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| Good evening. Here's the latest. |
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| 1. Trump piles more sanctions onto Iran. |
| President Trump ordered new restrictions, limiting the access of top Iranian officials to the international banking system in retaliation for what he says were aggressive acts against oil tankers and a U.S. drone. |
| The administration has already attempted to block countries from buying Iranian oil, crippling the country's economy. Shoppers at the old main bazaar in Tehran, above. Any additional pressure from the new sanctions is likely to be minimal. |
| The Trump administration now finds itself in a waiting game, as it watches for whether sanctions will force Iranian leaders to surrender to American demands in exchange for economic relief. |
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| 2. The president tries to lift the veil on the health care industry. |
| Today's executive order is intended to require insurance companies, doctors and hospitals to give patients more information about what their medical care will cost. The actual disclosures were not specified; White House officials said the details would be worked out during the rule-making process. |
| A group representing U.S. hospitals said forcing disclosures would have "a chilling effect on negotiation." Because of the peculiarities of the U.S. health care system, more transparency could backfire, causing prices to rise instead of fall. |
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| 3. The fate of $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid for the southern U.S. border is up in the air. |
| With a vote on the House measure looming Tuesday, reports of deplorable conditions for migrants being held by the U.S. have underscored the need for an emergency aid package. |
| In Mexico, a promised mobilization of security forces on the country's own southern border has apparently fallen short. But the deployment has still disrupted the flow of migrants, above, sowing fear among many. |
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| 4. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces election recriminations. |
| The defeat of his candidate in the mayoral race in Istanbul, his hometown, was the biggest loss of his political career, and means that the opposition now controls five of the six most populated cities in the country. Supporters of the victor celebrated, above. |
| In Prague, meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people are calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Andrej Babis after the largest demonstrations in the Czech Republic since the fall of the Iron Curtain. |
| The protests have their roots in a scandal that has dogged Mr. Babis for a decade and is related to the conglomerate he built, Agrofert, the country's largest employer. He has been accused of misusing subsidies from the European Union. |
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| 5. Anatomy of a terrorist killing. |
| Four bicyclists touring Tajikistan last summer, including a young American couple, were killed by men who had pledged their lives to the Islamic State. Local villagers built the victims a memorial, above. |
| Rukmini Callimachi, our international investigative reporter, traces the attack and interviews one of the killers in an episode of our new TV series "The Weekly," now streaming on Hulu. |
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| 6. What's going on in Oregon? |
| Republican state lawmakers went missing for the fifth day in a row, in their effort to block a climate change bill that Democrats are pressing to approve. |
| Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, ordered the Oregon State Police to find them and bring them back to the Capitol in Salem for a vote. Protesters continued to march outside the statehouse, above. |
| It's not the first time a minority party has vanished to get its way, but our Q&A tells you what the fight is all about. |
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| 7. Meet the billionaires who want to be taxed more. |
| A letter published online calls for "a moderate wealth tax on the fortunes of the richest one-tenth of the richest 1 percent of Americans — on us." |
| The 18 individuals volunteering for a wealth tax include financier George Soros, above, and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, as well as heirs to dynastic riches like Liesel Pritzker Simmons and the filmmaker Abigail Disney. |
| The letter is addressed to all presidential contenders, and refers specifically to a plan offered by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts that would create a wealth tax for the 75,000 U.S. households with $50 million or more in assets. |
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| 8. Women's World Cup: U.S. 2, Spain 1 |
| Megan Rapinoe, above, was good for two penalty kicks that gave the U.S. women's soccer team a quarterfinal berth — but it wasn't easy, and the next battle looms. The Americans face tournament host France on Friday in Paris. |
| Also today, Sweden beat Canada, 1-0. |
| In other global sports news, Milan and the ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo will host the 2026 Winter Olympics. The International Olympic Committee chose Northern Italy over a joint bid from Stockholm and the ski resort of Are, Sweden. |
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 Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Screen grabs, via ThreadUP |
| 9. The digital versions of bait-and-switch ads are proliferating. |
| "Alexandra from Anaheim just saved $222 on her order," says a message next to an image of a dress on one e-commerce site. But "Alexandra from Anaheim" did not buy the dress. She does not even exist. |
| She is an example of "dark patterns," ways that websites manipulate you into buying things you may not want. Interest in these ploys has intensified in the past year, amid concerns about Silicon Valley companies' handling of private information. |
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| 10. Meet A.I., your new manager. |
| For decades, people have imagined hyper-efficient robots stealing rank-and-file jobs from humans. But we may have overlooked the possibility that artificial intelligence will replace bosses, too, our technology columnist Kevin Roose writes. How we can know: It's already happening in places like the call center of the insurance giant MetLife, above. |
| Have a work-free evening. |
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