(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Today is the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. We’re also covering California’s potentially influential vote on the gig economy, the results of a special election in North Carolina and a rape accusation against the N.F.L. star Antonio Brown. A vote to […]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore state investor Temasek and private equity firm KKR (KKR.N) are among the suitors who have advanced to the second round of an auction to buy into the hospital unit of Metro Pacific Investments Corp (MPI.PS), sources told Reuters. The unit, which operates 14 hospitals, many of which are among the largest […]

Good morning. We’re covering the ouster of President Trump’s national security adviser, the most powerful tech regulator in the world and a place for retirees to get the American college experience. Trump ousts his combative national security adviser President Trump abruptly fired John Bolton, his national security adviser, with whom he had fundamental disagreements over […]

It was the smile and the wave right at the end that did it. It was only five seconds, but watching live, it felt like it was happening in slow motion. In that moment, the nation fell in love with Sinead O’Connor again. And it happened – of course – on the ‘Late Late Show’. […]

More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “U.S. Secretary Said to Coerce NOAA Leaders” (front page, Sept. 10): President Trump’s remarks about Hurricane Dorian’s threat to Alabama could have been explained as a simple mistake, but instead they revealed once again the elaborate apparatus that works to preserve one of this president’s most important […]

(Reuters) – Saudi Aramco (IPO-ARMO.SE) has picked banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) for top roles on its planned initial public offering (IPO), Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The Saudi Arabian state oil giant told banks of their selection on Tuesday and […]

Last week I wrote a column that simultaneously argued that conservatism has a problem with white-nationalist infiltration and that liberalism, influenced by the revival of racial chauvinism in the Trump era, is increasingly tempted to smear mainstream conservatives as racist. The response was varied, but a common critique from the left was that any defense […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering a dramatic finale to the longest session of the British Parliament in modern history, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson got almost nothing he wanted. We also look at Moscow election results and why Tina Turner is thriving in retirement. Boris Johnson’s […]

Any adult knows that if you want to get a child’s attention, there is no enticement like candy. This currency of youth has become the weapon of choice for tobacco companies. They are making huge investments in nicotine-loaded e-cigarettes and selling them in a rainbow of sweet and fruity flavors like cotton candy, gummy bear, […]

It’s been a hectic week at the Aviva Stadium, or what some of us truculent dinosaurs still call Lansdowne, with three internationals in five days. Tonight the Republic’s footballers play Bulgaria in a warm-down friendly, last Thursday we had that topsy-turvy Euro qualifier against the Swiss, and, in between, our rugby goys took out Wales […]