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Oct. 17, 2016
Bryan Denton for The New York Times
Asia Pacific Edition
Your Tuesday Briefing
Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
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Iraq Begins Long-Awaited Battle to Retake ISIS Stronghold
Kurdish forces began advancing on villages near Mosul, the start of a campaign to reclaim Iraq’s second-largest city from the Islamic State.
U.S. warplanes are providing air support for the operation, which could take months.
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Map: How Iraq plans to take back Mosul from ISIS.
Residents are growing bolder in showing resistance to ISIS rule.
Ahmad Al-Rubaye / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Watch: The fight for Mosul begins.
ELECTION 2016
Loren Elliott for The New York Times
Some Evangelicals Are Rebelling as Old Guard Backs Trump
While most of the religious right’s old guard has chosen to stand by Donald J. Trump, its judgment and authority are being challenged by evangelicals who are younger, minorities and women.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times
Taunting Trump, Clinton Pushes Her Way Into Red States
Hillary Clinton hopes to extend her edge over Mr. Trump and help down-ballot Democrats in what party leaders increasingly see as a potential wave election.
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Mediator
Criticism of the News Media Takes On a More Sinister Tone
Coverage of this year’s presidential campaign can certainly be faulted, but there is danger in the incendiary talk used by Mr. Trump, our columnist writes.
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Jared Kushner discusses a Trump-branded television network.
Who are the new protesters defying Mr. Trump? His customers.
Republican leaders are rejecting Mr. Trump’s claim of a rigged election.
Acrid air and dismay linger in the G.O.P. office that was firebombed.
See our full coverage of the election »
Collier Schorr
T Magazine | The Greats
To the First Lady
Four thank-you notes to Michelle Obama, who has spent the past eight years quietly and confidently changing the course of American history.
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Ivan Kashinsky for The New York Times
Californians May Remove Limits on Bilingual Education
A ballot measure in November will test how the state’s attitude toward immigrants has changed in two decades.
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Adnan Abidi / Reuters
How the Chemical Industry Got Behind the Climate Accord
In the move away from a profitable chemical used for air-conditioning, companies were driven less by idealism than by intense competition.
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Barton Silverman / The New York Times
Op-Ed Contributor
Just Like Trump, I Avoided Paying Federal Taxes
We both inherited buildings from our dads. We both got audited. We both refuse to say what we owe. But now I’m paying.
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Charles Blow
Donald Trump, the Worst of America
He is the logical extension of misogyny, racism, privilege and anti-intellectualism.
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Wenting Li / Ontario College of Art and Design
On Campus
My Asian Pussycat Parents
I was raised by a mom and dad who did not want me to worry about getting C’s as long as I was happy in college and beyond.
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Davide Luciano for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Alex Brannian.
What to Cook This Week
A luscious onion pie, chicken under a brick and other meal suggestions.
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Kim Murton
The 8 Health Habits Experts Say You Need in Your 20s
Here’s are some simple strategies from experts for getting on the path to a healthier lifestyle.
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Editors’ Picks
Map by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg
Why Isn’t the U.S. Better at Predicting Extreme Weather?
Hurricanes like Matthew have laid bare the dirty secret of the National Weather Service: its technologies and methods are woefully behind the times.
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Joohee Yoon
A Novel About an Awful Children’s Musical
Francine Prose’s new novel, “Mister Monkey,” is about a group of characters involved in an off-off-off-off Broadway production.
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Alex Brandon / Associated Press
No Joy in Football? N.F.L. Celebration Penalties Rise Sharply
The league says it has not changed its rules on celebrations; it has only asked officials to pay more attention to enforcing the existing rules.
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Your Daily Mini Crossword
Solve a bite-size crossword in just a few minutes.
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Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
Battered by Storm, Haitians Find Shelter in Caves
“It is our house that God created when we most needed it,” said one of the hundreds of villagers who fled into caves as Hurricane Matthew destroyed their homes.
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Sam Hodgson for The New York Times
One Family’s Struggle With Microcephaly, a Birth Defect Now Linked to Zika
Concerned that many people did not grasp what it meant to raise a child with the condition, a Manhattan couple offered to share their experience.
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Questions About Raising a Child With Microcephaly? Ask Here
Video of the Day
Bob Dylan and His Poetic Gift
A look at Mr. Dylan’s contribution to the world of literature that brought him a Nobel Prize.
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Tony Cenicola / The New York Times
Beyond the Buffalo Wing in Upstate New York
If you’re not familiar with beef on weck, spiedies or Cornell chicken, you probably didn’t grow up here. But it may be worth a trip.
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Keith Meyers / The New York Times
An epidemiologist in Philadelphia has found in a series of studies that forcing owners to clean up vacant lots tended to reduce shootings in the area. The reason seems to be that people stop using the lots as “storage lockers” for illegal guns once they’re tidied up. —
Pacific Standard
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Deidre Schoo for The New York Times
‘I Know I Want to Do Better’
“People don’t understand why I play, sometimes, with a chip on my shoulder. And that’s one reason: the fact I got bullied.”
— The N.B.A. player J.R. Smith, most recently of the champion Cleveland Cavaliers, on his childhood. In a new profile, he talks about his career, being misunderstood and why he admires dolphins. The New Yorker
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Zach Gibson / The New York Times
Sympathetic Canadians Have a Message for Americans: You Guys Are Great
A new Canadian social media campaign, “Tell America It’s Great,” aims to give neighbors to the south a pep talk during this contentious election season.
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Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
Former Christie Aide Says He Was Duped About Bridge Lane Closings
Bill Baroni, who is accused of approving the lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, then covering them up, says he was misled by a Port Authority executive.
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Benjamin Norman for The New York Times
Latin American Art, and a New Institute, Will Go to the MoMA
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, a museum board member, and her husband, Gustavo A. Cisneros, are donating the works and establishing a research center.
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