Today's Headlines: Steady U.S. Job Growth Sets Stage for Fed to Raise Interest Rates

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[Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, is among the prosecutors whose resignation President Trump has ordered.]( [Trump Abruptly Orders 46 Obama-Era Prosecutors to Resign]( By CHARLIE SAVAGE and MAGGIE HABERMAN The president told the holdover United States attorneys to tender their resignations immediately, including - surprisingly - Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan. [Moon Jae-in, a presidential aspirant, at a rally against then-President Park Geun-hye in Seoul, South Korea, in December.]( [Ouster of South Korean President Could Return Liberals to Power]( By CHOE SANG-HUN The opposition leader, who could become the next president, wants dialogue with North Korea and is skeptical about the new American antimissile shield. 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 [A ramen restaurant in the exclusion zone of Okuma, in Japan, in February.]( WORLD [The Lonely Towns of Fukushima]( By MOTOKO RICH Thousands fled from their homes, offices and schools six years ago after a meltdown at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. Few have returned. [President Trump at the White House earlier this month.]( OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor [Bernie Sanders: Trump Should Avoid a Bad Zika Deal]( By BERNIE SANDERS The government might give a French company monopoly rights to a potential Zika vaccine. Taxpayers, who helped fund the research, will lose out. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "They may have been phony in the past, but it's very real now." [SEAN SPICER]( the White House press secretary, quoting President Trump on his faith in the accuracy of the Labor Department's latest jobs report, which showed that the United States added 235,000 positions in February. [] Today's Videos [Bilal Abdul Kareem, with a masked fighter wearing an explosive belt in Syria.]( [[Video] Video: Former N.Y. Comic, Reporting From Aleppo]( Bilal Abdul Kareem is a Muslim convert and former comedian from New York. In the last few years, he's made hundreds of news reports from Syria. [[Video] Video: Paris Fashion Week in 60 Seconds]( T Magazine's market director, Malina Joseph Gilchrist, recaps the fall/winter 2017 collections from Paris. [[Video] Video: This Week's Movies: March 10, 2017]( The New York Times film critics review "Kong: Skull Island," "Personal Shopper" and "The Sense of an Ending." [] World [The journalist Mikhail Zygar, second from left, has pursued an ambitious project to commemorate the Russian Revolution.]( ['Revolution? What Revolution?' Russia Asks 100 Years Later]( By NEIL MacFARQUHAR The events of 1917 reshaped the country and the world, but the idea of celebrating an uprising of any sort is unwelcome in the Kremlin. [Pope Francis has pointed out that an element of married clergy already exists within the church, notably Eastern Rite Catholics.]( [Pope Francis Signals Openness to Ordaining Married Men in Some Cases]( By JASON HOROWITZ The pope said he was not advocating an end to celibacy, and sees little possibility for allowing women to be priests. But his openness about ordaining married men was unusually explicit. [Workers preparing to lift parts of a statue, which archaeologists believe may depict Pharaoh Ramses II, in Cairo.]( [Statue Being Pulled From a Gritty Patch of Cairo Could Be of Ramses]( By DECLAN WALSH The statue is just the type of artifact archaeologists hoped to recover before further building in a teeming neighborhood makes such treasures impossible to find. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [A flooded orchard in Glenn, Calif. Much of the state is officially out of the drought, but some parts, such as Santa Barbara, remain alarmingly dry.]( [When Is a Drought Over? A Wet California Wants to Know]( By ADAM NAGOURNEY Reservoirs are overflowing. Dams are straining. So why is California still officially in a drought? We answer some questions Californians, and others, may have. [Daniela Vargas spoke publicly about an immigration raid that picked up more than 50 allegedly undocumented immigrants including her father and brother in Jackson, Miss.]( [Woman Detained After Speaking About Deportation Fears Is Released]( By CHRISTINE HAUSER Daniela Vargas had arrived in the United States as a child and was later allowed to stay under an Obama-era program. She was held in Louisiana for more than a week. [A blood pressure test. House Republicans are proposing legislation aimed at making it easier for companies to gather health and genetic data from workers and their families, including information such as weight, blood pressure and cancer risk.]