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Jazmine Headley’s Arrest Shows the Danger of Mothering While Black

It’s strange to feel heartened when someone who should never have been arrested is released.
Look What You Made Taylor Swift Do: Use Facial-Recognition Technology

Swift used facial recognition to scan audience members at a May concert looking for stalkers.
Just for Laughs Founder Gilbert Rozon Charged With Rape, Indecent Assault

Multiple women came forward with sexual-misconduct allegations against Rozon last year.
Michael Cohen Headed to Prison for 3 Years, After Doing Crimes at Trump’s Behest

“The irony is that today I get my freedom back,” Cohen said. “Blind loyalty to [Trump] led me to choose a path of darkness over light.”
Oscar Futures: Who’s on Top After Those Shocking SAG Nominations?

Bohemian Rhapsody and BlacKkKlansman scored Best Cast nominations, while Beale Street was snubbed entirely.
Tech Companies Just Don’t Know How Their Algorithms Work

The complex webs of code tech companies rely on produce results, but even they don’t know how. It’s time for them to admit it.
Surprise: Black Voters Still Don’t Like Donald Trump

Trump’s claim he would get 95 percent of the black vote in 2020 is looking like absolutely the polar opposite of reality.
Facebook HQ Evacuated Overnight Due to Bomb Threat

Thankfully, things are now back to business as usual.
Charlie Rose Accusers Settle Lawsuit With CBS News

They were paid an undisclosed sum.
Christine Blasey Ford Makes Her First Appearance in Months

In a video honoring the first woman to publicly accuse Larry Nassar.
Tory Rebels Decide Brexit Not Chaotic Enough, Move to End May’s Leadership

The Conservative Party’s hard-line Brexiteers engineer a small, pointless crisis (within the large pointless crisis they already engineered).
Michael Flynn to Judge: Don’t Lock Me Up

Flynn’s lawyers say he deserves leniency, in part because he wasn’t warned that lying to the FBI is a crime.
Stormy Daniels Now Has to Pay Trump Almost $300,000 in Legal Fees

A week and a half after she said she didn’t want her lawyer to file the suit in the first place.
A Biden-Romney Fantasy Ticket So Ain’t Happening

A Washington outsider revives the hoary fantasy of a centrist third party, but it has never made any sense.
Trump Vows to Shut Down Government If He Doesn’t Get His Wall

The president lost his temper and finally took total responsibility for a bad thing that may soon happen.
Michelle Obama Memoir Continues to Steamroll Every Other Book Released This Year

And more tour dates were added.
With New SNAP Work Requirements Removed, We May Finally Get a Farm Bill

The previous farm bill expired in October and lawmakers were at an impasse over a House Republican push to restrict access to food stamps.
Pelosi May Accept 4-Year Term Limit on Speakership

It’s mainly a face-saving measure for anti-Pelosi rebels who, at most, can keep her from serving as House Democratic leader well into her 80s.
White Supremacist Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder of Heather Heyer

A jury sentenced James Alex Fields Jr., 21, to life plus 419 years, and $480,000 in fines.
That Equifax Hack Was ‘Entirely Preventable’

Bleak news from a government investigation.

