Is Italy capitalizing on conflict or just doing business? Our video journalists investigated.
VideoItalian Bombs, Yemeni Deaths: Tracking the Global Arms Trade
We followed shipments of bombs from a holiday island in Italy to Saudi Arabia, then found those bombs at the scene of civilian deaths in Yemen. Is Italy capitalizing on a brutal conflict or just doing business?
By MALACHY BROWNE, BARBARA MARCOLINI and AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER on Publish Date December 29, 2017. . Watch in Times Video »• Airstrikes in Yemen killed at least 68 civilians in a single day this week, the U.N. said, including eight children.
Even sharks are freezing to death
• A mass of Arctic air is wedged over much of the northern U.S., and meteorologists expect single-digit temperatures for at least another week.
International Falls, Minn., reached a new low of minus 36 degrees, and cold was partially blamed after three sharks washed up on Cape Cod.
• President Trump used the weather to cast doubt on climate change, a common mistake.
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The most expensive subway track on earth
• The cost of connecting Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal to the Long Island Rail Road has ballooned to nearly $3.5 billion per new mile of track — seven times the global average.
As the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has cut back on maintenance, The Times found that a host of factors contributed to its exorbitant capital costs.
• Union leaders and construction executives insisted that no money had been wasted, saying tunneling was difficult and dangerous work. The M.T.A., for its part, did not dispute The Times’s findings.
Listen to ‘The Daily’: Blue-Collar Jobs in the Rearview Mirror
We revisit the story of steelworkers in Indiana who lost their jobs when their factory moved to Mexico.
Business
• The Trump administration plans to roll back offshore drilling regulations brought in after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
• Prepaying property taxes could raise your risk of being audited, our personal finance columnist warns.
• Apple, criticized for slowing older iPhones, promised cheaper battery replacements for some models.
• U.S. stocks were up on Thursday. Here’s a snapshot of global markets.
Smarter Living
Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.
• Here are five New Year’s resolutions to protect your technology.
• And eight paths to a better relationship in 2018.
• Recipe of the day: Bolognese can be tastier without the tomatoes.
Noteworthy
• A wedding in the stacks
In today’s 360 video, watch Adam Kurtz and Mitchell Kuga marry at the Strand Bookstore in New York City.
VideoVows: A Wedding Amid Strand’s Rare Books
Adam J. Kurtz and Mitchell Kuga were married in the rare books room at the Strand Bookstore in New York. Their wedding day, Dec. 1, was the five-year anniversary of their relationship. Glimpse their wedding in 360 video.
By VEDA SHASTRI, KAITLYN MULLIN and NICK CAPEZZERA on Publish Date December 29, 2017. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.. Watch in Times Video »• Alabama vote is official
State officials brushed aside a legal challenge by Roy Moore and certified Doug Jones as the winner of this month’s Senate election.
Mr. Moore has been here before: He never conceded losses in the 2006 or 2010 Republican primaries for governor.
• In memoriam
Rose Marie became famous on the radio as a toddler and received acclaim on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” decades later as the witty Sally Rogers. She was 94.
In its annual The Lives They Lived issue, The Times Magazine remembers artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year.
For readers’ tributes to loved ones who died this year, see The Lives They Loved.
• Ready for the weekend
At the movies, our critics reviewed “All the Money in the World,” in which Christopher Plummer replaced Kevin Spacey, and “Phantom Thread,” by the writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson.
If you need New Year’s Eve plans in New York or beyond, we have recommendations. Staying in? We have picks for TV and books, too.
Finally, the Museum of Modern Art is highlighting works by artists 45 and older. Read our review.
• Skating, with a twist
The women in Egypt’s only roller derby club find the sport empowering.
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• Best of late-night TV
With most shows on hiatus, our recaps will return next week.
• Quotation of the day
“It’s fun if you’re a tax lawyer. I’m not sure it’s fun if you’re a person going through it.”
— David Herzig, a professor of tax law, on the scramble to interpret the new tax bill, signed into law about a week before many of its changes take effect.
Back Story
Each year on New Year’s Eve, millions of people around the world turn their attention to Times Square for the annual ball drop.
It all began at a New York Times party on Dec. 31, 1904. The newspaper had just moved from Lower Manhattan to a 24-story tower in Longacre Square, at the intersection of 42nd Street, Seventh Avenue and Broadway.
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Mayor George McClellan renamed it Times Square, and the publisher, Adolph S. Ochs, celebrated by putting on a New Year’s Eve celebration with a band and fireworks.
“No more beautiful picture was ever limned in fire on the curtain of midnight,” the newspaper reported on Jan. 1, 1905.
The tradition lived on, but in 1907, the fireworks were replaced by a ball drop. The idea came from Western Union Telegraph Company in Lower Manhattan, which did one every day at noon. (Time balls had been around for decades.)
The paper moved out of the building in 1913, but the ball drop continued, except for two years during World War II. A Times electrician, Thomas P. Ward, ran it from 1907 to 1957.
For more on the ritual, check out this article by our in-house historian, David Dunlap.
Karen Zraick contributed reporting.
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