Our correspondents in Washington assessed the anxious mood there after the first indictments in the Russia inquiry. “This is a centipede,” Senator John McCain said. “More shoes will drop.”
• Finally, answers to two burning questions: How can one spend more than $800,000 on men’s clothing? And who is George Papadopoulos?
When the accused harasser is a star.
• As companies prize big names, more employees could think they can get away with sexual harassment, researchers say.
On Tuesday, the authorities said that three Dartmouth College professors were under criminal investigation over alleged sexual misconduct.
Separately, Michael Oreskes, a top editor at NPR, was placed on leave after accusations that he harassed multiple women in the late 1990s, when he was an editor at The Times.
• And Netflix suspended production on “House of Cards” after its star, Kevin Spacey, was accused of a sexual advance toward a 14-year-old boy in the 1980s.
“The Daily”: Mueller’s strategy and an attack in New York.
In today’s show, we look at Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, internet giants’ hearings on Capitol Hill and the terrorist attack in Manhattan.
Listen on a computer, an iOS device or an Android device.
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• Executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter appeared on Capitol Hill to acknowledge their companies’ role in helping Russia influence the presidential campaign, but they offered little more than promises to do better. Here’s what to expect from today’s testimony.
In the debate over the Russia inquiry, broad agreement on the basic facts does not extend to Fox News and other major conservative outlets, our media columnist writes.
• House Republicans had planned to unveil their tax plan today but delayed the rollout until Thursday.
• What’s the economic cost of Brexit for Britain? Pineapples tell a tale.
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• 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.
• How fiction became fact on social media.
• The solution for skin ailments may be right under your nose.
• Recipe of the day: Spicy molten blue cheese dip is the ultimate snack.
Noteworthy
• Inuit vocals.
In today’s 360 video, watch a performance from Iqaluit, on the edge of the Canadian Arctic. One of the singers, Tanya Tagaq, will perform at Carnegie Hall in New York on Sunday.
VideoBig Music in Small Rooms: Throat Singing
Experience an intimate show of Inuit throat singing from Tanya Tagaq and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory in Iqaluit, on the edge of the Canadian Arctic. Ms. Tagaq will perform at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, Nov. 5.
By KAITLYN MULLIN and NATHAN GRIFFITHS on Publish Date November 1, 2017. Photo by Nathan Griffiths/The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.. Watch in Times Video »• The chef who’s feeding Puerto Rico.
Since arriving on the island five days after Hurricane Maria struck, the award-winning Spanish-American chef José Andrés has served more meals there than any other organization, including the Red Cross and government agencies.
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His effort shows how chef-led groups are creating a model for a more agile, local response to catastrophes.
• In memoriam.
June Robles Birt disappeared at age 6 in 1934, stoking Americans’ fears about child abduction. She was found 19 days later and then vanished again, deliberately, into an inconspicuous life. (So inconspicuous that The Times only recently learned of her death, in 2014.) She was 87.
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• Dodgers force a Game 7.
A World Series champion will be crowned tonight after Los Angeles beat the Houston Astros, 3-1.
• Reporter, author, 10-year-old.
Hilde Lysiak’s experiences went viral last year when she broke a story about a homicide in her hometown. Now, she stars in a children’s book series.
• Best of late-night TV.
Amber Ruffin, a correspondent on “Late Night,” addressed comments John Kelly made about the cause of the Civil War: “Lack of compromise? That’s an awfully strange way to pronounce ‘slavery.’ It wasn’t a lack of compromise that led to the Civil War — a lack of compromise led to the mullet.”
• Quotation of the day.
“If there’s something to find, he’ll find it. If there’s nothing there, he’s not going to cook something up.”
— Katya Jestin, a former colleague of Andrew Weissmann, a top lieutenant to Robert Mueller in the special counsel investigation.
Back Story
Have you ever gotten a job without the qualifications?
It happened to Michelangelo, a sculptor by trade, who painted the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, unveiled to the public on this day in 1512.
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Commissioned by Pope Julius II, Michelangelo’s ceiling, about 130 feet long and 45 feet wide, took four years to paint. (You can take a virtual tour here.)
Believing he was being set up to fail, Michelangelo was paranoid at the beginning and a physical wreck by the end, writing a poem that began:
I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture
hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy
(or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison).
The centerpiece is the Creation of Adam, one of nine scenes from the biblical Book of Genesis.
The frescoes have required only one restoration in the modern era, in the 1980s and ’90s, but the effect of more than five million visitors a year is causing concern.
The work’s popularity is understandable. As the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe noted, “Without having seen the Sistine Chapel, one can form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving.”
Thomas Furse contributed reporting.
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