Today's Headlines: White House Sows Confusion About Plan for a 20% Import Tax

[In a Corner, President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico Punches Back] | View in [Browser] | Add [nytdirect@nytimes.com] to your address book. | [Unsubscribe] [The New York Times] [Most Popular] | [Video] | [Today's Headlines] Friday, January 27, 2017 IN THIS EMAIL [NYT] [World] | [U.S.] | [Politics] | [Business] | [Technology] | [Sports] | [Arts] | [N.Y./Region] | [Movies] | [Today's Video] | [Obituaries] | [Editorials] | [Op-Ed] | [On This Day] | [CUSTOMIZE »] [Get The Times for as low as 99¢.] Top News [President Trump in his office aboard Air Force One on Thursday.] [White House Sows Confusion About Plan for a 20% Import Tax] By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, BINYAMIN APPELBAUM and ALAN RAPPEPORT Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, appeared to endorse the plan as a way to pay for a wall on the Mexican border, but then backtracked. [President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico this week. His cautious approach to President Trump had caused an outcry in Mexico.] [In a Corner, President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico Punches Back] By AZAM AHMED The cancellation of his trip to the United States ended months of diplomacy for a leader caught between his people and an unpredictable, and at times hostile, American president. [Ernest Ward, right, the N.A.A.C.P. president in Troup County, Ga., said he had ] [Nearly 8 Decades Later, an Apology for a Lynching in Georgia] By ALAN BLINDER and RICHARD FAUSSET The police chief in LaGrange, Ga., who is white, says he will apologize for the death of a young black man by a white mob in 1940. 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 pig embryo at four weeks, which had been injected with human stem cells.] SCIENCE [New Prospects for Growing Human Replacement Organs in Animals] By NICHOLAS WADE Human stem cells could be implanted in an early pig embryo, making a chimera with human organs suitable for transplant. OPINION | Op-Ed | Zeynep Tufekci [Does a Protest's Size Matter?] By ZEYNEP TUFEKCI In the digital age, it's no longer a reliable indicator of a movement's strength. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party." [STEPHEN K. BANNON], chief White House strategist. World [With Britain planning to leave the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May will try to show Britons they have friends beyond Europe.] [Donald Trump and Theresa May: An Odd Couple] By STEVEN ERLANGER Britain's prime minister will meet with the president on Friday. With "Brexit" looming, she needs to show Britons that they have friends beyond Europe. [Turkish military officers arriving at the Supreme Court in Athens on Thursday. They fled Turkey in July after a failed coup and requested political asylum in Greece, saying they feared for their lives.] [Greece's Top Court Rejects Extradition of Turkish Officers] By NIKI KITSANTONIS The Supreme Court ruled that they would face "the curtailment of their fundamental human rights" if they were sent back to Turkey. [A beach flooded with garbage on the outskirts of Beirut. The garbage problem has long been a symbol of a failure of Lebanese politics, one that activists say has its roots in the time shortly after the country's civil war, which ended in 1990.] Beirut Journal [On Lebanon's Once-Sparkling Shores, a Garbage Dump Grows] By TIM ARANGO and HWAIDA SAAD A landfill that is attracting birds that endanger aviation is a symbol of dysfunction to many in Lebanon. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »] ADVERTISEMENT U.S. [A few Muslims attended a forum, held by a Texas state representative, called ] [Texas Muslims Voice Concerns After Inflammatory Survey and Forum] By DAVID MONTGOMERY and MANNY FERNANDEZ Insulted members of the Texas Muslim community are responding to a survey sent out by a state representative, who said it was designed to expose "radical Islamic terrorism." [Anti-abortion and abortion-rights protesters faced off outside of the Supreme Court in Washington last March. ] [Trump on Their Side, Conservatives See Hope in Lengthy Abortion Fight] By JEREMY W. PETERS Two fights loom in Washington for social conservatives: an effort in Congress to eliminate Planned Parenthood's federal funding and the choice of a Supreme Court nominee who opposes abortion. [President Trump asked the National Park Service to confirm his view of the inaugural crowd size.] [Trump Called National Park Chief Over Twitter Post on Inaugural Crowd] By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MAGGIE HABERMAN President Trump asked why someone from the agency had shared someone else's Twitter post giving an unflattering comparison of his inaugural crowd. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »] ADVERTISEMENT Politics [President Trump greeted Speaker Paul D. Ryan as he and Vice President Mike Pence attended a retreat for congressional Republicans in Philadelphia on Thursday.] [Republicans Now Marching With Trump on Ideas They Had Opposed] By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Republicans' longstanding opposition to federal spending, along with other party orthodoxy, is being cast aside to support President Trump [Defense Secretary James N. Mattis greeted President Trump at the reviewing stand during the inaugural parade on Friday.] [Trump Will Call for a Pentagon Plan to Hit ISIS Harder, Officials Say] By MICHAEL R. GORDON, HELENE COOPER and ERIC SCHMITT The White House is drafting a presidential directive seeking an aggressive plan that could include American artillery and attack helicopters in action in Syria. [The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, center, was joined on Capitol Hill on Tuesday by, from left, Senators Cory Gardner, John Barrasso, John Thune and John Cornyn.] Congressional Memo [As Trump Thunders, G.O.P. Lawmakers Duck and Cover] By MATT FLEGENHEIMER Choosing to answer a question no one asked, declaring oneself "a policy guy" and stroking the chin of a puppy: ways to shrug off questions about the president. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »] Business [Stephen K. Bannon, center, President Trump's chief strategist, met with business leaders at the White House on Monday.] [Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should 'Keep Its Mouth Shut'] By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM Mr. Bannon, one of President Trump's top advisers, gave a scathing assessment of the news media, calling it "the opposition party." [Scarecrows depicting David Cameron, left, the former prime minister of Britain, and Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, are displayed during the Scarecrow Festival in Britain on July 31.] [Ordered to Seek Approval on 'Brexit,' Theresa May Does So. Tersely.] By KATRIN BENNHOLD At 132 words - one of the shorter bills in British history - the bill was seen as an effort to prevent amendments that could slow its passage. [Lu Qun, chairman of Qiantu Motor, in Beijing in December.] Wheels [China's Answer to Tesla Is Hopeful Entrant to Global Car Market] By MICHAEL SCHUMAN Electric vehicles offer a new chance to Chinese car-making efforts that have floundered in the past. But lavish state aid could be as much bane as boon. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »] Sports [Mark McMorris of Canada hit a backside triple cork 1440 in the men's snowboard slopestyle event at the 2016 Winter X Games last January in Aspen, Colo.] [Snowboarders Resist Making Big Air All About the Latest Trick] By MATT HIGGINS Ahead of this week's X Games and next year's Olympics, successful quadruple flips in the sport have revived discussions about spinning to win versus riding with style. [Roger Federer, above, defeated Stan Wawrinka in five sets in an Australian Open semifinal on Thursday night.] [Roger Federer Beats Stan Wawrinka to Reach Australian Open Final] By BEN ROTHENBERG Having not played a competitive tournament since Wimbledon last July, the 17th-seeded Federer, 35, completed an improbable run. [Venus Williams, left, and her sister Serena at the Australian Open in 1998.] On Tennis [A Final Match for Venus and Serena Williams. But Maybe Not the Last One.] By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY It would be tempting to say the sisters' meeting in the Australian Open might be their last in a Grand Slam tournament final, but they have upended conventional wisdom before. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »] Arts [Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards in 1970.] ['Making It on My Own,' With Mary Tyler Moore as a Guide] By JANE PAULEY "Mary lived in a studio apartment with a pullout sofa bed, and not coincidentally so did I," Jane Pauley writes of Ms. Moore's most famous character. [Ms. Kretzschmar rehearsing ] [Rehearse, Ice Feet, Repeat: The Life of a New York City Ballet Corps Dancer] By MICHAEL COOPER We followed Claire Kretzschmar, a rising member of the corps de ballet, for one exhausting week. She gave new meaning to the idea of being on your feet all day. [A detail from ] ['Perpetual Revolution' Shows Artists Shaping Their Times] By HOLLAND COTTER In the digital present, captured here at the International Center of Photography, visual culture does more than reflect reality: For better and for worse, it creates it. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »] Movies [Matthew McConaughey as a mining company owner, left, and Édgar Ramírez as a geologist in ] [Review: Matthew McConaughey Mines Profane Capitalism in 'Gold'] By A. O. SCOTT He plays a rogue who strikes it rich, a thrill complicated by the corruptions of wealth, treachery and the schemer's own fecklessness. [Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini in Asghar Farhadi's ] [Review: In 'The Salesman,' Scenes From a Marriage in Tehran] By A. O. SCOTT The ghost of Willy Loman hovers over this film from Asghar Farhadi, but it seems occupied with its own dramatic issues, our critic writes. [Bailey (voiced by Josh Gad) in ] [Review: 'A Dog's Purpose,' With Many Lives and Many Clichés] By NEIL GENZLINGER This film, opening amid a call for a PETA boycott, is a string of hero-dog fantasies and observations from the canine point of view. New York [The American Copper Buildings, just right of the Empire State Building, were designed so that tenants could live in their apartments for at least a week if the area floods.] [Building to the Sky, With a Plan for Rising Waters] By DAVID W. DUNLAP Twin apartment towers on the East River in Manhattan embody the concrete steps that builders are taking against the effects of extreme weather. [.][A Guide to Flood-Resistant Building Terms] [New York City has contracts with six law firms as Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city employees face state and federal criminal investigations into fund-raising practices] [Contract to Defend De Blasio and Aides to Cost City $11.6 Million] By J. DAVID GOODMAN New York City has contracts with six law firms in connection with state and federal criminal investigations into fund-raising practices by the mayor and other officials. [Shia LaBeouf, left, at a livestream performance project outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, on Tuesday.] [Shia LaBeouf Is Arrested at Anti-Trump Art Show in New York] By CHRISTOPHER D. SHEA The actor and performance artist was charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment, and was ordered to appear in court in April. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »] Obituaries [Robert Garcia, who became known as an advocate for disadvantaged groups, at a home for older adults in the Bronx in 1978.] [Robert Garcia Dies at 84; Bronx Congressman Undone by Scandal] By JOSEPH P. FRIED Mr. Garcia, born of Puerto Rican immigrants, was an advocate for poor Hispanic and black people, but his political career was toppled in the Wedtech corruption case. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »] Editorial Editorial [Donald Trump's Mexico Tantrum] By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Sure, the latest terrible idea to come out of the Trump White House would hurt Mexico. But there would be plenty of collateral damage for Americans. [Women in Rabai, Kenya, getting information about family planning and reproductive health services.] Editorial [Mr. Trump's 'Gag Rule' Will Harm Global Health] By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The president has greatly expanded a policy restricting federal aid to health organizations abroad that talk to women about abortion. [People in South Dakota protested the Republican Legislature's effort to repeal an ethics reform referendum.] Editorial [South Dakota Lawmakers Snuffing Out Ethics Reform Referendum] By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Legislation to repeal a series of voter-approved measures is advancing in the Republican-controlled Legislature. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »] Op-Ed [Mick Mulvaney at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday.] Op-Ed | Steven Rattner [An Extremist Holding the Purse Strings] By STEVEN RATTNER Representative Mick Mulvaney, President Trump's choice to be his top budget adviser, holds uncompromising views that will hurt the economy. [Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards in ] Op-Ed Contributor [Mary Tyler Moore's Guide to Leaning In] By ANNA CLARK Young women can view 40-year-old episodes of her program as how-to manuals for navigating life and work. Op-Ed Contributors [Thanks to Trump, the Doomsday Clock Advances Toward Midnight] By LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS and DAVID TITLEY The world failed to come to grips with nuclear weapons and climate change, and it appears President Trump will only make matters worse. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »] ON THIS DAY On Jan. 27, 1967, Astronauts Virgil I. ''Gus'' Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. 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