Today's Headlines: Trump Tax Plan Would Shift Trillions From U.S. Coffers to the Richest

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Mr. Trump could benefit substantially from his tax plan, with provisions such as a repeal of the alternative minimum tax and a proposal to allow owner-operated companies, including his real estate concern, to be taxed at a 15 percent rate.]( [Trump Tax Plan Would Shift Trillions From U.S. Coffers to the Richest]( By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and PATRICIA COHEN The vast majority of benefits would go to the highest earners and largest holders of wealth, analysts said, setting up a battle over the government's strained resources. [Speaker Paul D. Ryan said the House would vote on the new health care bill ]( [Health Law Repeal Will Miss Trump's 100-Day Target Date]( By THOMAS KAPLAN and ROBERT PEAR At least 18 House Republicans oppose the latest version of the American Health Care Act, and leaders can lose no more than 22 to win passage if all members vote. [Michael T. Flynn, center, President Trump's first national security adviser, with Mr. Trump and Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, in December. Mr. Flynn was warned in 2014 not to accept payment from a foreign country without prior approval.]( [Pentagon Inquiry Seeks to Learn if Flynn Hid Foreign Payment]( By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN and MATTHEW ROSENBERG A disclosure by lawmakers also reveals that the former national security adviser is under investigation by the Defense Department. 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 OPINION | Op-Ed | Tim Wu [The 'Fix' for Net Neutrality That Consumers Don't Need]( By TIM WU The Trump administration is seeking to eliminate rules that keep the internet open. This will only enrich broadband providers. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "Mr. Trump's plan basically is tax cuts for everyone. Real reform, with revenue neutrality, is difficult. There are winners and losers, but Trump apparently just wants winners." [STEVEN M. ROSENTHAL]( a business tax expert and senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, on the impact President Trump's tax reform plan could have on the deficit. [] Today's Videos [[Video] Video: The Trump Administration: 100 Days in 2 Minutes]( A whirlwind tour of the triumphs and setbacks that marked the first 100 days of Donald J. Trump's presidency. [Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens.]( [[Video] Video: 36 Hours: Tokyo]( Spend 36 hours in Tokyo and try unique fashion trends, stroll through neighborhoods in full bloom and and catch a Yomiuri Giants game. [2017 Subaru Impreza Sport]( [[Video] Video: Driven: 2017 Subaru Impreza Sport]( Loyal buyers never seemed to mind that Subaru's sense of style has been off on an extended camping trip. The new Impreza looks as though a design team was part of the process from Day 1. [] World [Flames rising in the distance, as seen from the Syrian rebel-held town of Douma on Thursday. They were believed to be from the Damascus airport.]( [Syria Blames Israel for Attack on Damascus Airport]( By IAN FISHER The Israeli news media said airport warehouses were holding weapons bound for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. [European Parliament, in Strasbourg, France. Parties on Europe's far right have drawn a strange legitimacy by winning seats in the Parliament.]( [Far-Right Leaders Loathe the European Parliament, but Love Its Paychecks]( By JAMES KANTER For right-wing lawmakers who attack the European Union, a perch in Parliament can mean a lucrative sinecure, easy news media exposure and immunity from criminal prosecution at home. [Students learning to use gas masks at a training center next to the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, this month.]( Seoul Journal [Worry About War? 'I Am Too Busy,' South Koreans Say]( By MOTOKO RICH For some residents, North Korea's recent provocations have stoked fears of renewed conflict. But many more have responded with nonchalance. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [Murell Kennedy mowed his front lawn recently across from the Cummins Unit, the prison where Kenneth D. Williams was executed in Lincoln County, Ark.]( [An Arkansas Community Looks for an Execution to End Its Ache]( By ALAN BLINDER and MANNY FERNANDEZ No case connected to the state's recent spate of executions was more locally resonant than the one involving Cecil Boren, whose killer, Kenneth D. Williams, was executed on Thursday night. [Workers inspecting a dead humpback whale that washed up on Rockaway Beach in Queens this month.]( [Mass Die-Off of Whales in Atlantic Is Being Investigated]( By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG Officials are seeking the reason for an "unusual mortality event" that has left 41 humpback whales dead since early 2016 from North Carolina to Maine. [At a 1952 retrial in Ocala, Fla., Walter Irvin, center, was once again convicted of rape and sentenced to death. He is surrounded here by the lawyers, from left, Alex Akerman, Thurgood Marshall, Paul Perkins and Jack Greenberg.]( [Florida Apologizes for 'Gross Injustices' to Four Black Men, Decades Later]( By JACEY FORTIN The so-called Groveland Four were convicted of raping a white woman in 1949. This week, the state apologized for its role. