Today's Headlines: Jolted by Deaths, Obama Found His Voice on Race

[Scott Pruitt, Trump’s E.P.A. Pick, Backed Industry Donors Over Regulators] | View in [Browser] | Add [nytdirect@nytimes.com] to your address book. | [Unsubscribe] [The New York Times] [Most Popular] | [Video] | [Today's Headlines] Sunday, January 15, 2017 IN THIS EMAIL [NYT] [World] | [U.S.] | [Politics] | [Business] | [Technology] | [Sports] | [Arts] | [N.Y./Region] | [Magazine] | [Today's Video] | [Obituaries] | [Editorials] | [Op-Ed] | [On This Day] | [CUSTOMIZE »] [Get The Times for as low as 99¢.] Top News [President Obama campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Miami Gardens in October.] [Jolted by Deaths, Obama Found His Voice on Race] By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and YAMICHE ALCINDOR Tensions across the country prompted the president to abandon his early reticence on race again and again. [Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, is President-elect Donald J. Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.] [Scott Pruitt, Trump's E.P.A. Pick, Backed Industry Donors Over Regulators] By ERIC LIPTON and CORAL DAVENPORT If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Pruitt could be in charge of policing industries that have long helped advance his political career. [Cubans arrived in Key West, Fla., in 1980 after Fidel Castro opened the port at Mariel.] ['Marielitos' Face Long-Delayed Reckoning: Expulsion to Cuba] By FRANCES ROBLES The migrants came to the U.S. by the thousands when Fidel Castro opened the Mariel port in 1980, and many took up a life of crime when they got here. 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 [Victoria Czapski of Sterling Heights, Mich., wearing her Trump bracelet. Of her candidate, she says, ] U.S. ['You Focus on the Good': Women Who Voted for Trump, in Their Own Words] By SUSAN CHIRA Even when offended, some looked past Donald J. Trump's flaws to issues like jobs and immigration. Distrust of Hillary Clinton and a liking for Ivanka Trump also helped. [The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. giving his I Have a Dream speech in Washington in 1963.] OPINION | Opinion [No Racial Barrier Left to Break (Except All of Them)] By KHALIL GIBRAN MUHAMMAD We can't create a more just nation simply by dressing up institutions in more shades of brown. Now we must confront structural racism. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "I remember thinking, 'They are going to hate us one day.' I knew that we couldn't do everything that people wanted to meet those expectations." [MELODY BARNES], President Obama's first domestic policy adviser, referring to Americans' raised hopes for improved race relations after his election. World [Employees of Noble Energy looked out the window of a helicopter as they flew out last month to the Atwood Advantage, where it is holding its position roughly 40 miles off the coast of Haifa, Israel, above the natural gas well it is drilling.] [For Israel, Energy Boom Could Make Friends Out of Enemies] By PETER BAKER Once a barren energy island, Israel is finally advancing an ambitious strategy to tap natural gas reserves and transform its place in a hostile region. [A blanket of pollution wreathed Warsaw, above, and dozens of other Polish cities, bringing a global problem more associated with Beijing into the heart of Europe.] Warsaw Journal [Warsaw Grapples With Gloomy, Gray Smog] By JOANNA BERENDT The spike in air pollution was mainly driven by a cold snap that forced thousands of households to crank up poor quality heaters that burn things like coal and garbage. [For two weeks each January, the population of Davos, Switzerland, swells as the global elite meet for a series of discussions.] [How Davos Brings the Global Elite Together] By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and RUSSELL GOLDMAN The resort town in the Swiss Alps becomes home to heads of state, captains of industry and others each year during the World Economic Forum. