Manchester United"s final home game was canceled over bomb scare
Photo President Obama took sharp swipes at Donald J. Trump during his commencement address at Rutgers on Sunday. Credit Zach Gibson/The New York Times
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G.O.P. support for Trump broadens.
After spending most of the past year opposing and condemning Donald J. Trump, social conservatives are starting to embrace the Republicans presumptive nominee.
Photo Credit Ty Wright for The New York TimesThe party chairman is also urging unity. He said that people just dont care about reports like ours about Mr. Trumps treatment of women in the workplace.
Hillary Clinton says that Bill Clintons chief role in her White House would be revitalizing the economy.
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Obama takes on Trump.
President Obama took sharp swipes at Mr. Trump on Sunday during his commencement address at Rutgers University. It could be the beginning of a forceful effort to help elect a Democratic successor.
Eight years ago, Mr. Obama was an antiwar candidate, but he has now been at war longer than any other U.S. president.
The transgender debate.
Breaking from her party, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Miami Republican, will appear today in an ad for SAVE, an advocacy group for gay and transgender rights. Shell be joined by her husband and her transgender son.
Conservatives have called the Obama administrations directive on school bathrooms an illegal overreach, while advocates for transgender rights are hailing it as a breakthrough.
Battleground: Syria.
Al Qaeda is getting help in northern Syria from top operatives from the tribal areas of Pakistan. It signals an effort by the group to challenge the Islamic State militants in the Mideast.
Photo Credit Khalil Ashawi/ReutersForeign ministers, including Secretary of State John Kerry and Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia, are meeting this week to try to restart the collapsed peace negotiations.
Brazils ousted leader isnt alone.
By one count, more than half of the 594 members of the countrys legislature face legal challenges, including accusations of murder and drug trafficking.
The decline of the impeached president, Dilma Rousseff, and two other female South American leaders points to a persistence of macho attitudes in the regions political establishment.
Maoist anniversary.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the start of Chinas cultural revolution, a decade-long upheaval that had drastic, often violent effects across the country.
We tell the story of one son who is still awaiting answers on his fathers death.
BusinessWant to become a venture capitalist? Beginning today, anyone can risk $2,000 a year or more investing in small companies in exchange for a stake in the business.
Broadcast networks are introducing their new shows to advertisers, and millennials are getting a great deal of the attention.
Over the WeekendA soccer match between Manchester United and Bournemouth was canceled after a suspicious object was found in the stands. The police later determined that it was a fake bomb from a security exercise.
More than 20 U.S. cities, including Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, have experienced large increases in murders, data showed.
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer blocked its drugs from being used in lethal injections, closing off the last official source for executions.
Missouri lawmakers passed an expansion of gun rights, allowing residents to carry concealed guns without permits.
New details emerged on hackers global bank heists.
Seven siblings and their mother won a $429 million Powerball jackpot.
Photo Credit Disney-Marvel, via Associated PressCaptain America: Civil War was the North American box office winner.
Catching up on TV: Episode recaps for Game of Thrones, Veep, Silicon Valley and Fear the Walking Dead.
NoteworthyI want to go back to being who I was.
A Massachusetts man who is a cancer survivor has received the first p***s transplant in the U.S.
Scoreboard.
The Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder begin their Western Conference Finals series (9 p.m. Eastern, TNT). On Sunday, Toronto eliminated Miami in a Game 7.
On the ice, Pittsburgh looks to even their series with Tampa Bay (8 p.m., NBCS). St. Louis won the opener of their conference finals series against San Jose on Sunday night.
Retirement beckons.
An hourlong program on Sunday honored Morley Safer, who has served on 60 Minutes for all but two of its 48 seasons.
Worlds oldest person.
Susannah Mushatt Jones died in New York at 116, leaving Emma Morano as possibly the last person alive who was born in the 1800s.
Recipe of the day.
Try chicken Marbella, with a briny-sweet combination of capers and prunes.
Back StoryThe winner of the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction is to be announced today in London. Its the sibling of the Man Booker Prize, which is second only to the Nobel in stature and awarded in October.
Photo Elena Ferrantes The Story of the Lost Child Credit via Man Booker PrizeTheir names are a fusing of the names of its original and current sponsors, the Booker-McConnell global food conglomerate and the investment firm Man Group.
This year, for the first time, the international prize recognizes a single novel or collection of short stories written in a foreign language and translated into English.
Elena Ferrantes The Story of the Lost Child is among the works shortlisted for the award.
Its the finale of a best-selling quartet of novels about two girls from a poor Naples neighborhood born weeks apart in 1944 and who share a lifelong friendship.
The authors official biography says Elena Ferrante was also born in Naples. We know little else about the writer, who uses a pseudonym and has never revealed her true identity.
A couple of years ago, she granted us an interview, answering questions about her choice to be hidden. They are books that I have written to put my writing on display, not me, she said.
Theres no reason to think that will change, even if she wins today.
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