Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
Appeals court lifted a block on Trump’s deployment to OregonA panel of federal appeals court judges announced today that the Trump administration can, for now, move forward with its plans to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Ore. The decision opens the door to some federal troops being stationed at an ICE facility in South Portland that has been the site of street protests since June. The ruling, which disputed a lower court’s contention that protests in the city have been largely under control, lifted a temporary block on the deployment. It was not immediately clear, however, whether the order also allowed President Trump to use National Guard soldiers from Texas or other states, as he has suggested he might do. The two Trump-appointed judges who wrote the ruling cited instances in which demonstrators in Portland attempted to set fires at the building, threw rocks and sticks, threatened officers with knives, shined lights in officers’ eyes and shot paintballs at officers. In a dissent, a judge appointed by Bill Clinton said the ruling was “absurd” and “erodes core constitutional principles.” Legal wrangling over the deployment is almost certain to continue. Lawyers for Oregon and the city of Portland immediately asked for the case to be reconsidered.
The search is on for the Louvre jewel thievesA team of robbers stunned the world yesterday when they broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris and made off with eight items of jewelry said to be of “incalculable” worth. The heist took less than 10 minutes; here’s how it went down. The robbery raised uncomfortable questions about security at one of the world’s most famous cultural institutions, which remained closed today. Much of the art world is worried that the burglars are very likely to break the pieces apart to sell on the black market. Art crime experts told us what might happen next. Among the stolen items are a tiara worn by Empress Eugénie, the wife of Napoleon III, set with 212 pearls and nearly 3,000 diamonds. (See all of the items that were taken.) For more: The heist was the latest in a long line of high-profile thefts.
Amazon outage highlighted the fragility of internet servicesDozens of major websites were taken off-line this morning because of an outage involving Amazon Web Services, the cloud service provider that supports much of the internet. The outage affected banks, entertainment services and even Wordle. Within several hours, most of the sites were back up and running, though reports of spotty services persisted. The disruption was a reminder of how reliant the world has become on a few major tech companies to maintain the internet.
Hyundai isn’t done betting on AmericaThe Korean carmaker Hyundai built a giant electric vehicle plant in Ellabell, Ga., with the hopes that the facility would become a shining example of the future of vehicle assembly. Then, last month, immigration authorities raided the plant and shackled more than 300 Korean workers who the U.S. said were working on the wrong kind of visas. Many South Koreans called on the company to halt its U.S. expansion — adding to existing complaints from Ellabell residents about the influx of foreigners. Still, Hyundai is plowing ahead with plans to spend $26 billion in the U.S. through 2028. Here’s what it’s like in Ellabell now. In other car news: An increasing number of low-income Americans have struggled to pay auto loans, an indication that the economy’s foundation could be starting to buckle. More top news
Fallen Confederate statues take center stage at a bold new show“Monuments,” an art exhibit that is sure to be among the year’s most audacious and contentious, is set to debut this week in Los Angeles. The show features nearly a dozen downed Confederate memorials face to face — in an intentionally thorny way — with contemporary art. The standout achievement of the show is Kara Walker’s “Unmanned Drone,” which was created from the rearranged parts of a Stonewall Jackson statue that stood for a century in Charlottesville, Va. “Her new monument is no act of desecration; it’s a stabilization project, an immense and weirdly poignant effort to make American history structurally sound,” our critic, Jason Farago, writes.
What happened to Colin Jost and Pete Davidson’s ferry?In 2022, the “Saturday Night Live” stars Colin Jost and Pete Davidson made a splash by buying a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry for $280,100. They had plans to turn it into a lively entertainment space with restaurants, bars, a concert venue and hotel rooms. Now it looks as if they might have paid roughly $280,000 too much. Jost has described the ferry as “the dumbest and least thought-through purchase I’ve ever made in my life.” Read more about how the ferry turned into a fiasco.
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Cook: Make these syrup-soaked gulab jamun to celebrate Diwali. Watch: Here are five free movies to stream right now. Read: John Updike’s letters are a great bounty for anyone who cares about American literature. Style: Our critic shares tips for wearing barrel pants. Work out: These exercises help strengthen your ankles. Wear: My colleagues at Wirecutter tested more than 90 pairs of socks. These are their favorites. Test yourself: Take this week’s Flashback history quiz. Play: Here are today’s Spelling Bee, Wordle and Mini Crossword. Find all our games here. |
