Kamala Harris, Impeachment, Titan
Your Tuesday Evening Briefing |
Good evening. Here’s the latest. |
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They sparred over approaches to terrorism, Mr. Trump’s relationship with Turkey’s president and the future of NATO. That followed earlier friction over Mr. Macron’s remarks on the Trump administration’s role in the “brain death” of the alliance, which Mr. Trump called “very, very nasty.” |
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2. The House Intelligence Committee released its report on the impeachment inquiry, accusing President Trump of abuse of power in his Ukraine pressure campaign. Above, Adam Schiff, the committee’s chairman, on Tuesday. |
The report said that Mr. Trump “placed his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States,” seeking to undermine American democracy and endangering national security. Here’s the full document. |
The proceedings pick up on Wednesday with the Judiciary Committee, which has the power to draft articles of impeachment. Its first public hearing will feature four constitutional scholars. |
Separately, Deutsche Bank must turn over detailed documents about Mr. Trump’s finances to two congressional committees, a federal appeals court ruled. |
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Astead Herndon, our Politics reporter, broke it down for us: “Her campaign garnered a ton of attention because it had the chance to break barriers as the first woman of color elected to the White House,” he said. “But it ended up that the structure and message just didn’t resonate.” |
In other 2020 news, Senator Cory Booker proposed investing $100 billion in historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions, with at least $40 billion of it dedicated to climate change research. The proposal comes as he is struggling to qualify for the December debate. |
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In a public letter, Mr. Page and Mr. Brin, who founded Google more than two decades ago as students at Stanford University, said “it’s the natural time to simplify our management structure.” |
Mr. Page and Mr. Brin will remain directors on Alphabet’s board and the company’s two largest individual shareholders. |
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5. In case you missed it, a very real science fiction tale. |
Scientists in various countries are working on a way to create an image of a person’s face from a genetic sample. But in China, the effort uses blood collected from ethnic Uighurs — many of whom have been swept up in mass detentions in China’s Xinjiang region. |
Critics say Beijing is exploiting the openness of the international scientific community to harness research into the human genome for possible social control. |
The Chinese have said they followed international norms that would require research subjects’ consent — but many in Xinjiang have no choice. |
Outdoor particulate pollution mainly comes from burning things — coal, gasoline, woody materials — and was responsible for an estimated 4.2 million deaths worldwide in 2015. High levels mean “you can’t function, you can’t thrive,” one expert said. “Having access to clean air is kind of a basic human right.” |
Last month, New Delhi hit apocalyptic highs. The U.S. has some of the cleanest air in the world, but last year, during deadly wildfires, Sacramento, Calif., temporarily earned the unwelcome title of the world’s most polluted city. |
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Now in their 50s or 60s, they have created a subset of university giving to build facilities, like the Carol Roberts Field House at Yale University, above, and endow scholarships and coaching positions at their alma maters. |
“More and more female athletes are reaching out to me and asking how they can help,” Yale’s athletic director said. “I used to never get those calls.” |
This week, Megan Rapinoe, who helped lead the U.S. to a World Cup title in July, won soccer’s Ballon d’Or as player of the year. Lionel Messi won the men’s award for a record sixth time. |
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8. Our “Best of 2019” continues. |
Theater this year often offered a stark choice: escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Here are our critics’ top picks of the year, including “Slave Play,” “Is This a Room” and “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.” |
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9. For his next stop, our 52 Places Traveler was rained in, so he ate his way through Vietnam’s beach city, Danang. |
He reveled in the vibrant street food amid the buzz of a rapidly growing destination. And thanks to the city’s geographical position, he tasted a bit of everything from across the country. Warning: You will get hungry reading this. |
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10. And finally, take a spin around Titan. |
Saturn’s largest moon, almost 900 million cold miles from the sun, has gasoline for rain, soot for snow and layers of ice that float on subsurface oceans of ammonia. But besides Earth, Titan is the only world in the universe known to harbor liquid on its surface. |
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