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Uncommitted senators are squandering their leverage on the tax bill.

Previously reluctant to show the autonomous vehicles it is developing, General Motors now wants to signal its progress in getting them to market.

A songwriter’s six-train, 8,980-mile cross-country journey reminds him that slowing down, logging off and meeting strangers is an antidote to pessimism.

Lucian Wintrich of The Gateway Pundit was charged with breach of the peace after he became involved in an altercation during his speech.

The American government has yet to compensate any of the families of the thousands of civilian casualties from the U.S.-led battle against ISIS. Why?

Two decades ago, big companies wagered that they could save billions by shifting profits overseas. Under Republican tax plans, those bets would pay off.

Wednesday: Taking on a New York debate, the Rockefeller Center tree lighting, and readers weigh in on the state’s dividing line.

The dangers of a country poised between democracy and “dictatorship with a Constitution.”

Arguing, again, about whether racism or populism made Trump president.

Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers made jokes about Senator Bernie Sanders’s surprise nomination for a Grammy.

El Salvador’s gangs try to negotiate a way out of their bloody stalemate with the police.

Tommy Wiseau has made his peace with the cult status of his drama, er, comedy “The Room,” the subject of James Franco’s new film, “The Disaster Artist.”

It’s worth noting that some of this season’s most exciting travel narratives are by women.

From Lou Reed to Gucci Mane to Stevie Nicks, a look at the season’s music biographies.

From Attica Locke to Jo Nesbo, Marilyn Stasio looks back at some of her favorite mysteries and thrillers from a year’s worth of crime columns.

Mainstream lawyers and law professors in China are taking a risk in speaking out against a move that they say would violate the country’s Constitution.

Lizzie Collingham’s “The Taste of Empire” and Erika Rappaport’s “A Thirst for Empire” explore the worldwide influence of Britain’s culinary heritage.

Over the last decade, a few giant corporations became an inescapable part of online life. Gutting net neutrality would cement their power.

The writer and artist Ingrid Burrington helps us identify the physical objects that make up the internet all around us every day.

The missile flew higher than previous launches, and came despite President Trump’s warnings to the North.