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Primary Elections, Catholic Church, Turkey: Your Wednesday Briefing
Ilhan Omar, center, is poised to be one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, after winning the Democratic nomination in a left-leaning district of Minnesota.
• Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota lost a bid to reclaim the Republican nomination for governor on Tuesday, demonstrating President Trump’s grip on his party. Mr. Pawlenty had called Mr. Trump “unsound, uninformed, unhinged and unfit to be president” in the weeks before the 2016 election, criticism that Mr. Pawlenty later tried to play down.
Democrats delivered groundbreaking victories for a transgender woman in Vermont, a Muslim woman in Minnesota and an African-American woman in Connecticut. Also victorious on Tuesday: Senator Bernie Sanders.
in last week’s Republican primary for governor of Kansas. Gov. Jeff Colyer
, whose aggressive approach has prompted concerns among some Republicans that he would be too polarizing in the November election.
• “We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. But never on this scale.”
That’s the start of a searing grand jury report in Pennsylvania that was released on Tuesday, accusing bishops and other Roman Catholic Church leaders of
covering up child sexual abuse by more than 300 priests
The investigation, which found more than 1,000 identifiable victims, is the broadest examination yet by a government agency in the U.S. of child sexual abuse in the church. We compiled
to new criminal charges or civil lawsuits, because of the statute of limitations.
as its currency, the lira, has lost 25 percent of its value since last week.
A standoff with the U.S. Internet Currency Crossword , which has imposed sanctions, has accelerated a long decline in the lira linked to fears of economic mismanagement.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is casting the economic crisis as a national struggle. On Tuesday, he called on Turks to
(including, paradoxically, the iPhone, which he used to help fend off a coup two years ago).
have sought to project confidence in the face of President Trump’s tariffs and trade threats, but
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As President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey applies his strongman tactics to the economy, the country faces a crisis that could reverberate through global markets.
• Closing arguments are set to begin today in the trial of President Trump’s former campaign chairman, after Mr. Manafort’s lawyers
declined to call any witnesses to the stand to defend him
Mr. Manafort and his team let the case go to the jury because they “do not believe that the government has met its burden of proof,” said the lead defense lawyer.
is accused of evading taxes on roughly $16.5 million that he earned for political work in Ukraine, and of fraudulently obtaining more than $20 million in loans.
• Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former White House aide who has written a tell-all book, became the latest in
a growing list of African-Americans whom President Trump has disparaged Internet Currency Crossword
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said the president’s comment on Tuesday was not driven by racial animus and defended him by pointing out his willingness to lash out at people of all races.
Ms. Sanders also said that the Trump administration had already created three times as many jobs for black Americans as the Obama administration did.
filed an arbitration case on Tuesday against Ms. Manigault Newman Internet Currency Crossword
• Last weekend, more than 1,000 Taliban insurgents sought to overrun the strategic city of Ghazni in eastern Afghanistan.
Some 300 miles away, an army base also came under attack, offering a lesson in the difficult conditions facing Afghan troops, especially when forces are stretched thin by a big fight with the Taliban elsewhere.
Of the 106 soldiers at the base, only one was neither captured nor killed.
. It’s the first state to kill a prisoner with the help of the powerful opioid at the center of the U.S. overdose crisis.
, killing at least 39 people as dozens of vehicles and tons of concrete and steel plunged onto streets below. The disaster prompted an emergency review of Italy’s aging infrastructure.
and urged the chief executive, Elon Musk, to stop tweeting after its members were blindsided by his talk of taking the automaker private.
suspended the account of the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
for a week after he violated rules against inciting violence.
Almonds represent a $7.6 billion industry in California that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) keeping the trees pollinated. But the bees’ existence is in peril. The Times Magazine
Filling hives with sugar syrup (feed for honey bees) on an almond orchard near Madera, Calif.
In a Las Vegas strip mall, a master chocolatier is teaching cooks from all over the world
“It’s hard not to have fun,” our movie critic said of “Crazy Rich Asians,” an adaptation of the best-selling novel in which an Asian-American woman in New York visits her boyfriend’s exquisitely rich family in Singapore.
For the second straight night, the comedy hosts had trouble focusing on anything other than
“This looks like a mess, really, from the outside. Once you are inside, you see it is even worse.”
, the new chief executive of the Puerto Rico power authority, which has spent $3.2 billion restoring a system that isn’t much better now than it was before Hurricane Maria.
Maggie Haberman, one of our White House correspondents, recommends
as “a companion piece to all the Omarosa reporting. From Tim O’Brien, the executive editor of Bloomberg opinion.”
would be stepping down as chief executive of PepsiCo
, we’re looking back at a soft drink that was originally billed this way: “Exhilarating. Invigorating. Aids digestion.”
Pepsi-Cola was known as Brad’s Drink when it was first sold in 1893, at Caleb Bradham’s pharmacy in New Bern, N.C.
An ad for Pepsi in New York. The soda got its start at a pharmacy in North Carolina more than 100 years ago.
Hoping to duplicate the success of Coca-Cola, Mr. Bradham
. He was committed to promoting his soda as a health remedy, with a list of all-natural ingredients including water, sugar, caramel, lemon oil and nutmeg.
, after making a wrong gamble on the price of sugar during World War I.
The company, which became PepsiCo in 1965, is now one of the largest multinational conglomerates in the world. During Ms. Nooyi’s 12 years at the helm, it has shifted back to a focus on healthier beverages and snacks.
“They kept telling me, ‘Why are you Mother Teresa? Why are you trying to change your portfolio to healthier products?’ Because that’s where the market was going,”
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