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [President Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada in February. Mr. Trump stepped back from the brink of a trade war with two of the United States' biggest trading partners.]( [Trump's Day of Hardball and Confusion on Nafta]( By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM and GLENN THRUSH White House officials portrayed the president's reversals as a vindication of his management style, saying he had brought Mexico and Canada to the negotiating table. [.][Revisiting Nafta: The Stakes for Key Industries]( [Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson at the State Department headquarters last month. Nearly 200 departmental jobs requiring Senate confirmation remain unfilled.]( [Tillerson in No Rush to Fill Nearly 200 State Department Posts]( By GARDINER HARRIS Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson wants to restructure the department before he fills top posts, an aide said - a timeline that alarms many of its veterans. [Protesters outside a courthouse in San Francisco, where a federal judge heard a challenge to President Trump's executive order to withhold funding from so-called sanctuary cities.]( News Analysis [Trump's Losing Streak in Courts Is Traceable to Conservative Judges]( By ADAM LIPTAK Legal rulings cheered by Republicans when they set back the Obama administration are now causing some grief for the current White House occupant. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [A newly opened Google office in Ontario last year. Google's parent, Alphabet, reported first-quarter revenue of $24.75 billion.]( [Cloud Produces Sunny Earnings at Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet]( By NICK WINGFIELD, DAVID STREITFELD and STEVE LOHR The impact on quarterly results announced Thursday was particularly acute at Amazon, far and away the leader in online computing services. [Christina Herrera, a student at St. Mary's College, watched Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News this week. She said she would not stop watching the network, but said that the sexual harassment allegations against the former host Bill O'Reilly ]( [Fans Feel Robbed of Bill O'Reilly, but Stick With Fox]( By SYDNEY EMBER While many fans defended Mr. O'Reilly after his departure from Fox News, some network viewers said harassment accusations against him were worrisome. [The United Airlines baggage claim in La Guardia Airport this month.]( [United Airlines Reaches Settlement With Passenger Who Was Dragged Off Plane]( By DANIEL VICTOR and CHRISTOPHER DREW The arrangement includes a condition that the amount that Dr. David Dao will receive is to remain confidential. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [New Lab, a public-private partnership, opened an 84,000-square-foot renovated industrial building in Brooklyn that hosts 80 companies.]( [A Hardware Renaissance Grows in Brooklyn - and Elsewhere]( By STEVE LOHR Technology, investors and entrepreneurs are behind a groundswell of innovation in hardware. A Brooklyn center dedicated to commercializing hardware start-ups shows the trend. [An Uber self-driving car in San Francisco last month. An Uber executive, Anthony Levandowski, accused in a lawsuit of stealing intellectual property, is limiting his work on the technology.]( [Uber Executive Steps Back From Self-Driving Cars During Waymo Legal Fight]( By MIKE ISAAC Anthony Levandowski, the engineer at the center of litigation over driverless car technology, said he will no longer work on a key part of the technology at Uber. [BMW's technician training center in Woodcliff Lake, N.J. The shortage of technicians is so acute that BMW began its own recruiting program.]( Wheels [Shortage of Auto Mechanics Has Dealerships Taking Action]( By NORMAN MAYERSOHN Car companies have had to create special training and hiring programs to meet the need, and the jobs that are available can pay handsomely. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [Mitchell Trubisky was selected second over all by the Chicago Bears.]( [In N.F.L. Draft's First Round, Offense Is Back in Favor]( By KEN BELSON Cleveland took defensive end Myles Garrett with the top pick, but eight of the first 12 selections were offensive players, bucking a trend. [A Toyota 4Runner, center, stored in a garage in Westford, Mass., was once used by Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end.]( [A Business Deal and a Murder, Seen Through the Rearview Mirror]( By PETER MAY It seemed like the beginning of a good relationship. It ended in a murder trial and a suicide. [Rachel Robinson, the 94-year-old widow of Jackie Robinson, at a groundbreaking ceremony at a site near the Holland Tunnel.]( [At Jackie Robinson Museum, a Timeless Mission Will Live On]( By FILIP BONDY A groundbreaking took place for the museum, which founders hope will inspire a new generation to battle barriers. It is set to open in spring 2019. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Logan Browning, left, and Ashley Blaine Featherson in the Netflix series ]( [Review: 'Dear White People,' the TV Version, Improves on the Strong Movie]( By JAMES PONIEWOZIK This new Netflix comedy's strength is its confident, consistent voice, even though its rapid-fire jokes don't all land. [Lee Relvas's sculpture reflected in the window glass at Callicoon Fine Arts.]