January 2020

As Lead Impeachment Manager, Adam Schiff Brings Experience and Controversy

WASHINGTON — As a young federal prosecutor in Los Angeles 30 years ago, Adam B. Schiff won the conviction of an F.B.I. agent who was seduced by a Soviet spy and traded secrets for gold and cash — a case, he said then, “of government misconduct and government corruption of the highest and most disturbing

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Trump Signs China Deal, Halting Trade War That Hurt Global Growth

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an initial trade deal with China on Wednesday, bringing the first chapter of a protracted and economically damaging fight with the world’s second-largest economy to a close. The pact is intended to open Chinese markets to more American companies, increase farm and energy exports, and provide greater protection for American

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‘The Marvel’s Mrs. Maisel’ Flirts With Thanos In Adorable ‘Avengers’ Spoof

Watch her charm bad-guy Thanos while she admires his “rocks” in a hilarious “Late Late Show” parody of “The Avengers” called “The Marvel’s Mrs. Maisel.” “Is there a Mrs. Thanos?” she coos in the bit, posted Tuesday. Whatever Marvel has in store for its superheroes in the future, it better recruit Mrs. Maisel before she

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Does the naked body belong on Facebook? It’s complicated

SAN FRANCISCO — When is a photograph of nude bodies artistic or titillating? A woman’s exposed nipple a political statement or erotica? A video of childbirth might show genitalia. Should what someone considers a celebration of life be censored? In 1964, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart declined to define what constitutes obscenity but famously

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