• The legislation — which critics, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, say goes too far — is expected to go to the Senate floor in the coming month.
Women’s March 2.0
• As the anniversary of the demonstrations that drew hundreds of thousands approaches, a rift has developed between two groups trying to continue the activism the movement inspired.
On one side, Women’s March Inc., which organized the event in Washington and spent much of the past year coordinating protests.
On the other, the organization March On, which says that winning elections should be the primary goal.
• “We can march and take to the streets and yell about all the stuff we want to change, but unless we’re getting people elected to office who are going to make those changes, we’re not really doing anything,” a March On board member said.
California siblings found in chains
• A 17-year-old girl held captive by her parents escaped from her home near Los Angeles on Sunday and called the police, who rescued 12 of her brothers and sisters, some shackled to their beds.
The officers did not immediately realize that seven of the 13 siblings were adults because they were emaciated. They range in age from 2 to 29.
• The parents were arrested on nine counts each of torture and child endangerment.
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New alphabet makes a mark
• The language of Kazakhstan is written in a version of Cyrillic, a legacy of Soviet rule. But the country is moving to a script based on the Latin alphabet.
The challenge: writing down a tongue that has no alphabet of its own. The solution, according to the country’s first and only president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, is lots and lots of apostrophes.
(The Republic of Kazakhstan, for example, will be written Qazaqstan Respy’bli’kasy.)
• In a country where almost nobody challenges the president publicly, the apostrophe plan has been criticized from all sides. The script “makes your eyes hurt,” one professor said.
Listen to ‘The Daily’: What Scares South Korea?
What is South Korea afraid will happen if the North doesn’t participate in the Winter Olympics? And the false alert that spurred panic in Hawaii.
Business
• The recent raids on 7-Eleven stores show the price of employing workers illegally, the Trump administration says.
But the message is felt more by workers than by their employers.
• Alexa, earn your keep. Many people use digital assistants to get the weather forecast or listen to music. That’s a long way from the digital home that tech giants envisioned.
• U.S. markets were closed for Martin Luther King’s Birthday. Here’s a snapshot of global markets today.
Smarter Living
Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.
• Magnesium, found in leafy green vegetables, might help you sleep.
• Here are four tips for working from home.
• Recipe of the day: If you’re a fan of French cooking, try Mark Bittman’s chicken with vinegar.
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Noteworthy
• And you thought today’s news was busy
Fifty years ago, the world was in a tumult and seemed to be at a crossroads.
We looked back at 1968 and imagined the flurry of news alerts that would have sent smartphones vibrating (had they existed).
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• In defense of Aziz Ansari
A Times Op-Ed says that an essay accusing the actor and comedian of sexually inappropriate conduct is “arguably the worst thing that has happened to the #MeToo movement.”
• In memoriam
Dolores O’Riordan, the lead singer of the Irish band the Cranberries, lent an unmistakable sound to their alternative rock hits in the 1990s, including “Linger” and “Zombie.” She was 46.
VideoDolores O’Riordan Dies at 46
Ms. O’Riordan, the lead singer of the Irish rock band the Cranberries, famous for its Celtic-influenced vocals and songs such as “Zombie” and “Linger,” has died.
By AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER and CHRISTINE HAUSER on Publish Date January 15, 2018. Photo by Guillaume Souvant/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Watch in Times Video »• Best of late-night TV
“[Expletive]-hole”? “[Expletive]-house”? Who cares?
• Quotation of the day
“The reality is, he made a fairly simple mistake, and no one wants to ruin someone’s life because he made a simple mistake. If his identity was out there, he’d be a pariah.”
— Richard Rapoza, of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, on an employee who set off a false alarm about an incoming missile.
• The Times, in other words
Here’s an image of today’s front page, and a link to the crossword puzzles.
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Back Story
The event 80 years ago today would be, The Times announced at the time, the first swing concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Benny Goodman, the jazz clarinetist, would perform.
“The event will be decisive in the history of swing,” a Times writer declared. “What will it sound like in this strange milieu of righteousness and uplift, and what will be its effect on swing?”
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Fans of swing expressed concern that exposure to New York’s elite would eventually rob the grass-roots genre of its “elusiveness, its absolute freedom from technique or rules.”
Those fears were dispelled by Mr. Goodman’s success in captivating the crowd.
Carnegie Hall “had never seen an audience that behaved this way: listeners who not only listened but swayed to the music, made sounds and seemed ready to break into some kind of hysterical dance,” The Times reported.
Our critic found the music liberating in a dark era of totalitarian ideologies. “It is not so much a doctrine set to music as it is a revolt against doctrine.”
“If the individual has his unhampered say in music, he may manage to have it in other fields,” he wrote. “Dictators should be suspicious of swing.”
Patrick Boehler contributed reporting.
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