• Mr. Lauer’s co-host, Savannah Guthrie, announced the news on “Today” this morning. Appearing on the verge of tears, Ms. Guthrie said, “All we can say is we are heartbroken; I’m heartbroken.” (Read a transcript of her remarks.)
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North Korea says entire U.S. is in range.
• Pyongyang said today that it had successfully tested a missile that could deliver nuclear warheads anywhere in the continental U.S.
President Trump said “we will handle” the situation. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis noted that the rocket “went higher, frankly, than any previous shot they’ve taken.”
• Experts said the launch underscored the increasing sophistication of North Korea’s program.
The president’s changing reality.
• President Trump once said that the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape of his making vulgar comments about women was authentic. Now, he’s not so sure.
“We don’t think that was my voice,” Mr. Trump told a senator in January. And the president has continued to seed doubt about the tape. The White House declined to comment, but some of Mr. Trump’s advisers say he harbors a handful of conspiracy theories that have no grounding in fact.
The aides say that behind closed doors, Mr. Trump has questioned former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and claimed that he lost the popular vote last year because of fraud.
VideoTrump Casts Doubt on ‘Access Hollywood’ Video
Although Donald Trump publicly apologized after the release of a video in which he admitted to groping women, people close to him say that privately he has expressed doubts that the voice in the recording is his.
By ROBIN LINDSAY on Publish Date November 29, 2017. . Watch in Times Video »• This morning, the president shared videos on Twitter supposedly portraying Muslims committing acts of violence. The images were originally posted by a far-right activist in Britain.
Gunman opens fire in Reno.
• An assailant took a hostage and opened fire from the eighth floor of a luxury high-rise condominium in Reno, Nev., on Tuesday, shooting for about 20 minutes onto the streets below, the authorities said.
No injuries were reported in the episode, which was reminiscent of the mass shooting in Las Vegas in October. The gunman died, though it was unclear whether he had been killed by police gunfire or had shot himself.
• Separately, the Air Force said it had failed to report dozens of service members to a federal gun background-check database as required. The Air Force also didn’t report the domestic violence conviction of the gunman in this month’s church shooting in Texas.
The diary that could upend the Olympics.
• Journals kept by a chemist provide a new level of detail about Russia’s elaborate cheating at the last Winter Olympics.
The notes, seen exclusively by The Times, are among the critical pieces of evidence that could result in Russia being absent from the next Games.
• Olympic officials will announce their decision on Dec. 5.
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“The Daily”: The unpaid price of fighting ISIS.
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Business
• In a win for President Trump, his pick, Mick Mulvaney, will be the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
• It usually doesn’t take much to get internet users worked up. To get them really worked up, make the topic internet regulation.
That includes our tech columnist, who says that killing so-called net neutrality rules would also kill the internet as we know it.
• Retail jobs don’t need to be bad, our economics columnist writes.
• 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.
• A movie stylist offers tips for style on a budget.
• How to paint your apartment, with tips from a professional.
• Recipe of the day: Hearty split pea soup can be even better with bacon. (Not all readers agreed.)
Noteworthy
• The physical internet.
In today’s 360 video, visit Herald Square in New York City, where we identify the objects that help make our online lives possible.
VideoSeeing the Internet in Real Life
The writer and artist Ingrid Burrington helps us identify the physical objects that make up the internet all around us everyday.
By JOSEPHINE SEDGWICK, NICOLE FINEMAN and TIM CHAFFEE on Publish Date November 29, 2017. Photo by Tim Chaffee/The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.. Watch in Times Video »• How far will Sean Hannity go?
The Fox News host is willing to defend President Trump at all costs, and he is reaching 13.5 million people a day doing it.
The Times Magazine profiled the man whom Stephen Bannon calls “the single most important voice for the ‘deplorables.’ ”
• Ugly Baby’s pretty dishes.
A memorably named Thai restaurant in Brooklyn offers items rarely seen in New York City, our critic Pete Wells writes.
• Best of late-night TV.
Bernie Sanders received a Grammy nod for the audiobook version of “Our Revolution.” “He was nominated in the shouted-word category,” Seth Meyers said.
For late-night hosts, being sharply critical of President Trump has been a winning strategy. That’s bad news for Jimmy Fallon and “The Tonight Show.”
• Quotation of the day.
“There’s no way we could survive if there were more fires than snakes.”
— Prayul Krongyos, deputy director of the Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department, which has responded to more than 31,000 calls about snakes this year. Some pythons have even slithered up through toilets.
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Back Story
Call it the Trumpchi conundrum. China finally feels it has a car capable of following vehicles from Japan, Germany and South Korea into the U.S. market. But its biggest roadblock might be its name.
The Chinese automaker GAC Motor insists that its popular Trumpchi vehicles, which went into mass production in 2010, have nothing to do with the U.S. president.
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Even so, when we reported last week on plans to sell the Trumpchi in the U.S. by 2019, GAC officials said that they might rethink the branding.
Automotive history, littered as it is with unfortunate car names, suggests this is probably a good idea.
There’s been the Mazda Scrum Wagon, the Mitsubishi Lettuce, the Nissan Homy Super Long and the Isuzu GIGA 20 Light Dump, not to be confused with the Honda Life Dunk.
Volkswagen offered the Tiguan, a mash-up of tiger and iguana, Ford shortened cougar into Kuga for some markets, and Renault famously had Le Car.
General Motors has long been ridiculed for marketing the Chevy Nova in Spanish-speaking countries, where the name translates to “doesn’t go” (“no va”). The Nova actually sold well in Latin America.
GAC officials told our Shanghai bureau chief that, in Chinese, Trumpchi sounded a little like “passing on happiness.” Any decision on changing the name, they said, would be announced in January — at an auto show in Detroit.
Charles McDermid contributed reporting.
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