( Spring Gallery Guide [47 Galleries That Bring You the Art of Now]( By THE NEW YORK TIMES Here are some of our critics' favorite gallery shows on view now. (But don't expect a break from politics.) [Emily Dickinson's bedroom in the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Mass., with a replica of one of her famous white dresses.]( [Home Alone With the Ghost of Emily Dickinson]( By SARAH LYALL Do you believe in ghosts? Our writer spends an hour on her own in the poet's room at the Emily Dickinson Museum. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( Movies [Hannah Cagwin in ]( [Review: 'Casting JonBenet' Revisits a 1996 Murder]( By MANOHLA DARGIS In a conceptual exercise, actors audition for roles in the celebrated case as a way of showing how people are still preoccupied by it. [Emma Watson in ]( [Review: In 'The Circle,' Click Here if You Think You're Being Watched]( By GLENN KENNY Emma Watson and Tom Hanks star in this adaptation of a Dave Eggers novel that explores surveillance-state threats. [Glória Pires plays a real-life doctor who used painting as a form of psychotherapy in ]( [Review: 'Nise,' the Therapist Who Resisted Lobotomies]( By NEIL GENZLINGER A drama from Brazil about a psychiatrist who defied medical orthodoxy and treated patients with paint brushes instead of spikes and electroshock therapy. For more movie news and reviews, go to [NYTimes.com/Movies »]( [] New York [The almost-completed Kosciuszko Bridge in New York. At right is the old bridge.]( [3 New Bridges Rise in New York, With Looks That Could Stop Traffic]( By DAVID W. DUNLAP The home of past-century wonders like the Brooklyn Bridge returns to building cable-stayed bridges, which are designed to "stand the test of time." [Robert Durst at a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles in December.]( [Victim in Durst Murder Case Revealed Damaging Secret, Film Producer Testifies]( By CHARLES V. BAGLI Lynda Obst said her friend Susan Berman had told her of posing as Robert Durst's missing wife in a phone call designed to mislead the authorities. [A fire truck bearing the coffin of William N. Tolley passed firefighters on the way to his funeral in Bethpage, N.Y.]( [New York Firefighters Say a Final Goodbye to a Brother in Blue]( By BENJAMIN MUELLER "He was a hard-core rocker and also a firefighter with a baby seat in the back of his minivan," Mayor Bill de Blasio said of William N. Tolley, who died on duty last Thursday. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( []Obituaries [Leonard Reiffel at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1963. In 1959, he helped write a report at the request of the Air Force on a proposal to detonate a nuclear warhead on or near the moon.]( [Leonard Reiffel, Who Studied Lunar Nuclear Bomb, Dies at 89]( By RICHARD SANDOMIR Dr. Reiffel revealed that the Air Force had been interested in staging a surprise explosion on or near the moon, and that its goal was propaganda. [Benjamin R. Barber in 2014. He argued the virtues of decentralized democracy, or ]( [Benjamin R. Barber, Author of 'Jihad vs. McWorld,' Dies at 77]( By WILLIAM GRIMES Mr. Barber's 1995 book presciently analyzed the forces leading to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the rise in tribalism around the world. [Martha Lavey at the Steppenwolf Theater in 2010, during the run of the revival of ]( [Martha Lavey, a Leading Lady of Chicago Theater, Dies at 60]( By WILLIAM GRIMES An actress by training, Ms. Lavey was artistic director of Steppenwolf Theater during a period of great expansion. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial [Tom MacArthur leaving a meeting of House Republicans on Wednesday.]( Editorial [Trumpcare 2.0: It's Even Worse Than the Original]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The revised Republican health care bill would make vulnerable Americans pay even more for less coverage. Editorial [What's Not to Like About Pre-K?]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to extend prekindergarten to 3-year-olds faces an uphill battle for funding, but one worth undertaking. [Kim Kardashian, left, and Greta Van Susteren arriving at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in 2010.]( Editorial Observer [One Woodward, One Bernstein, No Trump and No Kardashian]( By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON With the president avoiding its annual dinner, the White House Correspondents' Association gets a chance to drain its own swamp. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed [President Trump in January on Air Force One for the first time.]( Op-Ed Columnist [The Pond-Skater Presidency]( By DAVID BROOKS Trump is like one of those creatures that skim on the surface, having little effect. [In a ]( Op-Ed Columnist [Living in the Trump Zone]( By PAUL KRUGMAN We're in a place and time where childish petulance drives policy. [Bill O'Reilly in 2015.]( Op-Ed | Jennifer Weiner [Bill O'Reilly and the Revenge of Chick Lit]( By JENNIFER WEINER Treat him the way women have always been treated. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On April 28, 1947, a six-man expedition sailed from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia. 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