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Tuesday, December 6, 2016
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Top News
[Representative Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California and the majority leader, indicated that he would not support a plan to tax companies that move jobs overseas.] [House G.O.P. Signals Break With Trump Over Tariff Threat]
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
President-elect Trump has suggested a heavy tax on companies that move jobs overseas, but Republican leaders pushed back, saying they don't want a trade war.
[Ben Carson spoke with Donald J. Trump before endorsing him at Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach, Fla., in March.] [Carson Is New Sign Trump Plans to Govern From the Right]
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
Announcements of several of President-elect Donald J. Trump's cabinet posts are helping to define his approach to issues at home.
[Emergency responders in the parking lot of a restaurant across the street from the Ghost Ship building in Oakland, Calif.] [Oakland's 'Ghost Ship,' Site of Fire, Was a Motley Warehouse With a History]
By JULIE TURKEWITZ, THOMAS FULLER, RICHARD PÃREZ-PEÃA and CONOR DOUGHERTY
The deadly fire in an Oakland warehouse has shed light on an illegal housing boom and prompted questions about whether the building should have been shut down.
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Editors' Picks
[Mona Haydar, center, leads guests into a dance during a workshop at a Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom conference at Drew University in Madison, N.J., on Sunday. The group brings together Muslim and Jewish women.]
U.S.
[Both Feeling Threatened, American Muslims and Jews Join Hands]
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
The two groups are putting aside divisions to combat a wave of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism since Donald J. Trump's election, and to resist whatever may come next.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"You've got a market economy, a gentrifying real estate market and people feeling that they need to go underground. But you bring it up to code, and suddenly you end up pricing out the people who make Oakland such a great place."
[THOMAS DOLAN], an Oakland architect who helps building owners convert warehouses, on the fire at an Oakland warehouse that killed at least 36 people.
Today's Videos
[Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.] [Standing Rock Celebrates Halted Pipeline]
Stand in a drum circle at the Oceti Sakowin camp just after the Army announced on Sunday that it would explore alternative routes for the Dakota Access pipeline.
[In Oakland, 'Like a Fireball That Was Moving']
Nikki Kelber and Carmen Brito describe seeing entire walls and a hallway engulfed in flames before escaping from the burning warehouse.
World
[Supporters of ] [A New Wave of Popular Fury Could Hit Europe in 2017]
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
The past year has brought a series of political shocks to the continent, but 2017 promises to be even bumpier.
[Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy announced his resignation at a news conference on Monday in Rome.] [Italy Enters a Transition Phase, Complex but Familiar, as Its Premier Quits]
By JASON HOROWITZ
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi tendered his resignation on Monday after voters rejected his constitutional overhaul plan.
[Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan after meeting President-elect Donald J. Trump in New York in November.] [Shinzo Abe to Become First Japanese Leader to Visit Pearl Harbor]
By JONATHAN SOBLE and DAVID E. SANGER
Mr. Abe's trip this month to the site his country attacked 75 years ago will in effect be reciprocating a visit by President Obama to Hiroshima this year.
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U.S.
[Edgar M. Welch, 28, of Salisbury, N.C., surrendered to the police on Sunday in Washington.] [In Washington Pizzeria Attack, Fake News Brought Real Guns]
By CECILIA KANG and ADAM GOLDMAN
Edgar M. Welch of North Carolina was charged after a shooting at a Washington pizzeria that he thought was harboring young children as sex slaves.
[Defense attorney Andy Savage, left, and attorney Cheryl Savage look over a document with former Michael Slager, the former North Charleston police officer, at the Charleston County Courthouse in Charleston, S.C., on Monday.] [Mistrial for South Carolina Officer Who Shot Walter Scott]
By ALAN BLINDER
Jurors could not agree on the fate of a North Charleston police officer, Michael T. Slager, in the fatal shooting of Walter L. Scott, an unarmed black man.
[As North Dakota Pipeline Is Blocked, Veterans at Standing Rock Cheer]
By JACK HEALY
The presence of many hundreds of veterans - organizers were anticipating 2,000 or more - adds another potent layer to a fight that is already steeped in sharp contrasts.
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Politics
[Former Vice President Al Gore arriving on Monday at Trump Tower in Manhattan to meet with President-elect Donald J. Trump and his daughter Ivanka.] [Trump's Meeting With Al Gore Gives Environmental Activists Hope]
By CORAL DAVENPORT
Even as Donald J. Trump met with Mr. Gore, he continued to court opponents of climate control policies for key government posts.
[Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee, at a Monday news conference about her vote recount efforts outside Trump Tower in Manhattan.] [Jill Stein Takes Long-Shot Recount Campaign to Trump Tower]
By STEVE EDER
Ms. Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee, appeared emboldened as a judge ordered a recount in Michigan and her lawyers made a new case in Pennsylvania.
[The Supreme Court. On Monday, justices heard two cases on the drawing of voting districts.] [Justices Wrestle With Role of Race in Redistricting]
By ADAM LIPTAK
The Supreme Court is trying to solve a constitutional puzzle: how to disentangle race from partisanship when drawing legislative maps.
PODCAST
[A Political Guide You Can Trust]
The election is over. But the story has just begun. Michael Barbaro, a veteran political reporter, hosts The Run-Up, a weekly podcast that makes sense of American politics and government. [Available on iTunes].
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Business
[A branch of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena in Rome. Bank stocks have fallen since Italian voters rejected changes that would have sped reforms to the country's economy.] [Italy Just Handed the Global Economy Another Giant Variable]
By PETER S. GOODMAN
As the country's voters emphatically rejected reforms in a referendum Sunday, they added to grave international uncertainties and prompted the prime minister to resign.
[Germán Efromovich, right, the largest investor in Avianca Holdings, watched as the airline's stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 2013.] [As Avianca Weighs Bids, Hedge Fund Plays Unusual Role: Diplomat]
By LESLIE PICKER and ALEXANDRA STEVENSON
Delta, United and Copa have made offers to partner with the airline as Elliott Management mediates among shareholders.
[A view of construction in Reykjavik from the architectural firm T.ark, which is involved in one of the city's new developments.]
Square Feet
[Iceland Recovers, and Reykjavik Becomes a Hive of Development]
By AILI McCONNON
Spurred by a boom in tourism, construction projects downtown are aimed at transforming the area into a destination to live, work and play.
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Technology
[Facebook and Other Tech Companies Seek to Curb Flow of Terrorist Content]
By MIKE ISAAC
Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft announced they have teamed up to fight the spread of such content online by sharing technology and information.
[Amazon employees outside the Amazon Go store, which will allow customers to pluck items off shelves and walk out without having to wait in a checkout line, the company said.] [Amazon Moves to Cut Checkout Line, Promoting a Grab-and-Go Experience]
By NICK WINGFIELD
At an experimental store on the ground floor of a new Amazon office building in Seattle, shoppers will be able to pluck what they want off the shelves and leave without waiting to pay.
[Checking a vehicle at an Uber recruitment event this year. The company wants to improve how the computers behind self-driving vehicles make decisions.] [Uber Bets on Artificial Intelligence With Acquisition and New Lab]
By MIKE ISAAC
With the Geometric Intelligence deal, Uber wants to make major advances in how the computers behind self-driving vehicles think and make decisions on the road.
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Sports
[Mike Rice, right, coaching members of the Patrick School's basketball team last month in Clark, N.J.] [The Rehabilitation of a Coaching Outcast]
By ADAM ZAGORIA
Mike Rice, the disgraced former Rutgers coach who was fired for abusive treatment of his players, is gaining renewed respect on the sidelines of high school games.
[The 36-year-old Dodgers starter Rich Hill, with Manager Dave Roberts, agreed Monday to a three-year, $48 million deal to remain with the team. He was 12-5 in 2016.]
On Baseball
[Perseverance Pays Off for Dodgers Pitcher Rich Hill]
By TYLER KEPNER
Hill, a 36-year-old journeyman, bounced between the majors and the minors, and starting and relieving, before a breakout 12-5 season in 2016 that helped earn him a three-year $48 million deal.
[Real Madrid's Dani Carvajal, second from left, defending his team's goal during a 2-2 tie with Borussia Dortmund in a Champions League game in September.]
On Soccer
[Sometimes Second Can Be the Top Prize in the Champions League]
By RORY SMITH
The bonus of not finishing first in group play could mean a team, such as Real Madrid, will have a softer landing entering the knockout rounds.
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Arts
[The Miami gallery owner Fredric Snitzer at his Art Basel booth in the Miami Beach Convention Center.] [On the Trail of the Sale at Art Basel Miami Beach]
By BRETT SOKOL
At 66, the gallerist Fredric Snitzer pins his hopes for an art-world ascent on a fresh generation.
Books of The Times
['The Revenge of Analog': See It. Feel It. Touch It. (Don't Click)]
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
David Sax asserts that analog isn't going anywhere, but is, in fact, experiencing a bracing revival. And it's not just a case of nostalgia.
