President Trump, ‘Brexit,’ Oscars: Your Tuesday Briefing
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Here’s what you need to know:
• Trump focuses on U.S. manufacturing jobs.
President Trump is scheduled to meet with the leaders of Fiat Chrysler, Ford and General Motors today.
On Monday, he told American executives to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. or face punishing tariffs, but larger market forces are also at play.
He also pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership that former President Barack Obama had brokered as an effort to protect against a rising China. And he reinstituted a ban on aid to health providers abroad that offer counseling on abortion.
• F.B.I. director may stay in role.
James B. Comey is said to have told his top agents that Mr. Trump asked him to remain in his job.
The decision would keep Mr. Comey at the center of the F.B.I.’s investigation into several Trump associates and their potential ties with the Russian government.
• A repeated lie about the election.
In a meeting with congressional leaders from both parties on Monday, Mr. Trump falsely claimed that he lost the popular vote because millions of unauthorized immigrants had illegally cast ballots for Hillary Clinton.
Voting officials across the country have said there is virtually no evidence of such fraud, and certainly not millions of cases.
Mr. Trump’s remarks could overshadow a plan by Senate Democrats today to unveil a $1 trillion infrastructure bill and to offer their support to the president if he backs it.
• Supreme Court rules on ‘Brexit.’
Prime Minister Theresa May must secure the approval of Parliament before she can begin the process of taking Britain out of the European Union, the top court ruled today.
She has promised to start negotiations on leaving the bloc by the end of March.
• Quandary in South Sudan
Just five years ago, the African country accomplished what seemed impossible: independence.
Now, with millions of its people hungry or displaced by civil war, a radical question has emerged: Should the nation lose that hard-won independence?
• A tornado’s destruction.
Our latest 360 video comes from Hattiesburg, Miss., where residents are returning to destroyed homes and workplaces after a deadly storm over the weekend.
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In California, at least four people died in heavy rains that led to floods and mudslides. Gov. Jerry Brown has declared states of emergency in 50 counties.
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Business
• Have American cities reached “peak millennial”? A recent report noted that the number of young people is flattening in urban areas where they have helped spur economic growth.
The paper predicts that the increase in demand for city living is likely to stall in the next few years.
• President Trump has picked Ajit Pai to run the Federal Communications Commission.
Mr. Pai is expected to try to roll back Obama administration policies, including net neutrality rules that ban internet service providers from favoring some websites and apps over others.
• Living longer, by itself, isn’t a big driver of rising spending on health care, research suggests.
The real culprit is the industry’s changing technology, which is “usually for the better, but always at higher cost,” our writer says.
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Noteworthy
• Columbia’s slavery ties.
The Ivy League university will release a report today on how slavery seeped into the financial, intellectual and social life of the school, and of the North as a whole.
“This is a very, very neglected piece of our own institution’s history,” said Eric Foner, the historian who wrote the report.
• It’s Oscar nominations day.
“La La Land” received 14 nominations, tying it with “Titanic” and “All About Eve” for the most in Academy Awards history. And the acting nominees will be more diverse than in recent years, with six black actors receiving nods..
Check back later for the full list of nominees, reactions and our predictions.
Here’s our complete coverage of the movie awards season.
• Rediscovering Maria Sibylla Merian.
If her name is unfamiliar, it may be because her role as an entomologist and botanist in the late 1600s and early 1700s in Europe was largely forgotten because of poor reproductions of her work and setbacks for women in science.
But Merian’s contributions are being recognized again. Her magnum opus, “Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium,” which also features her artwork, was republished last month.
• Venus Williams makes history.
The 36-year-old tennis star became the oldest woman to reach the Australian Open singles semifinals in the Open era.
To get to the final, Williams would need to beat the unseeded American CoCo Vandeweghe, 25.
• Uproar over “S.N.L.” writer’s Twitter post.
Katie Rich of “Saturday Night Live” has been suspended indefinitely after she mocked President Trump’s 10-year-old son, Barron, on social media.
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Back Story
Super Bowl history was made 35 years ago today, when John Madden, the former N.F.L. coach and TV commentator, drew diagrams on a screen for viewers watching San Francisco beat Cincinnati in Super Bowl XVI.
The tool he used is now a staple of sports and weather broadcasts.
The Telestrator was invented by Leonard Reiffel, a former NASA scientist and onetime colleague of the astronomer Carl Sagan. Mr. Reiffel developed the tool for a children’s science show he hosted in Chicago.
He successfully pitched the technology to TV sports and weather departments. Networks in New York took notice, and after the 1982 Super Bowl, CBS ordered four of the devices, Mr. Reiffel said.
At first, a pen was used to draw on one of Mr. Reiffel’s handmade, wooden consoles. Today, touch-screen tablets are typically used.
For his work, Mr. Reiffel received an Emmy from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. His mother coined the name Telestrator, which was slightly catchier than Mr. Reiffel’s description: a “superimposed dynamic television display system.”
Charles McDermid contributed reporting.
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