6:00 A.M. California’s Multibillion-Dollar Private-Equity Boondoggle As public pensions across the U.S. rot from the inside, California’s influential CalPERS fund wants to set up a sketchy new business model.
1:25 A.M. The Search for Trump’s Next Chief of Staff Is Getting Absurd Newt Gingrich is visiting the White House and Jose Canseco has submitted his resume.
7:33 P.M. Pelosi Clinches Speakership With Term-Limit Agreement She’ll be out of leadership by 2022.
6:38 P.M. Supreme Court Dealt a Blow to Unions, But Not a Knock Out Despite the dire outlook after June’s Janus v. AFSCME decision, union membership isn’t dropping as expected.
4:33 P.M. Look What You Made Taylor Swift Do Swift used facial recognition to scan audience members at a May concert looking for stalkers.
2:34 P.M. New York’s 20 Most-Read Stories in 2018 The articles our readers were most deeply engaged with this year.
2:31 P.M. Early Presidential Buzz Can Be an Omen or an Illusion Beto O’Rourke is looking very good as a 2020 presidential prospect. But others have looked just as good and have quickly flamed out or failed to run.
2:28 P.M. Why Are Libertarians and the Left Both for Open Immigration? Reihan Salam’s book Melting Pot or Civil War? seeks to answer this question — and offers a plan for a sustainable 21st-century immigration policy.
2:05 P.M. Michael Cohen to Do 3 Years Time for Helping Trump Do Crimes “The irony is that today I get my freedom back,” Cohen said. “Blind loyalty to [Trump] led me to choose a path of darkness over light.”
1:50 P.M. Tech Companies Just Don’t Know How Their Algorithms Work The complex webs of code tech companies rely on produce results, but even they don’t know how. It’s time for them to admit it.
12:32 P.M. Facebook HQ Evacuated Overnight Due to Bomb Threat Thankfully, things are now back to business as usual.
12:09 P.M. Will Trump Follow Through on His Incredibly Dumb Threat? If he does trigger a shutdown, he will set his party back even further than he already has.
11:42 A.M. The New Push to Change New York’s Outdated Abortion Law With a Democratic trifecta set to take power, abortion rights advocates are launching a campaign to finally pass the Reproductive Health Act.
10:00 A.M. Messy Breexiters Who Live for Drama Try to Oust Theresa May The Conservative Party’s hard-line Brexiteers engineer a small, pointless crisis (within the large pointless crisis they already engineered).
9:22 A.M. Don’t Blame Trump For Losing to These Legislative Geniuses A close analysis of how Democrats somehow outmaneuvered the great negotiator.
Dec. 12, 2018 America Is Trading Black Education for Fake Meritocracy A plan to integrate New York City’s elite public high schools has sparked outrage, exposing racial fault lines old and new.
Dec. 12, 2018 Michael Flynn to Judge: Don’t Lock Me Up Flynn’s lawyers say he deserves leniency, in part because he wasn’t warned that lying to the FBI is a crime.
Dec. 11, 2018 Surprise: Black Voters Still Don’t Like Donald Trump Trump’s claim he would get 95 percent of the black vote in 2020 is looking like absolutely the polar opposite of reality.
Dec. 11, 2018 A Biden-Romney Fantasy Ticket So Ain’t Happening A Washington outsider revives the hoary fantasy of a centrist third party, but it has never made any sense.
Dec. 11, 2018 Instagram Sucks Up to Creators to Avoid Becoming Snapchat The platform is testing new features for creators.

7:21 P.M. This Seems Like a Very Chill Divorce Situation Lisa Bonet’s current husband, Jason Momoa, got matching rings with her ex-husband, Lenny Kravitz.
6:08 P.M. Here’s Why Everyone Is Talking About Nancy Pelosi’s Coat Her symbolic red coat became the most sought-after piece of clothing after her Tuesday meeting with Trump.
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4:34 P.M. All I Want for Christmas Is Something Price Upon Request Please buy me this diamond-encrusted snake bracelet.
4:31 P.M. The Best Holiday Tradition Involves 13 Delinquent Trolls Iceland’s “Yule Lads” terrorize children, introducing them to raw existential dread from a young age.
4:19 P.M. Wait, What Is a Skunk Tinkling Contest? A linguist explains what Nancy Pelosi meant when she warned against getting in a “tinkle contest with a skunk.”
4:15 P.M. Wearing Coats Is Different When You’re Famous Jennifer Lopez doesn’t need to worry about the dirt on the street.
3:57 P.M. Jazmine Headley and the Danger of Mothering While Black It’s strange to feel heartened when someone who should never have been arrested is released.
2:36 P.M. Estée Lauder Has a New Bold Makeup Collection Check out the limited-edition “La Dangereuse” set.
2:20 P.M. This Holland Tunnel Décor Is Driving People Nuts An extremely frustrated commuter took a stand against the Port Authority’s questionable décor.
2:06 P.M. Is Taylor Swift’s Very Private Boyfriend Ready to Propose? And more in this week’s celebrity gossip column.
1:51 P.M. Prince Harry Wants to Protect Meghan Markle From Drama But he reportedly feels “powerless.”
1:35 P.M. A Fancy Lip Balm That Makes All Your Lipsticks Look Better And last longer, too.
12:39 P.M. Can a Child Be King If His Mask Is Wax? “Live wax figures” of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle bring about an important question.
12:35 P.M. End Your Shower With a Second Shower Why you should cap your hot shower with a tiny cold one.
12:12 P.M. Charlie Rose Accusers Settle Lawsuit With CBS News They were paid an undisclosed sum.
12:11 P.M. Spend the Holidays in These Sweats, Guilt-Free New sustainably made loungewear.
12:03 P.M. Barry Jenkins Really Loves Nancy Pelosi’s Coat The Moonlight director did a close-reading of Pelosi’s fashion choice after her tense meeting with Trump.
11:37 A.M. Young People Have No Idea What Happened in the ’80s According to Google.
11:15 A.M. The 13 Biggest Celebrity Breakups and Makeups of 2018 From Cardi B and Offset to Jenny Slate and Chris Evans.

