The New York Times: Today's Headlines

Top News For Obama, an Unexpected Legacy of Two Full Terms at War By MARK LANDLER The president has approached conflict, and dealings with terror groups, as a chronic but manageable security challenge rather than an all-consuming national campaign.  Q. and A.: Why Has Fighting Continued? Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private By MICHAEL BARBARO and MEGAN TWOHEY Interviews reveal unwelcome advances, a shrewd reliance on ambition, and unsettling workplace conduct over decades. Squatters See a New Frontier in the Empty Homes of Las Vegas By IAN LOVETT Foreclosed homes still pockmark Las Vegas, lingering signs of the housing crisis. But they do not always stay empty: Squatters move in, bringing crime with them. World Brazil's Graft-Prone Congress: A Circus That Even Has a Clown By ANDREW JACOBS The legislature contains a dizzying cast of characters, and, by one count, more than half of its 594 members face legal challenges. 50 Years After the Cultural Revolution, a Son Awaits Answers on His Father's Death By CHRIS BUCKLEY Chen Shuxiang's father was killed by Red Guards in the first spasms of Mao's Cultural Revolution. He has never learned why his father was singled out or what happened to his body. Solar Project Pairs Muslims and Jews to Aid West Bank Farmers By JAMES GLANZ and RAMI NAZZAL Experts say the $100,000 environmental venture is the first substantial one in the West Bank to be financed by a group involving Muslims and Jews in the U.S. U.S. States Move Toward Treating 17-Year-Old Offenders as Juveniles, Not Adults By ERIK ECKHOLM Louisiana is among a dwindling number of states where 17-year-olds are automatically treated as adults, and among a growing number that are looking at revising those laws. Reeling Over Bias Rules, Charlotte Fights North Carolina Governor It Once Called Mayor By ALAN BLINDER Though Pat McCrory still has supporters in Charlotte, N.C., other city residents are dismayed by his emergence as a symbol of the legislature's conservative agenda. Humans and Mastodons Coexisted in Florida, New Evidence Shows By JAMES GORMAN The discovery of an unmistakable human artifact proves that humans colonized northern Florida by 14,550 years ago. Business Start-Ups Embrace Arbitration to Settle Workplace Disputes By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and MICHAEL CORKERY As new companies grow, they are relying on a tool used by big corporations to shield themselves from potentially expensive class-action court cases. Megyn Kelly, Contract Set to Expire Next Year, Is Primed for the Big Show By JOHN KOBLIN The Fox anchor, whose contract is up for renewal next year, sees a chance to be the next Barbara Walters. A one-on-one with Donald Trump will set the stage. New Crowdfunding Rules Let the Small Fry Swim With Sharks By STACY COWLEY Starting Monday, new regulations will permit anyone, not just the moneyed, to invest in small companies in exchange for a stake in the business. Technology TECHNOPHORIA When Websites Won't Take No for an Answer By NATASHA SINGER User experience experts are calling out companies whose digital practices may cross the line between nudge and manipulation. BITS Farhad and Mike's Week in Tech: Facebook's Take on the News By FARHAD MANJOO and MIKE ISAAC Charges of bias at Facebook Trending; a bad week for tech companies; ride-hailing and the cities. THE UPSHOT What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour By NEIL IRWIN Which was a more important innovation: indoor plumbing, jet air travel or mobile phones? Sports PART 1 Man vs. Marathon By JERÉ LONGMAN One scientist's quixotic quest to propel a runner past the two-hour barrier. EXTRA BASES A Veteran Retools as a Knuckleballer By TYLER KEPNER Dan Johnson, 36, has had a few big hits in his major league career, but he began fiddling with the knuckleball, hoping a bonus skill would improve his chances of returning to the majors. Aroldis Chapman, Yankees' New Fireballer, Is Kindling Fans' Excitement By BILLY WITZ Chapman, a closer who last year threw the 77 fastest pitches in baseball, is providing a jolt at