France: Protest Planned Amid Revelry; Macron Defends Agenda

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NYT Europe
Paris is holding its annual New Year's Eve celebration on the Champs-Elysees under heavy security as protesters from an anti-government movement planned to gather Monday night on the famed avenue where a peaceful march at the beginning of the mont...
Published date: December 31, 2018 at 03:19PM
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New Your Times - Health - When Doctors Serve on Company Boards

By KATIE THOMAS and CHARLES ORNSTEIN
NYT Health
Some hospital executives and cancer researchers sit on the boards of publicly traded companies, raising questions about whether their dual roles create a conflict of interest.
Published date: December 31, 2018 at 02:00AM

Predators Down Capitals to End Six-Game Slide

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NYT Hockey
Frederick Gaudreau scored the tiebreaking goal late in the second period as the visiting Nashville Predators posted the game's final five goals and defeated the Washington Capitals 6-3 in a Monday matinee.
Published date: December 31, 2018 at 10:55PM
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Factbox: Departments Hit by Partial U.S. Government Shutdown

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NYT
Shuttered U.S. government agencies remained closed on Monday, as Democrats in the House of Representatives readied legislation intended to reopen the government that would not meet President Donald Trump's demand for $5 billion to fund a border wa...
Published date: December 31, 2018 at 08:43PM
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New Your Times - Health - Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Season of Turmoil

By KATIE THOMAS and CHARLES ORNSTEIN
NYT Health
One of the nation’s top cancer hospitals has grappled with how to bring breakthrough treatments to market while remaining true to its mission.
Published date: December 31, 2018 at 02:00AM

Democrat Warren Takes Step to Challenge Trump in 2020

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NYT Politics
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a liberal firebrand who has taken on Wall Street and traded barbs with Donald Trump, on Monday became the most prominent Democrat to announce a challenge to the Republican president in 2020.
Published date: December 31, 2018 at 03:49PM
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Northern Ireland's DUP Will Hold May to Promise of Brexit Deal Changes

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The Northern Irish party that props up Britain's minority government will hold Prime Minister Theresa May to her commitment to secure changes to the divorce deal struck with the European Union, its leader said on Monday.
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Today in History - December 31

Today in History - December 31

On December 31, 1837, Democrat Amasa J. Parker, congressman from New York, sat down in his quarters in Mrs. Pittman’s boarding house in Washington, D.C., to write a letter to his wife, miles away at their Catskills home in Delhi, New York. Continue reading.

On December 31, 1881, Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of President James Garfield, wrote a New Year’s greeting to his jailer. Continue reading.

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The Year in Charts

By STEVEN RATTNER
NYT
Economic and other indicators are making it increasingly clear that Trump’s economic dreams are unlikely to come true.
Published date: December 31, 2018 at 01:00PM
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Astronomy picture of the day by NASA - The Witch Head Nebula

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble .... maybe Macbeth should have consulted the Witch Head Nebula. A frighteningly shaped reflection nebula, this cosmic crone is about 800 light-years away though. Its malevolent visage seems to glare toward nearby bright star Rigel in Orion, just off the right edge of this frame. More formally known as IC 2118, the interstellar cloud of dust and gas is nearly 70 light-years across, its dust grains reflecting Rigel's starlight. In this composite portrait, the nebula's color is caused not only by the star's intense bluish light but because the dust grains scatter blue light more efficiently than red. The same physical process causes Earth's daytime sky to appear blue, although the scatterers in planet Earth's atmosphere are molecules of nitrogen and oxygen. via NASA

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Published date: December 31, 2018 at 07:01AM
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New State Laws Affect Birth to Death _ and, of Course, Taxes

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The new year marks the start of numerous new state laws affecting a broad swath of life — from birth to marriage to death and, of course, taxes. Most take effect Tuesday. A look at some of them:
Published date: December 30, 2018 at 06:25PM
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Minimum Wage Rising in 20 States and Numerous Cities

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At Granny Shaffer's restaurant in Joplin, Missouri, owner Mike Wiggins is reprinting the menus to reflect the 5, 10 or 20 cents added to each item.
Published date: December 30, 2018 at 05:46PM
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Today in History - December 30

Today in History - December 30

Turn-of-the-century progressive reformer John Peter Altgeld was born in Germany on December 30, 1847. Continue reading.

U.S. Minister to Mexico James Gadsden, and three envoys of the President of Mexico General Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón, signed the Gadsden Purchase, or Gadsden Treaty, in Mexico City on December 30, 1853. Continue reading.

