Today's Headlines: Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S.

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[Aaron Cedres in Rainey Park in the Bronx, where he sometimes slept when he was homeless. Felony charges cost him his job, apartment and car.]( [Defendants Kept in the Dark About Evidence, Until It's Too Late]( By BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL New York is one of 10 states where prosecutors can wait until just before trial to share evidence, which critics say is unfair. But a new bill could change the rules. [Mike Pompeo, center, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is perhaps the most openly political spy chief in a generation - and one of President Trump's favorite cabinet members.]( [Trump Likes When C.I.A. Chief Gets Political, but Officers Are Wary]( By MATTHEW ROSENBERG Mike Pompeo has become a favorite of the president's with tough talk and hawkish views at the helm of the C.I.A., which prides itself on being apolitical. For more top news, go to [NYTimes.com »]( [Get California Today in Your Inbox]( The news and stories that matter to Californians (and anyone else interested in the state). Delivered Monday through Friday. ADVERTISEMENT Editors' Picks [Journeymen making their way on outskirts of Faurndau, Germany, carrying their only belongings in small bundles.]( WORLD | Dispatch From Central Europe [Cleaving to the Medieval, Journeymen Ply Their Trades in Europe]( By MELISSA EDDY Young men and women, mostly from German-speaking countries, spend years traveling and working in exchange for room and board, following the customs of a centuries-old practice. [Special counsel Robert Mueller after a closed meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in June.]( OPINION | Op-Ed Contributors [A Better Way to Protect Robert Mueller]( By DANIEL HEMEL and ERIC POSNER Two Senate bills promise to check President Trump from removing the special counsel. Too bad they won't work. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "Your job is to tell the president things he does not want to hear. But you've got to walk them to the truth - you just can't slap them in the face with it and run out of the Oval Office." [Michael V. Hayden]( a former director of both the C.I.A. and the National Security Agency, on the ability of Mike Pompeo, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to communicate in a style in which President Trump is comfortable [] Today's Videos [Mike Pompeo, center, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is perhaps the most openly political spy chief in a generation - and one of President Trump's favorite cabinet members.]( [[Video] Video: Mike Pompeo, Trump's Outspoken C.I.A. Director]( Mike Pompeo, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is perhaps the most openly political spy chief in a generation - and one of President Trump's favorite cabinet members. [[Video] Video: Afghans Help Police Fight Taliban]( In the Taiwara District, locals and militias supplemented the Afghan police to battle the Taliban. As fighting intensifies, the Trump administration is struggling to finalize its Afghanistan policy. [Lyndon French for The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.]( [[Video] Video: Beloit: A Small Wisconsin Town Seeks to Become a Tech Haven]( Under the impulse of the billionaire Diane Hendricks, Beloit, a small industrial town in Wisconsin, is becoming an attractive location for tech start-ups. [] World [The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted on Saturday to impose new sanctions on North Korea.]( [North Korea Rails Against New Sanctions. Whether They Will Work Is Unclear.]( By JANE PERLEZ and RICK GLADSTONE North Korea threatened retaliation "thousands of times" for the most punishing sanctions yet. But history suggests North Korea will devise workarounds. [President Barack Obama with President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya before departing the East African country in 2015.]( [Obama Weighs In on Kenyan Election, Urging Calm]( By PETER BAKER The former president, who has largely stayed out of American politics, said there had been "too much incitement" in the election in his father's home country. [A family picture of Stephanie Nimmo with her children, including Daisy, third from right, and her husband, Andy.]( [For Parents of Children Like Charlie Gard, Learning to 'Redefine Hope']( By DAN BILEFSKY The death of a British baby evoked painful memories in other parents of incurably ill children. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [Mayor Rahm Emanuel says that the Trump administration's immigration policy asks Chicago to make ]( [Sessions Scolds Chicago for Suing Over 'Sanctuary Cities' Threat]( By MITCH SMITH Hours after Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the city would fight administration rules requiring it to cooperate with immigration agents in order to receive federal grants, the attorney general struck back. [Rory Veevers-Carter purchased Julia Child's former Washington home in 2015. The house, built shortly after the Civil War, has fallen into disrepair and is in the process of being renovated.]( [Mastering the Art of Home Restoration: A Julia Child Sequel]( By NOAH WEILAND A new owner is undertaking efforts to revive Mrs. Child's Georgetown home, which has fallen into disrepair in recent years. [Ian McCarthy, 39, the man suspected of killing a Missouri State Highway Patrol officer in Clinton. Mo., on Sunday night.]