Megyn Kelly strikes back.
• “What on earth would justify that amount? What awfulness went on?”
On Monday, the NBC host remarked on the $32 million that her former Fox News colleague Bill O’Reilly paid to settle sexual harassment allegations.
• Ms. Kelly, whose new show has gotten off to a rough start in the ratings, also shared part of an email that she sent to Fox News executives in November complaining about Mr. O’Reilly’s behavior.
An apartheid that didn’t end.
• It’s been more than two decades since South Africa’s majority black population gained a voice in the government.
But our correspondent Peter Goodman reports that political liberation has not translated into broad material gains.
• “I’ve gone from a shack to a shack,” one South African said of a country where less than half of the working-age population is officially employed. “I’m fighting for everything I have. You still are living in apartheid.”
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PhotoBusiness
• Tech’s biggest companies are placing huge bets on artificial intelligence, sometimes paying Ph.D.s fresh out of school or people with just a few years of experience $500,000 a year or more.
• 238 proposals to be No. 2: Amazon said bidders to be the home of its proposed second headquarters came from 43 states, Canada and Mexico. It will name the winner next year.
• China’s Communist Party is increasingly asserting authority over business leaders, weakening their drive to invest and eroding confidence in the country.
• New York’s attorney general is investigating the Weinstein Company on civil rights grounds after its co-founder Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual misconduct.
Separately, the New Orleans restaurateur John Besh is stepping down from his company after more than two dozen female employees reported sexual harassment.
• U.S. stocks were down on Monday. Here’s a snapshot of global markets.
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Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.
• Learn simple methods to be better at remembering.
• Here are five ways to protect yourself against wedding catastrophes.
• Recipe of the day: How to make the perfect bowl of soup.
Noteworthy
The strange instruments of the Met Opera.
In today’s 360 video, take in the Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Thomas Adès’s “The Exterminating Angel,” which includes everything from tiny violins to slamming doors.
Partisan writing you shouldn’t miss.
Writers from across the political spectrum discuss the controversy over President Trump’s condolence call to the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier.
Actually, please don’t swipe again.
The MetroCard is on its way out.
Starting late next year, New Yorkers will be able to pay transit fares using a cellphone or credit card.
Archaeology by Google.
Using Google Earth, archaeologists have uncovered nearly 400 previously undocumented stone structures they call “gates” in the Saudi Arabian desert.
They believe the structures may have been built by nomadic tribes thousands of years ago.
A matchup with no underdog.
This is the first time since 1970 that the two teams in the World Series each won more than 100 games during the regular season.
Game 1 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros is tonight. Our baseball columnist, Tyler Kepner, previews the series.
Best of late-night TV.
Trevor Noah was unimpressed after John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, called Rep. Frederica Wilson an “empty barrel.”
“Where I come from, you don’t call someone an empty barrel. Because no one knows what that means,” Mr. Noah said.
Quotation of the day.
“I heard him stumbling on trying to remember my husband’s name. And that’s what hurt me the most because if my husband is out here fighting for our country, and he risked his life for our country, why can’t you remember his name?”
— Myeshia Johnson, describing the call she received from President Trump after her husband, Sgt. La David Johnson, was killed in Niger.
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Back Story
The Olympic torch was being lit today in Greece, beginning the countdown to the next Winter Games.
The flame will travel more than 5,000 miles east to South Korea, arriving Nov. 1 — 100 days before the 2018 Olympics begin.
PhotoStarting in the city of Incheon, the torch will cross South Korea, with stops in nine provinces and eight major cities, before arriving in Pyeongchang for the opening ceremony on Feb. 9.
The lighting of the torch goes back to the ancient games, but the Olympic flame made its first modern appearance at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam. The relay began with the 1936 Games in Berlin.
The torch itself is designed by the host country. The Times noted in 2010: “The modern Olympic Games have become as much a global contest among designers and architects as among athletes. Each Olympics is expected to produce a logo, a signature building — and a characteristic torch that symbolizes local tradition and national character.”
The torch for the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul featured a bright metal body and Korean graphic elements. The five-pronged shape of the 2018 torch represents the Korean symbol for Pyeongchang.
Inyoung Kang contributed reporting.
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