The cancer center will now bar top officials from sitting on outside boards of for-profit companies, and is conducting a wide-scale review of other policies.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Curbs Executives’ Ties to Industry After Conflict-of-Interest Scandals

The pending withdrawal from Syria is the latest example of a broader American disengagement from the Middle East. Russia and Iran are filling the void.

As U.S. Exits Syria, Mideast Faces a Post-American Era

The investigation, whose fate is unclear, led counterintelligence investigators to consider an explosive question: whether the president’s actions constituted a possible threat to national security.

F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia

As he searches for a way to end the political stalemate with Democratic lawmakers, the president finds himself boxed in — a familiar position when it comes to immigration issues

Trump Pulls Back From Declaring a National Emergency to Fund a Wall

The $69 million host had trouble at the network long before she wondered on-air why it was wrong for white people to dress up in blackface for Halloween.

It’s Final: Megyn Kelly and NBC Part Ways. And She Will Be Paid in Full.

The show’s creator hopes its 17-day run in San Juan will call attention to the struggling island’s needs as well as its riches.

Lin-Manuel Miranda Brings ‘Hamilton’ to a Troubled but Appreciative Puerto Rico

The iPhone app Notes has become the medium of choice for celebrity mea culpas.

How We Apologize Now

The tawdry divorce of Libbie and David Mugrabi is not just a tabloid story. At stake are a trophy townhouse, works by Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons, and the inner workings of one of the world’s most influential art dealer families. 

Their Warhols Are at the Whitney. Their Ugly Divorce Is on Display, Too.

Her divorce from the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has made this novelist, and her private life, a public fascination.

Who Is MacKenzie Bezos?

The New England Patriots are 19-3 in playoff games in this century in Foxborough, Mass. — or is it Foxboro? — their out-of-the-way, small-town home since 1971.

Foxboro(ugh!): Where Visiting N.F.L. Teams Hate to Play

Financial and enrollment woes at schools like the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have led to a scramble for fixes, such as dropping longstanding liberal arts degrees.

Students in Rural America Ask, ‘What Is a University Without a History Major?’

For individual veterans, private care could mean shorter waits, more choices and fewer requirements for co-pays. But critics say the current veterans’ health care system could be starved of resources.

V.A. Seeks to Redirect Billions of Dollars Into Private Care

The stalemate over funding the president’s wall suggests that reaching any agreement on security arrangements at the border is more elusive than ever before.

Trump’s Wall Stance Upends Washington’s Usual Border Bargaining

Rarely have British and American politics seemed as synchronized as they do in the chilly dawn of 2019, when pro-globalization elites battle the populists.

Brexit and the U.S. Shutdown: Two Governments in Paralysis

Because my inbox will always be waiting for me, but my children will not.

Why I Didn’t Answer Your Email

My neighbor’s hygiene issues are affecting my apartment. How do I solve the problem without forcing her out of her home?

The Hoarder Next Door

A week of surviving the shutdown and convincing my kids I wasn’t fired.

Trump Furloughed Me. Should I Take Up Pole Dancing?

Government shutdown fallout is hitting airports hard — also, your grocery store. And European officials are scrambling for a Brexit backup plan.

The Week in Business: CBS News Gets Its First Female President, and Theranos Goes Back to Court

Newly published transcripts of the Federal Reserve’s 2013 meetings detail the Fed’s struggles to communicate clearly.

Effects of the 2013 ‘Taper Tantrum’ Linger Over Fed Policy

Quotation of the Day for Saturday, January 12, 2019.

Quotation of the Day: Federal Shutdown’s Uneven Toll: Some Americans Are Devastated, Others Oblivious

To root for the former home team or not? It’s a question for which there is no right answer, especially in a laid-back city on the ocean.

In San Diego, a Quandary Over the (L.A.) Chargers 

The Chinese telecommunications giant said that the alleged actions of the employee, Wang Weijing, had nothing to do with the company.

Huawei Fires Employee Arrested in Poland on Spying Charges

18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun arrived in the country that granted her asylum wearing a gray sweatshirt with the word “Canada.”

January 12, 2019

Headlines from January 12, 2019

Memorial Sloan Kettering Curbs Executives’ Ties to Industry After Conflict-of-Interest Scandals

As U.S. Exits Syria, Mideast Faces a Post-American Era

F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia

Trump Pulls Back From Declaring a National Emergency to Fund a Wall

It’s Final: Megyn Kelly and NBC Part Ways. And She Will Be Paid in Full.

Billboard 200

I Am > I Was

Hoodie SZN

Championships

beerbongs & bentleys

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

Historical Context for January 12, 2019