Today's Headlines: China Learns How to Get Trump's Ear: Through Jared Kushner

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[President Trump's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, center, reported earning more than $1 million in income tied to conservative-oriented work.]( [Trump Aides' Disclosures Reveal Surge in Lucrative Political Work]( By STEVE EDER, ERIC LIPTON and ANDREW W. LEHREN As cash has flooded Washington from a variety of groups, even the anti-establishment activists and operatives who sided with President Trump have been enriched. [Corn harvesting in Minooka, Ill. Much of the corn that Mexico consumes comes from the United States.]( [Mexico Ready to Play the Corn Card in Trade Talks]( By KIRK SEMPLE Much of the corn Mexico consumes comes from the United States, potentially making it a useful lever in negotiations over Nafta. 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 TECHNOLOGY [[Interactive Feature] Interactive Feature: How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers' Buttons]( The start-up has undertaken an extraordinary experiment in behavioral science to subtly entice an independent work force to maximize company revenue. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "They looked at me and said, 'Well, he looks like he won't get indicted in the next six months - he'll do." [CHIEF J. SCOTT THOMSON]( joking about how he came to have his job after the Camden, N.J., police went through five chiefs in five years. [] Today's Videos [[Video] Video: In One Crime-Ridden City, Police Try a New Tactic: Patience]( In Camden, N.J., one of America's most violent cities, officers are being trained to exercise restraint in situations where they may have previously resorted to deadly force. [Soldiers removed a body on Saturday after water and mud flooded Mocoa.]( [[Video] Video: Flooding in Colombia Kills Over 230]( Floodwaters and tons of debris swept through the city of Mocoa in southwest Colombia on Saturday, killing over 230 people. Many residents were sleeping as the wall of water reached them. [.][Rescuers and Relatives Race to Find Survivors of Colombia Mudslide]( [] World [Cécile, left, and Annette in Montreal last month.]( North Bay Journal [2 Survivors of Canada's First Quintuplet Clan Reluctantly Re-emerge]( By IAN AUSTEN Separated from their family and exhibited in a human zoo during the 1930s, the last sisters face a new indignity: the sale of their childhood home. [Refugees heading to Phnom Penh in 1975. The United States lent Cambodia's anti-Communist regime $274 million in the early 1970s to feed and clothe the starving population. Officials in Cambodia have long refused to pay the debt, which has grown to more than half a billion dollars.]( [Cambodia Appeals to Trump to Forgive War-Era Debt]( By JULIA WALLACE Cambodia says the United States owes it a moral debt for the devastation it caused. Washington says a loan is a loan. [Lenín Moreno celebrated with his supporters on Sunday in Quito, Ecuador.]( [Lenín Moreno Appears Headed for Victory in Ecuador's Presidential Election]( By NICHOLAS CASEY and MAGGY AYALA A win for Mr. Moreno, a former vice president and close ally of departing President Rafael Correa, would be a rare victory for the Latin American left. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [After one transgender student's victory at a high school district near Chicago, more cases are in the wings, including that of a transgender girl, above, identified as N.S., who has filed a discrimination complaint with the state.]( [A Transgender Student Won Her Battle. Now It's War.]( By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS A teenager known as Student A sued for access to a girls' locker room near Chicago. She is graduating. But now Student B and Student C are on the way. [Joseph and Tammy Pavlic outside their home in Kinsman, Ohio. To repair the house, they tapped a program that President Trump is seeking to eliminate.]( [In Ohio County That Backed Trump, Word of Housing Cuts Stirs Fear]( By YAMICHE ALCINDOR Some people in Trumbull County say they will suffer if home-repair, rental-assistance and other programs are eliminated as President Trump has sought. [Thomas P. Campbell, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who resigned in February and will leave in June.]( [A Hushed Departure at the Met Museum Reveals Entrenched Management Culture]( By ROBIN POGREBIN The museum formerly concentrated power and information in the hands of a few but is vowing to change. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana, the third Democratic senator to support the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, with Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, on Capitol Hill in September.]