Last Top Stories: Second Suspect Is Sought in Paris Attacks

• Second Suspect Is Sought in Paris Attacks

  

  PhotoMourners on Tuesday reflected in the bullet-pierced glass of Le Carillon, the scene of one of the attacks in Paris.CreditTyler Hicks/The New York TimesPARIS — A dragnet across Europe widened on Tuesday to include a second fugitive suspected to have taken part in theParis terrorist attacks, as officials tried to make sense of a torrent of emerging intelligence about the planning and execution of the attacks.The police in France andBelgiumcontinued their pursuit of one fugitive, Salah Abdesla..

  >> view original



• Gawker to Retool as Politics Site

  

  PhotoNick Denton, Gawker Media’s chief executive, and Heather Dietrick, its president, at the company’s former offices in SoHo.CreditJesse Dittmar for The New York TimesGawker.com, a site that pioneered the knowing, irreverent tone that has come to define web journalism, will switch from covering New York and the media world, as it has done since its founding in 2003, to focus on politics.The change, which is part of a broad reorganization of the site’s parent company,Gawker Media, was announced..

  >> view original



• New York Today: Capital of Corruption - The New York Times

  

  PhotoThe new possible faces of corruption in Albany.CreditLeft, Sam Hodgson for The New York Times; right, Seth Wenig/Associated PressUpdated 8:53 a.m.Good morning on this much chillier Tuesday.Corruption has along and distinguished history in Albany, but it’s doing particularly well for itself this year.Among the state lawmakers convicted or sentenced this year alone, two are from the city.And the corruption trial of Sheldon Silver, the former Democratic leader of the State Assembly,continues i..

  >> view original



• Racism on Campus: Stories From New York Times Readers - The New York Times

  

  PhotoRacially charged episodes at the University of Missouri touched off protests that led to the resignation of the president of the university system and the chancellor of its flagship campus.CreditAustin Huguelet for The New York TimesStudent demonstrations at theUniversity of Missouriafter months of protests over racial issuesled to the resignationsof the university system’s president and the chancellor of the main campus. Those protests and others have provoked a debate over racism and free..

  >> view original



• New York Attorney General Seeks to Stop FanDuel and DraftKings - The New York Times

  

  The New York State attorney general sought an injunction in state court Tuesday to prohibit two prominent daily fantasy sports websites, FanDuel and DraftKings, from operating in the state, saying they were “plainly illegal” and “nothing more than a rebranding of sports betting.” FanDuel later said that it would temporarily prevent New York customers from playing.The attorney general,Eric T. Schneiderman, in court papers, laid out what his investigators found, stating that the companies had clos..

  >> view original



• Strong Sales at Walmart, Home Depot and TJX

  

  PhotoA Walmart employee in Secaucus, N.J., last week. The company's stock is down more than 30 percent this year.CreditLucas Jackson/ReutersRobust sales numbers fromWalmart, Home Depot and TJX on Tuesday are helping to ease concerns over the American consumer’s health in the countdown to theBlack Fridaysales.And some retailers also seemed to shrug off concerns that theParis attackswould chill consumer sentiment heading into the Thanksgiving sales weekend.Sluggish traffic and a buildup of invento..

  >> view original



• Veronique Hakim Is Named President of New York City Transit - The New York Times

  PhotoVeronique Hakim's appointment comes as New York City's subway faces growing ridership and criticism over crowds and delays.CreditKevin R. Wexler/The Record of Bergen County, via Associated PressVeronique Hakim, the head ofNew Jersey Transit, is leaving the agency to leadNew York City Transitas the subway system struggles with chronic delays brought on by booming ridership and aging infrastructure.Ms. Hakim will become president of the agency that operates the city’s buses and subways and is..

  >> view original



• Germany-Netherlands Match Canceled Over Security Concerns

  

  PhotoFlag bearers left the evacuated stadium after the match was called off.CreditFederico Gambarini/European Pressphoto AgencyGermany’s exhibition soccer match against the Netherlands was canceled less than two hours before kickoff on Tuesday, becoming the second marquee game called off in two days in increasingly edgy Europe.The cancellation of Germany’s home game against the Netherlands in Hanover came after the police found a suspicious object, The Associated Press reported. Hanover’s police..

  >> view original



• When TV Turns Itself Off

  

  PhotoClaire Danes in Sunday’s episode of “Homeland.” Showtime chose to broadcast it despite the terrorist strike in Paris.CreditStephan Rabold/ShowtimeMust the show go on? After Friday’s terrorist massacre in Paris, as often happens after violent tragedies, a few shows didn’t. CBS announced that it wouldreplace scheduled Monday episodesof “Supergirl” (whose plot concerned a series of urban bombings), and “NCIS: Los Angeles” (involving a possible terrorist recruitment scheme). TNT, likewise,pulle..

  >> view original



• Ex-New York Senate leader corruptly helped son get paid, jury told | Reuters

  NEW YORKA former leader of the New York state Senate strong-armed three companies to pay his son over $300,000, knowing that his position to influence policy crucial to their businesses meant "they couldn't say no," a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday.Dean Skelos, a Republican, sought to corruptly direct commissions and jobs to his son, Adam, to "line the pockets of the Skelos family," prosecutor Tatiana Martins said at the start of their trial in Manhattan federal court."This case is about the..

  >> view original