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Tuesday, January 9, 2018
IN THIS EMAIL [NYT] [World](#worldNews) | [U.S.](#nationalNews) | [Politics](#politicsNews) | [Business](#businessNews) | [Technology](#technologyNews) | [Sports](#sportsNews) | [Arts](#artsNews) | [N.Y./Region](#nyregionNews) | [Science](#dailyFeatureNews) | [Today's Video](#videoNews) | [Obituaries](#obituaries) | [Editorials](#editorialsNews) | [Op-Ed](#opinionNews) | [On This Day](#onthisdayNews) | [CUSTOMIZE »](
Top News
[Omar Salinas has Temporary Protected Status, which is granted to immigrants from countries crippled by disaster or war. The Trump administration has announced that it will end the program.]( [Trump Administration Says That Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave](
By MIRIAM JORDAN
The administration decided that Salvadorans no longer qualified for temporary protection from deportation that had been granted after two devastating earthquakes in 2001.
[Glenn R. Simpson, a founder of the research firm Fusion GPS, in November before a closed hearing on Capitol Hill. He has given at least 20 hours of testimony before three congressional committees.]( [Fusion GPS Founder Hauled From the Shadows for the Russia Election Investigation](
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Glenn R. Simpson's firm quietly compiled the notorious dossier of possible links between President Trump and Russia. Then it became public.
[Oprah Winfrey spoke at an Iowa rally for Barack Obama in 2007. Ms. Winfrey declared as recently as October that she would not run for office of any kind.]( [Oprah 2020? Democrats Swing From Giddy to Skeptical at the Prospect](
By ALEXANDER BURNS and AMY CHOZICK
In the imagination of some Democrats, Oprah Winfrey seemed an answer to the party's problems. Others questioned whether the country would be willing to accept another TV star.
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Editors' Picks
[Passengers waded through a sea of bags from delayed flights at Terminal 4 at Kennedy International Airport on Sunday.](
N.Y. / REGION
[At Kennedy, the Planes Just Wouldn't Stop Coming](
By MICHAEL WILSON and PATRICK McGEEHAN
Failure to stop arriving international flights after a storm created an epic jet traffic jam at the New York City hub. A burst pipe added to the misery.
[Oprah Winfrey at the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night, when she gave an impassioned speech.](
OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor
[Oprah, Don't Do It](
By THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS
The idea of President Winfrey underscores the extent to which Trumpism has infected our civic life.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"It's sort of an America-last tax policy. We are basically saying that if you earn in the U.S., you pay X, and if you earn abroad, you pay X divided by two."
[Kimberly Clausing]( an economist, describing how the new federal tax law could actually make it attractive for American multinational companies to put more assembly lines on foreign soil.
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World
[Nigerian migrants returning from Libya in Lagos last month.]( [Nigerian Migrants Get a Welcome Home. Jobs Are Another Story.](
By SIOBHÃN O'GRADY
Thousands of Nigerians are being returned from Libya after failing to make it to Europe. What will they do now?
[The Chinese part of a special economic development zone made up of territory from China and Kazakhstan.](
Horgos Journal
[A Visa-Free Zone Welcomes Your Wallet. But Maybe Not Your Beard.](
By ANDREW HIGGINS
It's unusually easy to enter a special economic development zone between China and Kazakhstan, unless your garb suggests you have Islamist leanings.
[The leader of the North Korean delegation, Ri Son-kwon, center, arriving for talks with South Korea in the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas on Tuesday.]( [North Korea to Send Athletes to Olympics in South Korea in Breakthrough](
By CHOE SANG-HUN
North Korea will participate in the Winter Games for the first time in eight years. It was unclear if the North attached any conditions to its attendance.
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U.S.
[The remains of a house in Perryville, Mo., after a tornado.]( [These Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters Set a U.S. Record in 2017](
By KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS
A blow by blow of the cost of the major weather-related disasters this year.
[Members of the Bundy family and their supporters near Bunkerville, Nev., in April 2014.]( [Charges Against Bundys in Ranch Standoff Case Are Dismissed](
By KIRK JOHNSON
A federal judge said that the government's missteps in withholding evidence against the three Bundy family members were so grave that the indictment against them would be dismissed.
[Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas talked about his work as governor during an interview at the Kansas Statehouse in December.]( [Awkward: Brownback Said He Was Leaving as Kansas Governor. He Hasn't.](
By JULIE BOSMAN
Almost 6 months ago, Gov. Sam Brownback said he would be leaving for a Trump administration post. The appointment has been tangled up in Washington, leaving Kansas befuddled.
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Politics
[The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, could respond with a grand jury subpoena if President Trump refused to cooperate with an interview request.]( [Mueller Is Said to Likely Seek to Interview Trump](
By MATT APUZZO and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
White House officials viewed it as a sign the special counsel's inquiry was nearly over. But it touched off discussions about the perils of the president sitting for an interview.
