A thorn in Trump’s side
• New York’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, has sued the Federal Communications Commission over net neutrality, challenged President Trump’s travel bans and contested measures like a rollback of birth control coverage and a weakening of pollution standards.
His office, often with other Democratic attorneys general, has also criticized legislation it sees as gutting consumer finance protections or civil rights.
• “The biggest threat to New Yorkers right now is the federal government,” Mr. Schneiderman said, “so we’re responding to it.” Read our profile here.
One man’s fight against junk food
• The percentage of children and adults in India who are overweight or obese has almost tripled since 1990, according to one study. Health experts say Indians are far more likely to develop diabetes than people from other regions.
Rahul Verma filed a lawsuit in 2010, seeking a ban on the sale of junk food and soft drinks in and around schools across the country.
The case has propelled sweeping, court-ordered regulations of the food industry to the government’s doorstep, where they have languished.
• “We are sitting on a volcano,” one doctor said of the projected explosion in diabetes cases.
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Business
• President Ronald Reagan promised the biggest-ever tax cut to “increase opportunities for all Americans.”
But the average income of the bottom half of Americans declined, our economics columnist writes, as it did after tax cuts signed by President George W. Bush.
• An apple farm in upstate New York is a textbook example of what businesses describe as regulatory fatigue. President Trump is tapping into the discontent.
• Apple, Google, Microsoft and other technology giants are accelerating their efforts to remake health care with tracking apps, sensors and other tools.
• U.S. stocks were down on Tuesday. Here’s a snapshot of global markets.
Smarter Living
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• Travel to Mexico on a budget.
• Recipe of the day: Try a mash-up of Italian and Spanish cooking: arroz con pollo risotto.
Noteworthy
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By MAUREEN TOWEY, MADELINE POWER, KAITLYN MULLIN and BRAD LICHTENSTEIN on Publish Date December 27, 2017. Photo by Madeline Power for The New York Times. Technology by Samsung. . Watch in Times Video »• Another twist in tied Virginia race
A drawing to determine the winner — and possible control of the House of Delegates — was postponed after the Democratic candidate said she would legally challenge a recount ruling.
• In memoriam
Johnny Bower helped take the Toronto Maple Leafs to four Stanley Cup championships in the 1960s and became the oldest full-time goalie in N.H.L. history, playing until he was 45. He was 93.
• The shape shifters
The human body makes tens of thousands of cellular proteins, each for a particular task. Researchers are creating versions not found in nature, which could help fight flu viruses or break down gluten.
• Returning a Michelin star
Unable to pay for the personnel, produce and precision needed to charge one-star prices, the French chef Jérôme Brochot wrote to the Guide Michelin, the gastronome’s bible, to say he wanted out.
• Pop culture in the West Wing
Jimmy Kimmel. “Wonder Woman.” Covfefe.
Three Times journalists discussed the year in pop culture, as seen from inside the White House.
• Best of late-night TV
With most shows on hiatus, our recaps will return next week.
• Quotation of the day
“Amadeo García, he wants Taushiro to come back. He wants it, he dreams of it, he longs for it, and he suffers to know that he’s the last speaker.”
— Agustín Panizo, a linguist trying to document the Taushiro tribe, which vanished into the jungles of the Amazon in Peru. Amadeo García García is the last native speaker of their language.
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Back Story
With a Willy Wonka-like skill for inventing flavors, the pair behind the ice cream chain Baskin-Robbins strived to make America’s tastes more adventurous.
The partnership between Burton (Butch) Baskin and Irvine Robbins, who were brothers-in-law, was cut short by Mr. Baskin’s death, at 54, in December 1967.
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But by then, as Mr. Robbins later described in a Times interview, the two had already started down the path of the “magic of the unusual.”
With origins in California in 1945, the company eventually featured 31 flavors (one for each day of the month). The original list shows the pair’s imaginative flair: vanilla burnt almond, egg nog, peppermint fudge ribbon.
Over the years, a Beatle Nut flavor was developed for the Fab Four’s debut on American TV, a Lunar Cheesecake in honor of the 1960s NASA space missions, and more than 1,300 other varieties.
These experiments didn’t always work out. A 1971 review in The Times called caramel rocky road “as dismal a venture as it sounds.”
Still, Mr. Robbins noted in 1976 that, with increasingly bold tastes, Americans were “not embarrassed to ask for some of these wild flavors.”
But even now, with the chain’s history of wacky combinations and thousands of locations around the world, the five best sellers are relatively plain: vanilla, chocolate, chocolate chip, mint chocolate chip, and pralines ’n cream.
Anna Schaverien contributed reporting.
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