| We’re covering testimony in the House’s impeachment inquiry, a deadly shooting at Pearl Harbor, and today’s general strike in France. | |  By Chris Stanford | | | President Trump prepared to board Air Force One at an airport in London on Wednesday. Al Drago for The New York Times | | | Related: Mr. Trump called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada “two-faced” and scrapped plans for a formal news conference at the NATO meeting in London after Mr. Trudeau was filmed apparently gossiping about him with other leaders. (Watch the video here.) | | | News analysis: The squabbling only reinforced the fear that the 70-year-old military alliance had lost its focus, our correspondents write. | | | Arguing that assistance to unemployed, able-bodied adults was not necessary in a strong economy, the administration would press states to impose work requirements that governors had been allowed to waive. | | | The rule, effective on April 1, is expected to save nearly $5.5 billion over five years. | | | Elizabeth Warren is leading a push against the long-held view that higher taxes slow economic growth. | | | She and other Democratic presidential candidates say their plans to tax the rich and spend on the poor and the middle class would accelerate growth, not impede it. Many experts, and classic economic models, disagree. | | | Why it matters: These proposals could upend traditional Democratic policymaking the way supply-side conservatives changed Republicans’ views four decades ago. Supply-siders contended that tax cuts could reduce government debt by stimulating economic growth, even without spending cuts. | | | An image drawn by Abu Zubaydah shows how the C.I.A. applied an approved torture technique called "cramped confinement." Abu Zubaydah, Courtesy Mark P. Denbeaux | | | The techniques, now outlawed, were approved by President George W. Bush’s administration and used in secret overseas prisons after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. | | | The details: The illustrations were drawn this year for inclusion in a report titled “How America Tortures,” by a professor at Seton Hall University who has served as Mr. Zubaydah’s lawyer, and some of his students. Read the report here. | | | Background: The interrogation program was set up for Mr. Zubaydah, who was mistakenly believed to be a top lieutenant in Al Qaeda. Subsequent analysis found that while he was a jihadist, he had known nothing beforehand about the 9/11 attacks. He has never been charged with a crime. | | | Victor Moriyama for The New York Times | | | President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil promised to open the world’s largest rainforest to industry and scale back its protections. New figures show his government is succeeding: More than 3,700 square miles were razed in the past year, the largest loss in a decade. | | | PAID POST: A MESSAGE FROM EMMA | | Here's one free month to see how email marketing can work for you. | | At Emma, we're email people, not math people. But $44 ROI for each $1 spent is something we can get on board with. You too? That's the magic of an email marketing platform that gives you all the tools you need to really connect with your subscribers at the right time, resulting in increased clicks, higher engagement, and more sales. | | | Get a free month | | | | Strike in France: Nationwide protests against changes to the pension system threaten to bring the country to a standstill today. Here are the latest updates. | | | In memoriam: Josie Rubio, an editor and writer, chronicled her life with cancer in a long-running blog and wrote a widely read essay in The Times last year about dating while terminally ill. She died on Tuesday at 42. | | | Late-night comedy: The hosts couldn’t get enough of the video of world leaders talking about President Trump. “And now the bombing of Canada begins,” Jimmy Kimmel said. | | | What we’re reading: The Daily Suffragist on Twitter. Our reporter Jennifer Schuessler says: “Love this account, which gives a concise daily snapshot from the history of the women’s suffrage movement.” And of notable women, too, like a 21-year-old who publicly dressed down Abraham Lincoln in 1864 for inadequately protecting former slaves. | | | Johnny Miller for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Susan Spungen. | | | This week, The Times published a different kind of story about opioid abuse, drawing from the pages of an Ohio high school yearbook to describe the human toll. | | | We asked Dan Levin, the reporter who wrote the story, about the months he spent tracking down members of the Class of 2000 and conducting sometimes heartbreaking interviews. | | | “I was honored that people were willing to talk with me about these very intimate details of their lives, in incredibly nuanced ways,” Dan said. | | | Dan Levin, who reports on American youth for The Times, in the Yukon. Aaron Vincent Elkaim for The New York Times | | | “It’s almost something out of a Stephen King story,” he said. “You have this small town and a dark force that clandestinely creeps in. It’s not vampires, it’s not supernatural, but it’s just as horrific.” | | | For many of the former students, he said, “There was a feeling that, had they only been a few years older, they would have been spared. One had a brother, four or five years older. He’d grown up before opioids hit — he was lucky enough to escape.” | | | And he noticed how the reporting had changed him: “Since working on this, when I see people who are struggling with drugs, on the street, I think to myself, there’s probably a yearbook with them smiling.” | | | That’s it for this briefing. See you next time. | | Thank you
Mark Josephson, Eleanor Stanford and Chris Harcum provided the break from the news. You can reach the team at briefing@nytimes.com. | | | Were you sent this briefing by a friend? Sign up here to get the Morning Briefing. | | |
