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Jerrold Nadler
Reaction to Mueller Report Divides Along Partisan Lines
The New York Times - By PETER BAKER and NICHOLAS FANDOS
WASHINGTON — House Democrats vowed on Friday to pursue the revelations in the special counsel’s report on President Trump but drew little Republican support in a nation still deeply polarized over the
Cathedrals
A Guide to Our Notre-Dame Fire Coverage
The New York Times - By CHRISTINE HAUSER
The fire that ravaged Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday left a scarred skyline that one of the French capital’s most iconic structures has graced for centuries. Gone is the cathedral’s soaring, 300-foot
Opinion
The Mueller Report and the Danger Facing American Democracy
The New York Times - By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The report of the special counsel Robert Mueller leaves considerable space for partisan warfare over the role of President Trump and his political campaign in Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
Jeff Sessions
A Darker Portrait Emerges of Trump’s Attacks on the Justice Department
The New York Times - By KATIE BENNER and ADAM GOLDMAN
WASHINGTON — Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, praised President Trump last spring for backing the rule of law and commended the Constitution and American culture for protecting lawfulness.
Robert Mueller
Conservatives Should Thank Mueller
The New York Times - By BRET STEPHENS
For the better part of two years, Donald Trump and his partisans did everything they could to denigrate and discredit Robert Mueller and his investigation. They’re not done yet. “Statements are made about
Trump Administration
Sanders’s ‘Slip of the Tongue’ Would Be a Problem in Some White Houses. Not Trump’s.
The New York Times - By ANNIE KARNI and MAGGIE HABERMAN
PALM BEACH, Fla. — After admitting to investigators for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, that she delivered a false statement from the White House podium, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White press
News
Notre-Dame’s Safety Planners Underestimated the Risk, With Devastating Results
The New York Times - By KATRIN BENNHOLD and JAMES GLANZ
PARIS — The architect who oversaw the design of the fire safety system at Notre-Dame acknowledged that officials had misjudged how quickly a flame would ignite and spread through the cathedral, resulting
Allison Mack
Clare Bronfman Pleads Guilty in Nxivm ‘Sex Cult’ Case, Leaving Leader to Stand Trial Alone
The New York Times - By BARRY MEIER and COLIN MOYNIHAN
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Clare Bronfman, an heiress to the Seagram liquor fortune, was among the most high-profile members of a cultlike organization
Opinion
Robert Mueller in the Age of the Unicorn
The New York Times - By ROGER COHEN
“What about these notes?” President Donald Trump demands of Donald McGahn, then his White House counsel. “Why do you take notes? Lawyers don’t take notes. I never had a lawyer who took notes.” Of all hallucinogenic
Ballet
City Ballet Ordered to Reinstate Male Dancers Fired Over Inappropriate Texts
The New York Times - By MICHAEL COOPER
In an early test case of the limits of disciplinary action in the #MeToo era, an arbitrator has ruled that New York City Ballet overstepped when it fired two principal male dancers accused of sharing explicit
World News
Mueller Report Likely to Renew Scrutiny of Steele Dossier
The New York Times - By SCOTT SHANE, ADAM GOLDMAN and MATTHEW ROSENBERG
WASHINGTON — The 35-page dossier, spiced up with tales of prostitutes and spies, sketched out a hair-raising story more than two years ago. Russian intelligence had used bribery and blackmail to try to
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren Calls for Impeachment Process Against Trump
The New York Times - By ASTEAD W. HERNDON
Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday called for the Democratic-led House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump, making her the most prominent Democrat to move toward
Opinion
Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron
The New York Times - By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
Despite the lowest unemployment rates since the late 1960s, the American economy is failing its citizens. Some 90 percent have seen their incomes stagnate or decline in the past 30 years. This is not given
Business
Betting on the Royal Baby
The New York Times - By TIFFANY HSU and AMIE TSANG
On the Paddy Power betting website, more than $325,000 hinged on a single unborn baby. When will it arrive? What will its name be? The shortest odds were on (1) this week and (2) Diana. But isn’t it kind
Opinion
How Barr and Trump Use a Russian Disinformation Tactic
The New York Times - By ASHA RANGAPPA
On Nov. 9, 2016, according to the Mueller report, some redacted figure wrote to a Russian regime crony, “Putin has won.” Based on the assessment of the intelligence community and the findings of Robert
Islamic State (ISIS)
ISIS Claims First Attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The New York Times - By STEVE WEMBI and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — The Islamic State has claimed its first attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo, planting a flag in a region already troubled by violence and an outbreak of
Trump Tower Moscow
In a Functional Country, We Would Be on the Road to Impeachment
The New York Times - By MICHELLE GOLDBERG
In 2017, a brilliant visual effects expert created a video montage called “It’s Mueller Time! Trump Administration Season Ending.” Set to the crooning of the 1963 song “From Russia With Love,” it shows
Don McGahn
How Don McGahn Handled a Dishonest President
The New York Times - By BOB BAUER
Lawyers and constitutional scholars will pore over the Mueller report and will find much to debate and write about. I’m confident that I’m not the only White House counsel from a past administration to
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg Fired South Bend’s Black Police Chief. It Still Stings.