( [Manhunt in Missouri for Driver Suspected in Fatal Shooting of Officer]( By LIAM STACK The authorities released a picture of Ian McCarthy, 39, of Clinton, Mo., who is suspected of killing Officer Gary Michael, 37, of the Clinton Police Department. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [President Trump at the Department of Transportation in June. The department has turned to people with strong industry ties to fill posts on teams charged with deregulation.]( [Secrecy and Suspicion Surround Trump's Deregulation Teams]( By DANIELLE IVORY and ROBERT FATURECHI The Times and ProPublica identify more possible conflicts among appointees, as Democrats in Congress demand greater transparency from the White House. [The summer meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on Monday in Philadelphia.]( [Facing Trump Subsidy Cuts, Health Insurance Officials Seek a Backup Plan]( By ROBERT PEAR State commissioners are debating what to do if President Trump stops subsidies paid to insurance companies on behalf of millions of low-income people. [President Trump with his grandchildren Arabella Kushner, right, and Joseph Kushner at Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey on Friday.]( Bedminster Journal [A Trump Vacation Formula: Work Hard, Play Hard, Tweet Hard]( By PETER BAKER With rain washing away any golf, the president spent part of his working vacation on Monday posting messages of grievance and frustration. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [A Wells Fargo customer in Denver in April 2016. The bank is facing new scrutiny for not refunding insurance money owed to people who paid off their car loans early.]( [Wells Fargo, Awash in Scandal, Faces Violations Over Car Insurance Refunds]( By GRETCHEN MORGENSON The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is investigating the lender for not refunding car buyers who bought special insurance and repaid their loans early. [Shown the Door, Older Workers Find Bias Hard to Prove]( By ELIZABETH OLSON Many longtime workers claim that they are being targeted for layoffs because of their age or health status, but federal law is often of little help. [Welders at the Columbus Castings facility in Ohio. America's steelworkers are waiting for President Trump to fulfill his promise to levy tariffs on steel imports.]( [Trump's Stalled Trade Agenda Leaves Industries in the Lurch]( By ALAN RAPPEPORT Workers and industry groups say they aren't tired of winning. They are tired of waiting for action. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [Filecoin's founder Juan Benet, center, with some of his team, in Stanford, Calif. The start-up has worked with the law firm Cooley to structure its initial coin offering.]( [Despite S.E.C. Warning, Wave of Initial Coin Offerings Grows]( By NATHANIEL POPPER Several coming coin offerings have hired lawyers to try to play by the rules. Others prohibit Americans from investing. [A Samsung store in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. With net earnings of $10 billion last quarter, Samsung Electronics leapfrogged Apple as the world's most profitable technology company.]( [As Samsung Executive Awaits Verdict, Company Surges]( By JONATHAN SOBLE and JEYUP S. KWAAK But experts say it is still an open question whether the South Korean manufacturing giant has a clear strategy to carry it into the future. [Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Memo Questioning Women in Tech]( By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI The employee, who confirmed his firing, argued in the memo that the gender gap among high-tech employees was due in part to biological differences. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [John Kruk (29) was greeted by, from right, Darren Daulton, Lenny Dykstra and Wes Chamberlain upon scoring the winning run in Game 1 of the N.L.C.S. in 1993.]( On Baseball [Darren Daulton Was the Heartbeat of a Rowdy Phillies Bunch]( By TYLER KEPNER Daulton, who died Sunday of brain cancer at 55, was the leader of one of those special teams, the 1993 Phillies, who made it all the way to the World Series. [M.L.S. Commissioner Don Garber was greeted by cardboard cutouts of himself last year when he visited Sacramento, one of a dozen cities vying for an expansion team in the league.]( [As Appetite for Soccer in U.S. Grows, So Does M.L.S.]( By KEN BELSON The league, which will add a new team in Los Angeles next year and is close to approving another in Miami, is vetting a dozen other cities for a planned expansion. [The Yankees' Aaron Judge batting against the Red Sox in Boston in July. The two American League East rivals will meet 10 times over the next four weekends.]( [Yankees, Peeking at the Red Sox, Will Soon Get an Eyeful]( By BILLY WITZ The traditional American League East rivals will meet three of the next four weekends, with nine of the 10 games broadcast to a national audience. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Katierose Donohue graduated from Harvard's A.R.T. program 12 years ago but still pays as much for her student loans as she does for rent in Los Angeles.]( [$78,000 of Debt for a Harvard Theater Degree]( By SOPHIE HAIGNEY Students and alumni are frustrated by the turmoil in Harvard's graduate theater program and have trained their ire on its leader, the director Diane Paulus. [Philippa Quinn as Georgie, a woman on the cusp of 30, in a rare revival of the 1911 play ]( Brantley in Britain [Women Without Options and Spoiled for Choice]( By BEN BRANTLEY Plays in London spanning more than a century suggest how much and how little has changed for British women. [The soprano Anna Netrebko as Verdi's Aida, in a production that is the centerpiece of this year's Salzburg Festival in Austria.]