2:40 A.M. You Can Stream the DVD Screensaver on YouTube Wall hits: 24031, Corner Hits: 43
1:24 A.M. Is Chrissy Teigen Icing Out Jesse Tyler Ferguson? This is what happens when you intentionally mispronounce someone’s name.
12:49 A.M. Jason Momoa Led a Haka at the Aquaman Premiere “For thee, I defy, the lightning bolts of hell!”
11:41 P.M. Supernatural Bringing Back Jeffrey Dean Morgan for 300th Ep America’s most-resurrected dad is back!
10:58 P.M. Sesame Street Introduces Its First Homeless Muppet The show wants to destigmatize housing insecurity.
10:00 P.M. The Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: Jekyll and Bride Did anyone really think Danielle was going to be chill about her bachelorette party?
9:55 P.M. Miley Cyrus On ‘Black Mirror’? Liam Hemsworth Herding Pigs? It’s Miley!!
9:05 P.M. Megan Mullally Will Host the SAG Awards Will Nick Offerman host the AFTRA Awards?
9:00 P.M. Mark Consuelos on Playing Riverdale’s Resident Mobster Plus, some confusion over his “make my bones” catchphrase.
9:00 P.M. Riverdale Midseason Finale Recap: The Hot Zone One of the dullest episodes in a while sends us into the midwinter break by putting to bed the mystery of the Gargoyle King — or does it??
8:57 P.M. Steven Yeun Joins Twilight Zone, Show Gets Even Hotter So many of your faves.
8:26 P.M. Ariana Grande Will Release New Single, ‘Imagine’ Thursday Imagine all the people listening to this song.
8:13 P.M. Watch The Trailer For Netflix’s Tidying Up With Marie Kondo Find your spark of joy!
6:43 P.M. Report: CBS This Morning Executive Producer to Exit Network Ryan Kadro was named in a recently-settled lawsuit.
6:39 P.M. The Mule Is a Modest Twist on the Clint Eastwood Myth Without many advance screenings or the usual ballyhoo for a Clint Eastwood film.
6:09 P.M. This Week in Rap: Serengeti, Nef the Pharoah, Rucci, More Featuring Serengeti, Nef the Pharoah, Rucci, Koran Streets, and Drego & Beno.
5:17 P.M. Werner Herzog Joins the Star Wars Universe He’s headed to The Mandalorian.
4:40 P.M. Just for Laughs Founder Gilbert Rozon Charged With Rape Multiple women came forward with sexual-misconduct allegations against Rozon last year.
3:10 P.M. SNL Host Matt Damon Has Very High Secret Santa Standards Don’t you dare ruin this for him.
2:46 P.M. New Pixar Movie Snags Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, and More A pair of teen elves set out to find magic.

