Today's Headlines: 2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports

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[Amelia Belisario, a deputy of the National Assembly, argued with National Guard members during a protest in front of the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday.]( [Venezuela Muzzles Legislature, Moving Closer to One-Man Rule]( By NICHOLAS CASEY and PATRICIA TORRES A ruling by the country's Supreme Court appears to allow the court, which is controlled by loyalists to the president, to write laws itself, experts say. 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 [[Interactive Feature] Interactive Feature: Good Schools, Affordable Homes: Finding Suburban Sweet Spots]( We created a set of charts for several metropolitan areas that look at school quality, home price and commute. There are deals to be had. [A busboy at a local coffee shop in Brownsville, Tex.]( OPINION | Opinion [How Scared Should People on the Border Be?]( By DOMINGO MARTINEZ The rumors about checkpoints and raids travel fast. Some of them might even be true. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "They have kidnapped the Constitution, they have kidnapped our rights, they have kidnapped our liberty." [JULIO BORGES]( the opposition lawmaker who heads Venezuela's legislature, after the country's supreme court effectively dissolved the body. [] Today's Videos [Adam Ferguson for The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.]( [[Video] Video: The Road to Nowhere]( People seeking safety from Boko Haram - many of them women and children - are living along a highway in Niger, struggling to survive. [[Video] Video: Anatomy of a Scene | 'Ghost in the Shell']( The director Rupert Sanders narrates a scene featuring Scarlett Johansson. [] World [Mothers tend to their children at a cholera treatment center in Baidoa. The decision to relax targeting limits in Somalia comes at a time of famine and drought, with more groups of people moving around and increasing the risk of mistaking civilians as Islamist fighters.]( [Trump Eases Combat Rules in Somalia Intended to Protect Civilians]( By CHARLIE SAVAGE and ERIC SCHMITT A directive declaring parts of the country an "area of active hostilities" will give the United States greater latitude in carrying out airstrikes and raids. [Park Geun-hye, South Korea's ousted president, left the prosecutors' office to be transferred to a detention house in Seoul on Friday.]( [Park Geun-hye, South Korea's Ousted Leader, Is Arrested and Jailed to Await Trial]( By CHOE SANG-HUN A judge warned that if Ms. Park was not quickly taken into custody the former president might "destroy evidence." [The Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Thursday that he will approve the establishment of a new settlement in the West Bank for the first time in decades.]( [Israel Approves First New Settlement in Decades]( By ISABEL KERSHNER Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved ahead with a new West Bank project despite a request from President Trump to hold off on new settlements. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [Representative Sarah Stevens listened on Thursday as her colleagues debated a repeal of North Carolina's transgender bathroom bill.]( [Bathroom Law Repeal Leaves Few Pleased in North Carolina]( By RICHARD FAUSSET A compromise seeks to minimize economic damage from a law that led to boycotts, demonstrations and economic fallout from businesses, sports groups and others. [Aramis D. Ayala, the new chief prosecutor in Orlando, announced on March 16 that she would no longer seek the death penalty. Her decision has been met with praise and criticism.]( [Lock 'Em Up? Prosecutors Who Say 'Not So Fast' Face a Backlash]( By FRANCES ROBLES A battle in Florida erupted over a newly elected prosecutor's decision not to seek the death penalty in a case involving the death of a police officer. [Senator Johnny Isakson, Republican of Georgia, after he left the Senate chamber on Thursday. Mr. Isakson, who is recovering from two back operations, entered the chamber with a walker to cast a tying vote.]( [Senate Lets States Defund Clinics That Perform Abortions]( By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Vice President Mike Pence cast the tiebreaking vote on a measure that returns the power to the states to distribute federal grants to family planning clinics. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [An immunity deal would make it impossible for the Justice Department to prosecute Michael T. Flynn.]( [Michael Flynn Offers to Testify Before Congress in Exchange for Immunity]( By MARK MAZZETTI and MATTHEW ROSENBERG An official said investigators were unwilling to broker a deal with Mr. Flynn, the former national security adviser, until their Russia inquiry was further along. [An employee welding together a frame for an S.U.V. at the General Motors assembly plant in Arlington, Tex., this month. President Trump is set to keep much of the North American Free Trade Agreement in place.]