Today's Headlines: Weakened Democrats Bow to Voters, Opting for Total War on Trump

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He said recently that there had been a ]( [Weakened Democrats Bow to Voters, Opting for Total War on Trump]( By JONATHAN MARTIN and ALEXANDER BURNS After the election, Democrats debated whether to confront the president or seek compromise, but riled-up liberals have pushed party leaders into an all-out fight. [Stephen Bannon Reassures Conservatives Uneasy About Trump]( By JEREMY W. PETERS The president's chief strategist vowed that the "deconstruction of the administrative state" in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. [Khalid Abu Bakar, Malaysia's national police chief, speaking to reporters in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.]( [Kim Jong-nam Was Killed by VX Nerve Agent, Malaysians Say]( By RICHARD C. PADDOCK and CHOE SANG-HUN The Malaysian police said the substance, listed as a chemical weapon, had been identified from samples taken from the skin and eye of the North Korean leader's estranged half brother. 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 [Ofelia Bersabe, Santa Clara, Calif. • The Home Health Aide]( MAGAZINE | The Future of Work [The Jobs Americans Do]( Introduction by BINYAMIN APPELBAUM Popular ideas about the working class are woefully out of date. Here are nine people who tell a truer story of what the American work force does today - and will do tomorrow. [Several hundred protesters demonstrated near the White House on Wednesday.]( OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor [Trump Will Lose the Fight Over Bathrooms for Transgender Students]( By RIA TABACCO MAR Fortunately, the president can't change what Title IX says and means. Those jobs still belong to Congress and the federal courts. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "If the Lebanese president would offer me the choice of staying in prison forever here and going back to Syria now, I would choose prison." [KHALED KHODOR]( a soldier who defected from the Syrian Army and spent four days in a Lebanese jail for sneaking across the border. [] World [From left, John F. Kelly, the U.S. secretary of homeland security; Luis Videgaray, the Mexican foreign minister; and Rex W. Tillerson, the U.S. secretary of state; at a news conference in Mexico City on Thursday.]( [As Kelly and Tillerson Visit Mexico, Their Reassurances Differ From Trump's Stance]( By AZAM AHMED, GARDINER HARRIS and RON NIXON Top U.S. officials held a news conference in Mexico City as policy announcements from the White House continue to enrage the Mexican public. [Migrants in 2015 at a fence dividing Serbia and Hungary.]( [Migrants Face Deportations and Walls in Europe, Too]( By ALISON SMALE Europeans are increasingly caught up in a debate over the treatment of immigrants as rising hostility clashes with long-held values of tolerance. [Iraqi forces pushing to take the Mosul airport on Thursday.]( [Most of Mosul Airport Is Taken by Iraqi Forces in Push Against ISIS]( By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and MICHAEL R. GORDON The move is part of a broader offensive to force the Islamic State from the western half of the city, Iraq's second largest. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [Gavin Grimm, 17, a transgender student with a lawsuit before the Supreme Court next month, was embraced by Vanessa Ford, whose daughter is transgender, at a rally outside the White House on Wednesday.]( [Bathroom Case Puts Transgender Student on National Stage]( By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Gavin Grimm, 17, whose initials are on a case heading to the Supreme Court, has become the new face of the transgender rights movement. [Workers in the SmartCells factory in Chehalis, Wash., this month. The company makes rubber mats for Boeing workers. SmartCells has already diversified, sensing potential trouble in the aerospace industry.]( [Trump Talk Rattles Aerospace Industry, Up and Down Supply Chain]( By KIRK JOHNSON Many in the field fear border tariffs and trade deals will raise the cost of American airplanes, sending shock waves though its thousands of suppliers. [[Graphic] Graphic: America's Aging Dams Are in Need of Repair]( By TROY GRIGGS, GREGOR AISCH and SARAH ALMUKHTAR Dam crises and failures in California and Nevada shed light on the state of American infrastructure. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [President Trump with manufacturing executives at the White House on Thursday.]( [Trump Turns to Manufacturing Executives to Help Develop Jobs Plans]( By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS The president suggested his economic policies were something of a blank slate, giving powerful business leaders potential influence in shaping them. [Community members at a meeting Representative Ron Kind held on Wednesday at an American Legion post in La Crosse, Wis.]