Today's Headlines: Fifth Woman Accuses Senate Candidate Roy Moore of Sexual Misconduct

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Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, of attacking her when she was 16 and he was a prosecutor in Etowah County, Ala.]( [Fifth Woman Accuses Senate Candidate Roy Moore of Sexual Misconduct]( By JONATHAN MARTIN and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG The new accusations came hours after Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, declared that he believes the accusers and urged Mr. Moore to step aside. [Demonstrators at a presentation by the United States delegation to the United Nations climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, on Monday.]( [Protesters Jeer as Trump Team Promotes Coal at U.N. Climate Talks]( By LISA FRIEDMAN and BRAD PLUMER The Trump administration's debut at the United Nations climate conference in Bonn, Germany, was met with heckling, noisy protest and harsh questions. [The Shootaring Canyon uranium mill in the desert outside Ticaboo, Utah, last month.]( [Justice Dept. to Weigh Inquiry Into Clinton Foundation]( By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MAGGIE HABERMAN In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, the Justice Department said it planned to pursue the possibility of appointing a special counsel to investigate the Uranium One deal. For more top news, go to [NYTimes.com »]( [Get the Morning Briefing in Your Inbox]( What you need to know to start your day, delivered Monday through Friday. [Sign up »]( ADVERTISEMENT Editors' Picks [A grocery store in Bogotá. The beverage industry says soda taxes unfairly burden the poor.]( HEALTH [She Took On Colombia's Soda Industry. Then She Was Silenced.]( By ANDREW JACOBS and MATT RICHTEL The debate over taxing sugary drinks has turned into a ferocious global policy brawl. In Colombia, proponents faced intimidation and censorship. [President Trump met with President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines on Monday on the last leg of his trip to Asia.]( OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor [Susan Rice: Trump Is Making China Great Again]( By SUSAN E. RICE The president's grand trip failed to produce meaningful concessions from China on trade and if anything strengthened Beijing's hand in Asia. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "I believe the women." [SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL]( the Republican leader, on whether he believes women who have accused Roy S. Moore, a Senate candidate in Alabama, of sexual misconduct when the women were teenagers. [] Today's Videos [Benjamin Norman for The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.]( [[Video] Video: He Draws New York's Skyline From Memory]( Join the artist Stephen Wiltshire at the Empire State Building as he draws the New York skyline after spending less than an hour observing it by helicopter. [Beverly Young Nelson, left, and her lawyer, Gloria Allred, at a news conference on Monday in New York. Ms. Nelson has accused Roy S. Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, of attacking her when she was 16 and he was a prosecutor in Etowah County, Ala.]( [[Video] Video: Roy Moore: A Fifth Accusation and a Push to Quit]( Roy S. Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, was accused of sexual misconduct by a fifth woman. Republicans in the Senate have called for him to drop out of the campaign. [] World [The Iranian city of Pol-e Zahab was particularly hard hit by the earthquake that struck on Sunday near the Iraqi border.]( [Iran-Iraq Earthquake Kills More Than 450]( By THOMAS ERDBRINK Rescuers and residents spent the night digging through rubble in a frantic search for survivors after a quake near the countries' shared border. [President Trump met Monday with President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit meeting in Manila.]( [Trump Lauds 'Great Relationship' With Duterte in Manila]( By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS Human rights issues "briefly came up" as the leaders met in a friendly session on the sidelines of a summit meeting in the Philippines. [President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, center, and his wife, Grace, left, arrived at party headquarters last week.]( [In Implicit Rebuke to Mugabe, Zimbabwe's Military Says It May 'Step In']( By JEFFREY MOYO Infighting within the governing party threatens the achievements of the struggle that won Zimbabwe's independence in 1980, the army chief said. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [Thyleb Ramadhan got his blood pressure checked at a mobile medical clinic in Olean, N.Y., in June.]( [Under New Guidelines, Millions More Americans Will Need to Lower Blood Pressure]( By GINA KOLATA Experts set new targets for treatment of hypertension on Monday, greatly expanding the number of adults who will qualify for the diagnosis. [Jonathan Bey outside his home in Gainesville, Fla. Mr. Bey has not yet received veterans disability benefits after hurting his back while enlisted in the Coast Guard 34 years ago.]