[Prototypes for a wall along the United States' southern border were unveiled in October in California.]( [To Pay for Wall, Trump Would Cut Proven Border Security Measures](
By RON NIXON
Experts say some measures targeted are more effective than a wall, resulting in an approach a Republican congressman called "a third-century solution to a 21st-century problem."
[President Trump's approval ratings are in the upper 30s. ]( [Strong Economies Lift Presidents. Trump Seems an Exception.](
By NATE COHN
His approval ratings reflect political weakness despite good news on several fronts.
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Business
[Miracle Gooch drawing on an iPad in a kindergarten class last winter in Flint, Mich. ]( [Tech Backlash Grows as Investors Press Apple to Act on Children's Use](
By DAVID GELLES
Apple should give parents more tools to curb technology use by children and study the health effects of excessive screen time, two big funds said.
[A construction site in Mexico where Ford Motor has canceled plans for a factory. For the biggest makers of cars and machines, provisions of the new tax law could make it attractive for American companies to locate factories abroad.]( [Tax Law May Send Factories and Jobs Abroad, Critics Say](
By NATALIE KITROEFF
Supporters say the recently approved tax law will help American multinationals compete more aggressively overseas. Others see incentives to put factories overseas.
[A display promoting a water purifier at Amway's ]( [Amway Made China a Billion-Dollar Market. Now It Faces a Crackdown.](
By RYAN McMORROW and STEVEN LEE MYERS
Chinese regulators are questioning the tactics of companies that rely on sales representatives who recruit others below them. Sales by so-called multilevel marketing firms have surged.
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Technology
[Samantha Barry, most recently the executive producer for social and emerging media at CNN Worldwide, was named the new editor in chief of Glamour on Monday. It will be her first job at a magazine.]( [Condé Nast Chooses a Digital-First Editor to Run Glamour](
By SYDNEY EMBER
Samantha Barry, a producer at CNN Worldwide from Cork, Ireland, is set to become the eighth editor of the women's magazine, succeeding Cindi Leive.
[The F.T.C. said that VTech, which makes a variety of electronic toys, collected data about more than 638,000 children without notifying users or asking parents for permission.]( [Toymaker VTech Settles Charges of Violating Child Privacy Law](
By CECILIA KANG
The company was accused of collecting data on children without parents' permission and failing to keep it secure from hackers. It agreed to pay $650,000.
[In an open letter to Apple, the activist hedge fund Jana Partners and the California State Teachers' Retirement System voiced concerns that digital technology might be hurting children.]( [Apple Investors Warn iPhones and Other Technology May Be Hurting Children](
By NIRAJ CHOKSHI
Two major shareholders argued that Apple should head off a potential reckoning by proactively helping parents limit how children use the company's technology.
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Sports
[Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith, center, celebrated his game-winning touchdown.]( [How Alabama Won the National Championship, Drive by Drive](
By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN, JOE DRAPE and MARC TRACY
Tua Tagovailoa, a true freshman, threw a 41-yard touchdown pass in overtime to lift Alabama to a 26-23 victory over Georgia. Here's how the Tide rolled.
[The World Cup, set for this summer in Russia, has put FIFA back in the spotlight.]( [After Pledging Reform, FIFA Pays Millions to Ruling Council](
By TARIQ PANJA
Soccer's scandal-marred governing body pays nonexecutive board members more than some of the biggest companies in the world, a concern to governance experts.
[Patrick Ewing is in his first season as the head coach at Georgetown. On Tuesday, he and the Hoyas will face his old Big East rival Chris Mullin and St. John's at Madison Square Garden.]( [A Hoya Again, Patrick Ewing Learns Value of Knowing When to Pivot](
By HARVEY ARATON
Patrick Ewing had spent years positioning himself for an N.B.A. coaching job when a phone call suggested his future might be back at Georgetown.
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Arts
[Winners, all in black, from left: Laura Dern, Nicole Kidman, Zoë Kravitz, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley from ]( [After Globes, Women Declare Success. But What About the Men?](
By CARA BUCKLEY
Several men who didn't speak about Times Up in acceptance speeches said it was time to "shut up and listen."
[After Oprah Winfrey's speech accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at Sunday's Golden Globes, speculation about a possible presidential run soared.]( [What Politicians Could Learn From Oprah Winfrey](
By JAMES PONIEWOZIK
Sneer at celebrity all you want, but elections are contests of stories, and Ms. Winfrey showed that she can tell one.
[David Zwirner, who is planning a five-story, $50 million gallery designed by Renzo Piano that is to open in 2020.]( [A Mega-Dealer Expands: David Zwirner Plans a New Art Gallery](
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Though he is bound to be criticized for becoming too corporate, Mr. Zwirner argues that a gallery needs to be ambitious for its artists.
