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Good morning, and Happy New Year,
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President Trump has invited Democrats to
a briefing at the White House today. We’re also looking at a warning
from North Korea’s
leader and the
outlook for stocks after a rocky 2018.
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Democrats seek to drive the agenda
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Representative Nancy Pelosi, who is likely to be elected
speaker on Thursday, said her first order of business would be
reopening the government, part of which has been shut for 12 days after
a spending impasse over funding for a border wall. Ms. Pelosi has said
the wall can’t be part of any deal.
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President Trump has invited congressional leaders of
both parties to a briefing on border security today. It would be
Democratic leaders’ first visit to the White House since Dec. 11, when
the president said he would be “proud to shut down the government for
border security.”
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The Daily: Today’s episode
discusses what Democrats plan to do with their new House majority.
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Kim
Jong-un projected a more relaxed demeanor on Tuesday, dressed in a suit
and tie and speaking from what appeared to be a library.
Korean
Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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North Korean leader issues warning to
the U.S.
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“We will not make nuclear weapons and we will not
proliferate nuclear weapons,” Mr. Kim said during a New Year’s Day
address. But he added that it “won’t be good” if the U.S. doesn’t make
“corresponding measures.”
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News analysis: Mr. Kim has
essentially returned to where things stood when Mr. Trump took office,
indicating that their meeting in Singapore in June altered the optics
of their relationship more than the reality. Read more from our national
security correspondent.
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Former
Vice President Joe Biden spoke at an event in New York last month.
Krista
Schlueter for The New York Times
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Joe Biden paves the way for a possible
run
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The former vice president is expected to reveal early
this year whether he plans to make a third bid for the presidency.
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In the two years since leaving office, Mr. Biden has
made millions of dollars through a book deal and selective speaking
engagements. But by setting tight restrictions on such activities, he
appears to be trying to prevent a backlash like the one Hillary Clinton
experienced in 2016 for earning millions by speaking to private groups.
Our reporters detailed the decisions that position Mr. Biden as a Democratic
contender in 2020.
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Catch up: Senator Elizabeth Warren,
the Massachusetts Democrat, entered the 2020 presidential race
on Monday, becoming the first major candidate in what is likely to be a
crowded primary.
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Investors are wary after a rocky 2018
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Stocks suffered their worst annual decline in a decade
last year, but the hope on Wall Street is that the U.S. economy is
still sound.
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Another angle: Trade talks between
the U.S. and China are set to begin this week in Beijing. The American
side is being led by Robert Lighthizer,
a China skeptic who has said he wants to prevent Mr. Trump from making
a quick, empty deal in order to calm the markets.
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If you have 7 minutes, this is worth
it
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Big Tech is just getting started
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Silicon Valley giants spent much of 2018 being accused
of inflaming, radicalizing, dumbing down and squeezing the masses. Tech
stocks have been pummeled. Even some tech executives are calling for
regulation.
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But companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
aren’t flinching. They’re expanding.
(Apple’s new campus in Cupertino, Calif., is pictured above.)
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Here’s what else is happening
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At the edge of the solar system:
After a journey of more than four billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons
spacecraft reached a small, icy world
nicknamed Ultima Thule (pronounced “TOO-lee”). It’s the most
distant object visited by humankind and may provide clues about the
origin of the sun and planets.
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Cuomo’s new tone: Gov. Andrew Cuomo of
New York was sworn in for his third term on Tuesday, in a ceremony on
Ellis Island. He criticized the federal
government, saying it had “sought to demonize our
differences and make our diversity our greatest weakness rather than
our greatest strength.”
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New leader in Brazil: Jair
Bolsonaro officially became president on
Tuesday, steering Latin America’s largest country to the far
right. Brazilians were “being freed from socialism,” he said.
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Richard
Wainwright/EPA, via Shutterstock
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Snapshot: Above, Serena Williams and
Roger Federer faced off for the first time
on Tuesday, in a mixed doubles match at the Hopman Cup in Australia.
Federer and his partner, Belinda Bencic, beat Williams and Frances
Tiafoe in an abbreviated format match by the score of 4-2, 4-3 (5-3).
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What we’re watching: This video from New York
Magazine. “Jerry Saltz, the magazine’s art critic and a recent Pulitzer
Prize winner, presents Picasso’s painting ‘Guernica’ to random
passers-by in the subway,” writes Dan Saltzstein, our editorial
director of special projects. “Delightful.”
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Now, a break from the news
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Linda
Xiao for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Monica Pierini.
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Read: Our co-chief film critic
Manohla Dargis explores how #MeToo influenced her work
in the past year. “It’s not that I’m noticing sexism more; I always
noticed,” she writes. “It’s that I’m not gliding over the insults and
insinuations, the snickering and unmotivated female nudity as easily —
as resignedly — as I sometimes did.”
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Smarter Living: Science can help you make all the changes you want
to make in 2019. For instance, focus on an overarching
intention (say, reducing stress) rather than a particular habit. That
way, if meditation doesn’t work out, you can move on to yoga or other
correctives.
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And now for the Back Story on …
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The gig economy has been with us for years now, but the
word “gig” long preceded it.
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The first definition of “gig,” meaning a “flighty girl,”
goes back to the 13th century.
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Employees
of the food delivery service Deliveroo in France.
Gerard
Julien/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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The word is also present in fishing, where the use of a
short-handled spear to catch small fish is called “gig fishing.” The
spear — a gig — is thought to be derived from the defunct “fizzgig,”
which eventually became “fish-gig.” Frogs can also be “gigged.”
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Early 20th-century jazz musicians popularized “gig” as a
one-time engagement to play. That is the usage thought to have inspired
the meaning of temporary (and often benefit-free) work.
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That’s it for this briefing. See you next time.
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Thank you
To Aisha Harris for the cultural guidance and Kenneth R. Rosen for the
Smarter Living ideas. Deb Amlen, our Wordplay columnist, wrote today’s
Back Story. You can reach the team at briefing@nytimes.com.
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