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Trump Says 'Big Progress' on Possible China Trade Deal

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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter that he had a "long and very good call" with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that a possible trade deal between the United States and China was progressing well.
Published date: December 30, 2018 at 09:07AM
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Astronomy picture of the day by NASA - The Galaxy Tree

First came the trees. In the town of Salamanca, Spain, the photographer noticed how distinctive a grove of oak trees looked after being pruned. Next came the galaxy. The photographer stayed up until 2 am, waiting until the Milky Way Galaxy rose above the level of a majestic looking oak. From this carefully chosen perspective, dust lanes in the galaxy appear to be natural continuations to branches of the tree. Last came the light. A flashlight was used on the far side of the tree to project a silhouette. By coincidence, other trees also appeared as similar silhouettes across the relatively bright horizon. The featured image was captured as a single 30-second frame earlier this month and processed to digitally enhance the Milky Way. via NASA

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This Week’s Wedding Announcements

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NYT Weddings
All of the weddings right here on one handy page for you.
Published date: December 30, 2018 at 07:30AM
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Presidential Tweets Shutdown Blame, No Talk of Solutions

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NYT Politics
President Donald Trump was firing Twitter barbs at Democrats this weekend as talks to end a weeklong partial government shutdown remained at a stalemate.
Published date: December 30, 2018 at 07:10AM
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Margaret Bordonaro, Gregory Solarz

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NYT Weddings
They went on six dates in two weeks after reconnecting at a friend’s wedding.
Published date: December 30, 2018 at 07:10AM
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New Your Times - Health - In Rehab, ‘Two Warring Factions’: Abstinence vs. Medication

By ABBY GOODNOUGH
NYT Health
A reluctant evolution is taking place in residential drug treatment for opioid addiction. Here’s a look at one center’s wary shift.
Published date: December 29, 2018 at 02:00AM

CVC in Exclusive Talks for Stake in French Insurer APRIL

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Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners is in exclusive talks with French peer Evolem to buy its majority stake in insurer APRIL, the companies said in a statement on Saturday.
Published date: December 29, 2018 at 10:34PM
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Everyone Gets Sick. And We Deserve Better.

By KAMALA D. HARRIS
NYT Sunday Review
What my mother’s death taught me about the health care system American needs.
Published date: December 29, 2018 at 09:30PM
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How to Fix a Broken Health Care System

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NYT Letters
We asked readers for their ideas, which include Medicare for All, price transparency, limits on interventions for the terminally ill and emphasis on preventive care.
Published date: December 29, 2018 at 08:00PM
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New Laws Are Putting California Further at Odds With Trump

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California Gov. Jerry Brown is leaving office Jan. 7 after signing more than 1,000 laws in his last year, further positioning the state as a bastion of liberal activism and goad to President Donald Trump.
Published date: December 29, 2018 at 07:43PM
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Trump Says 'Big Progress' on Possible China Trade Deal

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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Saturday that he had a "long and very good call" with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that a possible trade deal between the United States and China was progressing well.
Published date: December 29, 2018 at 06:19PM
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Today in History - December 29

Today in History - December 29

Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on December 29, 1808. Continue reading.

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Astronomy picture of the day by NASA - New Horizons at Ultima Thule

When we celebrate the start of 2019, on January 1 the New Horizons spacecraft will flyby Ultima Thule. A world of the Kuiper belt 6.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, the nickname Ultima Thule (catalog designation 2014 MU69) fittingly means "beyond the known world". Following its 2015 flyby of Pluto, New Horizons was targeted for this journey, attempting the most distant flyby for a spacecraft from Earth by approaching Ultima Thule to within about 3500 kilometers. The tiny world itself is about 30 kilometers in size. This year, an observing campaign with Earth-based telescopes determined the shape of the object to be a contact binary or a close binary sytem as in this artist's illustration. New Horizons will image close up its unexplored surface in the dim light of the distant Sun. via NASA

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Dems, Trump Trade Blame as Shutdown Slogs Into 2nd Weekend

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President Donald Trump and Democrats are trading blame for the partial government shutdown but doing little substantive talking with each other as the disruption in federal services and public employees' pay slogs into another weekend.
Published date: December 29, 2018 at 07:10AM
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FEMA Reverses Decision to Stop Issuing New Flood Insurance Policies

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said on Friday it will resume issuing new flood insurance policies during the partial U.S. government shutdown, reversing a decision announced two days ago.
Published date: December 29, 2018 at 03:58AM
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Shutdown to Close DC Museums and Galleries by Midweek

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Museums and galleries popular with visitors and locals in the nation's capital will close starting midweek if the partial shutdown of the federal government drags on.
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 06:40PM
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Sears Chair Lampert Makes Bid to Keep Retailer Alive: Sources