( [At Democrat's 'Listening Session,' Concern About Trump, Minus the Jeers]( By THOMAS KAPLAN When Representative Ron Kind met with constituents back home in Wisconsin, he trod carefully, but he did not get the kind of grilling Republicans have. [Protesters before a town hall meeting with Representative Leonard Lance of New Jersey in Branchburg, N.J., on Wednesday.]( [Repeal of Health Law Faces Obstacles in House, Not Just in Senate]( By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Conservative Republicans are pushing for a fast repeal with only a bare-bones replacement plan, but moderates are interested in coming up with a clear and robust plan. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [An Uber vehicle mapping the streets and topography of Pittsburgh last year in preparation for the use of driverless cars.]( [Google Self-Driving Car Unit Accuses Uber of Using Stolen Technology]( By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI and MIKE ISAAC A lawsuit says an employee took thousands of secret files on self-driving car design when he left Google to start his own company, later sold to Uber. [The owner of a kava farm at work in Taveuni, Fiji. The country's kava harvests have been inconsistent for years because of outdated farming.]( [Counting on the Trendy to Revive Kava, a Traditional Drink]( By SERENA SOLOMON Pacific Island governments and others are working to modernize cultivation of kava, hoping that the drink's popularity can be sustained. [A more standardized approach to self-driving cars could reduce the amount of processors and wiring needed.]( Wheels [Self-Driving Cars Might Need Standards, but Whose?]( By JOHN R. QUAIN Some say autonomous vehicles should have common technology before they hit the road, but there is also a strong case for independent approaches. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners. The terms he attached to an early investment in Snap led the company's founders to seek overwhelming voting control of their creation.]( [Snapchat Founders' Grip Tightened After a Spat With an Early Investor]( By KATIE BENNER A big question about the I.P.O. of Snap is why its creators retain such outsize voting control. The answer lies in their history with a venture capital firm. Tech Tip [Converting CDs into High-Fidelity Tracks]( By J. D. BIERSDORFER In exchange for a bigger file size, certain digital audio formats provide better sound quality than others. [Last year's Mobile World Congress, also in Barcelona.]( [Send Us Your Questions About Mobile Technology]( By MARK SCOTT The Times is heading to the Mobile World Congress this weekend, and we want to hear from you. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [High 1 players Michael Swift, left, a Canadian native, and Tyler Brickler, originally from Chicago, along with a South Korean player, Kim Geon-woo, preparing for a game in Goyang, South Korea, last month.]( [South Korea, Next Olympics Host, Went Shopping in North America to Build Its Hockey Teams]( By KAREN CROUSE and SETH BERKMAN The sport is a premier event of the Winter Games, but never caught on much in South Korea. So putting together a credible team has taken some creativity. [The Sixers sent Nerlens Noel, top, a promising post defender, to the Mavs in a deal that included a protected first-round pick.]( [As N.B.A. Trade Deadline Passes, Major Players Stay Put]( By SCOTT CACCIOLA Carmelo Anthony, Paul George and Jimmy Butler - three of the biggest names involved in trade speculation in recent days - did not switch teams. [Donald J. Trump in 2012 on his Trump International Golf Links course in Scotland. Most pro golfers interviewed said they would welcome an opportunity to play with the president, despite the possible repercussions.]( [A Tee Time With Trump? Pro Golfers Say Absolutely]( By KAREN CROUSE Ernie Els drew social media fire by playing golf with President Trump, but an informal survey of P.G.A. players suggests most others would, too. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Yayoi Kusama's ]( Art Review [Into the Land of Polka Dots and Mirrors, With Yayoi Kusama]( By ROBERTA SMITH An exhibition at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington focuses on the mirrored-room environments of Ms. Kusama, a fixture of popular culture. [A $1 note from the Corn Exchange Bank of Wisconsin shows an illustration of a ]( [The Secret Art History on Your Money]( By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER An exhibition at the Grolier Club explores the beautiful and sometimes just odd images on financial instruments, and the unsung artists who created them. [Jake Gyllenhaal, far left, and Annaleigh Ashford, far right, in ]( [Review: 'Sunday in the Park With George,' a Living Painting to Make You See]( By BEN BRANTLEY Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford star in the marvelous revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical, at the newly restored Hudson Theater. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( Movies [Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in ]( The Carpetbagger [And the Oscar Winners Will Be ...]