[Josh Radnor and Elizabeth Reaser in Richard Greenberg's ] [Review: Waiting to Connect in Levittown in 'The Babylon Line']
By BEN BRANTLEY
Writers-in-training swap tales in Richard Greenberg's unresolved new comedy.
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New York
[At Clinton Correctional Facility near the Canadian border, black inmates were nearly four times as likely as whites to be sent to isolation.] [Governor Cuomo Orders Investigation of Racial Bias in N.Y. State Prisons]
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ, MICHAEL WINERIP and ROBERT GEBELOFF
Reports in The Times revealed that black inmates were disciplined more than whites. Now, the state will investigate the revelations with an eye toward reform.
[.][For Blacks Facing Parole in New York State, Signs of a Broken System]
[.][The Scourge of Racial Bias in New York State's Prisons]
[Mayor Bill de Blasio with Officer Aml Elsokary, who was attacked in an episode that resulted in a hate crime arrest. ] [Finding Hate Crimes on the Rise, Leaders Condemn Vicious Acts]
By SARAH MASLIN NIR
Hate crimes in New York City have risen in the weeks since Donald J. Trump won the presidential election. The incidents range from vicious graffiti to physical violence.
[Councilman Ben Kallos, under scaffolding at the corner of First Avenue and 79th street in Manhattan, will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would require scaffolding to come down within six months of going up.] [Sidewalk Scaffolding, the Unwanted Neighbor, Is Under Scrutiny]
By WINNIE HU
In New York City, where the loathed fixtures sometimes stay up for years, a new bill would require that they be taken down within six months of going up.
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Science
[Many Kids' Headphones Carry Risk of Hearing Loss, Study Finds]
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
Half of 30 sets of so-called noise-limiting headphones and earbuds tested did not restrict volume as much as their manufacturers promised.
[Can You Get Too Much Protein?]
By RONI CARYN RABIN
While some nutritionists have encouraged the protein craze, a number of experts are urging caution.
[A child being vaccinated against yellow fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo in July. ]
Global Health
[Yellow Fever Epidemic in Africa Shows Gaps in Vaccine Pipeline]
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
The outbreak was stopped by a huge vaccination campaign that stretched supplies by diluting doses.
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Obituaries
[Jack Rudin helped persuade fellow property owners to prepay real estate taxes to replenish New York's depleted coffers and founded the Association for a Better New York.] [Jack Rudin, Patriarch of Family of New York Developers, Dies at 92]
By SAM ROBERTS
Mr. Rudin was in the vanguard of a partnership of groups that helped spare the city from bankruptcy in the mid-1970s and figured prominently in its revival.
[Judge Leonard B. Sand in 1985 with a map of Yonkers.] [Leonard B. Sand, Judge in Landmark Yonkers Segregation Case, Dies at 88]
By JOSEPH P. FRIED
The case in which the federal judge found that city officials had segregated public housing and schools along racial lines stretched 27 years.
[Van Williams, left, with Bruce Lee as Kato, his valet and a martial arts expert, in the 1960s ABC series ] [Van Williams, TV's Green Hornet, Dies at 82]
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
Before his most memorable television role as a masked vigilante, Mr. Williams played the detective Kenny Madison on two ABC series.
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Editorial
Editorial
[Why Does Donald Trump Lie About Voter Fraud?]
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Millions of people did not vote illegally, but top Republicans are happy to let the country believe they did.
[The Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y.]
Editorial
[The Stain of Racism in New York's Prisons]
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Wanton brutality is only one aspect of a prison system in which there is little respect for the rule of law or human rights.
[Alexander Van der Bellen celebrating in Vienna on Sunday.]
Editorial
[A Momentary Setback for Europe's Right-Wingers]
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Austrian voters reject an anti-immigrant candidate, but the populists are far from vanquished.
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Op-Ed
[Trevor Noah.]
Turning Points
[Trevor Noah: Let's Not Be Divided. Divided People Are Easier to Rule.]
By TREVOR NOAH
That was, after all, the whole point of apartheid.
[Syrian government soldiers in Aleppo on Saturday.]
Op-Ed Contributor
[How the War Ends in Syria]
By PETER W. GALBRAITH
It's happening, so the U.S. should work with Russia for the least bad outcome.
[Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel transformed a catwalk into a data center of cables and circuit boards at Paris Fashion Week in October.]
Room for Debate
[Is Artificial Intelligence Taking Over Our Lives?]
From driverless cars and smart robots to drones and computer chess champions, is technology making our lives better?
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ON THIS DAY
On Dec. 6, 1923, a presidential address was broadcast on radio for the first time as President Calvin Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress.
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