( [Gorsuch Supreme Court Nomination Gains More Democratic Support]( By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and NOAH WEILAND Joe Donnelly of Indiana is the third Senate Democrat to back Neil M. Gorsuch, but Republicans are still five Democratic votes short of breaking any filibuster. [Bayer's German headquarters. The company's $66 billion offer for Monsanto last year is the record for an all-cash takeover bid.]( [Trump Plans Have Deal Makers Dreaming Big ($100-Billion-Cash-Takeover Big)]( By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED At an annual conference at Tulane University, lawyers, bankers and even activist investors agreed that mergers and acquisitions should boom to new levels under President Trump. [Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, in February at the White House. Mr. Trump has repeatedly turned to Mr. Kushner as an envoy to foreign leaders.]( [Jared Kushner Visits Iraq on Invitation From Joint Chiefs Chairman]( By MAGGIE HABERMAN The purpose of the trip by Mr. Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump, was unclear, though it came amid the fight to wrest Mosul from the Islamic State. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [Inside a lab at Dyson's headquarters in Malmesbury, England.]( [Dyson Is the Apple of Appliances (and Just as Secretive)]( By MARK SCOTT With an eye for both design and engineering, this British consumer electronics company is aiming for - and winning - the high end of the market. [A still from ]( Advertising [The Ad Feels a Bit Like Oscar Bait, but It's Trying to Sell You an iPhone]( By SAPNA MAHESHWARI Artists and brands are collaborating on advertisements that move away from mere product placement, a practice so common that the Tribeca Film Festival has an award for it. [Tesla Reports Jump in Vehicle Production but Aims for Much More]( By NEAL E. BOUDETTE The electric-car maker said it produced 25,418 vehicles in the first quarter, compared with 15,510 a year ago. The company wants to produce 500,000 cars in 2018. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [A Google project is bringing machine-learning techniques to bear on the problem of identifying content on its YouTube service that advertisers might find inappropriate.]( [Google Training Ad Placement Computers to Be Offended]( By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI It's about context. Google engineers are trying to teach machines to recognize what can be offensive or inoffensive depending on the situation. [A Facebook event in Berlin. The company is requiring that women and ethnic minorities account for at least 33 percent of law firm teams working on its matters.]( [Facebook Pushes Outside Law Firms to Become More Diverse]( By ELLEN ROSEN The social media giant, like other corporations, is pressing its outside law firms to have more minorities and women working on its legal matters. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [South Carolina celebrating after beating Mississippi State for the N.C.A.A. title on Sunday.]( [South Carolina Defeats Mississippi State to Win Women's Title]( By JERÉ LONGMAN As South Carolina won its first women's basketball title, Dawn Staley became the second African-American coach to win a title since the N.C.A.A. began sponsoring a women's tournament in 1982. [Gonzaga's Zach Collins driving for a basket, with South Carolina's Chris Silva defending. The Bulldogs, who play in the unheralded West Coast Conference, are a win from a national title.]( On College Basketball [Gonzaga Earns Chance to Prove It Belongs Among Basketball's Elite]( By MARC TRACY Playing in a weaker conference and defeating lower-seeded teams in the N.C.A.A. tournament has done it no favors. Now comes a No. 1 seed, and an opportunity to make a statement. [Lexi Thompson, right, and her caddie, Kevin McAlpine, after she lost to So Yeon Ryu at the ANA Inspiration.]( [Lexi Thompson Loses L.P.G.A. Major After Surprise Four-Stroke Penalty]( By KAREN CROUSE Thompson was penalized after the 12th hole of the ANA Inspiration's final round when a TV viewer informed rules officials about a third-round infraction. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Inmates in a mural class at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, Calif. The class is part of an initiative to bring the arts to all 35 California state prisons for adults.]( [No License Plates Here: Using Art to Transcend Prison Walls]( By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN A mural class is part of an initiative by the State of California to bring the arts to all 35 of its adult prisons. [A trio of countertenors contributed to the narrative of ]( [Review: John Adams's 'Gospel' Displays an Orchestral Wizard's Tuneful Ear]( By ZACHARY WOOLFE The St. Louis Symphony's performance on Friday at Carnegie Hall was part of the celebrations of Mr. Adams's 70th birthday year. [From left, Henry Shields, Henry Lewis, Nancy Zamit, Dave Hearn and Jonathan Sayer in ]( [Review: 'The Play That Goes Wrong' Upends a Whodunit]( By BEN BRANTLEY This knockabout farce from London trades on the perverse comfort of watching things go smash in a safe, contained environment. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] New York [Officers Vidal Rivera, left, and Tyrrell Bagby in North Camden, a neighborhood that has undergone seismic changes since the police started walking the beat. ]( [Changes in Policing Take Hold in One of the Nation's Most Dangerous Cities]( By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN It's a sort of Hippocratic ethos: Minimize harm, and try to save lives. And in Camden, N.J., residents are noticing the results. [Rudolph W. Giuliani, a former New York mayor, in November. Mr. Giuliani was hired by Mr. Zarrab to try to broker a deal in his criminal case.]( [Legal Team That Includes Giuliani Pushes for Deal, Just Not With Prosecutors]( By BENJAMIN WEISER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM In an Iran sanctions case, Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Mukasey have tried to negotiate a resolution to Reza Zarrab's charges with U.S. and Turkey officials, according to court papers. [Melissa Mark-Viverito, the speaker of the New York City Council, at a news conference on Sunday at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice about the plan to close the jail at Rikers Island.]( [Rikers Island Commission Unveils Plan to Shut Down Jail Complex]( By NICK CORASANITI With Mayor Bill de Blasio now backing the plan, Melissa Mark-Viverito, the City Council speaker, announced a 10-year goal for the departure of the last inmate. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( []Obituaries [Pamela Edstrom with the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 2008. She joined the software company in 1982 and later formed one of the largest independent public relations agencies in the world.]( [Pamela Edstrom, Who Helped Shape Microsoft's Public Image, Dies at 71]( By NICK WINGFIELD Ms. Edstrom, who joined Microsoft as its first director of public relations in 1982, became one of Bill Gates's closest outside advisers. [Jack Ziegler, Cartoonist at The New Yorker, Dies at 74]( By RICHARD SANDOMIR Mr. Ziegler set his cartoons nearly anywhere - in courtrooms or boardrooms, backyards or stadiums, barrooms or churches. [Gilbert Baker, heading the Stockholm Pride Parade in 2003, pieced together the first rainbow flags in 1978. He described himself as the ]( [Gilbert Baker, Gay Activist Who Created the Rainbow Flag, Dies at 65]( By MATTHEW HAAG Mr. Baker's emblem, which he created in 1978, came to symbolize the gay rights movement. He described himself as the "gay Betsy Ross." For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial [President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, signing the I.N.F. treaty in 1987.]( Editorial [A Cornerstone of Peace at Risk]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Russia's violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is a crucial security challenge for the Trump administration. Editorial [Michigan Is Forced to Do Right by Flint, Finally]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD After years of delays and only after a lawsuit, the state is resolving a crisis it created and which officials had chosen to ignore. [The view of Rikers Island from Barretto Point Park in the Bronx.]( Editorial [Closing Rikers Without a Road Map]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Mayor de Blasio wants to close the disgraceful city jail, but he won't say where the inmates should go. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed [Mural of Vladimir Lenin.]( Red Century [What Was Lenin Thinking?]( By TARIQ ALI In the shape of its first leader, the Russian Revolution had a strategic genius it never found again. [Donald Trump at the first presidential debate. He refused to disclose his tax returns during the 2016 campaign.]( Op-Ed Contributor [Don't Use the Ballot to Get Trump's Tax Returns]( By DEREK T. MULLER It's bad policy and probably unconstitutional. [Anna Stubblefield, her lawyers, the judge, and bailiff rise as the jury enters the courtroom.]( The Stone [Who Is the Victim in the Anna Stubblefield Case?]( By PETER SINGER and JEFF McMAHAN On Tuesday, a court will hear the appeal of the former professor convicted of sexually assaulting a disabled man. Her sentence is too harsh. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which allocated more than $5 billion in aid for 16 European countries. [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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