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New York
[On an E train early Sunday morning, one of the coldest nights of a recent cold streak.]( [In Deepest Cold, a Subway Car Becomes the Shelter of Last Resort](
By ANNIE CORREAL
With temperatures in the single digits over the weekend, the E train turned into a rolling refuge for the homeless.
[Four men are to be sentenced on Monday in the death of Chun Hsien Deng, who was fatally injured during a hazing ritual in Pennsylvania after he had pledged the Pi Delta Psi fraternity. The four, clockwise from top left, are Kenny Kwan, Charles Lai, Raymond Lam and Sheldon Wong.]( [Fraternity Is Banned From Pennsylvania After Student's Hazing Death](
By RICK ROJAS
A Baruch College freshman died after taking part in a fraternity hazing, and the fraternity was convicted of aggravated assault and involuntary manslaughter.
[In addition to caring for ailing friends and relatives, Nettie Carrier has welcomed strangers into her Brooklyn apartment.](
The Neediest Cases Fund
[Making a Home Her Own, and a Refuge for Others](
By SHELI PAIGE FRANK
Nettie Carrier has spent much of her life caring for loved ones. She now faces her own medical problems, and has made her mental health a priority.
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Science
[A surgical team led by Dr. David Langer at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan operated on arteries in the brain of Anita Roy of the Bronx. The surgeons used a videomicroscope, a novel device that puts a magnified, high-resolution 3-D image on a screen so that an entire team may see the progress of the operation.](
The Healing Edge
[Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater](
By DENISE GRADY
New 'videomicroscopes' offer astounding images, helping surgeons perform and collaborate on delicate brain and spine operations.
[Workers at Kruger National Park in South Africa moving a rhino from a high-risk poaching area in 2014. Researchers in South Africa are turning to genetic fingerprinting to track down poachers for prosecution.]( [In Africa, Geneticists Are Hunting Poachers](
By GINA KOLATA
DNA databases holding samples from thousands of rhinoceroses and elephants are helping to convict illegal traffickers.
[A volunteer, Matthew Speight, drinking a solution containing typhoid during a vaccine trial at Oxford University last year. The vaccine, called Typbar TCV, has been approved for global use by the World Health Organization.](
Global Health
[W.H.O. Approves a Safe, Inexpensive Typhoid Vaccine](
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
The first typhoid vaccine safe for infants has been used in India since 2005, but won final certification only after an unusual experiment on university students.
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[]Obituaries
[Alan Sagner, right, chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, with the developer Larry Silverstein in May 1981 during a news conference in which they announced plans for the construction of 7 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.]( [Alan Sagner, Who Revitalized the Port Authority, Dies at 97](
By SAM ROBERTS
A Democratic fund-raiser, he ran the New York-New Jersey agency from 1977 to 1985 and later headed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
[Ray Thomas, left, performing in Las Vegas in 2001 with Justin Hayward, center, and John Lodge of the Moody Blues.]( [Ray Thomas, Founding Member of the Moody Blues, Dies at 76](
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
Mr. Thomas sang, wrote songs and played flute, most notably on "Nights in White Satin," which became the group's signature song.
[The artist Tim Rollins in 1988 with members of his collaborative educational program Kids of Survival.]( [Tim Rollins Dies at 62; Turned Bronx Teenagers Into Art Stars](
By ROBERTA SMITH
Mr. Rollins devoted almost all of his career to an unusual combination of art-making and teaching, and to the group known as Tim Rollins K.O.S.
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Editorial
[Christopher Serrano, 10, winces in pain as a doctor examines his infected ear at Dell Children's Medical Center in Texas. Christopher and his younger brother stand to lose their health insurance as the CHIP program ends.](
Editorial
[Republicans in Congress Are Failing America's Children](
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Health coverage for nine million kids is still at risk as congressional leaders refuse to reauthorize CHIP.
[The 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig leaked and burned oil.](
Editorial
[Mr. Zinke's Risky Venture into Deep Water](
The Interior Department is rolling back the Obama administration's balanced approach toward offshore oil exploration. It could well end badly.
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Op-Ed
[First dog Bo climbs the stairs of Air Force One.](
Op-Ed | Jennifer Weiner
[What the President Doesn't Get About Dogs](
By JENNIFER WEINER
They're loyal and loving. All Donald Trump has is Stephen Miller.
Op-Ed Contributors
[We're Not Ready for a Flu Pandemic](
By MICHAEL T. OSTERHOLM and MARK OLSHAKER
A universal vaccine is desperately needed.
[Anti-Trump lowbrowism burst into full bloom with the new Michael Wolff book.](
Op-Ed Columnist
[The Decline of Anti-Trumpism](
By DAVID BROOKS
The quality of the opposition is deteriorating.
[America's Very Stable Genius in Chief.](
Op-Ed Columnist
[The Worst and the Dumbest](
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Given what Trump is doing to our government, it's a good thing he's a very stable genius.
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ON THIS DAY
On Jan. 9, 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.
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