Today's Headlines: Trump's View of Syria and Assad Altered After 'Unacceptable' Chemical Attack

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SHEAR Mr. Trump declined to elaborate what he would do to respond to the attacks during a joint news conference with King Abdullah of Jordan in the Rose Garden. [Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's chief strategist, at the White House on Monday.]( [Trump Removes Stephen Bannon From National Security Council Post]( By PETER BAKER, MAGGIE HABERMAN and GLENN THRUSH The shift, orchestrated by Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, will also restore the positions of senior military and intelligence officials who had been downgraded. [A poster with the likeness of Bill O'Reilly hung outside Fox News headquarters in Manhattan this week.]( [Uniting Against Bill O'Reilly, Women Share Stories of Workplace Harassment]( By MAYA SALAM and DANIEL VICTOR A hashtag to protest the Fox News host morphed into a meeting place for women to discuss their own professional experiences. 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 [Gilles Kepel en route to a meeting at Villepinte prison, outside Paris, in December.]( MAGAZINE | Feature [The Professor and the Jihadi]( By ROBERT F. WORTH When a terrorist made a death threat against Gilles Kepel, France's most famous scholar of Islam, it deepened his embroilment in a national debate over Muslim assimilation and extremism. [Victims of the suspected chemical weapons attack in Khan Sheikhun in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province of Syria on Tuesday.]( OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor [Should I Run for My Life or Stay With My Patients?]( By AHMAD TARAKJI The world has done little to protect Syria's health workers who are crying out for action. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "It was one of the harder things I have had to do in a long career of writing and editing nonfiction for kids." [BETH SUTINIS]( executive editor for the children's division of Time Inc., on updating a book about presidents. [] Today's Videos [President Trump arrived for a news conference with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Rose Garden on Wednesday.]( [[Video] Video: Trump: 'My Attitude Toward Syria and Assad Has Changed']( President Trump spoke about the recent chemical attack in Syria during a news conference with King Abdullah of Jordan on Wednesday. "That attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me," he said. [[Video] Video: Moby Microbe]( Scientists have captured video of a one-celled microorganism using a complex biological harpoon gun to shoot and then tow away its prey. [] World [President Xi Jinping of China and his wife, Peng Liyuan, arriving in Finland on Wednesday. He is set to meet with President Trump in Florida beginning on Thursday.]( [Trump and Xi: Two Imposing Leaders With Clashing Agendas]( By JANE PERLEZ President Xi Jinping's visit could lift his stature at home in China, but it also poses significant risks, as contentious issues like North Korea and trade loom large. [Patrick Beaudry said he founded the group La Meute to stop the spread of ]( [In Canada, Where Muslims Are Few, Group Stirs Fear of Islamists]( By CRAIG S. SMITH La Meute started a year and a half ago in Quebec to oppose what it calls "invasive political Islam." Now, its social media campaign has more than 50,000 followers. [A veterinarian and ranch workers helping to raise a sedated rhino after it was dehorned northwest of Johannesburg in an attempt to prevent poaching. An order effectively overturning a national ban on the trade of rhino horns appeared to have been issued in late March, but it was not shared with the news media until Wednesday.]( [South African Court Ends Ban on Sale of Rhinoceros Horns]( By RUSSELL GOLDMAN The decision was cheered by commercial rhino breeders but condemned by animal preservation groups, which warned that it could increase poaching. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [James Knowles III won re-election this week as the mayor of Ferguson, Mo., disappointing some activists trying to increase black representation in politics.]( [2 Years After Racial Turmoil, Ferguson Re-elects White Mayor]( By JOHN ELIGON A national movement for racial justice flared in the predominantly black Missouri city after a white police officer shot Michael Brown. But few people voted. [Federal agents carried out boxes of evidence on Wednesday after a search of a California business they said had helped wealthy Chinese investors fraudulently obtain green cards.]( [Los Angeles Raids Target Investor Green Card Fraud]( By MIRIAM JORDAN The multiyear investigation is the latest to highlight abuses in the EB-5 program, which offers foreign investors a fast path to a green card. [Farmworkers in a strawberry field in Watsonville, Calif.]( [Advocacy Groups Ask for Ban on Common Pesticide]( By RONI CARYN RABIN Groups asked to ban chlorpyrifos from food within 30 days if the Environmental Protection Agency cannot prove it is safe. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday.]( [Trump, Citing No Evidence, Suggests Susan Rice Committed Crime]( By MAGGIE HABERMAN, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and GLENN THRUSH In an interview, President Trump said Ms. Rice, a former national security adviser, may have sought the identities of Trump associates who were mentioned on intercepted communications. [Commuters waiting for a Q train at the 72nd Street station on the new Second Avenue Subway in Manhattan. President Trump has proposed eliminating an Obama-era infrastructure program that would have funded a long-delayed proposal to extend the line north to East Harlem.]( [Trump Weighs Infrastructure Bill but Keeps New York Up in the Air]( By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN Describing the plan as a legislative sweetener, the president refused to say whether it would include two New York City projects that his budget for next year would defund. [The homeland security secretary, John F. Kelly, testified at a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday.]( [A Full Border Wall With Mexico? 'Unlikely,' Homeland Security Chief Says]( By RON NIXON Instead of "a wall from sea to shining sea," John F. Kelly, the department's secretary, told senators that barriers would be built in places that made sense. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [An image from the YouTube video titled, ]( [Pepsi Pulls Ad Accused of Trivializing Black Lives Matter]( By DANIEL VICTOR The beverage company apologized for an ad featuring Kendall Jenner giving a smiling officer a soda at a protest. [Michel Demare, right, chairman of the Swiss farm chemicals giant Syngenta, with Ren Jianxin, the chairman of ChemChina, during a news conference in Basel in 2016.]( [China Moves a Step Forward in Its Quest for Food Security]( By AMIE TSANG The European Union cleared China National Chemical Corporation's $43 billion takeover of Syngenta, the Swiss farm chemicals and seeds company. [Under the terms of the deal announced on Wednesday, JAB BV would pay $315 a share for Panera Bread and take it private.]( [A Coffee Empire Grows, as Panera Is Sold to JAB Holding Company]( By STEPHANIE STROM and CHAD BRAY With a sale to Europe's JAB Holding Company, Panera will join a stable of brands that includes Peet's Coffee, Caribou Coffee and Keurig Green Mountain. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.]( [Facebook Announces New Ways to Prevent 'Revenge Porn']( By NIRAJ CHOKSHI The company is trying to address a uniquely modern and pernicious form of harassment, which is often but not exclusively aimed at women. State of the Art [The Online Ad Industry Is Undergoing Self-Reflection. That's Good News.]( By FARHAD MANJOO It's easy to hate digital ads, especially the personalized ads that follow you across the internet. But they're creating a more efficient advertising market. [Cubetto, a wooden robot developed by Primo Toys, wheels around under its own power, along a course charted by the human behind the machine. It teaches children as young as 3 the basics of computer programming.]( Entrepreneurship [A Toy for Toddlers Doubles as Code Bootcamp]( By ZACH WICHTER New financing avenues have made it easier for entrepreneurs to break into the educational toy market, and many aim at teaching simple programming. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [From left, Tobin Heath, Becky Sauerbrunn and Samantha Mewis of the United States women's national team at a game in March.]( [U.S. Women's Soccer Team and U.S. Soccer Ratify New Labor Agreement]( By ANDREW DAS The deal, which runs through 2021, guarantees the players improved pay and bonuses, but not the equal pay with the men's team they had sought. [Jason Day during the Masters last year. ]( [Jason Day Enters Masters 'a Little Bit Unprepared' but With a Clearer Head]( By KAREN CROUSE Day, a former No. 1 player who has had to deal with a back injury and his mother's illness, has few external expectations this year at Augusta. [The Hurricanes' Bryan Bickell, left, pursued the Wild's Matt Dumba on Tuesday night in St. Paul.]( [After an M.S. Diagnosis, an Emotional Return to the N.H.L. Ice]( By PAT BORZI Bryan Bickell returned to the N.H.L. after five months, and is believed to be the third person to play in the N.H.L. with multiple sclerosis. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts Books of The Times ['Unwanted Advances' Tackles Sexual Politics in Academia]( By JENNIFER SENIOR In this new book by Laura Kipnis, the author addresses her dismay over the intersection between free speech and sensitivity issues at universities. [Graffiti in Athens opposing the Documenta art fair there; some critics believe the event is taking advantage of Greece's image as a country in crisis. For the first time in its history, Documenta is taking place in two cities, Athens and Kassel, Germany, its longtime home base.]