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Thursday, August 3, 2017

Today’s Paper

Trump Supports Plan to Cut Legal Immigration by Half

By PETER BAKER

Legislation would favor immigrants based on skills and education, while curtailing those brought into the country through family ties.

Newly fertilized eggs before gene editing, left, and embryos after gene editing and a few rounds of cell division. A study published on Wednesday announced that edited human embryos can repair common and serious disease-causing gene mutations.

In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos

By PAM BELLUCK

Researchers have found a way to reliably remove disease-causing mutations from human embryos, an achievement sure to renew concerns over so-called designer babies.

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. “I’ve been to the White House I don’t know how many more times in the first six months this year than I was during the entire Bush administration,” he said.

Trump Keeps His Conservative Movement Allies Closest

By JEREMY W. PETERS

The White House has spent considerable time and effort cultivating the right, the one constituency it knows it cannot afford to alienate.

Rowers along the Charles River passed the Harvard College campus in Cambridge, Mass., this year. A lawsuit accuses Harvard of discriminating against Asian-Americans in admissions.

Affirmative Action Battle Has a New Focus: Asian-Americans

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS and STEPHANIE SAUL

A lawsuit against Harvard raises the issue of whether there has been discrimination against Asian-Americans in the name of creating a diverse student body.

Caterpillar and other companies including Apple and U.S. Steel have reported earnings that surpassed analysts’ estimates.

Wall Street, Climbing Sharply, Skips Washington’s ‘Soap Opera’

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

The stock surge of recent months, ignited by policy prospects, is now driven by strong earnings and other factors that seem impervious to politics.

President Trump speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday.

Under Trump, a Hollowed-Out Force in Syria Quickly Lost C.I.A. Backing

By MARK MAZZETTI, ADAM GOLDMAN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

The shuttering of the C.I.A. program, one of the most expensive efforts to arm and train rebels since the 1980s, has forced a reckoning over its successes and failures.

In his final official event, Prince Philip paid tribute to a group of Royal Marines who had just finished an athletic challenge for charity at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.

Prince Philip Makes His Last Solo Appearance, After 65 Years in the Public Eye

By DAN BILEFSKY

Married to Queen Elizabeth II for nearly 70 years, the Duke of Edinburgh is retiring from most official engagements.

In Romeoville, Ill., many people who showed up for Amazon’s job fair waited for their turn in a huge tent.

Amazon’s Jobs Fair Sends Clear Message: Now Hiring Thousands

By NOAM SCHEIBER and NICK WINGFIELD

Amazon’s nationwide jobs fair on Wednesday offered a vivid illustration of its ascendance and seemingly insatiable need for workers to fuel its growth.

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Quotation of the Day
"If you’re in one camp, it’s a horror to be avoided, and if you’re in the other camp, it’s desirable."
DR. HANK GREELY, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford, on so-called germline engineering, changes made to an embryo that are inheritable.

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