• Separately, House Republicans announced new investigations into Mrs. Clinton’s emails and an Obama-era uranium deal.
A new era in China, still led by Xi.
• President Xi Jinping of China unveiled a leadership team today that lacked a likely successor, with five new members all in their 60s. Mr. Xi’s second term ends in 2023.
Our correspondent in Beijing, Chris Buckley, says the absence of a younger addition “was a departure from the party’s carefully scripted transfers of power in recent decades and a possible signal that Mr. Xi intends to dominate Chinese politics beyond this next five-year term.”
• We look at the seven men now running China and explain Tuesday’s changes to the Communist Party’s constitution, which elevated Mr. Xi to Mao-like status.
Inching back toward normal.
• The school year started on Tuesday in Puerto Rico, albeit mostly in shadow: Three-quarters of the island still lacks power after last month’s hurricane.
Working to restore electricity is a utility company from Whitefish, Mont., that had only two full-time employees — and that has received a $300 million contract from the island’s power authority.
• Puerto Ricans are learning to make do, sometimes in extreme ways. “It’s like going back in time,” said a resident who has been living in darkness since Sept. 5.
“The Daily,” your audio news report.
In today’s show, we discuss what actually happened during the ambush in Niger that left four U.S. soldiers dead.
Listen on a computer, an iOS device or an Android device.
Business
• Senate Republicans voted to strike down a sweeping new rule that would have allowed Americans to band together in class-action lawsuits against financial institutions.
• Automakers, retailers and other business leaders descended on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to try to preserve the North American Free Trade Agreement.
• If you were laid off, would you train your replacement? In our video, two friends at a steel plant that’s moving to Mexico explain their answers.
• The philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs scrapped plans for a new magazine run by a former New Republic editor after he apologized for “offenses” against female colleagues.
• And the website Jezebel, a leading voice on feminist issues, named Koa Beck as its top editor.
• U.S. stocks were up on Tuesday. Here’s a snapshot of global markets.
Smarter Living
Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.
• Nine ways to invest better.
• Poor air quality? Here’s how to choose a good air purifier.
• Recipe of the day: Baked chicken tenders will please children and adults alike.
Noteworthy
• All aboard in South Africa.
In today’s 360 video, join our Frugal Traveler on a 26-hour train ride from Johannesburg to Cape Town.
• “I really didn’t expect to survive.”
The Times interviewed 18 teenage girls who were captured by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria. They were equipped with suicide bombs and sent into crowds.
• Who slipped drugs to the dogs?
A doping scandal has hit the Iditarod, the world’s most famous dog-sled race.
Four dogs on one team tested positive for high levels of an opioid. Their musher, a four-time champion, suggested it was sabotage.
• Dodgers win Game 1.
After a home run in its first at-bat on Tuesday, Los Angeles beat the Houston Astros, 3-1, to open the World Series. Game 2 is tonight.
• The outer limits of cuisine.
Since it opened in the Los Angeles area in July, the otherworldly Vespertine and its $250 tasting menus have left diners perplexed, impressed, annoyed, or all three.
Our restaurant critic, Pete Wells, went for a visit.
• Best of late-night TV.
Seth Meyers was unimpressed by Senator Jeff Flake’s decision to step down: “I’m going to fight for the American people — by quitting my job of fighting for the American people.”
• Quotation of the day.
“Whatever this miraculous thing is that you’re telling me about, I don’t understand it and I don’t like it.”
— Vince Passaro, writer and Columbia alumnus, on the unexpected success of the university’s football team.
Back Story
If you live in an urban area, you’ve probably come across — or been bumped into by — people who walk with their eyes glued to their phones.
In Honolulu, those “smartphone zombies” can now face fines of up to $99.
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A law goes into effect there today that bans pedestrians from crossing the road while looking at devices. Honolulu passed the measure to reduce accidents caused by distracted walking.
The ban is thought to be the first of its kind in a major U.S. city.
“Sometimes I wish there were laws we did not have to pass — that perhaps common sense would prevail,” Mayor Kirk Caldwell said. “But sometimes we lack common sense.”
Pedestrian deaths in the U.S. climbed to 5,987 in 2016 — the highest since 1990 — and a report cites smartphone-related distraction as a potential factor.
Several cities have tried to tackle pedestrians’ urge to tweet, text and swipe.
An announcement on Hong Kong’s escalators advises: “Don’t keep your eyes only on your mobile phone.”
And temporary “text walking lanes” have been set up in Antwerp, Belgium, as well as in Philadelphia and Washington. But in most cases, pedestrians didn’t notice the markings. They were too consumed by their phones.
Sara Aridi contributed reporting.
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