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| Shutdown, McKinsey, Gaza: Your Monday Briefing | Shutdown, McKinsey, Gaza: Your Monday Briefing |
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| Good morning. | Good morning. |
| We’ll be off for the New Year’s holiday. See you on Jan. 3. | We’ll be off for the New Year’s holiday. See you on Jan. 3. |
| Now, back to the news. | Now, back to the news. |
| President Trump digs in on the U.S. government shutdown, Macedonia’s former prime minister flees, and the British Foreign Office gets some funny phone calls. Here’s the latest: | President Trump digs in on the U.S. government shutdown, Macedonia’s former prime minister flees, and the British Foreign Office gets some funny phone calls. Here’s the latest: |
| Entering the second week of a partial government shutdown, President Trump is digging in on his demands over funding for a border wall. | Entering the second week of a partial government shutdown, President Trump is digging in on his demands over funding for a border wall. |
| The president has repeatedly called allies, reassuring them that he will not yield on his request for $5 billion in funding for the wall. But he has not reached out to Democrats, whose votes he needs for a deal. And the 800,000 federal workers affected by the shutdown are getting nervous. | The president has repeatedly called allies, reassuring them that he will not yield on his request for $5 billion in funding for the wall. But he has not reached out to Democrats, whose votes he needs for a deal. And the 800,000 federal workers affected by the shutdown are getting nervous. |
| This week: Democrats are preparing to pass a bill to fund the government as soon as they take control of the House on Thursday. Even Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, was optimistic. “At the end of the day, there’s a deal to be had,” he said on Sunday. “We need to start talking again.” | This week: Democrats are preparing to pass a bill to fund the government as soon as they take control of the House on Thursday. Even Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, was optimistic. “At the end of the day, there’s a deal to be had,” he said on Sunday. “We need to start talking again.” |
| Wall details: The outgoing chief of staff, John Kelly, said the idea of a concrete wall was abandoned long ago. Mr. Trump campaigned on his insistence for a fixed wall, not the “steel slat barrier” he has pivoted toward in the past few weeks. | Wall details: The outgoing chief of staff, John Kelly, said the idea of a concrete wall was abandoned long ago. Mr. Trump campaigned on his insistence for a fixed wall, not the “steel slat barrier” he has pivoted toward in the past few weeks. |
| McKinsey, the world's most prestigious consulting firm, is caught up in a high-profile extradition case involving a Ukrainian billionaire, the Austrian government and the U.S. | McKinsey, the world's most prestigious consulting firm, is caught up in a high-profile extradition case involving a Ukrainian billionaire, the Austrian government and the U.S. |
| Boeing asked McKinsey to evaluate a lucrative proposal to mine titanium in India through a foreign partnership financed by the Ukranian oligarch Dmitry Firtash. Attached to the evaluation was a single PowerPoint slide that described Boeing’s potential partner’s strategy of bribing Indian officials for permits. | Boeing asked McKinsey to evaluate a lucrative proposal to mine titanium in India through a foreign partnership financed by the Ukranian oligarch Dmitry Firtash. Attached to the evaluation was a single PowerPoint slide that described Boeing’s potential partner’s strategy of bribing Indian officials for permits. |
| Now that slide, known as Exhibit A, is the key evidence in Mr. Firtash’s extradition to the U.S., where he has been charged with bribing Indian officials in anticipation of getting titanium for Boeing. | Now that slide, known as Exhibit A, is the key evidence in Mr. Firtash’s extradition to the U.S., where he has been charged with bribing Indian officials in anticipation of getting titanium for Boeing. |
| What’s at stake: The case exposes what McKinsey and other American consulting firms risk as they conduct business in countries where ethical standards do not meet those at home. | What’s at stake: The case exposes what McKinsey and other American consulting firms risk as they conduct business in countries where ethical standards do not meet those at home. |
| A former Macedonian prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, was preparing to enter prison on a corruption conviction when he vanished. | A former Macedonian prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, was preparing to enter prison on a corruption conviction when he vanished. |
| Now the far-right Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, is accused of helping him escape. | Now the far-right Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, is accused of helping him escape. |
| The Hungarian government said it only helped him after he left Macedonian borders. So why did he meet Hungarian diplomats before he left? Interviews with Macedonian state officials suggest a more complex story. | The Hungarian government said it only helped him after he left Macedonian borders. So why did he meet Hungarian diplomats before he left? Interviews with Macedonian state officials suggest a more complex story. |
| Go deeper: Macedonia is trying to join NATO and the European Union — efforts that Russia is trying to block — and Mr. Orban’s alleged interference could send the Balkan’s fragile politics even deeper into limbo. | Go deeper: Macedonia is trying to join NATO and the European Union — efforts that Russia is trying to block — and Mr. Orban’s alleged interference could send the Balkan’s fragile politics even deeper into limbo. |
| When an Israeli soldier shot into a crowd and killed Rouzan al-Najjar, a volunteer medic, Palestinians called it murder. Israel called it an accident. | When an Israeli soldier shot into a crowd and killed Rouzan al-Najjar, a volunteer medic, Palestinians called it murder. Israel called it an accident. |
| Our investigation shows the truth is more complicated. | Our investigation shows the truth is more complicated. |