( [After Calling Nafta 'Worst Trade Deal,' Trump Appears to Soften Stance]( By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and ALAN RAPPEPORT The White House will propose keeping major planks of Nafta in place, while signing orders that lay the groundwork for stricter enforcement of trade laws. [Speaker Paul D. Ryan met with other conservative leaders on Thursday in Washington to discuss further possible efforts to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law.]( [Health Subsidies for Low Earners Will Continue Through 2017, G.O.P. Says]( By ROBERT PEAR and REED ABELSON Senior House Republicans said they expected federal payments to keep low-income people covered under the Affordable Care Act for 2017, and perhaps for 2018. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [Beginning 'Brexit' and Bracing for Impact]( By PETER S. GOODMAN Months after the vote to leave the European Union, Britain is beginning the process, and the economic consequences are likely to be significant. [A Sears store in a nearly empty Westfield Meriden shopping mall on Tuesday in Meriden, Conn. Sears Holdings has long been ESL Investments' largest investment. The company last week expressed ]( Common Sense [Sears and Its Hedge Fund Owner, in Slow Decline Together]( By JAMES B. STEWART Edward Lampert was a Wall Street wunderkind. And department stores still had promise. What a difference a decade makes. [Student Loan Forgiveness Program Approval Letters May Be Invalid, Education Dept. Says]( By STACY COWLEY Over 550,000 people have applied to have their student loans forgiven, and thousands of approval letters have been sent. But they might be wrong. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday.]( [SpaceX Launches a Satellite With a Partly Used Rocket]( By KENNETH CHANG The use of a rocket booster that had flown once before may open an era of cheaper space travel, particularly for business ventures like satellite companies. [Net Neutrality Is Trump's Next Target, Administration Says]( By STEVE LOHR The White House said its next move to deregulate broadband service would be to jettison the Obama administration's net neutrality rules, which were intended to safeguard free expression online. [Michael Kratsios, center, the White House's deputy chief technology officer, with Jay Carney, left, a former press secretary for President Obama, and Reed Cordish, an adviser to President Trump, at a Washington luncheon in January.]( [Trump Leaves Science Jobs Vacant, Troubling Critics]( By CECILIA KANG and MICHAEL D. SHEAR Scores of scientists and technology experts have left the White House, and conservatives - and the president - have questioned whether they need to be replaced. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [Stanford Coach Tara VanDerveer at practice before the Final Four of the N.C.A.A. women's basketball tournament.]( [Number of Women Coaching in College Has Plummeted in Title IX Era]( By JERÉ LONGMAN When Title IX, a gender equity law, was enacted in 1972, more than 90 percent of head coaches of N.C.A.A. women's teams were women. It's now about 40 percent. [The United States women's hockey team began practice for the world championship on Wednesday, the day after they reached a new compensation agreement.]( [They Finally Got Paid. Now They're Ready to Deliver Checks.]( By NEAL E. BOUDETTE The United States women's hockey team reached a new contract Tuesday after threatening to boycott the world championships. Now they must face Canada. [Bob Christianson working in the basement studio in his home in Manhattan. He wrote and composed the theme song for the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament that CBS has been using since 1993.]( [Eight Notes That Have Meant 'N.C.A.A. Tournament' for a Quarter-Century]( By ZACH SCHONBRUN The hummable theme song, first aired in 1993, is now familiar to almost anyone even remotely near a television in March. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Boom Times for the New Dystopians]( By ALEXANDRA ALTER Is a fresh crop of doomsday novels channeling the country's collective anxieties? Art Review ['Age of Empires': How 2 Dynasties of Art Forged China's Identity]( By HOLLAND COTTER The Qin empire lasted for 15 years, the Han for more than four centuries. Their art and cultural institutions laid the foundation for a Chinese state. [In that crucible called high school, the avenging angel and the suicide victim: Dylan Minnette and Katherine Langford in ]( [Review: '13 Reasons Why' She Killed Herself, Drawn Out on Netflix]( By MIKE HALE The best-selling book heads to the small screen as a combination of thriller and melodrama. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( Movies [Scarlett Johansson as the cyborg Major in ]( [Review: In 'Ghost in the Shell,' a Cyborg With Soul]( By MANOHLA DARGIS Scarlett Johansson, playing a cyborg called Major, rises above it all in the thrill-free science fiction thriller. [Archival image from ]( [Review: 'Five Came Back,' and Inspired the Likes of Spielberg]( By BEN KENIGSBERG A screen adaptation of Mark Harris's 2014 book adds visuals to the story of five Hollywood directors who served in World War II with cameras in tow. [Kiernan Shipka in ]( [Review: 'The Blackcoat's Daughter' Is Bewitching and Bloody]( By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS Three narratives converge in a gorgeously filmed, deeply unsettling horror film about girls stranded at their boarding school during midterm break. For more movie news and reviews, go to [NYTimes.com/Movies »]( [] New York [In interviews with more than three dozen recent visitors to the Statue of Liberty, many said they were motivated by the divisive national debate on immigration.]( [Brand New Colossus: A Statue of Liberty Revival Amid Immigration Woes]( By ELI ROSENBERG In a shifting civic landscape, the statue is re-emerging as resonant symbol amid a polarizing debate about immigration. [Civil Rights Law Shields Police Personnel Files, Court Finds]( By ALAN FEUER In two separate lawsuits, the First Judicial Department appeals court ruled that the law, known as Section 50-a, prevented the release of police disciplinary records. [Reza Zarrab, a Turkish gold trader, was charged with violating United States sanctions on Iran.]( [Giuliani Was Hired to Negotiate Turk's Iran Sanctions Case, Letters Suggest]( By BENJAMIN WEISER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM Letters to the judge from both sides indicate that Mr. Giuliani was retained to work out a resolution with officials at higher levels than the prosecutor overseeing the case. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( []Obituaries [Brian Oldfield competing in 1973, after he joined the professional International Track Association.]( [Brian Oldfield, Shot-Putting Superstar, Dies at 71]( By RICHARD SANDOMIR Oldfield became a brash figure in an often-overlooked sport, but he never won an Olympic medal. [Deane R. Hinton, center, the United States ambassador to El Salvador, in San Salvador in 1983.]( [Deane Hinton, Envoy Who Denounced Salvadoran 'Death Squads,' Dies at 94]( By SAM ROBERTS Mr. Hinton served as American ambassador to five countries for four Republican presidents, including Reagan during El Salvador's civil war. [Donald Harvey in 1987, after he was convicted of murder.]( [Donald Harvey, Who Killed Dozens of Hospital Patients, Dies at 64]( By LIAM STACK Mr. Harvey, among the most prolific mass murderers in United States history, confessed to killing 37 people, mostly hospital patients, over two decades in Ohio and Kentucky. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial Editorial [Iraqi and Syrian Civilians in the Crossfire]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD A rising death toll raises concerns that President Trump's approach to counterterrorism puts too many noncombatants at risk. [Governor Roy Cooper, of North Carolina, speaking to the media earlier this month.]( Editorial [North Carolina's Bait-and-Switch on Transgender Restroom Law]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Organizations and employers who have boycotted North Carolina should stand firm until a discriminatory law is meaningfully repealed. Editorial [The Complex Cost of Brexit Gets Clearer]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Attention has been focused on the damage to the British economy, but that is hardly the only consequence. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed Op-Ed Contributor [Climate Progress, With or Without Trump]( By MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG Don't overestimate Washington's ability to influence energy markets, or the role of cities, states, businesses and consumers in cutting emissions. [Members of the House Freedom Caucus after a meeting at the White House last week.]( Op-Ed Contributor [How the Freedom Caucus Is Undermining the G.O.P.]( By ADAM KINZINGER Its members make impossible demands and refuse to compromise. This is not the way to govern. [Ivanka Trump at a meeting at the White House in February.]( Op-Ed Contributor [Ivanka Trump Is a Bad Ambassador for Working Women]( By BRYCE COVERT Her policies are little more than lip service. And they could make real reform impossible. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On March 31, 1968, President Johnson stunned the country by announcing he would not run for another term of office. 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