12:07 P.M. It’s Time to Stop Calling Foods ‘Crack’ A restaurant chain is nixing the term from its menu, and others should follow.
10:30 A.M. The Absolute Best New Restaurants of 2018 A diner’s dozen.
10:09 A.M. Old Bay Maker Understandably Upset About ‘New Bae’ Spice Mix A new lawsuit aims to shut down the copycat.
Dec. 12, 2018 How Narcissa Makes a Sweet Potato Taste Like Bacon Murasaki and Okinawan sweet potatoes are boiled, smoked, smashed, and deep-fried, then draped in two Peruvian-inspired sauces and pickled peppers.
Dec. 11, 2018 Drink the World’s Best Dessert Wine With a Twinkie Sauternes: Great with Twinkies and with foie gras.
Dec. 11, 2018 Journalists Arrested for Inserting Salt Bae Into Last Supper Jordan’s government accused them of inciting sectarian strife.
Dec. 11, 2018 The Underground Gourmet’s Year-End Digest The top pizzas, sandwiches, dishes, and desserts of 2018, ranked.
Dec. 10, 2018 A New Kaiseki Spot From a Renowned Chef Opens Tomorrow Odo will offer dishes like washugyu rib eye with sansho-soy sauce.
Dec. 10, 2018 The Egg Salad Sandwich That Won Instagram in 2018 Food that manages to be gorgeous without resorting to gimmicks.
Dec. 10, 2018 Instacart Shoppers Are Boycotting Over Falling Wages Under a new pay model, employees have seen their earnings fall by half or more.
Dec. 9, 2018 Mario Batali’s Empire in the Wake of Mario Batali A year after allegations against him emerged, anyone who eats at Babbo is still filling his pockets.
Dec. 7, 2018 Trailblazing Cocktail Bar Flatiron Lounge Will Close Julie Reiner’s destination bar ushered in New York mixology’s golden age.
Dec. 7, 2018 Mark Ladner’s Fast-Casual Pasta Flyer Will Close The chef is looking for a new space for the restaurant.
Dec. 7, 2018 Restaurant Power Rankings: Where to Eat Right Now It’s our weekly ranking of the city’s most important restaurants.
Dec. 7, 2018 Actor Max Greenfield’s Grub Street Diet “That’s crazy talk!”
Dec. 6, 2018 New-Brooklyn Pioneer Battersby Will Close This Month The restaurant will host its last night of service on New Year’s Eve.
Dec. 6, 2018 10 Events That Should Be on Your Weekend Agenda 2 Dope Queens, local beer and cider, and a celebration of the Dude.
Dec. 6, 2018 What Our Editors Are Giving This Year Grub Street has gift ideas for ramen fans, rosé lovers, and plenty more.
Dec. 6, 2018 Lasagna Pizza Is the Food Mash-up America Needs Right Now Little Caesars has answered our collective prayers.
Dec. 6, 2018 Why Tips Won They’re outdated. They’re discriminatory. And they aren’t going anywhere.

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4:34 P.M. What’s the Best Wallet to Give? To help us sort through the vast wallet-sphere, we talked to buyers, tastemakers, and fashion directors.
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1:00 P.M. Welcome to the Strategist’s Celebrity White Elephant Follow the journey of the Queen Elizabeth figurine, see who wins a karaoke microphone, and find out who brought composting worms.
12:39 P.M. Barbour Jackets and Vests for Men Up to 50 Percent Off For all your winter layering.
11:43 A.M. This Supersharp Knife Is the Best Thing I Bought in 2018 It slices, dices, butterflies, chops, and cuts like a dream.
11:21 A.M. The Best Gifts for People Who Are Big on Instagram From beaded bags to chocolate protein powder.
9:30 A.M. What Strategist Readers Bought: The 25 Top-Sellers of 2018 A year of pimple patches, weighted blankets, and metal straws.
Dec. 11, 2018 25 Office Secret Santa Gifts (on Amazon) for Under $25 From a reusable coffee mug to fish-shaped cat toys.
Dec. 11, 2018 If You Have This Kitchen Item, You’ll Love This Other Thing Actually useful kitchen gifts for people who already own a Vitamix or an Instant Pot.
Dec. 11, 2018 This Baby Formula Machine Is Practically a Night Nurse Imagine it’s 3 a.m. You haven’t slept in days. You have to wake up and make formula.
Dec. 11, 2018 DVF and Anthropologie Dresses for Up to 72 Percent Off For all your holiday party needs.
Dec. 11, 2018 The 28 Best Holiday Gifts for Boyfriends and Husbands “I remember one time someone got me a bunch of these wool socks — like six pairs — and it was the best winter ever.”
Dec. 11, 2018 The Gifts Strategist Editors Want (and Will Be Giving) From CBD gum drops to cashmere beanies to a smart dog camera.
Dec. 11, 2018 What Kristen Bell Can’t Live Without “EVERY time I wear this, I get compliments on my lips. Every. Single. time.”
Dec. 10, 2018 Odor-Free Kitty Litter Is the Best Thing I Bought in 2018 It also changes colors if your cat’s sick.
Dec. 10, 2018 The Best Travel Pillows, According to Travel Writers These are a notch above your usual duty-free options.
Dec. 10, 2018 Package Deals: 11 Kitchen Gift Bundles Under $100 Like DIY gift baskets, but with kitchen gear and cookbooks.
Dec. 10, 2018 The Best Lip Balm I’ve Ever Tried (and I’ve Tried Them All) It hydrates and locks in moisture for hours and hours.
Dec. 10, 2018 Give It Six Months Before Pleated Lampshades Are at West Elm “Young designers around the world are repurposing the prim style, making pleated shades without so much ornamental ruching and beading.”

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