quinta-feira, 15 de outubro de 2015

Fonte: New york times


BREAKING NEWS

Upstart Candidates Prove Adept at Fund-Raising

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and ERIC LICHTBLAU 
The establishment-backed candidates in both parties, facing stronger-than-expected challenges, are rapidly losing one of their few remaining advantages: money.

Hastert Agrees to Plead Guilty in Case Tied to Hush Money

By JULIE BOSMAN
J. Dennis Hastert, the former House speaker, was charged in May with structuring cash withdrawals, totaling $1.7 million, to avoid detection. Reports said he was trying to cover up allegations of sexual misconduct with a student.
A group of artists hired to paint walls on the "Homeland" set with graffiti in Arabic wrote messages including, "Homeland is racist."

Message in ‘Homeland’: The Show Is Racist

By DAN BILEFSKY and MONA BOSHNAQ
Three artists took credit for Arabic graffiti calling the show “racist” that appeared in a recent episode. They said it was a protest of the series’ false and misleading portrayals of Muslims.
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FROM THE MAGAZINE

What Do We Really Know About His Death?

By JONATHAN MAHLER
The history of President Obama’s most important foreign-policy victory — the death of Osama bin Laden — is still being written.

MORE NEWS

Amy Schumer on Men, Women, Sex and Herself

In her first HBO stand-up special, the comedian comments on how she and women in general are perceived by men and society, and discusses gender inequality under the sheets.

Do We Really Need to Sleep 7 Hours a Night?

A new study is challenging the notion that artificial light and the hectic pace of modern life are disrupting natural sleep patterns, fueling an epidemic of sleep deprivation.

Superheroes: Born in New York City

A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society focuses on the city’s role in the development of comic-book superheroes and their creators.

The Opinion Pages

OP-ED | MARK ST. AMANT

The Fantasy-Sports Non-Scandal

No one familiar with FanDuel or DraftKings is surprised by the cheating allegations. And no one cares.

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Why Tipping Is Wrong

By SARU JAYARAMAN
For decades, tips have been the excuse not to pay restaurant workers even a minimum wage.

Watching

  • Just three months before the cargo ship El Faro sank, killing all 33 people aboard, the Coast Guard issued a “no sail” order for its nearly identical sister ship, records show.
    The New York Times
  • GREG BOS/REUTERS
    Scottish and American prosecutors have asked the Libyan government for help tracking down two Libyans in connection with the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
    The New York Times
  • A New York police officer who arrested a photographer on assignment for The New York Times was convicted on Thursday of falsifying a record to justify arrest.
    The New York Times
  • ZACH GIBSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
    Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. took his flirtation with entering the 2016 presidential race to new heights when he found different ways to essentially say, “No comment.”
    The New York Times
  • BRUCE WEAVER/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
    Campaigning in New Hampshire, Jeb Bush professed a soft spot for the idea of an effort to colonize the moon, as proposed by Newt Gingrich in 2012.
    The New York Times
  • SIPHIWE SIBEKO/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
    Officials in South Africa say Oscar Pistorius can be released from prison and moved to house arrest. The athlete has served almost one year of a five-year sentence for manslaughter for killing his girlfriend.
    The New York Times
  • NICK UT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
    The Los Angeles Police Department artificially lowered the city’s crime levels over eight years by calling an estimated 14,000 serious assaults minor offenses.
    The Los Angeles Times
  • OLE FREDERIKSEN/POLFOTO, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Danish zoo officials were surprised by the outrage over their plan to dissect a lion. The zoo has done it for decades and children enjoy watching, officials said.
    The New York Times
  • ISSEI KATO/REUTERS
    Mayor Boris Johnson of London knocked over a child during a game of street rugby in Japan while on an official trip to the country. (The boy was not hurt.)
    The Guardian
  • ANDREW BURTON/GETTY IMAGES
    Four members of the family that controls more than half the shares of Walmart Stores saw $11 billion of their combined net worth evaporate after shares plunged.
    Bloomberg News
  • C. POTTER/DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Australian officials are defending a plan to kill millions of feral cats as a necessary step to protect threatened species on which the felines prey.
    The New York Times
  • DMITRY KOSTYUKOV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
    Netflix said its quarterly profit tumbled 50 percent, as it failed to meet aggressive goals for growth.
    The New York Times
  • The computer system that checks airline passengers against terror watch lists experienced disruptions at airports nationwide, causing delays that stretched for hours.
    Time
  • Ecuador said Britain has refused to allowJulian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, to receive medical attention outside the country’s London embassy where he is holed up.
    The New York Times
  • MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
    A showing in China of one of the few surviving copies ofMagna Carta was shifted from a university to the British ambassador’s residence, with no explanation given.
    The New York Times
  • Costa Rica arrested seven men suspected of smugglingnearly 3.7 tons of cocaine to the U.S. and Europe. Officials believe the kingpin is a New York pizzeria owner.
    Reuters
  • A Texas death row inmate, Licho Escamilla,was executed on Wednesday for killing a Dallas police officer in 2001.
    The Associated Press
  • TYLER HICKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
    President Obama said he had ordered 300 troops to Cameroon to work with West African soldiers seeking to counter the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram.
    The New York Times
  • EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
    At least seven people were killed in a suicide attack at the office of a lawmaker in central Pakistan, police officials said.
    The New York Times
  • CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
    The Brooklyn district attorney said his office had broken up a ring that was buying firearms in the South and selling them illegally on the borough’s streets.
    The New York Times
  • A former meerkat expert at the London Zoo was ordered to pay $1,235 to a monkey handler she attacked with a wine glass in a love spat over a llama-keeper.
    The Associated Press
  • Follow
    BREAKING: @dhmeyer and @USHGNYC will eliminate tips at their restaurants. Story soon @nytimes. Are we at a tipping point?
    The Times's food editor on the restaurateur Danny Meyer and his popular Union Square Hospitality Group eateries, via Twitter
  • EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
    The Islamic State runs a sprawling oil operation, forcing even its enemies to do business with it, financing its terrorist jihad.
    The Financial Times
  • MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Lamar Odom, the former N.B.A. forward and ex-husband of Khloe Kardashian, was hospitalized after he was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel on Tuesday evening.
    The New York Times
  • C. POTTER/DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Officials in Australia are responding to criticism from activists who are against a plan to protect threatened species by killing millions of feral cats. 
    The New York Times
  • Indeed, at the time, the Australian delegate said that if Australia accepted large numbers of European Jews they’d be importing Europe’s racial problem into Australia.
    The U.N.'s high commissioner for human rights comparing European talk on migrants today to a refusal to accept Jewish migrants before World War II, via The Guardian
  • The playwright Suzan-Lori Parks won theDorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, awarded to artists who have had an extraordinary impact and worth about $300,000.
    The New York Times
  • SITE INTELLIGENCE GROUP, VIA REUTERS
    The Philippine military said that a video that appears to show kidnapped Western tourists held by masked men with an Islamic State flag seems to be authentic.
    The New York Times
  • We don’t allow animals in the ballpark and we don’t believe in curses.
    The Chicago Cubs respond to an article in The Washington Post about the so-called Curse of the Billy Goat, which fans believe has prevented the team from winning the World Series.
  • Britain is urging Saudi Arabia to free a 74-year-old British man, Karl Andree, who faces asentence of 350 lashes after the Saudi authorities found alcohol in his car.
    The New York Times
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