Today's Headlines: Dozens of U.S. Missiles Hit Air Base in Syria

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SHEAR The strike was in response to the Syrian government's chemical weapons attack this week. [Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday after he led the GOP majority to change Senate rules.]( [Senate Republicans Deploy 'Nuclear Option' to Clear Path for Gorsuch]( By MATT FLEGENHEIMER In bypassing a filibuster, Republicans abandoned long-held practices and will be able to confirm President Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil M. Gorsuch, with a simple majority vote. [John O. Brennan in July when he was the C.I.A. director. Mr. Brennan was said to be so concerned about increasing evidence of Russia's election meddling that in late August he began a series of individual briefings for eight top members of Congress.]( [C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed]( By ERIC LICHTBLAU Former government officials said the agency told senior lawmakers last summer that it had information indicating that Russia was working to help get President Trump elected. 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 member of the Specialized Inspection Group, a part of Ibama, Brazil's environmental protection agency, searching for illegal logging activity in the Alto Turiaçu Indian Territory.]( WORLD | Alto Turiaçu Journal [Special Ops With a Studious Bent Fight Destruction of Brazil's Amazon]( By SIMON ROMERO Members of a unit struggling to curb the jungle's destruction include an environmental activist, an Arctic oceanographer and a science teacher. [President Trump spoke about the missile attack on Syria at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Thursday.]( OPINION | Op-Ed | Antony J. Blinken [After the Missiles, We Need Smart Diplomacy]( By ANTONY J. BLINKEN President Trump did the right thing in striking the Assad regime for using nerve gas in Syria. The hard part comes next. 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 speaking at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thursday. A senior military official said that 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles had hit Al Shayrat airfield in Syria.]( [Transcript and Video: Trump Speaks About Strikes in Syria]( By THE NEW YORK TIMES President Trump spoke from Palm Beach, Fla., on Thursday about military action he ordered after a chemical weapons attack killed scores of people. [[Video] Video: Syria Chemical Attack: Here's What Happened]( One of the worst chemical attacks in the Syrian civil war occurred on Tuesday in opposition-held Idlib Province. Dozens of people died, including children. Then the blaming began. [[Video] Video: The Very Tiny Dancers]( In 360, watch the littlest dancers at a community audition in Queens for the School of American Ballet. The school has diversified its student body. [] World [It was the first time the White House had ordered military action against forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.]( [The Grim Logic Behind Syria's Chemical Weapons Attack]( By ANNE BARNARD The idea, analysts say, is to demoralize President Bashar al-Assad's foes, showing them that their cause is hopeless and that no one will come to their aid. [The devastation wrought by a landslide and flooding in Trujillo, in northern Peru. Mudslides in the country have destroyed 14,000 homes and killed more than 100 people.]( [Mud Erased a Village in Peru, a Sign of Larger Perils in South America]( By NICHOLAS CASEY and ANDREA ZARATE Rapid development without planning draws the region's most vulnerable people to areas that are the most prone to devastating flooding. [A Philippine Navy frigate in Manila on Thursday. An order by President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines to deploy to parts of the South China Sea was a significant departure from his previous policy of not antagonizing China, which claims most of the body of water.]( [Duterte Orders Military to Parts of South China Sea Claimed by Philippines]( By FELIPE VILLAMOR The step was a significant departure from President Rodrigo Duterte's previous policy of not antagonizing China, which claims most of the sea. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [City Hall in Brockton, Mass., where rumors about an immigration raid spread last week. A quarter of Brockton's residents are foreign born.]( ['Don't Open the Door': How Fear of an Immigration Raid Gripped a City]( By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and JESS BIDGOOD Brockton, Mass., was consumed with reports of an imminent sweep by ICE, as the news filtered through neighborhoods, social media, and even cable news. [A magnification of stained HPV viruses. Nearly half of adult Americans are infected with genital human papillomavirus, researchers have found.]( [Close to Half of American Adults Infected With HPV, Survey Finds]( By NICHOLAS BAKALAR High-risk strains of the virus - a cause of cervical and vaginal cancers, and cancer of the penis - infect 25.1 percent of men and 20.4 percent of women. [John Koskinen, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, testifying during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday.]( [Up to 100,000 Taxpayers Compromised in Fafsa Tool Breach, I.R.S. Says]( By ALAN RAPPEPORT Hackers posed as students applying for financial aid, the agency said, and might use stolen data to file fraudulent tax returns and get refunds. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [Stephen K. Bannon, left, and Jared Kushner in the Oval Office in February. Tensions have been growing between Mr. Bannon, President Trump's chief strategist, and Mr. Kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser.]