Yankee Stadium with 100-mile-an-hour fastballs. Arts 'Hamilton' and Company: Tony Award Nominees in a Season That Reflected the World Our critics discuss the sophisticated works that focused on race, history and cultural reclamation - and defined this theatergoing season. A 'Hamilton' Star's Story: How Leslie Odom Jr. Became Aaron Burr, Sir By MICHAEL PAULSON The actor who plays the show's antihero showed up ready when he was first asked to read for the role. Crowe and Gosling in a Comedy? Seriously By MARGY ROCHLIN Two Hollywood stars talk about channeling Abbott and Costello, performing a toilet scene and getting it all together for "The Nice Guys." Metropolitan Seeking Robert Levinson, the C.I.A. Consultant Who Vanished By BARRY MEIER Mr. Levinson, an ex-F.B.I. agent, disappeared in Iran in 2007. His former colleagues think the U.S. has fallen short in its handling of his case. The Dutch Prime Minister Is a Big Fan of Robert Caro By JOHN LELAND Mr. Caro, the biographer, led Mark Rutte of the Netherlands through one of Robert Moses' 12 offices and the many New York City features that the power broker built. BIG CITY Anthony Weiner Documentary: A Man Who Likes Screens By GINIA BELLAFANTE Mr. Weiner's doomed effort to become mayor of New York is chronicled in a new documentary, which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival this year and is about to be released. Fashion & Style Gisele Inc. By GUY TREBAY How Gisele Bündchen survived in a cruelly objectifying business to become the most financially successful model in the world. SCENE STEALERS The Art Museum in Steve Tisch's Backyard By BROOKS BARNES The Los Angeles mogul shows what keeping up with the Joneses looks like for today's megawatt collectors. In the New Hollywood, Sumner Redstone Is a Man Out of Time By LAURA M. HOLSON As salacious details of the mogul's private life surface, movie-business people analyze the fall of a 20th-century man in a 21st-century world. Travel WHERE I LIVE Seven Places in Europe We Call Home By THE NEW YORK TIMES From Madrid to Istanbul, our contributors reveal the hidden delights of their European homes: jewel-box gardens, neighborhood cafes, secret coves. ESSAY My Berlin: Reckoning With the Past By JOSHUA HAMMER The German capital is an astonishingly varied city, an urbanscape in a constant state of change and in recent months, the pace of change has accelerated. FOOTSTEPS The Roman Seasons of Tennessee Williams By CHARLY WILDER To search for the author of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" in today's Rome is to explore the vestiges of that heady period after the fall of Mussolini. Magazine THE HEALTH ISSUE The Cancer Almanac By RYAN BRADLEY For decades, science has classified cancers by the organ or system in which they begin. That taxonomy is slowly being replaced - but it's still the indispensable way to understand the odds. THE HEALTH ISSUE Learning From the Lazarus Effect By GARETH COOK Most clinical trials for cancer drugs are failures. But for a handful of patients, a drug proves to be nearly a cure. What can science learn from these "exceptional responders"? THE HEALTH ISSUE When Do You Give Up on Treating a Child With Cancer? By MELANIE THERNSTROM Andrew Levy's parents knew that the rare and deadly cancer in his blood could not be beaten, so they began to prepare for the worst. Then something mysterious happened. Obituaries James D. Travis, Whose TV Ad Helped Re-elect Reagan, Dies at 83 By WILLIAM GRIMES Under Mr. Travis's direction, the highly successful 1984 "Morning in America" commercial served up apple-pie slices of Middle American prosperity. Ernest Michel, Who Bore Witness to the Holocaust and Led Charities, Dies at 92 By SAM ROBERTS Mr. Michel was spared when the Nazis conscripted him to falsify prisoner death certificates. He later wrote a memoir and headed up Jewish philanthropic causes. Daniel P. Tully Dies at 84; Led Merrill Lynch in Its Halcyon '90s By LANDON THOMAS Jr. Mr. Tully, who stepped down in 1997, was a staunch believer in "Mother Merrill," an ideal of devotion to the greater good of the firm. Source: http: http://www.nytimes.com