( [Review: Anna Netrebko Sings Her First 'Aida' in Salzburg]( By ZACHARY WOOLFE The soprano was careful and earnest in a coolly impersonal production conducted by Riccardo Muti and directed by the celebrated visual artist Shirin Neshat. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] New York [[Graphic] Graphic: New York's Subways Are Not Just Delayed. Some Trains Don't Run at All.]( By FORD FESSENDEN, EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS, K.K. REBECCA LAI and ADAM PEARCE The M.T.A. is regularly failing to meet its train schedule, leading to dozens of cancelled trains, according to analysis by The New York Times. [Mr. de Blasio arriving at Borough Hall, where he announced his plan to tax the wealthy to help pay for fixes to the subway system.]( [De Blasio's Push for Tax on Wealthy Helps Put Pressure on Cuomo]( By J. DAVID GOODMAN The mayor's proposal, meant to provide long-term funding for the subway, also deflected attention from controversies involving his political donors. [Msgr. Patrick McCahill at St. Elizabeth of Hungary, on the Upper East Side, in 2014. It is among the closed churches that have been slated to be repurposed for secular uses.]( [18 Shuttered Catholic Churches May Soon Be Up for Sale]( By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ The Archdiocese of New York deconsecrated the churches in June, paving the way for the properties to be repurposed or sold. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( [] Science [Marina Ratner in Moscow in 1991.]( Essay [With Snowflakes and Unicorns, Marina Ratner and Maryam Mirzakhani Explored a Universe in Motion]( By AMIE WILKINSON The legacies and achievements of two great mathematicians will dazzle and intrigue scholars for decades. [Marcy Sherman-Lewis is the primary caregiver for her husband, Gene Lewis, who has Alzheimer's.]( The New Old Age [Caregiving Is Hard Enough. Isolation Can Make It Unbearable.]( By PAULA SPAN Many caregivers find themselves trapped at home, neglected by friends and family members who don't understand how to help. [A club tailed scorpion named Ischnotelson peruassu, one of three new species discovered by Lauren Esposito at the California Academy of Sciences.]( Trilobites [Scorpions Are Ancient, but Some Species Are New to Science]( By JAMES GORMAN Scorpion scientists have identified three new species among these ancient arachnids. For more science news, go to [NYTimes.com/Science »]( []Obituaries [Don Baylor hitting a grand slam for the Angels against the Milwaukee Brewers in 1982.]( [Don Baylor, Slugging M.V.P. in the American League, Dies at 68]( By RICHARD SANDOMIR A veteran of six teams, Baylor had a talent for being hit by a pitch - 267 times, in all. [Betty Cuthbert, holding the Olympic torch, with Raelene Boyle, another former Australian sprinter, during the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.]( [Betty Cuthbert, Australia's 'Golden Girl' of Track and Field, Dies at 79]( By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Cuthbert burst onto the scene at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, where she became the first Australian to win three gold medals. [Ernst Zündel, standing, at his trial in 2005.]( [Ernst Zündel, Holocaust Denier Tried for Spreading His Message, Dies at 78]( By SEWELL CHAN Mr. Zündel spewed anti-Semitic propaganda from his house in Toronto and twice saw his convictions overturned. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial Editorial [What Real Tax Reform Could Be]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Republicans just want deep cuts for corporations and the wealthy. Real change would make taxation more fair and diverse. Editorial [The Future Is Looking Up for East Midtown]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The latest plan for reviving a sluggish area of Manhattan is tailored for office developers and preservationists alike. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed Op-Ed Contributor [Female Lawyers Can Talk, Too]( By SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN Too many are relegated to the courtroom sidelines. That needs to change. [An inmate at St. Clair Correctional Facility in Alabama.]( Op-Ed Contributor [The Practical Case for Parole for Violent Offenders]( By MARC MORJÉ HOWARD This is one way to fix an unsustainable criminal justice system, and make it more humane. [[Interactive Graphic] Interactive Graphic: Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart]( By DAVID LEONHARDT This chart captures the rise in inequality better than any other chart that I've seen. [President Trump salutes a soldier on his way to Marine One at the White House this month.]( Op-Ed Columnist [Getting Trump Out of My Brain]( By DAVID BROOKS Things won't just snap back to "normal" after Trump's gone. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On Aug. 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced he would resign following damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal. [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. Please do not reply directly to this email. You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's Today's Headlines newsletter. 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