Today's Headlines: Republican Senators Raise Possible Charges Against Author of Trump Dossier

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[The White House has challenged the accuracy of specific episodes in Michael Wolff's new book, but its broader portrayal largely squares with the journalistic coverage of the past year.]( White House Memo [For Trump, Book Raises Familiar Questions of Loyalty and Candor]( By PETER BAKER Every president is confronted by unflattering portrayals by former aides who leave and tell their stories, but usually not so early in an administration. [James Loughlin, of Austin, Tex., took a walk up the Mount Washington Auto Road at around 3,900 feet during a break in a SnowCoach tour in Gorham, N.H., on Friday.]( [An Eyelash-Freezing 'Icy Hell': The One Spot That Could Feel Like Minus 100]( By JESS BIDGOOD, KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and JACK HEALY Frigid air is gripping the East Coast, and furious winds are expected to make it feel as cold as 100 degrees below zero atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire. 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 [Doctors at New York University have developed a 3-D printed mask for use on a face-transplant donor.]( N.Y. / REGION [For the Living, a Donated Face. For the Dead, a Lifelike Replacement.]( By ANDY NEWMAN and MARC SANTORA NYU surgeons hope a 3-D printed reproduction will encourage people to donate the faces of dying family members for use as transplants. [Anna Zuccaro, left, and her sister, Mia Merrill, last month unsuccessfully petitioned the Metropolitan Museum of Art to take down a painting of a young girl by Balthus.]( OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor [Publicly, We Say #MeToo. Privately, We Have Misgivings.]( By DAPHNE MERKIN Many feminists have had it with this movement, in which women perceive themselves to be as frail as Victorian housewives. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "The only thing you could argue is that New Jerseyans are more flammable than people in the other 49 states. Because we eat so much oily pizza, funnel cake and fries, maybe you could make that argument. Otherwise, it's simply ridiculous." [DECLAN J. O'SCANLON JR.]( a Republican assemblyman from Monmouth County, on New Jersey's distinction as the last state in the nation where drivers are not allowed to pump their own gasoline. [] Today's Videos [Tashi Wangchuk at home in Yushu, China, in 2015. He was charged with inciting separatism after appearing in a New York Times documentary that same year.]( [[Video] Video: Tashi Wangchuk: A Tibetan's Journey for Justice]( Worried about the erosion of Tibetan culture and language, one man takes his concerns to Beijing, hoping media coverage and the courts can reverse what he sees as a systematic eradication. [[Video] Video: Will These Salvadorans Lose Their Status?]( Jose Salinas has Temporary Protected Status, which is granted to immigrants who came to the U.S. from countries crippled by disaster or war. The Trump administration may end the program this month. [] World [The Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank. Buoyed by President Trump's declaration on Jerusalem, the Israeli right wing is openly pursuing its goal of a single state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.]( [As a 2-State Solution Loses Steam, a 1-State Plan Gains Traction]( By DAVID M. HALBFINGER Some Israeli and Palestinian leaders are now pressing for a single state, but their views of what that state would look like are mutually exclusive. [Meral Aksener, center, at a referendum campaign rally in Istanbul in March. She hopes to build on support from that campaign to run for president.]( The Saturday Profile [A Rival Steps Up to Challenge Turkey's President Erdogan]( By CARLOTTA GALL Meral Aksener, a former interior minister, wants to reverse much of what Mr. Erdogan has forged in nearly 15 years at the helm. [Aokigahara Forest, near Mount Fuji, has gained a grim reputation as one of Japan's top suicide destinations, fed in part by myth and sensationalism.]( [Long Before Video, Japanese Fought Suicide in the 'Sea of Trees']( By MOTOKO RICH The notorious Aokigahara Forest looms large for Japan, with its high national suicide rate, though patrols and other steps are helping lower the toll. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [An Iraqi soldier in Mosul last March. An American citizen who was captured by a Syrian militia while apparently fighting for the Islamic State is being held by the United States military.]( [American Detained by U.S. Military Says He Wants to Sue]( By CHARLIE SAVAGE An American citizen being held as an enemy combatant has told the A.C.L.U. he wants the group to represent him in challenging his indefinite wartime detention. [Travelers passing through the United States Customs gate at Logan International Airport in Boston last month.]( [Cellphone and Computer Searches at U.S. Border Rise Under Trump]( By RON NIXON Border agents say the electronic searches have stopped terrorism suspects and criminals, but privacy advocates call them an invasive violation of the Constitution. [Malachi A. Love-Robinson was 18 when he was accused of practicing medicine without a license. He pleaded guilty to several charges on Thursday, and was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.]