( [In Battle for Trump's Heart and Mind, It's Bannon vs. Kushner]( By MAGGIE HABERMAN, JEREMY W. PETERS and PETER BAKER The escalating feud between the chief White House strategist and the president's son-in-law reflects a larger struggle to guide the direction of the Trump presidency. [Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was pursued by reporters as he left the Capitol on Thursday.]( [Devin Nunes to Step Aside From House Investigation on Russia]( By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN Mr. Nunes, the Intelligence Committee chairman, said his decision came after "left-wing activist groups" filed accusations against him with the Office of Congressional Ethics. [Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state, at a women's conference on Thursday in New York. Mrs. Clinton called for an independent investigation into Russian interference in last year's presidential election.]( [Hillary Clinton Says Russia Used Hacking 'to Great Effect' in Her Defeat]( By SARAH MASLIN NIR Mrs. Clinton called for an independent investigation into Russian involvement in the election and spared no criticism of the Trump White House during remarks at a conference. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [More than 50 companies have pulled their ads from Bill O'Reilly's show since The New York Times reported that five women had received settlements after making harassment claims against him.]( [As Anger at O'Reilly Builds, Activists Use Social Media to Prod Advertisers]( By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and SAPNA MAHESHWARI Advertisers are in the cross hairs of populist activists, aided by social media, who are demanding that brands quickly take positions on issues. [President Trump and President Xi Jinping are set to spend about 24 hours together at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump's estate in Palm Beach, Fla.]( [Trump Administration to Take Harder Tack on Trade With China]( By MARK LANDLER and MICHAEL D. SHEAR President Trump planned to sign an executive order targeting steel dumping, a measure aimed at China and a potential victory for his hard-line advisers. [Gary D. Cohn, President Trump's chief economic adviser, has told senators that the administration is considering a proposal that would require separating retail banking from investment banking and trading.]( [Trump and Warren Agree? Maybe, on Plan to Shrink Big Banks]( By MICHAEL CORKERY and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG President Trump and Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat harshly critical of Wall Street, may both favor separating retail and investment banking. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [The Twitter logo on a sign at the company's headquarters in San Francisco.]( [Twitter Sues the Government to Block the Unmasking of an Account Critical of Trump]( By MIKE ISAAC Twitter said it had a received a summons to reveal the owner of a so-called alt-account, whose owners say they are dissident current or former government workers. [Elon Musk, Tesla's founder and chief executive, entering Trump Tower for a meeting with President-elect Donald J. Trump in early January.]( Common Sense [Tesla Has Something Hotter Than Cars to Sell: Its Story]( By JAMES B. STEWART The electric-car maker is the latest company to become a market darling based not on what it has achieved but on a vision of a dominant future. [23andMe headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday that it would allow the company to sell genetic tests directly to consumers.]( [F.D.A. Will Allow 23andMe to Sell Genetic Tests for Disease Risk to Consumers]( By GINA KOLATA Lifting an earlier moratorium, the agency said the company could report the risks for 10 diseases under certain controls. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [Charley Hoffman seized a four-stroke lead with a 65 in the first round of the Masters. ]( [Charley Hoffman Grabs Four-Stroke First-Round Lead at Windy Augusta]( By BILL PENNINGTON As gusts of up to 40 miles per hour bedeviled most players, Hoffman shot a remarkable seven-under-par 65, birdieing nine holes, including all four par-3s. [When Lee Reed, Georgetown's athletic director, introduced Patrick Ewing as the Hoyas' new basketball coach on Wednesday, Ewing struck a familiar pose.]( Sports of The Times [Patrick Ewing's Most Important Recruits: Local A.A.U. Coaches]( By JULIET MACUR "The first 72 hours is important," one influential youth coach says as Ewing, a legend at Georgetown for what he did on the court, starts trying to revive the Hoyas. [From left, Bo Borowski, Ryan Martin, Cody Maulsby and Nick Rizzo of the Robert Morris men's hockey team suiting up for a practice in February.]( [Club Team Thrives in the Shadow of the Frozen Four]( By JEFF ARNOLD College hockey's premier event is headed to the home turf of Robert Morris University Illinois, which has become a power in its own right. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Christine Ebersole, left, and Patti LuPone as dueling cosmetics titans in the musical ]( [Review: In 'War Paint,' Sing a Song of Face Creams]( By BEN BRANTLEY Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole find the human factor in a repetitive musical about battling cosmetics magnates. [A gondola sofa designed by Marcel Coard around 1925 in ]( Art Review [Unnamed, Art Deco Steps Out With Plenty of Company in 'The Jazz Age']( By ROBERTA SMITH A show at Cooper Hewitt about American design in the 1920s gets its punch from works that exemplify an art movement that goes unmentioned. [A Pomo basket from Northern California, from around 1890, is paired with ]( [Native American Treasures Head to the Met, This Time as American Art]( By RANDY KENNEDY Almost 100 Native American works from the collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, one of the best in private hands, are