( [Veterans Claiming Disability Pay Face Wall of Denials and Delays]( By DAVE PHILIPPS More than 470,000 veterans who have been denied benefits have appealed, but they face an antiquated system where processing cases can take years, even decades. [Staff Sgt. Logan J. 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A man in Minnesota was temporarily prevented from voting while wearing a T-shirt that said ]( [Justices Take Cases on Free Speech at Pregnancy Centers and Polling Places]( By ADAM LIPTAK One case asks whether centers operated by abortion opponents must provide information on the procedure. The other is on political apparel at polling places. [Muslim groups and other activists protesting the Trump administration's new travel ban last month in Washington.]( [Appeals Court Partly Reinstates Trump's New Travel Ban]( By MIRIAM JORDAN A federal appeals court in San Francisco said a ban on entry from six countries could go into effect for people with no ties to the United States. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [Behind the Lucrative Assembly Line of Student Debt Lawsuits]( By STACY COWLEY and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Transworld has been one of most prolific debt collectors, filing more than 38,000 lawsuits in the last three years on behalf of a single client. Many were flawed, say regulators. [Radhika Jones, 44, will become Vanity Fair's sixth editor since its founding in 1913 and the fifth since it was revived in the early 1980s.]( [Radhika Jones, Vanity Fair's Surprise Choice, Is Ready to Go]( By SYDNEY EMBER A relative unknown prepares to follow Graydon Carter, who embraced the role of celebrity editor during his 25 years at the helm. [A spokesman for the Department of Agriculture said Rebeckah Adcock had not violated her ethics agreement by meeting with former allies in the pesticide industry.]( Trump Rules [An Open Door for Pesticide Lobbyists at the U.S.D.A.]( By DANIELLE IVORY and ROBERT FATURECHI A former lobbyist for the pesticide industry now leads a deregulation team at the Agriculture Department. Visitor logs show that old ties remain strong. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [Prof. Robert Schoelkopf inside a lab at Yale University. Quantum Circuits, the start-up he has created with two of his fellow professors, is located just down the road.]( [Yale Professors Race Google and IBM to the First Quantum Computer]( By CADE METZ Robert Schoelkopf helped create technology that promises to deliver the machines of tomorrow at Google and IBM. Now, he is giving them some competition. [A Lyft car in Los Angeles. The ride-hailing service plans to operate in Toronto in time for the holiday season.]( [Lyft to Begin Operations in Toronto, Its First Market Outside the U.S.]( By AMIE TSANG and IAN AUSTEN The ride-hailing company, a major rival to Uber in the United States, made the announcement after receiving an injection of new financing. [The settings box for the Windows 10 Magnifier utility has a handy list of keyboard shortcuts for using the tool.]( Tech Tip [Enlarge the Screen in Windows 10]( By J. D. BIERSDORFER The built-in Magnifier tool that comes with Windows can be adjusted so you can zoom in just how you like. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [Andrew Stewart, a defensive lineman who was in the N.F.L. from 1989-93, received a Parkinson's diagnosis nearly a decade ago. ]( [Debilitated Players Accuse N.F.L. of Stalling on Settlement Payments]( By KEN BELSON To prevent fraud, the league has requested paperwork and exams that players say go beyond due diligence and are meant to steer them away. [Aaron Judge of the Yankees broke Mark McGwire's rookie record for home runs that had stood since 1987.]( [Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger Unanimously Named Rookies of the Year]( By TYLER KEPNER The Yankees' Judge, who bashed 52 homers, and the Los Angeles Dodgers' Bellinger, who hit 39, were unanimous winners of their leagues' awards. [Astros designated hitter Carlos Beltran announced Monday that he was retiring after two decades in baseball. Beltran, 40, won his first World Series title earlier this month.]( [Carlos Beltran Retires as World Series Champion]( By JAMES WAGNER Beltran walks away from baseball with 2,725 hits, a .279 batting average and an .837 on-base-plus-slugging percentage. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Longtime friends Jon Stewart, left, and Robert Smigel bring their annual charity benefit, ]( [Jon Stewart and Robert Smigel Craft a Comedy Benefit at a Polarized Moment]( By DAVE ITZKOFF The two friends talk about "Night of Too Many Stars," their annual benefit for autism groups, and how comedy has been affected by internet culture and politics. Books of The Times [In Joe Biden's Memoir, Private Grief and Its Effect on a Public Life]( By JENNIFER SENIOR People who have lost someone will take comfort from what Biden has to say about losing his son Beau to brain cancer in "Promise Me, Dad." [Hila Plitmann, in red as the alien La Sirena, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic performing ]( [Review: A 'Fake News' Opera on the Streets of Los Angeles]( By SETH COLTER WALLS Annie Gosfield's "War of the Worlds," based on Orson Welles's radio play, sprawled across the city in Yuval Sharon's staging for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] New York [Since the beginning of 2015, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has raised more than 99 percent of his campaign money from donations larger than $1,000, eschewing the small-donor model that many Democrats have lately used.]