The New York Times - By TRIP GABRIEL and ALEXANDER BURNS
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Pete Buttigieg had been mayor just 13 weeks when he faced a leadership crisis. It was March 2012, and 300 residents of South Bend, Ind., solemnly marched to the Martin Luther King Center
Mueller Report
Americans Agree on One Thing About the Mueller Report: Disgust With the Country’s Leaders
The New York Times - By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, SABRINA TAVERNISE and FRANCES ROBLES
GROVE CITY, Pa. — More than a year after the phrase “Mueller report” entered the national conversation — and after an exhausting stretch of subpoenas, arrests and furious presidential tweeting — the country
Andrew Cuomo
Subway Chief May Quit Over Tensions With Cuomo, Colleagues Fear
The New York Times - By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Andy Byford, the transit executive who was hired to rescue New York City’s floundering subway, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo have
Melania Trump
Reaction to the Mueller Report One Day After Its Release
The New York Times - By MICHAEL TACKETT and EILEEN SULLIVAN
■ The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena on Friday, demanding that the Justice Department deliver the full, unredacted version of the special counsel report by May 1, as the Russia
Stanford University
Now Pay Attention, Dear Reader. No, Not to That Article, to This One.
The New York Times - By CASEY SCHWARTZ
Something is happening to attention. We know this, as we check our phones between thoughts, darting between Instagram and text message exchanges and back again. And now, our books know it too. The subject
Literature
House Democrats Subpoena Full Mueller Report, and the Underlying Evidence
The New York Times - By NICHOLAS FANDOS
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena on Friday demanding that the Justice Department hand over an unredacted version of Robert S. Mueller III’s report and the evidence
Opinion
Surveying the Damage to Notre-Dame, and to Ourselves
The New York Times - By RACHEL L. HARRIS and LISA TARCHAK
Reader reactions to the fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris have ranged from outrage at the French government, which some readers say neglected to take proper care of the vulnerable icon, to foreboding,
Breast Feeding
The Data All Guilt-Ridden Parents Need
The New York Times - By EMILY OSTER
In 1980, 8.6 percent of first births were to women over 30; by 2015 this was 31 percent. This is more than an interesting demographic fact. It means that many of us are having children much later than
Robert Mueller
How Barr’s Excerpts Compare to the Mueller Report’s Findings
The New York Times - By CHARLIE SAVAGE
When Attorney General William P. Barr sent Congress a four-page letter last month describing his take on the conclusions of Robert S. Mueller III’s special counsel investigation, he quoted several fragments
Melania Trump
Mueller Report Updates: Questions Remain After Special Counsel’s Findings
The New York Times - By MICHAEL TACKETT and EILEEN SULLIVAN
■ After the release of the special counsel’s report on Thursday, President Trump declared himself exonerated and then departed for his resort in Florida to celebrate Easter. He left behind in the capital
Opinion (India)
What France Has Money For
The New York Times - By MICHAËL FOESSEL and ÉTIENNE OLLION
PARIS — For Georges Duby, a historian of the Middle Ages, one of the defining features of a historic event, or “évènement,” is that it triggers waves of commentary that bring out what had been kept unspoken.
World News
Robert Mueller, Londonderry, Sylvia Hatchell: Your Friday Briefing
The New York Times - By CHRIS STANFORD
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning, We’re covering the many angles on the release of the special counsel’s report, new details about the man arrested at St. Patrick’s