Trump Says Transition's Going 'Smoothly,' Disputing Disarray Reports and other top stories.

• Trump Says Transition's Going 'Smoothly,' Disputing Disarray Reports

  

  Late Wednesday, reports surfaced that Gov. Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina, who backed Senator Marco Rubio of Florida in the Republican primaries, might now be a candidate for secretary of state. In a series of Twitter posts on Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump kicked off a concerted effort to reshape the narrative of a chaotic transition that has taken hold in the week since he won the election. In several conversations with reporters, Mr. Trump’s aides said that their efforts to assemble a new go..

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• New York Today: Hints of the Holidays

  

  Photo This time of year, stall shopping beats window shopping. Credit Michael Nagle for The New York Times Updated, 11:16 a.m.Good morning on this chilly-cheery Wednesday.We’ve been so consumed by the presidential election that we almost didn’t notice the holiday season had arrived.The “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” with the Rockettes kicked off on Friday; the Grand Central Terminal’s holiday fair and train show opened on Monday; and the Union Square Holiday Market ..

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• The NSA's Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight

  

  They called it Project X. It was an unusually audacious, highly sensitive assignment: to build a massive skyscraper, capable of withstanding an atomic blast, in the middle of New York City. It would have no windows, 29 floors with three basement levels, and enough food to last 1,500 people two weeks in the event of a catastrophe. But the building’s primary purpose would not be to protect humans from toxic radiation amid nuclear war. Rather, the fortified skyscraper would safeguard powerful compu..

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• 6 Family Shows to See if You're in New York for Thanksgiving

  

  ‘Kurios’Randalls Island (Through Nov. 27)AGES 4 and upWHAT IT’S ABOUT Staged in an old-fashioned big top on Randalls Island, this new Cirque du Soleil extravaganza, subtitled “Cabinet of Curiosities,” takes a steampunk approach to the troupe’s brand of storytelling acrobatics. You’ll get contortionists, aerialists, jugglers and plenty of other circus mainstays — and no scary clowns. After New York, the show heads to Miami, Dallas and Houston. (Cirque’s effort at a more traditional Broadway musi..

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• NY / Region|'The Ball's in His Court,' Mayor de Blasio Says After ...

  

  Photo Mayor Bill de Blasio arriving for his meeting with President-elect Donald J. Trump at Trump Tower on Wednesday. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times Of all the various cabinet hopefuls and assorted hangers-on who have come to Trump Tower to get an audience with President-elect Donald J. Trump, perhaps the least congruous might be the visitor who dropped by late Wednesday morning: Bill de Blasio.It was, after all, Mr. de Blasio, the liberal mayor of New York C..

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• Body of Conn. man who vanished from NYC party found in New Jersey

  

  Cops grilled the son of Oprah Winfrey's celebrity jeweler Wednesday after digging up the body of a slain Connecticut man last seen alive at the suspect's ...

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• Senate Democrats' Surprising Strategy: Trying to Align With Trump

  

  Some Democrats are even co-opting Mr. Trump’s language from the campaign. “Every single person in our caucus agrees the system is rigged,” said Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan. Still, there will be areas of bright-line disagreement. Democrats are speaking out against Mr. Trump’s appointment of Stephen K. Bannon as his chief strategist, and will oppose his promised tax cuts for the wealthy and his vow to deport millions of illegal immigrants.What is not clear is whether Mr. Trump w..

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• The 2017 New York City Michelin Star Restaurant Guide

  

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• Young, Confident and Protesting Trump

  

  Photo Asma Amadou, an immigrant from Togo, among protesters in Washington Square Park on Tuesday night. Credit Dave Sanders for The New York Times “My grandparents marched in the Civil Rights Movement so that hopefully their grandkids wouldn’t have to march,” said Matteo Bertoni, 16. He was walking down 5th Ave. in the rain on Tuesday afternoon with hundreds of other high school students who had left their classes to send a message to President-Elect Donald Trump.“Now I..

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