( [Cuomo, a Master of the $50,000 Fund-Raiser, Bypasses Small Donors]( By SHANE GOLDMACHER Since the beginning of 2015, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has raised over 99 percent of his campaign money from donations larger than $1,000. [Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, and a co-defendant are on trial in a federal courthouse in Newark on bribery, conspiracy and other corruption charges.]( [Jurors Say They Cannot Reach Verdict in Menendez Trial]( By NICK CORASANITI The judge asked the panel to go home and then come back on Tuesday and try again. [Anthony A. Scarpino Jr., the Westchester County district attorney, at a news conference on Monday, when he announced the arrest of a suspect in the 2015 murder of the socialite Lois Colley.]( [Ex-Farmworker Charged in 2015 Killing of Westchester Socialite]( By SARAH MASLIN NIR and WINNIE HU A former employee, Esdras Marroquin Gomez, was arrested over the weekend and charged in the death of Lois Colley at her 300-acre horse farm. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( [] Science [Clarence Matthews, 110, had blood drawn at his home in Indian Wells, Calif., last year, part of a project to examine the genes of the very old. Mr. Matthews died a few months ago.]( [The Secret to Long Life? It May Lurk in the DNA of the Oldest Among Us]( By AMY HARMON James Clement has scoured the globe for supercentenarians, aged 110 and older, willing to contribute their genomes to a rare scientific cache. [From left, the bat lice fly, whose claws help it cling to bat fur; a male bone skipper fly; and a Rothschild fly.]( [Trillions of Flies Can't All Be Bad]( By JAMES GORMAN The world's flies do much more than annoy us. Pollinating plants, cleaning up carcasses, swabbing drains - flies are part of every strand of the web of life. The New Old Age [No Excuses, People: Get the New Shingles Vaccine]( By PAULA SPAN Shingrix, which begins shipping this month, is far more effective than the previous shingles shot. Experts recommend it for everyone over age 50. For more science news, go to [NYTimes.com/Science »]( []Obituaries [President Harry S. Truman presenting Lieutenant Hudner with the Medal of Honor in 1951.]( [Thomas Hudner, War Hero in a Civil Rights Milestone, Dies at 93]( By DAVID MARGOLICK Lieutenant Hudner defied expectations when he tried to rescue the Navy's first black aviator during the Korean War. He was awarded the Medal of Honor. [Frank Corsaro in 1975 at Lincoln Center.]( [Frank Corsaro, Director Who Shook Up Opera World, Dies at 92]( By NEIL GENZLINGER In dozens of productions, many for New York City Opera, Mr. Corsaro sought to energize the form, refusing to let his singers just stand and deliver. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial Editorial [President Trump's Thing for Thugs]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The degree to which he grovels before some of the world's most unsavory leaders hurts U.S. credibility and influence. [Beverly Young Nelson, left, said at a news conference Monday that Roy Moore had attacked her when she was 16 and he was a prosecutor in Etowah County, Ala.]( Editorial [Mitch McConnell Believes the Women. Good for Him.]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Don't hold your breath waiting for real change, but the Senate majority leader has set a good example by accepting the word of Roy Moore's accusers. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed Op-Ed Contributors [Robbing Blue States to Pay Red]( By JACOB S. HACKER and PAUL PIERSON The dangerous new Republican policies impose costs on states behind partisan lines. [An African migrant's corpse that was transported to Salerno, Italy, this month, for an autopsy.]( Op-Ed Contributor [Two Dozen African Girls Dead at Sea]( By TARIRO MZEZEWA The horrors of a refugee crisis that the world feels free to ignore. [Mitch McConnell, center, at a meeting last week with members of the Senate Finance Committee to discuss tax legislation.]( Op-Ed Columnist [Republican Class Warfare: The Next Generation]( By PAUL KRUGMAN The G.O.P. tax bills look like attempts to entrench a hereditary plutocracy. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On Nov. 14, 1972, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 for the first time, ending the day at 1,003.16. [See this Front Page]( | [Buy this Front Page]( FOLLOW US: [Facebook] [Facebook]( | [Twitter] [@NYTimes]( | [Pinterest] [Pinterest]( | [Instagram] [Instagram]( [NYT]( Access The New York Times from anywhere with our suite of apps: [iPhone®]( | [iPad®]( | [Android]( | [All]( [.] Save 15% at [The NYTimes Store »]( [.] Have questions? [Help Section »]( [.] Visit our mobile website at [m.nyt.com »]( About This Email This is an automated email. Please do not reply directly to this email. 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