( [How Healthy Are You? G.O.P. Bill Would Help Employers Find Out]( By REED ABELSON The bill would also significantly increase the financial penalties for employees who do not join workplace wellness programs. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, pictured at a news conference in Washington in February 2015, will meet with President Trump on Tuesday at the White House.]( [After Warily Circling, Trump and Angela Merkel Prepare to Meet]( By MARK LANDLER The threat posed by Russia to Europe could give the president and the German chancellor a bit of common ground during their Oval Office meeting. [United States soldiers in Al Nasr Wal Salam, Iraq, in 2008. Critics say that civilian casualties in Iraq and other countries have tarnished the moral standing of the United States.]( [Allies Fear Trump Is Eroding America's Moral Authority]( By ALISSA J. RUBIN Though in its early stages, Donald J. Trump's presidency has already called into question what kind of role the United States aims to play in the world. [Scott Gottlieb is a partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates.]( [F.D.A. Official Under Bush Is Trump's Choice to Lead Agency]( By KATIE THOMAS Scott Gottlieb, a partner at a venture capital fund, has longstanding ties to the drug and biotech industries. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [The Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. The company's guilty plea on Friday does not end its legal troubles.]( [As VW Pleads Guilty in U.S. Over Diesel Scandal, Trouble Looms in Europe]( By JACK EWING and NEAL E. BOUDETTE Even as it moved to end legal action in the United States over its efforts to illegally evade emissions standards, the German carmaker faces mounting legal woes in Europe. [Flory's, in Fishkill, N.Y., sells gasoline as well as food that is made in-house]( [Honey, Please Pick Up Some Grilled Tilapia at the Gas Station]( By BRYAN MILLER A wave of gas stations and convenience stores are capitalizing on a growing demand for fresh, healthful and convenient road food. [Khalid A. al-Falih, Saudi Arabia's energy minister, expressed cautious optimism that oil prices would rebound.]( [Oil Price Drop Triggers a 'Herd Mentality' of Selling]( By CLIFFORD KRAUSS A decline of 9 percent in the per-barrel price since Tuesday, to below $50, reflects an increase in inventories. Still, analysts said they expected prices to bounce back. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [Cameron, left, and Tyler Winklevoss at a New York State Department of Financial Services hearing on virtual currency in January 2014.]( [S.E.C. Rejects Winklevoss Brothers' Bid to Create Bitcoin E.T.F.]( By NATHANIEL POPPER The price of Bitcoin tumbled after the Securities and Exchange Commission rejected the brothers' application for an exchange-traded fund. [Ads can appear between Snapchat's Stories feature, which has some advertisers worried that their spot could appear before or after pornographic content.]( [Snapchat Pornography to Test Advertisers' Tolerance for Risk]( By SAPNA MAHESHWARI GroupM, which oversees billions of digital-advertising dollars, sent its clients a memo warning that ads may run before or after explicit content on Snapchat. [Anthony Levandowski left Google in February 2016 to start his own self-driving truck company, Otto. He sold it to Uber for $680 million six months later.]( [Waymo Asks Court to Block Uber's Self-Driving Car Project]( By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI The autonomous car unit of Google's parent company has also accused a former company executive of systematically stealing proprietary documents. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [General Manager Sandy Alderson watching the Mets recently in Port St. Lucie, Fla.]( [Another Spring (Sort of) for the Architect of the Mets]( By JAMES WAGNER Sandy Alderson, in his seventh season with the team, is baseball's oldest general manager, cancer free and as dedicated as ever. [Clint Frazier, before the trim.]( [The Yankee Clippers: Clint Frazier Gets a Trim]( By BILLY WITZ The Yankee prospect's flowing, frizzy, fiery red hair was sheared so that it meets Yankee grooming standards. [Wichita State's Rashard Kelly, left, and Shaquille Morris after the Shockers defeated Illinois State to win the Missouri Valley Conference tournament.]