Today's Headlines: Comey Letter on Clinton Email Is Subject of Justice Dept. Inquiry

[Latest to Disagree With Donald Trump: His Cabinet Nominees] | View in [Browser] | Add [nytdirect@nytimes.com] to your address book. | [Unsubscribe] [The New York Times] [Most Popular] | [Video] | [Today's Headlines] Friday, January 13, 2017 IN THIS EMAIL [NYT] [World] | [U.S.] | [Politics] | [Business] | [Technology] | [Sports] | [Arts] | [N.Y./Region] | [Movies] | [Today's Video] | [Obituaries] | [Editorials] | [Op-Ed] | [On This Day] | [CUSTOMIZE »] [Get The Times for as low as 99¢.] Top News [James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington this week.] [Comey Letter on Clinton Email Is Subject of Justice Dept. Inquiry] By ADAM GOLDMAN, ERIC LICHTBLAU and MATT APUZZO The department's inspector general will look into James B. Comey's hotly debated decision to inform Congress about a new review of the Hillary Clinton email case. [James N. Mattis, nominated for defense secretary, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.] [Latest to Disagree With Donald Trump: His Cabinet Nominees] By JENNIFER STEINHAUER In their first week before congressional panels, Mr. Trump's cabinet nominees broke with him on almost every major policy that has put Mr. Trump outside Republican orthodoxy. [Representative Mike Pompeo, Donald J. Trump's pick for C.I.A. director, with Senator Pat Roberts, left, and former Senator Bob Dole, right, at his confirmation hearing on Thursday.] [C.I.A. Nominee Says He Won't Balk at Seeking Russian Intelligence] By MATTHEW ROSENBERG and MARK MAZZETTI Representative Mike Pompeo made clear he was ready to take on America's old adversary, even as President-elect Donald J. Trump denigrates the nation's spy agencies. 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 U.S. | Gettysburg Journal [At This Auction, Even Millard Fillmore Gets Respect] By JESS BIDGOOD The Hall of Presidents and First Ladies, a 60-year-old wax museum, is closing. It is selling at auction all of its lifelike figures of presidents and their spouses. [President-elect Trump after the press conference Wednesday.] OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor [Why Americans Care About Trump's Tax Returns] By RON WYDEN Unless he makes disclosures, rumor and scandal will dog his presidency. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "I think it's highly unlikely Putin is going to change from a shark into a goldfish. We are going to see sharklike behavior continue around the periphery of NATO." [JAMES G. STAVRIDIS], a retired American Navy admiral who was NATO supreme commander from 2009 to 2013. World [The Polish Parliament on Thursday. A political crisis began on Dec. 16, when a lawmaker from Civic Platform, the main opposition party, stormed the parliamentary speaker's rostrum to protest plans to curb the news media's access to Parliament.] [Opposition Party in Poland Ends Monthlong Occupation of Parliament] By JOANNA BERENDT The protest by Civic Platform was directed at the right-wing government's plan to curb the news media's access to Parliament. [Women walked past a stall selling cola nuts in Banjul, Gambia. The cost of living has soared in the country, prompting thousands of Gambians to try to reach Europe.] [A Soccer Star Caught in Poverty, a Risky Trip, and a Sorrowful End] By JAIME YAYA BARRY Fatima Jawara, a Gambian goalkeeper, tried to follow the path of many African migrants: the "back way" across the Mediterranean to Europe. She was lost at sea. [Lighting up in a bar in Moscow in 2014, before Russia banned smoking in most public places.] [Russian Proposal Would Phase In Cigarette Ban, but Current Smokers Get a Pass] By ROGENE JACQUETTE The Health Ministry draft rules would ban the sale of cigarettes to people born in 2015 and after. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »] ADVERTISEMENT U.S. [President Obama during his farewell address in Chicago on Tuesday.] [Obama Ends Exemption for Cubans Who Arrive Without Visas] By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and FRANCES ROBLES The unexpected change to a policy unique to Cubans has long been sought by the Cuban government. [A group known as the Table of Knowledge sharing opinions over breakfast last week at Darrell's, a diner in Monticello, Iowa.] [In Iowa, Trump Voters Are Unfazed by Controversies] By TRIP GABRIEL In rural eastern Iowa, the epicenter of the quake that made Donald J. Trump president, a reporter who spent a year in the state hears voters' expectations and concerns. [Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch speaking at a news conference in Baltimore on Thursday.] [Baltimore Agrees to Broad Change for Troubled Police Dept.] By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JESS BIDGOOD A scathing Justice Department report last year accused officers of systematically harassing black residents. Now, the city has agreed to a consent decree. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »] ADVERTISEMENT Politics [House Speaker Paul D. Ryan arrived for his weekly news conference on Thursday.] [House Expected to Follow Senate's Lead on Rush to Repeal Health Law] By THOMAS KAPLAN, ROBERT PEAR and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN A House vote on Friday will come after the Senate approved a measure that would allow Republicans to speedily gut the Affordable Care Act with no threat of a filibuster. [Ben Carson testified on Thursday during his confirmation hearing to be the secretary of housing and urban development.] [Ben Carson Urges Ending Reliance on Welfare in Bid to Be Housing Chief] By MATT FLEGENHEIMER and YAMICHE ALCINDOR At a Senate confirmation hearing, Dr. Carson tried to square his past remarks on the dangers of federal assistance with leading an agency that provides just that. [Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, in an image from C-Span on Thursday.] [C-Span Online Broadcast Interrupted by Russian Network] By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH A feed from RT broke into Representative Maxine Waters's speech on the House floor in midsentence, in what may have been a technical routing error. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »] Business [The 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee diesel is one of several Fiat Chrysler models that the E.P.A. said broke rules on pollutants.] [E.P.A. Accuses Fiat Chrysler of Secretly Violating Emissions Standards] By HIROKO TABUCHI Federal regulators said the automaker used secret software that allowed more than 100,000 vehicles to emit illegal levels of harmful pollutants. [Clockwise from top left: the Goldman Sachs alumni Stephen K. Bannon, Gary D. Cohn, Anthony Scaramucci and Steven T. Mnuchin (center, in the elevator).] Common Sense [Goldman Sachs Completes Return From Wilderness to the White House] By JAMES B. STEWART An influx of alumni under Donald J. Trump provokes little backlash, as fears of undue influence mix with relief that the executive branch has some adult supervision. [AT&T Chief Visits Trump With Time Warner Deal Looming Large] By CECILIA KANG The president-elect's dispute with CNN, a Time Warner asset, makes for a delicate meeting. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »] Technology [James R. Clapper, center, the director of national intelligence, with Adm. Michael S. Rogers, right, director of the National Security Agency, during a Senate hearing last week.] [N.S.A. Gets More Latitude to Share Intercepted Communications] By CHARLIE SAVAGE New rules relax longstanding limits on what the National Security Agency may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations. [Testing a manned, walking robot, Method-2, in Gunpo, South Korea, last month.] [Robots Will Take Jobs, but Not as Fast as Some Fear, New Report Says] By STEVE LOHR A study by the McKinsey Global Institute concludes that the automation of jobs is inevitable but that the process is likely to be gradual. Tech Tip [A New Destination for Files Downloaded From Microsoft Edge] By J. D. BIERSDORFER Microsoft's Windows 10 browser puts files in the Downloads folder by default, but you can pick a new place to store those fresh-off-the-web items. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »] Sports [N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell has pledged that the league will hit $25 billion in revenue by 2027. Its value now is $13 billion.] [Team Relocations Keep N.F.L. Moving Up Financially] By KEN BELSON The Chargers' announced move to Los Angeles will add even more money for owners amid growing uncertainties facing the league. [Rafael Nadal at the United States Open last year. His ability to bounce back from injuries is an inspiration to his longtime rival Roger Federer.] [Federer Seeks to Return With Power, Thanks to Nadal's Strength] By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY Roger Federer is looking to Rafael Nadal for inspiration on how to come back from injury after a 2016 season plagued by a knee problem. [By calling the Islanders-Panthers game at Barclays Center on Wednesday, Jiggs McDonald broadcast an N.H.L. game for the 50th consecutive season.] [Jiggs McDonald, Longtime Islanders Voice, Makes It a 50-Year Career] By DAVE CALDWELL McDonald, who announced games for the Kings, the Panthers and three of the Islanders' four Stanley Cup title teams, came back for a limited run this season. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »] Arts [Jude Law in HBO's 10-part series ] [Review: 'The Young Pope' Is Beautiful and Ridiculous] By JAMES PONIEWOZIK This 10-episode HBO series starring Jude Law features scenes that resemble religious paintings, and then it has serious moments that are laughable. [Brice Marden last June in New York.] [Brice Marden Joining Gagosian Gallery] By ROBIN POGREBIN "I just felt I needed a change." said Mr. Marden, who had been with the dealer Matthew Marks for more than two decades. [The singer-songwriter M. Lamar, whose new show is an assemblage of old spirituals.] [A Goth Male Soprano Who Plumbs the Darkness] By ZACHARY WOOLFE M. Lamar's new show, "Funeral Doom Spiritual," is an assemblage of old spirituals; it has its New York premiere at the National Sawdust in Brooklyn. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »] New York [Volunteers during the homeless census in February 2015. In a decision made by Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City stopped opening shelters for much of that year.] [Mayor de Blasio Scrambles to Curb Homelessness After Years of Not Keeping Pace] By J. DAVID GOODMAN and NIKITA STEWART A surge in homelessness, and criticism of Mayor Bill de Blasio's handling of it, has become one of the visible and vexing issues of his first three years in office. [John Kennedy O'Hara, right, after a hearing in Brooklyn at which his indictment in a 20-year-old felony voting case was dismissed. He had three trials.] [After 20 Years and 3 Trials, a Political Gadfly No Longer Needs a Day in Court] By JIM DWYER John Kennedy O'Hara was convicted, twice, of the rare charge of felony voting. Finally, fishy prosecution tactics were revealed and his indictment dismissed. [Mark G. Peters, at podium, commissioner of the city's Investigation Department, discussing what the authorities said Thursday was a scheme in which National Grid employees illegally installed gas meters in gentrifying neighborhoods of Brooklyn.] [Shadow Utility Company Accused of Installing Illegal Gas Meters in Brooklyn] By ALAN FEUER Among the defendants are National Grid employees, landlords and property managers who prosecutors say skirted safety rules in gentrifying areas. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »] Men's Style [Dane DeHaan has become Hollywood's go-to avatar of teenage torment. Mr. DeHaan wearing a Sandro shirt, $225 for similar styles, available Tuesday at us.sandro-paris.com.] [Movie Star Dane DeHaan: He Broods. He Pouts. He ... Golfs?] By MATTHEW SCHNEIER After years of supporting work and high-profile Prada campaigns, an actor known for his translucent eyes and angsty roles headlines two major films. On Time [Breaking Into the Boys' Club of Watches] By ALEX WILLIAMS Cara Barrett, the only female writer for the watch website Hodinkee, offers thoughts on why watch geeks tend to be men. [Non-Surf Wear From Saturdays, Prada's New Backpack and the Return of a Givenchy Icon] By ALEX TUDELA The surf-and-skate store expands its offerings, Prada updates its classic nylon bag, Riccardo Tisci revives the Givenchy Rottweiler and more. For more men's style news, go to [NYTimes.com/mensstyle »] Obituaries [Martha Swope in her apartment in 2012.] [Martha Swope, 88, Who Etched Dance and Theater History in Photographs, Dies] By SYLVIANE GOLD Ms. Swope produced hundreds of thousands of images of performers in action, and by the time she retired, her studio contained more than a million images. [Mr. Lownes at a party with Playboy bunnies in London. As a company executive, he helped develop the Playboy Clubs chain.] [Victor Lownes, 88, Playboy Executive Who Shaped Company's Libertine Ethic] By JOHN SCHWARTZ A professed rake and a friend of Hugh Hefner's, Mr. Lownes helped to develop the chain of Playboy Clubs. [After Philip Morris acquired Kraft, John M. Richman, shown in 1981, became vice chairman of the combined company and chief of its Kraft General Foods division.] [John M. Richman, Chief of Kraft Who Oversaw Merger With Philip Morris, Dies at 89] By NATASHA SINGER He turned what he considered an unacceptable offer of $11.5 billion into a $13.1 billion takeover to create the world's largest consumer goods producer at the time. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »] Editorial Editorial [James Mattis: Toughness and Restraint at the Pentagon] By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Donald Trump's pick to run the Pentagon may become a strong counterweight to an impulsive and uninformed commander in chief. [Jared Kushner on Capitol Hill on Monday.] Editorial [Donald Trump Keeps It in the Family] By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The president-elect's selection of his son-in-law as a senior adviser shows he is untroubled by nepotism and uninterested in following the law. [Oliver Schmidt in 2014. Formerly Volkswagen's top emissions compliance executive in the U.S., he has been charged with defrauding the government and violating the Clean Air Act.] Editorial [Making an Example of Volkswagen] By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The Justice Department has delivered a strong message to multibillion-dollar companies and their executives: No one is "too big to jail." For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »] Op-Ed [The president's 2009 speech in Cairo, broadcast in a cafe in Baghdad.] Opinion [Obama Hoped to Transform the World. It Transformed Him.] By ADAM SHATZ The president entered office with a vision for a cosmopolitan foreign policy. Then he encountered drones, Syria and a growing wave of illiberalism. Op-Ed Contributor [Forget a Wall. There's a Better Way to Secure the Border.] By STEPHEN R. KELLY Physical barriers won't do the job, but recent agreements allowing armed U.S. customs agents to screen travelers and cargo in Canada and Mexico will. Room for Debate [Was BuzzFeed Right to Publish the Accusations Against Trump?] Other news outlets had the material, but the contents, which contained inflammatory accusations against the president-elect, are unverified. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »] ON THIS DAY On Jan. 13, 1990, Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected black governor as he took the oath of office in Richmond. [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®] | [iPad®] | [Android] | [All] [.] Save 15% at [The NYTimes Store »] [.] Have questions? [Help Section »] [.] Visit our mobile website at [m.nyt.com »] About This Email This is an automated email. Please do not reply directly to this email. You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's Today's Headlines newsletter. 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