( [Man Who Posed as a Doctor at 18 Is Going to Prison at 20]( By DANIEL VICTOR Malachi A. Love-Robinson was accused of practicing medicine without a license in South Florida. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton during an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of his election last November.]( [Amid Calls from Trump, F.B.I. Renews Questions Over Clinton Foundation]( By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO Career prosecutors shut down the case in 2016 over lack of evidence. The new interest comes as Mr. Trump has taken the highly unusual step of calling for investigations into political rivals. [Senator Cory Gardner, Republican of Colorado, condemned the decision by the Trump administration to renew tough federal enforcement of marijuana laws.]( [New Pot Policy by Trump Administration Draws Bipartisan Fire]( By CARL HULSE Lawmakers from both parties see it as a state decision and vow to force the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to back down. [President Trump spoke to reporters on Friday, then headed for Camp David to meet with Republican leaders. He seemed to take a hard line on immigration.]( [White House Immigration Demands Imperil Bipartisan Talks]( By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and MICHAEL TACKETT President Trump put forth an expansive list of hard-line immigration measures - including $18 billion for a border wall - in exchange for protecting young undocumented immigrants. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [U.S. Job Market's Strength Is Allowing More to Share in Pay Gains]( By NATALIE KITROEFF Though wages are growing sluggishly over all, some of the strongest increases are in blue-collar and service industries as employers vie for help. [President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, left, and President Trump at a meeting in September. The two sides will renegotiate a free-trade pact between them.]( [U.S. and South Korea Start Trade Talks Amid Rising Tensions]( By ANA SWANSON The renegotiation of the agreement between the United States and South Korea comes at a critical time, as North Korea seeks to drive a wedge between the allies. Your Money [When It Costs Double to Let Your 12-Year-Old Fly Alone]( By RON LIEBER Southwest will let 12-year-olds fly solo. Other airlines want them (and 13- and 14-year-olds) in their unaccompanied minor programs for an extra $150 each way. But why? For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [Hauling the Internet to an Ex-Soviet Outpost High in the Caucasus Mountains]( By NYANI QUARMYNE and KEVIN GRANVILLE "There are not many places in the world without internet." This was one of those places. [An Uber driver center in the Bronx. Travis Kalanick, Uber's former chief executive, was said to have sold nearly one-third of his shares for about $1.4 billion.]( [Uber Shareholders Including Kalanick Loosen Grip With Sales of Stock]( By MIKE ISAAC Travis Kalanick, the former C.E.O., and some other early investors who controlled Uber's ownership were said to be selling stock to a consortium led by SoftBank. [Technology companies are rushing to fix two major flaws in popular computer chips. Businesses and consumers can protect against one of them if they keep their software up-to-date with patches. The other? It's not so easy.]( [What You Need to Do Because of Flaws in Computer Chips]( By CADE METZ and BRIAN X. CHEN Hackers can exploit two major security flaws in microprocessors running virtually all machines on Earth. What do you do now? For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [Does the N.F.L. Have a Usain Bolt? Here Are the League's Fastest Players]( By SAM MANCHESTER The fastest times at the N.F.L. combine do not always translate to top game speed, data from wearable technology shows. [Minnesota center Reggie Lynch, left, has been suspended indefinitely from athletic competition, but he is still a member of the basketball team, according to the university's athletic director.]( [At Minnesota, Another Athlete Is Suspended in a Sexual Assault Case]( By MARC TRACY Reggie Lynch, a star basketball player, was suspended from competition after a university investigation found him responsible in a sexual misconduct claim. [Mark Cuban, who has owned the Dallas Mavericks for 18 years, giving a routine interview in 2009. The StairMaster's area of American Airlines Center was supposedly off limits to the news media, but reporters commonly received permission to approach.]( [When the Knicks Visit Dallas, Only One Thing Will Be Missing]( By MARC STEIN Sunday's game will match two rookie guards who have been a source of intrigue, fed in part by LeBron James. There will also be a retirement ceremony, and Mark Cuban without his longtime soapbox. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts Critic's Notebook [How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet]( By AMANDA HESS Despite a glut of glitches and questions bordering on the ridiculous, the game taps into our universal feeling of being aggrieved. [A scene from ]( [Review: A Wondrous 'Pinocchio' With That 'Lion King' Magic]( By BEN BRANTLEY In a creative master stroke, this National Theater adaptation of the Disney film uses oversized puppets to play adults, who tower over the title figure. [The artist Mark Pauline, who works under the name Survival Research Laboratories, has a new exhibition at Marlborough Contemporary.]