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »] ADVERTISEMENT U.S. [An Asian elephant last year at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Brooklyn. The circus will hold its final performances in May.] [Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to End Its 146-Year Run] By CHRISTOPHER MELE Feld Entertainment, the producer of Ringling, said the circus would hold its final performances in May, citing declining ticket sales. [Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago spoke at a news conference about police abuses, flanked by Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Eddie Johnson, the police superintendent.] [Efforts to Curb Police Abuses Have Mixed Record, and Uncertain Future] By SHAILA DEWAN and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. As Chicago agrees to revamp its policing, settlements with police departments known as consent decrees may face a threat in the Trump administration. [A team of surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland. A young soldier wounded in Afghanistan is currently on a waiting list for a penis transplant at the hospital.] [Study Maps 'Uniquely Devastating' Genital Injuries Among Troops] By DENISE GRADY A new report found that more than 1,300 men in the American military suffered various injuries to their genitals or urinary tract while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »] ADVERTISEMENT Politics [Thomas E. Perez, the secretary of labor, last year. ] [When He Goes Low, They Go … Where? Democrats Mull How to Confront Trump] By JONATHAN MARTIN "If you try to go tweet-to-tweet with him, more often than not you're not going to succeed," a candidate to lead the Democratic National Committee said at a forum. [Representative John Lewis is revered on Capitol Hill by Democrats and Republicans alike.] ['All Talk, No Action,' Says Trump, in Twitter Attack on a Civil Rights Icon] By MARK LANDLER The president-elect criticized the Georgia congressman, one of the original Freedom Riders, on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. [A President Who Inspired Big Dreams, and Big Smiles, in a Young Generation] By CAITLIN DICKERSON, ADEEL HASSAN and ANNIE CORREAL One of President Obama's lasting legacies may be the symbolic impact on the generation for whom "president of the United States" has always referred to a black man. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »] Business [One of the energy-storage installations, at a San Diego Gas & Electric operations center surrounded by industrial parks in Escondido, Calif., 30 miles north of San Diego, will be the largest of its kind in the world, developers say.] [A Big Test for Big Batteries] By DIANE CARDWELL and CLIFFORD KRAUSS In California, an environmental crisis forced a utility to fast-track a risky idea - using rechargeable cells to stand in for power plants. [Leaders in Brussels on Dec. 15, from left: Charles Michel of Belgium, François Hollande of France, Jean-Claude Juncker of the European Commission and Alexis Tsipras of Greece.] [Markets Are Coping (for Now) With Blows to Unity in Europe] By CONRAD DE AENLLE The markets are taking political developments in Europe in stride, but that may not last. [Daniel E. Crocker at the cabin on his family's wooded property in Exeter, Maine.] [Forests Are a Treasure. But Are They Good Investments?] By TIM GRAY University endowments and insurance companies own timberland. Ordinary people invest in forests, too - not necessarily to make a lot of money. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »] Technology [A video frame of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday.] [SpaceX Launches Rocket, Its First Since Explosion on Launchpad] By KENNETH CHANG The return to business for Elon Musk's company was successful, despite being overshadowed by questions about the viability of his long-range plans. [China Orders Registration of App Stores] By PAUL MOZUR The order from the Cyberspace Administration of China is the clearest sign yet that Beijing is pushing to solidify control over mobile apps. [A Chaplin short, ] [Is Watching a Movie on a Phone Really So Bad?] By GLENN KENNY New ways of watching movies have long made film folk antsy. And for many, watching on a phone remains a line in the sand. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »] Sports [Atlanta's Julio Jones (11) caught one of Matt Ryan's three touchdown passes on Saturday against Seattle.] Falcons 36, Seahawks 20 [Falcons Take Advantage of Seattle's Stumble and Race to N.F.C. Title Game] By KEN BELSON The Seahawks had a long punt return called back and surrendered a safety. Then Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan went to work on their secondary. [Quarterback Aaron Rodgers will lead the Packers against the Cowboys on Sunday as Green Bay goes for its second N.F.C. title game appearance in three years. His parents don't plan to attend the game.] [Aaron Rodgers Connects With His Hometown, but the Family Huddle Is Broken] By KAREN CROUSE The Packers quarterback's celebrity is a source of unmitigated joy everywhere in Chico, Calif., except in what used to be his innermost circle. [Connecticut's Napheesa Collier, with the ball, battled Southern Methodist's Devri Owens in the first half Saturday.] Connecticut 88, S.M.U. 48 [UConn Women Win Their 91st Straight and Rewrite History Again] By HARVEY ARATON The top-ranked Huskies beat Southern Methodist, 88-48, to break the N.C.A.A. winning streak record a previous Connecticut team set in 2010. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »] Arts [From left, Daniel Reichard, John Lloyd Young, Christian Hoff and J. Robert Spencer in the musical ] [For Early 'Jersey Boys' Investors, Oh, What a Run] By MICHAEL PAULSON About three out of four Broadway shows lose money. But not "Jersey Boys." Here's how a group of unlikely investors helped make the show a global hit. [August Wilson] [What August Wilson Means Now] By BEN BRANTLEY and WESLEY MORRIS Our critics talk about the power of language and representation from the playwright, a great chronicler of the 20th century. [Jurgita Dronina in Christopher Wheeldon's ] [Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century] By ALASTAIR MACAULAY Our chief dance critic asks whether ballet can express a modern view of the sexes. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »] Metropolitan [A still of Marilyn Monroe filming ] [The Lost Footage of Marilyn Monroe] By HELENE STAPINSKI That film image of Ms. Monroe's skirt rising high in a gust of air? It's a reshoot of a discarded and more risqué scene seldom seen until now. [Uziel Santos driving in Manhattan. He signs on to three ride-hailing apps to determine the highest-paying fares that day.] [Ride-Hailing Drivers Are Slaves to the Surge] By MASHA GONCHAROVA The be-your-own-boss promises of Uber, Lyft and other services came with a steep downside. [New York police investigators at the scene of a fatal shooting in Queens on Saturday.] [Police Officers Fatally Shoot a Man Threatening His Mother With a Screwdriver in Queens] By ELI ROSENBERG and SEAN PICCOLI The man, who was found with his mother in a stairwell leading to a basement apartment, refused orders to drop the weapon, the police said. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »] Fashion & Style [Michelle Obama was beholden to no designer or brand, but helped the careers of many.] Critic's Notebook [How Clothes Defined Michelle Obama] By VANESSA FRIEDMAN No one understood the role of fashion, and the potential uses of its power, better than the first lady. [The Clintons at Café Carlyle in Manhattan with Steve Tyrell, center, and others.] [Wait. Is That Hillary Clinton? Let's Go Say Hi.] By LAURA M. HOLSON Hillary Clinton is popping up in restaurants and at social events around town, and being embraced by New Yorkers who seem to want to help her get over her election loss. [Hedi Slimane] [After Fashion, Hedi Slimane Turns to Photography Full Time] By MATTHEW SCHNEIER The designer, formerly of Saint Laurent, discusses his new work for V Magazine and the possibility of a return to fashion. For more fashion news, go to [NYTimes.com/Fashion »] Travel [Inside the Lucky Dragon Hotel & Casino.] Trending [Las Vegas Works to Charm Travelers From Asia] By ELAINE GLUSAC A new direct flight from Beijing, a hotel with signage in Chinese and Lunar New Year celebrations are all part of a tourism effort. Chasing the Deal [Affordable Fitness Getaways in January] By JESSICA COLLEY CLARKE Hotels are offering packages that include yoga, spin classes, spa treatments and healthy eating. [Roasted figs with goat's milk ice cream, and lemon and thyme fritters at Elystan Street.] Bites [A London Restaurant That's 'Simpler', but Not Simple] By EDWARD SCHNEIDER The chef Philip Howard left the two Michelin-starred Square to open Elystan Street, and the result is simpler satisfaction. For more travel news, go to [NYTimes.com/Travel »] Magazine [Neanderthal sculptures, named Nana and Flint, at the Gibraltar Museum.] Feature [Neanderthals Were People, Too] By JON MOOALLEM New research shows they shared many behaviors that we long believed to be uniquely human. Why did science get them so wrong? [The wake for Manuel Evangelista, one of five people killed by masked men in a vigilante raid.] Feature [President Duterte's List] By PATRICK SYMMES He has the names of more than a million supposed drug dealers and corrupt officials in the Philippines. In this violent new drug war, who is determining who dies? First Words [I Know How It Feels to Be Someone's 'Token.' I'm Sure Ben Carson Does, Too.] By GREG HOWARD Cultivating real diversity can be hard. America's institutions often turn to an easier tactic: faking it. For more from the Sunday magazine, go to [NYTimes.com/Magazine »] Obituaries [Dr. Peter C. Nowell in his lab at the University of Pennsylvania.] [Dr. Peter Nowell, Who Helped Transform Cancer Research, Dies at 88] By DENISE GRADY Dr. Nowell and a colleague discovered the first genetic defect proven to cause cancer, which led to major advances by other scientists decades later. [Buddy Greco performing in 1966.] [Buddy Greco, Singer Who Had That Swing, Dies at 90] By WILLIAM GRIMES Mr. Greco, who started with Benny Goodman, came into his own as a Las Vegas lounge singer with a propulsive, swinging style. [Laurie Carlos, center, performing with Jessica Hagedorn, left, and Deborah Artman in 1987.] [Laurie Carlos, Actress in 'For Colored Girls,' Dies at 67] By WILLIAM GRIMES The inner lives of black women was often the focus of Ms. Carlos, a multifaceted award winner who also was a writer and director. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »] Editorial Editorial [The Optimism of Barack Obama] By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Americans will miss both the character and eloquence of the president, who leaves a legacy of solid accomplishment despite bitter partisan opposition. [President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.] Editorial [Turkey's Relentless Attack on the Press] By THE EDITORIAL BOARD President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has worked to silence independent voices as he tightens his authoritarian control. [Tourists in downtown Moscow. The Kremlin is on the right.] Editorial Observer [That Time the K.G.B. Slipped Me Vodka] By SERGE SCHMEMANN The Trump dossier-related talk of "kompromat" and "dezinformatsiya" has been a blast from what was thought to be a distant past. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »] Op-Ed Op-Ed | Michael Eric Dyson [How Black America Saw Obama] By MICHAEL ERIC DYSON His success elated us. But then we spent eight years worrying for his life. [.][Obama Hoped to Transform the World. It Transformed Him.] [.][Wehner: Eight Was Enough] [Red Square, with the Kremlin at right. Some people wonder why Donald Trump seems quick to favor people who work there.] Op-Ed Columnist [Donald Trump: Kremlin Employee of the Month?] By NICHOLAS KRISTOF A dossier has been circulating in Washington that's completely unsubstantiated and yet also plausible. Opinion [Hey, Steve Harvey, Who Says I Might Not Steal Your Girl?] By EDDIE HUANG Dominant American culture has long stereotyped Asian-American men as not masculine. Why is Steve Harvey joining in now? For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »] Sunday Review [Ivanka Trump at the start of the second presidential debate in St. Louis, Oct. 9, 2016.] Opinion [Ivanka Trump's Dangerous Fake Feminism] By JILL FILIPOVIC She is selling us traditional femininity and support of male power in a feminist bow. [Lawmakers met at the Capitol in Washington this week to being the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act.] Opinion [Without Obamacare, I Will Get Sicker, Faster, Until I Die] By CAMERON ZEIGLER If I don't have health insurance so I can manage my Parkinson's disease, it's likely the government will end up paying more for my care. Opinion [Big Sugar's Secret Ally? Nutritionists] By GARY TAUBES The scientific consensus that all calories are equally fattening is outdated and dangerous. ON THIS DAY On Jan. 15, 1967, the first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10. 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