(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning, We start today with the worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 Max 8, a vote in the British Parliament today on whether to delay Brexit, and the shooting death of the reputed leader of a New York crime family. Breaking Beto O’Rourke, the […]

Francesco Cali, the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family, was fatally shot outside his home on Staten Island on Wednesday night, a senior police official said. Mr. Cali, 53, was shot six times, the official said. The police said they received a report about the shooting outside 25 Hilltop Terrace in the Todt Hill […]

Once upon a time, back in a world before Marie Kondo, we worried about David Beckham. We worried because we read that he liked to line up all his Pepsi cans symmetrically in the fridge, and always in an even number. Anything less orderly made him anxious, he admitted. Poor David Beckham, we thought to […]

It was never going to be an easy job being the prime minister responsible for taking the UK out of the European Union. There’s always that one issue that becomes a real sticking point for anyone in the top job – a point where troublesome backbenchers, ministerial resignations and tense parliamentary votes combine. Tony Blair […]

So the Democrats are going to nominate their presidential candidate in … Milwaukee! Let’s talk about this for a minute. It may not be the biggest news of the week, but it’s a lot more fun than analyzing Donald Trump’s budget plan. Wisconsin, of course, is the state Hillary Clinton took for granted/failed to visit/lost […]

The struggle that the two Lion Air pilots waged with their out-of-control 737 Max 8 aircraft last October was both tenacious and terrifying. A new automated safety feature on the jet designed to prevent stalls instead kept sending the aircraft into a dive. Again and again, the pilots pulled the jet’s nose up, only to […]

“There can be no separate college admissions system for the wealthy,” said Andrew Lelling, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announcing charges in a sprawling scheme in which dozens of rich parents are accused of bribing their kids’ way into prestigious American colleges. “And I’ll add there will not be a separate […]

After three years of renovations, the new Stanley A. Milner Library will open on Feb. 14, 2020. The library announced the opening date in a tweet on Wednesday. The downtown library was closed on Dec. 31, 2016 to undergo a major renovation including an exterior makeover, asbestos removal, mechanical and electrical upgrades and floor-to-ceiling second […]

Donald Trump’s low approval ratings have attracted a crush of Democrats vying to make him a one-term president. But he might have an unlikely ally in his re-election bid: Democrats’ mess of a primary system. The most valuable commodity in a zillion-way presidential primary is attention: In 2016, much of Mr. Trump’s primary success owed […]

We’re one of the few countries that doesn’t have Uber as a transport option. And as difficult as it can be to get a taxi on a Saturday night in the city centre, I think this is a good thing. The concept makes sense at first: hundreds of people ready to take you where you […]