New York Today: Celebrating Rosh Hashana and other top stories.

• New York Today: Celebrating Rosh Hashana

  

  Photo A shofar, or ram’s horn, ready to roar. Credit Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times Updated, 6:30 a.m.Good morning on this murky Monday.Shanah Tovah!Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, began at sundown Sunday night and continues until sundown on Tuesday.Our city has the largest Jewish population outside Israel, and many New Yorkers will be celebrating the holiday — a time of reflection, repentance and resolutions.A mainstay of Rosh Hashana is the sounding of the sh..

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• Men Who Found Bomb Were Following a New York Tradition

  

  Photo Police officers searched trash cans on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for other explosive devices on Sept. 17 after a bomb went off earlier that night on West 23rd Street. Credit Katherine Taylor for The New York Times It was an odd side story to the bombing in New York last month: Two passers-by spotted a bag on West 27th Street in Chelsea, opened it, removed the pressure cooker inside and took the bag with them. In doing so, the authorities have said, they may have d..

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• Solar New York

  

  Governor Cuomo has set the goal that in less than a decade and a half, 50% of New York State's energy will come from renewable resources. To some, that goal seems to be a stretch, but the chatter I'm starting to hear indicates we might even do better. As Kaya Laterman wrote in the New York Times real estate section last week: Solar power in New York City may finally be having its moment. The number of residential projects across the five boroughs has risen to more than 5,300 this year from 18..

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• Suspected gang violence darkens start of school year for New York ...

  

  Violent gang members are suspected of killing at least four high school teenagers in one suburban New York community in the last month, kicking off a distressing start to the new school year. The school year at Brentwood High School on Long Island has started with funerals, fear and frustrations as the students have been victims of the suspected gang violence. On Sept. 13, the day before her 16th birthday, Nisa Mickens' brutally beaten body was found on a tree-lined street in Brentwood. A day l..

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• Colombia Peace Deal Is Defeated, Leaving a Nation in Shock

  

  The question voters were asked was simple: “Do you support the final agreement to end the conflict and construct a stable and enduring peace?” But it was one that had divided this country for generations, as successive governments fought what seemed to be a war without an end and the Marxist FARC rebels dug into the forest for a hopeless insurgency.To many Colombians who had endured years of kidnappings and killings by the rebels, the agreement was too lenient. It would have allowed most rank-a..

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• Kim Kardashian Held at Gunpoint in Paris, Spokeswoman Says

  

  Photo Kim Kardashian West at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York in August. Credit Evan Agostini/Invision, via Associated Press PARIS — Kim Kardashian West was held up at gunpoint Sunday night inside a luxury Paris apartment by two masked men dressed as police officers, according to a spokeswoman.She was “badly shaken but physically unharmed,” the spokeswoman told The Associated Press, offering no further details. The police were on guard outside the doors of the pri..

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• The New York Times risked legal trouble to publish Donald Trump's ...

  

  A report in the New York Times says a $916 million loss in the '90s might have allowed Donald Trump to legally avoid paying any income taxes for almost two decades. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) This post has been updated. Dean Baquet wasn't bluffing. The New York Times executive editor said during a visit to Harvard in September that he would risk jail to publish Donald Trump's tax returns. He made good on his word Saturday night when the Times published Trump tax documents from 1..

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• Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

  

  Photo Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan used baker’s yeast to identify genes essential for autophagy. Credit Akiko Matsushita/Kyodo News, via Associated Press Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for his discoveries on how cells recycle their content, a process known as autophagy.Autophagy, derived from Greek, means “self-eating.”“This concept emerged during the 1960s, when researchers first observed that t..

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• How Donald Trump Turned the Tax Code Into a Giant Tax Shelter

  

  Even if Mr. Trump was correct when he asserted that he only took advantage of what the law allows, such a huge loss undermines one of his central campaign themes, which is that he is an astute and successful businessman.Given the size of the loss that Mr. Trump reported, “it’s clear he was a spectacularly disastrous businessman,” Mr. Rosenthal said.Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economist who served as director of the Congressional Budget Office and is now president of the American Action Forum, a con..

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