promised to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( Movies [Jason Sudeikis and Anne Hathaway in Nacho Vigalondo's ]( [Review: 'Colossal,' With Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis and Giant Monsters]( By A. O. SCOTT In Nacho Vigalondo's film, two childhood friends drink, talk about life and bring their inner resentments to a scary boil. [Adrian Titieni and Maria-Victoria Dragus in ]( [Review: 'Graduation' and the Anguish of Living Vicariously]( By A. O. SCOTT An excruciating ethical problem arises for a man whose dream for his daughter - to win a scholarship to study in England - is threatened. [Wait, who am I now? Taki and Mitsuha switch bodies in ]( [Review: 'Your Name' Takes Adolescent Identity Crises to Extremes]( By MANOHLA DARGIS Manohla Dargis reviews Makoto Shinkai's latest film, a lovely and touching Japanese animation in which teenagers find themselves trading bodies and lives. For more movie news and reviews, go to [NYTimes.com/Movies »]( [] New York [An officer of the 40th Precinct investigating the death of Kevin Thomas, who was shot 10 times last October in the courtyard of a South Bronx housing project.]( Murder in the 4-0 [In the South Bronx, Lives Marred and Erased by Firearms]( By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr., ASHLEY SOUTHALL and AL BAKER Two men survived shootings in the South Bronx, where violent crime is aided by an unending tide of guns. But when they ran into each other last year, the encounter turned deadly. [Charles W. Moorman, Amtrak's chief executive, spoke at Penn Station on Thursday. While the railroad had known of the problem that caused a derailment on Monday, he said, ]( [Amtrak Knew of Flaw That Caused Penn Station Derailment]( By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS and NICK CORASANITI Amtrak's chief executive said the railroad had been aware that timber ties beneath tracks had weakened but had not recognized the severity of the problem. [Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan, in his office at New York University School of Law. Mr. Bharara was fired by the Trump administration in March.]( [Preet Bharara Links Firing to Trump Team's 'Helter-Skelter Incompetence']( By BENJAMIN WEISER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM In his first interview since being ousted as the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara described a series of events preceding his firing that still has him confused about why it happened. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( Men's Style [Vin Diesel at the Universal Studios lot.]( Styles Q. and A. [The Vin Diesel Formula: Brains, Brawn and Heart]( By BEE SHAPIRO The former bouncer and current action hero decided to make himself a movie star after Hollywood didn't give him a chance. [Perfectly Simple Shoes]( By ALEX TUDELA Sometimes all you want is a classic shoe to get you through the workday and into the evening. [Don Giller keeps his extensive archive of David Letterman's shows in his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.]( Collector [David Letterman's Unlikely Archivist]( By JASON ZINOMAN From 1982 to 2015, the former TV host made more than 6,000 late night shows. Don Giller has recordings of all but two. For more men's style news, go to [NYTimes.com/mensstyle »]( []Obituaries [Don Rickles, in 2007.]( [Don Rickles, Comedy's Equal Opportunity Offender, Dies at 90]( By PETER KEEPNEWS and RICHARD SEVERO For over half a century, Mr. Rickles made outrageously derisive comments about people's looks, their ethnicity or anything else he could think of. [Joanne Kyger in 1971. A poet and environmentalist, she was associated with the West Coast School of writers.]( [Joanne Kyger, Beat Generation Poet, Dies at 82]( By SAM ROBERTS A Buddhist and author and one of the few female members of the male-dominated post-World War II cultural movement. [Lolis Edward Elie in an undated photo.]( [Lolis Elie, Lawyer Who Helped Desegregate New Orleans, Dies at 87]( By SAM ROBERTS Mr. Elie's unstinting advocacy for civil rights as an organizer and a negotiator raised the consciousness of blacks and whites alike. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial Editorial [Downsizing Mr. Bannon]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD With the removal of an extremist political adviser comes a chance to build a more disciplined National Security Council. [Rusting barrels on the beach along the Chukchi Sea on July 7, 2015 in Shishmaref, Alaska.]( Editorial [The Regulatory Wrecking Ball]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD President Trump has signed 11 deregulatory measures so far. The wreckage is extensive. There are 18 more rollbacks in the pipeline. [Lenin Moreno in Quito, Ecuador, on Monday.]( Editorial Observer [Ecuador Elects World's Only Head of State in a Wheelchair]( By ERNESTO LONDOÑO Lenín Moreno transformed how Ecuador saw people with disabilities. He now has a bigger bully pulpit. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed [Paul Ryan in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 2017.]( Op-Ed Contributor [Stand Up, Paul Ryan, or Step Aside]( By MICKEY EDWARDS The House speaker should serve Congress, not the White House. [President Trump on board Air Force One on Thursday.]( Op-Ed Columnist [The Bad, the Worse and the Ugly]( By PAUL KRUGMAN What makes Trump different from the rest of his party? [Outside the Fox News studios in Manhattan on Wednesday.]( Dispatch [What Do Donald Trump, Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes Have in Common?]( By SUSAN CHIRA They've all been accused of sexual harassment. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On April 7, 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. 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