( On College Basketball [The N.C.A.A Tournament Challenge: Determining Who's In and What's Their Seed]( By MARC TRACY The annual puzzle is whom to choose for the men's tournament: The team with the better record or the one that is likely to perform better? For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Michael Apuzzo, left, and Francisco Graciano of Paul Taylor American Modern Dance in the world premiere of ]( [Paul Taylor Season's Premieres Lack the Luster of Its Revivals]( By ALASTAIR MACAULAY Our chief dance critic on premieres at the Paul Taylor American Modern Dance season, including new works by Mr. Taylor, who is still prolific at 86. [An original perspective picture of the Great Gateway and Nakano-cho in the Shin Yoshiwara, (1730s–1740s), by Okumura Masanobu. The work is part of ]( [When Japan Had a Third Gender]( By SUSAN CHIRA For centuries before Japan adopted Western sexual mores, its ideas of gender were elastic, with male adolescents seen as the height of beauty. [The German opera star Jonas Kaufmann, 47, has become one of the most elusive artists: He has cited illness and a desire to be close to his family.]( [Jonas Kaufmann: A Tenor in Demand, Now in Short Supply]( By MICHAEL COOPER The German opera star has withdrawn from a new production of "Tosca" at the Met, but the Met is unwilling to criticize him. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] New York [The site that was proposed for a mosque at the end of a dead-end block in Bayonne, N.J.]( [Mosque Is Blocked in New Jersey, but Dispute Is Far From Over]( By SHARON OTTERMAN After a Bayonne, N.J., board rejected a proposal that would allow construction of a mosque, Muslims plan to file suit in federal court. [Ever since the demolition of the parish house at Trinity Church was finished last August, the pedestrian footbridge across Trinity Place connecting the church and the parish house has ended in midair.]( [A Bridge to Nowhere, 19 Feet 8 Inches Over Lower Manhattan]( By DAVID W. DUNLAP While historical Trinity Church rebuilds its parish hall, a pedestrian link over Trinity Place looks as if it's hanging in midair. [Vulto Creamery of Walton, N.Y., is recalling all soft wash-rind raw milk cheeses following an outbreak of listeria.]( [Two People Die after Eating Raw Milk Cheese Made in New York State]( By KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA Vulto Creamery in New York state is recalling some of its cheeses after an outbreak of listeria caused two deaths. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( []Obituaries [Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood in a scene from ]( [Robert James Waller, Author of 'The Bridges of Madison County,' Dies at 77]( By WILLIAM GRIMES Millions of readers found Mr. Waller's story of reawakened love deeply moving and the novel topped best seller lists and was made into a movie. [Carol Field, whose first cookbook, ]( [Carol Field, Italian Food Expert, Dies at 76]( By WILLIAM GRIMES She was one of the new wave of cookbook writers who put as much emphasis on fine writing and context as on the recipes themselves. [Stephen A. Ross in 2013. He was a professor at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management and developed what is known as arbitrage pricing theory.]( [Stephen Ross, Economist Who Developed Arbitrage Pricing Theory, Dies at 73]( By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Professor Ross, who taught at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, was a seminal theorist whose work reshaped the field of financial economics. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial Editorial [Sue While the Conflicts Are Hot]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD It may be up to the public to press Trump's White House on his myriad conflicts of interest. [People waiting in line to enter a job fair in Los Angeles in January.]( Editorial [What the Jobs Report Is Telling Mr. Trump]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The president did not inherit a mess. He inherited an economy within striking distance of full employment. It's his job not to derail it. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed [Representative Elijah Cummings, right, with Representative Peter Welch, speaking to reporters after meeting with President Trump.]( Op-Ed Columnist [Glad Tidings About the Three Faces of Donald Trump]( By GAIL COLLINS One congressman's 50 days of peculiar presidential encounters. [A scene from season 21 of ]( Op-Ed | Jennifer Weiner [Breaking Up With 'The Bachelor']( By JENNIFER WEINER I miss it. But I can't watch in the Age of Trump. [A rally in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday calling for the arrest of Park Geun-hye, who was removed from the presidency by the country's Constitutional Court.]( Op-Ed Contributor [South Korea Breathes a Sigh of Relief]( By SE-WOONG KOO Goodbye and good riddance to President Park Geun-hye. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On March 11, 1941, President Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis. [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. 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