( [Fire-Breathing Robots Bring Anarchy to a Chelsea Art Gallery]( By DANIEL McDERMON Mark Pauline, a.k.a. Survival Research Laboratories, has resisted the commercial side of the art world for years. Now he has work for sale in Chelsea. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] New York [Gail Trachtenberg and Lewis Eron prepaid part of their 2018 property tax bill at the township building in Cherry Hill, N.J. last month. Officials in New Jersey and in other high-tax states are trying to find ways to blunt the effects of the federal tax plan.]( [Taxes as Charity? New Jersey Towns Try to Elude G.O.P. Tax Law]( By NICK CORASANITI and ALAN RAPPEPORT Three mayors said they would create charitable trusts as a workaround for residents hurt by the measure's cap on state and local tax deductions. [In August, shortly before President Donald Trump said he would cancel the DACA program, protesters marched near Trump Tower in favor of continuing it.]( [At Least 1,900 Immigrants Were Rejected Because of Mail Problems]( By LIZ ROBBINS As Congress debates the future of DACA, which lets young immigrants live and work legally, applicants wrongly denied renewals of their permits are scrambling. [After two terms as governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie has an uncertain future ahead.]( [Christie on His Relationship With Trump (Great) and His Regrets (Few) as New Jersey's Governor]( By MAGGIE HABERMAN and NICK CORASANITI "I feel like I've done the job as well or better than anybody who's ever had it," Gov. Chris Christie said. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( [] Media & Advertising [Michael Wolff, the author of ]( [Michael Wolff Says Trump Has Less Credibility Than 'Anyone Who Has Ever Walked on Earth']( By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH The author of a scathing new book about President Trump said that his attempt to block its publication confirmed its key finding: the president is unfit for office. [Tom Hanks as the editor Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep as the publisher Katharine Graham in ]( [As Trump Targets the Press, His White House Is Screening a Journalism Tribute]( By KATIE ROGERS While President Trump ramps up his attacks on the news media, the White House is set to screen two movies. One is about journalism. The other is about P.T. Barnum. [President Trump's tweets this week led to a swell of criticism over whether Twitter should allow him to keep using the service.]( [Without Naming Trump, Twitter Says It Won't Block World Leaders]( By MIKE ISAAC Twitter said on Friday that prohibiting a world leader from posting on the platform "would hide important information people should be able to see and debate." For more media and advertising news, go to [NYTimes.com/Media »]( []Obituaries [Maurice Peress leading the Queens College Aaron Copland School of Music orchestra in 2012.]( [Maurice Peress, Conductor Who Worked With Ellington, Dies at 87]( By NEIL GENZLINGER Mr. Peress also had a long association with Leonard Bernstein, for whom he was an assistant conductor in the early 1960s. [Peggy Cummins played a carnival sharpshooter who persuaded a gun-obsessed veteran (John Dall) to commit a series of robberies in Joseph H. Lewis's ]( [Peggy Cummins, Seductive Star of a Cult Film, Dies at 92]( By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK The slender, blond Ms. Cummins had mostly played innocents until being cast in her best-known role, as a bloodthirsty sharpshooter in "Gun Crazy." For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial Editorial [Pakistan, the Endlessly Troublesome Ally]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The country has played a double game, accepting American funding while backing militants who protect Pakistani interests in Afghanistan and Kashmir. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed [An image of President Trump painted on the side of a house in Tijuana, Mexico.]( Op-Ed Columnist [Let's Try to Get Past Trump]( By GAIL COLLINS Maybe we'll pretend he's on some other planet. [A worshiper during Friday Prayer in Tehran wearing a picture of the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.]( Op-Ed Columnist [Finding the Way Forward on Iran]( By BRET STEPHENS The West must exploit the hypocrisy of the Tehran government. Op-Ed Contributor [The Perils of Mixing Masculinity and Missiles]( By CAROL COHN Ideas about gender matter in international politics - and not just for Donald Trump. [A Florida resident photographing the Atlantic Ocean in September. This week, the Trump administration opened the possibility of offshore oil and gas drilling along the Atlantic coast.]( Op-Ed Contributor [Say No to Coastal Drilling]( By JACQUELINE SAVITZ President Trump would vastly expand offshore drilling, imperiling coastal communities, businesses and the oceans themselves. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On Jan. 6, 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at 60. 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