| How we know: We analyzed over 1,000 photos and videos, froze the fatal moment in a 3-D model of the protest, and interviewed more than 30 witnesses and I.D.F. commanders to reveal how Ms. Najjar was killed. | How we know: We analyzed over 1,000 photos and videos, froze the fatal moment in a 3-D model of the protest, and interviewed more than 30 witnesses and I.D.F. commanders to reveal how Ms. Najjar was killed. |
| The takeaway: Ms. Najjar’s death was an illustration of the cost of Israel’s use of battlefield weapons to control the protests, and how each side is locked in an unending cycle. | The takeaway: Ms. Najjar’s death was an illustration of the cost of Israel’s use of battlefield weapons to control the protests, and how each side is locked in an unending cycle. |
| European Union: With Brexit looming, the Romanian government has turned to Euroskeptic rhetoric ahead of its turn in the presidency of the bloc. | European Union: With Brexit looming, the Romanian government has turned to Euroskeptic rhetoric ahead of its turn in the presidency of the bloc. |
| Congo: A long-delayed vote to replace President Joseph Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo was deeply flawed, but no widespread violence was reported. | Congo: A long-delayed vote to replace President Joseph Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo was deeply flawed, but no widespread violence was reported. |
| Nissan: Carlos Ghosn saved the Japanese car company from ruin, but it was his own downfall that caught everyone off guard. Our reporters look at his rise and fall. | Nissan: Carlos Ghosn saved the Japanese car company from ruin, but it was his own downfall that caught everyone off guard. Our reporters look at his rise and fall. |
| Novy God: The Russian New Year has become a way to gauge Israeli acceptance of Russian immigrants, many of whom feel they constantly have to prove their Jewishness. | Novy God: The Russian New Year has become a way to gauge Israeli acceptance of Russian immigrants, many of whom feel they constantly have to prove their Jewishness. |
| Space: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will visit a tiny object, four billion miles from the sun, in the Kuiper Belt to look for clues about the formation of our cosmic neighborhood. | Space: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will visit a tiny object, four billion miles from the sun, in the Kuiper Belt to look for clues about the formation of our cosmic neighborhood. |
| Munich: Is the German city steeped in tradition becoming cool? Munich’s growing night life and cultural scene could give Berlin a run for its money. | Munich: Is the German city steeped in tradition becoming cool? Munich’s growing night life and cultural scene could give Berlin a run for its money. |
| Stalin’s Russia: Muscovites once came to gawk in droves, but most of Moscow’s so-called Stalin high-rises are now in desperate need of renovation. Who will foot the bill is still up in the air. | Stalin’s Russia: Muscovites once came to gawk in droves, but most of Moscow’s so-called Stalin high-rises are now in desperate need of renovation. Who will foot the bill is still up in the air. |
| Classics: Works by Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, Agatha Christie and Robert Frost are entering the public domain on Jan. 1. And there are more on the way. | Classics: Works by Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, Agatha Christie and Robert Frost are entering the public domain on Jan. 1. And there are more on the way. |
| Critic’s Notebook: What’s it like to be a female movie critic in the #MeToo era? For Manohla Dargis, a Times film critic, sexism is much harder to glide over. It “demands moral outrage too,” she writes. | Critic’s Notebook: What’s it like to be a female movie critic in the #MeToo era? For Manohla Dargis, a Times film critic, sexism is much harder to glide over. It “demands moral outrage too,” she writes. |
| Long-Distance Callers: The British Foreign Office released a list of some of the odd phone requests it received in 2018. Like the caller inquiring about vampires in Poland, “because a woman he met online asked what blood type he was before they met for their first date.” | Long-Distance Callers: The British Foreign Office released a list of some of the odd phone requests it received in 2018. Like the caller inquiring about vampires in Poland, “because a woman he met online asked what blood type he was before they met for their first date.” |
| Tips for a more fulfilling life. | Tips for a more fulfilling life. |
| Recipe of the day: Radicchio, Gorgonzola and hazelnuts combine in this hearty vegetarian pasta. | Recipe of the day: Radicchio, Gorgonzola and hazelnuts combine in this hearty vegetarian pasta. |
| Mixing great cocktails at home is easier than you think. | Mixing great cocktails at home is easier than you think. |
| Make tech work for you in the new year. | Make tech work for you in the new year. |
| The new year will arrive in a wave around the world, beginning on several Pacific islands including Samoa. | |
| Three hours later, the new year will begin in Sydney, Australia. Hong Kong and Beijing will enter 2019 after six hours, Moscow after 11, Paris after 13 and London after 14. | |
| After 19 hours, 2019 will begin in New York, where hundreds of thousands of revelers will gather in Times Square — one of the world’s brightest outdoor spaces, with a long history of neon lights and signs. | |
| The famous ball that drops at midnight is lit by 32,256 L.E.D.s, or light-emitting diodes. L.E.D.s maximize their efficiency by emitting their light in one direction, as opposed to older sources, which push out light and heat everywhere. | The famous ball that drops at midnight is lit by 32,256 L.E.D.s, or light-emitting diodes. L.E.D.s maximize their efficiency by emitting their light in one direction, as opposed to older sources, which push out light and heat everywhere. |
| In the mid-1980s, when redesigning Times Square was a battle against urban blight and crime, minimum levels of brightness became a part of zoning code. With it, a new type of measurement was introduced: the LUTS, for Light Unit Times Square. | In the mid-1980s, when redesigning Times Square was a battle against urban blight and crime, minimum levels of brightness became a part of zoning code. With it, a new type of measurement was introduced: the LUTS, for Light Unit Times Square. |
| Tessa Bangs wrote today’s Back Story. | Tessa Bangs wrote today’s Back Story. |
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