are full. [A truck stuffed with all manner of things being loaded onto the Beauforce, a ship bound for Haiti.]( [The Double-Stuffed Boat to Haiti]( By ANNIE CORREAL Through a quirk of customs law, Haitian New Yorkers can ship home almost anything, as long as it's crammed into a vehicle that can be loaded onto a boat. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( [] Real Estate In the Garden [Time to Put the Garden to Bed?]( By MICHAEL TORTORELLO Come spring, you may regret all the gardening you didn't do in November. Unless doing nothing is actually a better option. [Deedee and Barrie Wigmore's immaculately restored home in the Dakota sets the stage for a new coffee-table book, ]( [A Peek Inside Some of New York's Most Glamorous Apartments]( By JULIE LASKY "Life at the Top" is a coffee-table book filled with photos of and details about some of the city's most storied and exclusive buildings. [THE RENTER Frederik Fredsted Christiansen with his dog, Vera, in his studio apartment in Hell's Kitchen.]( The Hunt [Searching for Sunlight in the City]( By JOYCE COHEN For a Copenhagen native, many things about life in New York came as a surprise – especially the real estate market. [] Travel [The Morris-Jumel Mansion in northern Manhattan served as Gen. George Washington's temporary military headquarters.]( [When New York City Was a (Literal) Battlefield]( By RUSSELL SHORTO With old maps in one hand and Google Maps in the other, the author Russell Shorto roams across the city's five boroughs, searching for remnants of the American Revolution. [A Hilton Passport Project booth at O'Hare Airport in Chicago.]( [What You Need to Know About the New ID Law and Travel]( By SHIVANI VORA The Real ID Act, which takes effect in early 2018, will require some air travelers to have identification other than a driver's license. [The Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is featured in an audio tour created by the Memory Palace.]( The Getaway [The Travel Podcast Comes Into Its Own]( By ELAINE GLUSAC A new wave of audio tours is at the vanguard of engagement in the travel realm, complementing the written word, photography and video. For more travel news, go to [NYTimes.com/Travel »]( [] Fashion & Style With...Anne Wojcicki [The Doyenne of DNA Says: Just Chillax With Your Ex]( By MAUREEN DOWD "If we're going to live to 150 years, the reality that you're going to be with one person for 100 years is low," Anne Wojcicki says. [For the First Family of Pleasure Products, Toys Are Us]( By GUY TREBAY Once sold in seedy bookstores, sex toys are now a chic, "Made in America" business, instilling customers with brand loyalty. [Candice Turner and Brian Lee, accompanied by their son Joseph Lee Turner, walked down the aisle after their ceremony Oct. 14 at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York.]( Vows ['Two Weird Stories' Meet on Match.com]( By LOIS SMITH BRADY She was a divorced single parent of an adopted child. So was he. The two found each other through an online dating site. For more fashion news, go to [NYTimes.com/Fashion »]( [] Magazine [[Interactive Feature] Interactive Feature: The Uncounted]( By AZMAT KHAN and ANAND GOPAL An on-the-ground investigation reveals that the U.S.-led battle against ISIS - hailed as the most precise air campaign in history - is killing far more Iraqi civilians than the coalition has acknowledged. Feature [How the 'Resistance' Helped Democrats Dominate Virginia]( By GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS For campaign managers like Kathryn Sorenson, much of their job was simply channeling the enormous wave of energy that came their way. [Barstool employees in their New York offices: Paul Gulczynski (left) and Francis Ellis.]( Feature [Spurned by ESPN, Barstool Sports Is Staying on Offense]( By JAY CASPIAN KANG The insurgent media company has built a devoted following of what it sees as "average" sports fans: unruly, occasionally toxic and aggressively male. For more from the Sunday magazine, go to [NYTimes.com/Magazine »]( []Obituaries [Azzedine Alaïa, Fashion's Most Independent Designer, Is Dead at 82]( By VANESSA FRIEDMAN Mr. Alaïa insisted on his freedom and worked, argued and cooked on his own schedule. [Malcolm Young of the band AC/DC in 2000.]( [Malcolm Young, Whose Guitar Riffs Helped Propel AC/DC to Fame, Dies at 64]( By CHRISTINA CARON Mr. Young, who was a founder of the band, was known for his raucous energy. A family statement said he had had dementia for several years. [John and Bonnie Raines with grandchildren at their home outside Philadelphia in 2014.]( [John Raines, 84, Who Evaded Capture in an F.B.I. Break-in, Dies]( By SAM ROBERTS Dr. Raines and his wife were among the antiwar protesters who broke into a field office in 1971 and stole hundreds of files, which they gave to journalists. [Jeremy Hutchinson, center, in 1963. Many of the cases he handled as a lawyer were seen as landmarks in Britain's transition to a more open and tolerant society.]( [Jeremy Hutchinson, a Top Lawyer in High-Profile Cases, Dies at 102]( By ALAN COWELL As a leading British barrister he defended Penguin Books for publishing D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover," which had been banned as indecent. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial Editorial [The Trump Administration Is Making War on Diplomacy]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Rex Tillerson, ill suited as secretary of state, is dismantling his department to fit his limited ambitions. [President Trump will not be hosting the American winners of this year's Nobel Prizes at the White House.]( Editorial Notebook [Dear Nobel Winners, Mr. Trump Has All the Brains He Needs]( By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON The president won't meet this year's American laureates, no surprise for "a very intelligent person" with no need for science. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed [Liberals and conservatives have different views of strict moral codes, but their philosophies don't match their behavior.]( Op-Ed Columnist [Blue States Practice the Family Values Red States Preach]( By NICHOLAS KRISTOF Conservatives stray from many moral codes while liberals follow them, research shows. [Elephants, with their wondrous size, need vast amounts of food and space. A group crossing a farmer's field can do enough damage to bring about both economic ruin and their own consequent demise.]( Opinion [Why Can't We Protect Elephants?]( By MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD They need our help, not an easier way to make their carcasses into trophies. News Analysis [When the Right Pushes Fake Jews]( By JONATHAN WEISMAN "Bernie Bernstein" makes a robocall in deep-red Alabama. Opinion [Anthony Doerr: We Were Warned]( By ANTHONY DOERR 25 years ago scientists raised the threat of climate change. Did I act immediately and decisively? Um, I did not. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. [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®](