New York Times
F.D.A. Approves Second Gene-Altering Treatment for Cancer
The treatment will be for adults with aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma when chemotherapy has failed. It re-engineers a patient’s own cells to fight cancer.
Congressional Memo: For the Senate’s Budget Blueprint, It’s Better Late Than Never
The Senate’s budget blueprint, while ostensibly an outline of federal spending and revenues, would allow a tax bill to be approved with only Republican votes.
Key ISIS Operative in Philippines ‘Taken’ in Gunfight, President Says
Mahmud Ahmad had acted as a link to the group’s central command in Syria, helping funnel money and foreign fighters who ransacked a city in the south.
Review: ‘The Snowman’ Is a Thrill-Free Thriller Tied in Knots
Michael Fassbender and other talented people wander through this leaden mess.
An Alternative to Burial and Cremation Gains Popularity
Fifteen states, most recently California, have rules allowing for the liquefaction of human remains through a process called alkaline hydrolysis.
Nawaz Sharif, Ousted Pakistani Leader, Is Indicted in Corruption Case
The charges against the former prime minister stem from his family’s ownership of expensive residential property in London.
Art Review: Vietnam, Up Close and Personal
The New-York Historical Society’s show on the Vietnam War highlights racial and class divisions, generational rifts and government mendacity.
Take a Number: Women Are More Likely to Address High Blood Pressure
Men and women develop hypertension at roughly the same rates, but men do not get it under control until much later in life, researchers find.
Economic View: A Stock Market Panic Like 1987 Could Happen Again
On Oct. 19, 1987, the stock market fell more than 20 percent. It would be comforting to believe a crash couldn’t recur. But we are still at risk.
Contributing Op-Ed Writer: Democracy Can Plant the Seeds of Its Own Destruction
The advent of Trumpism is a symptom of the erosion of our basic institutions.
California Today: California Today: Why Jerry Brown Vetoes
Thursday: Jerry Brown’s veto calculus, a crisis at PG&E, and a look back at the inventor of the audience wave.
Review: ‘Wonderstruck,’ Todd Haynes’s Imitations of Life
Mr. Haynes’s lovely adaptation of Brian Selznick’s book centers on a girl in the 1920s and a boy in the ’70s whose lives are mysteriously connected.
Review: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’
Yorgos Lanthimos’s follow-up to “The Lobster” is a family drama that doesn’t reach the same imaginative peaks of his earlier films.
A Madoff Gets a Makeover, by Giving Them
“Don’t think that you’re staring at some girl who has it all,” Stephanie Mack tells personal-shopping clients. “Let me tell you what happened to me.”
Russian Artist Is Charged Over Fire at Central Bank Building in Paris
Pyotr Pavlensky was pictured on social media standing in front of flames at a Banque de France building on the Place de la Bastille.
Op-Ed Contributor: How to Respond to Richard Spencer
If you expected the white nationalist to skulk away after Charlottesville, you misunderstood his strategy.
In the Running: She’s a Conservative Who Loves Cher. Could She Be New York’s Next Mayor?
The mayoral candidate faces long odds to unseat the Democrat incumbent, Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Review: ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Slowly Goes Where Dark TV Has Gone Before
Through its first five episodes, this moody series has some good ideas as it tries to adapt the franchise to the times. But it could use an energy boost.
Review: ‘Only the Brave’ Is an Inspiring Tale of Firefighter Sacrifice
This action drama from Joseph Kosinski — about the Granite Mountain Hotshots of Prescott, Ariz. — offers some real feeling under a schematic surface.
Afghan Army Unit Nearly Wiped Out as New Taliban Tactic Takes Toll
Forty-three soldiers were killed after militants drove stolen Humvees packed with explosives into an army base, mirroring a tactic used in two recent attacks.