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To swipe or not to swipe? That’s the question on every iPhone X user’s mind now that the home button is gone. While life without a home button takes some time getting used to, you’ll get the hang of it after learning (and trying!) these 11 gestures on the iPhone X. The first gesture you’ll need to learn is the most important one: how to get to the home screen after unlocking your phone with Face ID, Apple’s new way of unlocking your iPhone with your face. Once your Face ID unlocks your phone, you’ll need to swipe up from the bottom to get to the home screen.

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • Russian election officials barred the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, above center, from running in the presidential election scheduled for March. The decision was no surprise. “We won’t have an election because Vladimir Putin is horribly afraid,” Mr.

Don Hogan Charles, who was the first black photographer to be hired by The New York Times, and who drew acclaim for his evocative shots of the civil rights movement and everyday life in New York, died on Dec. 15 in East Harlem. He was 79. His niece Cherylann O’Garro, who announced the death, said his family did not yet know the cause. In more than four decades at The Times, Mr. Charles photographed a wide range of subjects, from local hangouts to celebrities to fashion to the United Nations.

President Trump called it proof of the need to build a wall; Senator Ted Cruz said it was a “stark reminder” of insecurity along the border. To everyone, it seemed like a horrendous example of the dangers that border patrol officers face as they cover vast, remote and unforgiving territories. But a month after a middle-of-the-night incident in which one border patrol agent was killed and another, who is said to have no memory of what ha

WARSAW — It is 3:30 p.m. on a Saturday and the sun is already setting over Warsaw. The hours of daylight here are dictated by the tilt of the Earth, Poland’s position in the Northern Hemisphere and the time of year. But the early time of the sunset is the result of something else. Poland’s fierce desire to be part of Europe after breaking through the Soviet Iron Curtain. For decades, the Soviet Union was on permanent daylight saving time, its clock constantly racing ahead of the sun. The Poles did not want to be told by the Russians when the day would end.

At least four times in the past week, the Trump administration has linked financial support for the United Nations to compliance with American demands. First President Trump and his ambassador, Nikki R. Haley, fumed that all countries with seats on the Security Council except the United States had opposed American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and his decision to put the United States Embassy there. Then Mr.