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NYT
Sears Holdings Corp Chairman Eddie Lampert has submitted a roughly $4.6 billion takeover bid for the bankrupt U.S. retailer, representing its only chance of escaping liquidation and laying off tens of thousands of workers, people familiar with the...
Published date: December 29, 2018 at 01:04AM
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No Woods, but Seven of World's Top Eight Will Play in Maui

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NYT Golf
Seven of the top eight players in the world rankings will contest next week's Sentry Tournament of Champions on the PGA Tour, but Tiger Woods will not be saying 'Aloha' to golf fans in Hawaii.
Published date: December 29, 2018 at 01:07AM
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Wells Fargo to Pay $575 Million in Settlement With U.S. States

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NYT
Wells Fargo & Co will pay $575 million (452 million pounds) to settle claims made by U.S. states, the latest settlement as the bank works to resolve lingering investigations and legal battles stemming from its sales-practices scandal and to re...
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 07:07PM
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Wells Fargo to Pay $575 Million in Settlement With U.S. States

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Wells Fargo & Co will pay $575 million to settle claims made by U.S. states, the latest settlement as the bank works to resolve lingering investigations and legal battles stemming from its sales-practices scandal and to remove a punitive asset...
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 07:04PM
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Wells Fargo Pays $575 Million to Settle State Investigations

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Wells Fargo will pay $575 million in a settlement with attorneys general from all 50 states and the District of Columbia that are investigating its banking practices, which have included phony accounts and manipulative sales practices.
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 08:46PM
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You Should Freeze Your Child’s Credit. It’s Not Hard. Here’s How.

By RON LIEBER
NYT Your Money
A new law requiring credit bureaus to offer you free freezes applies to children, too. It’s easier than you’d expect, but you may still have questions. Here are some answers.
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 02:00AM
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Albanian PM Reshuffles Cabinet After Student Protests

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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama replaced eight cabinet ministers on Friday amid a wave of student and anti-corruption protests, and urged his year-old government to think harder about how to make its term "one of achievements".
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 07:55PM
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The Latest: Trump Threatens to Shut Border if No Wall Money

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The Latest on the partial government shutdown (all times local):
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 03:16PM
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Britain: Men Found Guilty of Murder in Insurance Fraud

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Three men in Britain have been found guilty of murdering five people in an explosion as part of a plot to claim over 300,000 pounds ($380,000) from an insurance policy.
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 02:49PM
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Today in History - December 28

Today in History - December 28

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virginia. Continue reading.

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What's a Eurozone? Terms to Know as the Euro Turns 20

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The euro, Europe's shared currency, turns 20 on Tuesday. Here are some key terms to know:
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 01:52PM
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Modi Considers Three Options to Aid Indian Farmers Hit by Low Crop Prices-Sources

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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is considering three options for a relief package to help farmers suffering because of low crop prices at a cost of as much as 3 trillion rupees ($42.82 billion), according to three government sources.
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 12:58PM
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Sears Is Dying, but Workers’ Loyalty Lives On

By MICHAEL CORKERY
NYT
Across the country, legions of former employees gather regularly to celebrate a bygone era of retailing.
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 12:00PM
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May's Brexit Deal Can Get Through Parliament: UK Foreign Minister

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Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal can be passed by the British parliament if the European Union provides clarification that the Northern Irish "backstop" will be temporary, foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Friday.
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 10:55AM
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Euro Currency Remains a Work in Progress on 20th Birthday

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NYT Europe
The euro is about to celebrate its 20th birthday, but the countries that use it are still wrestling over how the shared currency should work and how to fix flaws exposed by the debt crisis that marred its second decade.
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 09:34AM
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Shutdown Solution Seems Unlikely Before Dems Take House

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It's looking increasingly like the partial government shutdown will be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year — the first big confrontation between President Donald Trump and Democrats — as agreement eludes Washing...
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 07:58AM
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Astronomy picture of the day by NASA - NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe

Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe some 200,000 light-years across. Located a mere 60 million light-years away toward the chemical constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is a dominant member of the well-studied Fornax galaxy cluster. This impressively sharp color image shows intense star forming regions at the ends of the bar and along the spiral arms, and details of dust lanes cutting across the galaxy's bright core. At the core lies a supermassive black hole. Astronomers think NGC 1365's prominent bar plays a crucial role in the galaxy's evolution, drawing gas and dust into a star-forming maelstrom and ultimately feeding material into the central black hole. via NASA

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Kane Gets Hat Trick to Lift Blackhawks Over Wild 5-2

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Patrick Kane had a hat trick, Brandon Saad scored twice and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Minnesota Wild 5-2 on Thursday night for their fourth win in five games.
Published date: December 28, 2018 at 06:34AM
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