| We’re covering the growing support among Democrats to impeach President Trump, the death sentence given to the former leader of Pakistan, and a new scoring record in the N.F.L. | |  By Chris Stanford | | | Representative Elissa Slotkin, Democrat of Michigan, explained her decision to vote to impeach President Trump during a meeting with constituents on Monday. Brittany Greeson for The New York Times | | | A group of lawmakers from conservative-leaning districts announced on Monday that they would vote to impeach President Trump, a sign that the Democratic Party is unifying around the effort. | | | About a half-dozen Democrats from districts that Mr. Trump won in 2016 said they had come around to supporting impeachment, while acknowledging that the decision could cost them their seats. | | | The House is all but certain to pass two articles of impeachment, for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, on Wednesday. | | | Related: Rudy Giuliani told The Times that he informed Mr. Trump that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was, in Mr. Giuliani’s view, impeding investigations that could benefit the president. The ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, was later removed. | | | The money, which was distributed among trusts and overseas holding companies, is more than eight times what the family took out in the 13 years after OxyContin, Purdue’s signature product, was approved in 1995. | | | The new report was filed in bankruptcy court on Monday. It was commissioned by Purdue to help guide the company through Chapter 11 restructuring. | | | Background: The Sacklers have offered to pay at least $3 billion in cash as part of a settlement in thousands of lawsuits. A group of states, led by Massachusetts and New York, has argued that the family should pay more. The report does not detail how much the Sacklers are worth or where their money is. | | | A camp in Oakland, Calif. Lawmakers have spent billions on the state's growing homelessness problem. Josh Haner/The New York Times | | | After visiting a homeless camp in Oakland last year, a United Nations official compared it to the slums of Brazil, Mexico and Pakistan, saying many residents had “no access to toilets or showers and a constant fear of being cleaned off the streets.” | | | Two Times journalists later spent three months at the camp, getting to know dozens of its residents. They traveled to a shantytown in Mexico City as a comparison. | | | In a typical U.S. emergency room, demand far outpaces workers’ ability to provide care. The frantic pace leaves little time for deliberating a diagnosis or counseling patients. | | | In a piece for The Times, a doctor documented an overnight shift: “I think about what I will learn that these people need, and about what I will fail to provide.” | | | PAID POST: A MESSAGE FROM PEARSON | | Seeing the Unseen | | There is a staggering 2.4 million STEM jobs going unfilled. And there's a major, unseen barrier standing in the way, Calculus. Almost all STEM fields require it and almost one-third of students drop or fail it. What do we need to do to fill the jobs of today, and the jobs of our future? Plug that leak in the STEM pipeline. Meet Aida. The first AI calculus tutor. | | | MEET AIDA | | | | Rush for licenses: Undocumented immigrants in New York lined up for blocks on Monday, seeking to take advantage of a new state law allowing them to obtain driver’s licenses. On the same day, New Jersey lawmakers approved a similar measure. | | | Strobe attack: Hackers sent videos of flashing lights to Twitter followers of the Epilepsy Foundation last month in an apparent effort to provoke seizures, the nonprofit said. | | | Nadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times | | | Snapshot: Above, a school in Nagoro, Japan, which was closed after the last two students, depicted as dolls, grew up. A resident of the village helped produce 350 such dolls, which outnumber human residents by more than 10 to 1. The effects of Japan’s shrinking, aging population are felt most intensively in rural regions. | | | Late-night comedy: After the Hallmark Channel pulled ads showing a same-sex couple kissing, Trevor Noah said, “They’re kissing at their wedding; it’s the last time they’ll ever kiss, relax.” | | | What we’re looking at: This Twitter thread by Joseph Cranney, a reporter for The Post and Courier in South Carolina, highlighting investigative reporting from news outlets in all 50 states. Melina Delkic, on the briefings team, calls it a “welcome reminder of the crucial work happening in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado and beyond.” | | | Michael Graydon & Nikole Herriott for The New York Times. Prop Stylist: Kalen Kaminski. | | | Watch: What if the future of TV were delightful, irresistible, meme-able versions of intellectual property you already loved … forever? Call it the Baby Yoda effect. | | | Smarter Living: Do you often get stuck at the receiving end of a one-way conversation? We have help. | | | Edward Wong, a former Beijing bureau chief who now covers U.S. foreign policy, wrote the article with Julian Barnes, who covers intelligence and national security. Edward responded by email. | | | Can you say anything about how you got the story? | | | I first heard about the expulsions in October, a couple of weeks after the episode. My original source said diplomats in the Chinese Embassy were shocked because it was the first time in their memory that this had happened. The story took me two months to report, in part because I traveled to Hong Kong for two weeks to cover the protests there, and I’ve been involved in coverage of the impeachment inquiry. | | | By last week, I had spoken with enough people briefed on the expulsions and gathered enough details to give us confidence. Julian then spoke to a couple of sources who gave us final confirmation. | | | Had you already been aware of episodes of Chinese officials showing up uninvited at secure locations? | | | American intelligence and counterintelligence officers have been tracking such appearances for some time. On Oct. 16, the State Department announced new rules on visits to official sites by Chinese diplomats — a sign that Chinese officials had been doing things that were making the administration uncomfortable. | | | What would they gain by being able to enter the Virginia base? | | | Some American officials think that at least one of the two detained Chinese men was an intelligence officer and that they were doing a test run at the base to see if they could penetrate far into the perimeter without consequences. If they had gotten away with it, then a more senior intelligence officer might have tried to get onto the base using a similar tactic. | | | That’s it for this briefing. | | Thank you
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