( [Art, Politics and Misery Tourism: A German Art Fair Expands Into Athens]( By RACHEL DONADIO The major contemporary exhibition Documenta, leaving Germany for the first time, uses culture to call attention to the Greek crisis. [Cobie Smulders and Kevin Kline in ]( [Review: Kevin Kline Serves Ham in Soignée Silk in 'Present Laughter']( By BEN BRANTLEY A bouncy revival of a Noël Coward classic re-establishes the Tony-winning Mr. Kline as one of the great physical comedians. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] New York [Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey speaking Wednesday in Atlantic City, far from the train and traffic agony caused by a derailment at Penn Station.]( [Christie Lies Low, but Can't Avoid Wrath of Commuters]( By NICK CORASANITI Many riders blamed Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey for shortchanging transportation as gridlock and train delays caused by a Penn Station derailment lingered. [Workers at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan on Wednesday repairing damage caused by a train derailment. Normal service there was not expected to resume until Friday.]( [Track Flaws Are Focus of Penn Station Derailment Inquiry, Official Says]( By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS Full service at North America's busiest train station was not expected to resume until Friday, as work to fix track damage continued and officials investigated what caused the accident. [It's more efficient if everyone stands on an escalator instead of some people walking on it, researchers have found.]( [Why You Shouldn't Walk on Escalators]( By CHRISTOPHER MELE If everyone stood two abreast, experts say, escalators would move more people more quickly. Good luck persuading anyone to do this. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( [] Fashion & Style [Clockwise from top left: Stella McCartney, Erdem, Emilia Wickstead, Mulberry, Michael Kors, Céline, Mulberry, Calvin Klein, Céline, Valentino, Gucci, Calvin Klein, Proenza Schouler.]( [Women, Fashion Has You Covered]( By VANESSA FRIEDMAN The defining sartorial style of the 2010s has begun to emerge. [Jenna Lyons, J. Crew's president and creative director, at the company's offices in Manhattan in 2014.]( [The Jenna Lyons Era at J. Crew Comes to an End]( By VANESSA FRIEDMAN and ELIZABETH PATON How the face of the brand became the symbol of its fall. [The latest project of the actor, writer and director Andrew McCarthy is a young-adult novel called ]( Encounters [Andrew McCarthy's Newest Role: Young Adult Novelist]( By MARIA RUSSO A burger and fries with a longtime New Yorker whose son is working on a movie with his dad's "Pretty in Pink" co-star, Molly Ringwald. For more fashion news, go to [NYTimes.com/Fashion »]( []Obituaries [Roy Sievers of the Washington Senators, right, with the Yankees' Mickey Mantle in 1958.]( [Roy Sievers, Slugging Washington Senator in the '50s, Dies at 90]( By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN The winner of the American League's first Rookie of the Year Award eventually became a favorite of Vice President Richard M. Nixon's. [Arthur Bisguier around 1981.]( [Arthur Bisguier, Brash, Self-Taught Bronx Chess Champion, Dies at 87]( By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN Mr. Bisguier learned to play chess when he was 5 by watching games between his older sister and a cousin. He was frustrated by failures against Bobby Fischer. [Underdog, Joe Harris's unlikely television superhero.]( [Joe Harris, Illustrator Behind Underdog and Trix Rabbit, Dies at 89]( By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Besides drawing cartoon characters (also Tennessee Tuxedo and King Leonardo), Mr. Harris wrote ad copy, like the catchphrase "Silly rabbit! Trix are for kids!" For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial Editorial [President Trump's Most Important Meeting]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The visit of President Xi Jinping of China will be a test of Mr. Trump's ability to address global issues with an experienced leader. Editorial [Rising Risks for Retirement Savers]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Wall Street wins as President Trump and Republicans in Congress begin to undo federal rules to boost savings and protect savers. [Graduating students at City College in New York City in 2016.]( Editorial [The Wrong Move on Student Loans]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Education Secretary Betsy DeVos took away an important protection for borrowers, siding with the lending industry. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed Op-Ed Contributor [Learning to Love the Nuclear Option]( By STEVEN WALDMAN The bigger threat to democracy is the rise of supermajority rule. [Baltimore policemen near a mural depicting Freddie Gray, who died in police custody in 2015.]( Op-Ed Contributors [Don't Let Jeff Sessions Undermine Police Reform]( By VANITA GUPTA and COREY STOUGHTON The Trump administration wrongly believes that aligning police practices with the Constitution has compromised public safety. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On April 6, 1909, the explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. 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