( By CARA BUCKLEY The Carpetbagger has spent months reporting on the awards season. Here, she predicts the winners. [From left, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Allison Williams, Daniel Kaluuya and Betty Gabriel in ]( [Review: In 'Get Out,' Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (Bad Idea!)]( By MANOHLA DARGIS This movie by Jordan Peele, his first as a director of feature films, is a skillful hybrid, blending genres into something terrifying. [Sarah Silverman in ]( [Review: 'Dying Laughing,' About Bombing Onstage, or, Conversely, Killing]( By STEPHEN HOLDEN Paul Toogood and Lloyd Stanton's documentary talks to comedians about the rigors of the road and other stresses of their profession. For more movie news and reviews, go to [NYTimes.com/Movies »]( [] New York [A rehabilitated dog formerly owned by Michael Vick, a football player convicted of running a dog fighting ring on his Virginia estate.]( [Treadmills Add to Evidence in Arrest for Dog Fighting]( By SARAH MASLIN NIR In addition to the caged and battered dogs in a garage in Queens, officials found training equipment suggesting the dogs were being trained to fight. [On the C line. Weekday subway ridership rose in 2016 to its highest level since 1948, but weekend ridership dropped 3 percent. The reasons include rising delays and more alternatives for riders.]( [Subway Ridership Declines in New York. Is Uber to Blame?]( By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS Weekday ridership rose to its highest level since 1948, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority recorded a 3 percent drop on weekends in 2016. [Alice Neel's 1950 portrait of the playwright Alice Childress.]( Critic's Notebook [Alice Neel's Love of Harlem and the Neighbors She Painted There]( By JASON FARAGO Two dozen of Neel's portraits, at David Zwirner, concentrates on her relationships with fellow Harlemites, most of them black, Latin American or Asian. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( []Obituaries [Mildred Dresselhaus in 2012 with a bottle of vapor-grown carbon fiber.]( [Mildred Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon, Dies at 86]( By NATALIE ANGIER Dr. Dresselhaus, who helped transform carbon into the superstar of modern materials science, was renowned for her efforts to promote the cause of women in science. [James Stevenson in an undated photograph.]( [James Stevenson, Ex-New Yorker Illustrator, Dies at 87]( By RICHARD SANDOMIR Mr. Stevenson's work shifted easily from light social commentary to silliness for more than half a century. [Bernie Custis in 1982 as a coach of the year in Canada.]( [Bernie Custis, a Pioneering Quarterback, Dies at 88]( By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mr. Custis is considered by many to have become the first black quarterback in modern pro football when he played the position in Canada in 1951. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial [Steve Bannon, left, after speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference.]( Editorial Observer [Big Tent or Circus Tent? A Conservative Identity Crisis in the Trump Era]( By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON At the Conservative Political Action Conference, fringe elements were once shown the door. Now they occupy the White House, and are getting a "group hug." [Protesting near the White House on Wednesday, the day the Trump administration rescinded a policy on bathrooms for transgender students.]( Editorial [President Trump Breaks a Promise on Transgender Rights]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD His personal convictions have proved malleable time and again. This is a clarifying moment for the L.G.B.T. movement. [Seven Earth-size planets orbit a dwarf star named Trappist-1 about 40 light-years from Earth.]( Editorial [Twinkle, Twinkle Little Trappist]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Is there anybody or anything out there? For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed [A vandalized headstone at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, Mo.]( Op-Ed Contributor [When Hate Haunts a Graveyard]( By ARIANA TOBIN Any wider implications of the vandalism at a Jewish cemetery in a St. Louis suburb have yet to become clear. But for some, the violation is personal. Op-Ed Contributor [North Korea's Palace Intrigue]( By JEAN H. LEE The rampant speculation that Kim Jong-un ordered the murder of his brother is enough to send a chilling message to the North Korean people. Op-Ed Contributor [Fake News Meets German Racism]( By MUSA OKWONGA It turns out there was no rampaging mob of Arab and African sexual predators in Frankfurt. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On Feb. 24, 1868, the United States House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate. [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? 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