Thursday, March 14, 2019

@2:23, 3/13/19

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1
U.S.

Trump Proposes a Record $4.75 Trillion Budget

The president’s budget request for the 2020 fiscal year has little chance of becoming law because Congress controls spending, and Democrats control the House.

No.

2
World

Are There Problems With the Boeing 737 Max? A Second Deadly Crash Raises New Questions

The plane is the latest generation of the Boeing 737. American Airlines and Southwest Airlines are among the major U.S. carriers that use it.

yes.  Minor problems.

Turn the autopilot off on takeoff.

3
New York

Lawmakers Support ‘Pied-à-Terre’ Tax on Multimillion-Dollar Second Homes


No.

4
U.S.

Beto O’Rourke Moves Toward a 2020 Race He Could Upend, Ready or Not


I doubt it. 
Texas will not carry the convention.

5
Science

She Invented a Board Game With Scientific Integrity. It’s Taking Off.


Computers are hard enough.

6
Style

What Does Misogyny Look Like?


Republican populist.

7
Business

Fox News, After Rebuking Jeanine Pirro, Faces Another Uproar Over Tucker Carlson

The network reproached Ms. Pirro, a star host, for suggesting that a Muslim congresswoman’s religious beliefs were anti-American. Tucker Carlson, another Fox host, is also under fire.

Trump wants good relations with Saudi Arabia.

8
Magazine

The Tragedy of Baltimore

Since Freddie Gray’s death in 2015, violent crime has spiked to levels unseen for a quarter century. Inside the crackup of an American city.

An exploding Baltimore is convienient for the Republican party.

9
U.S.

Incendiary N.R.A. Videos Find New Critics: N.R.A. Leaders


A man with a gun probably cannot shoot an army with guns.

10
Opinion

New York City Could Be About to Become Much More Dangerous

Cases like one on the Supreme Court docket this term often lead to more injuries and deaths.

The Confederacy keeps trying.

11
U.S.

Transgender Troops Caught Between a Welcoming Military and a Hostile Government

In interviews, dozens of transgender troops said that they felt supported in the armed services, despite the Trump administration’s fight to keep them out.

They can do the job

12
Technology

How the Internet Travels Across Oceans

Hundreds of thousands of miles of cable connect continents to support our insatiable demand for communication and entertainment. Companies have typically pooled their resources. Now Google is going its own way.

Competition is often a good thing.

Correction: March 11, 2019

An earlier version of a footnote with a map associated with this article misstated which companies own undersea cables or rely heavily on them. The companies include Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft; they do not include Apple and Netflix.

The common carrier will be standard again.
These companies will be regulated or fear regulation.

13
Books

Oops! Famously Scathing Reviews of Classic Books From The Times’s Archive

We called “Sister Carrie” a book “one can get along very well without reading,” dismissed “Lolita” as “dull, dull, dull,” and had nothing nice to say about “Howards End.”

Fashions change.

14
Arts

On CBS, R. Kelly Was Trapped in the Camera Eye


R. Kelly will go to jail.

15
World

Data and Voice Recorders Are Recovered in Ethiopian Airlines Crash

The latest on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 Max 8.

That will eliminate sabotage.

16
Climate

Tiny Costa Rica Has a Green New Deal, Too. It Matters for the Whole Planet.

Costa Rica's first lady is leading a green new deal of sorts for her country. If it succeeds, it would provide a road map to others.

Yes.

17
New York

Black Lawmakers to Block Legalized Marijuana in N.Y. if Their Communities Don’t Benefit

Travel

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco


A fossil.

19
World

Victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Came From at Least 30 Nations


20
Opinion

America, Say My Name


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