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HAYFORK, Calif. — The red and purple opium poppies that his family grew on a mountainside half a world away were filled with an intoxicating, sticky sap that his mother traded for silver coins to feed her children and pay for their escape. Adam Lee smiles at the memory of a childhood in war-torn Laos and voyage to America, where he spent decades adapting to life in big cities. Now 47 years old, Mr. Lee has returned to the mountains — the Trinity Alps of Northern California — and to a career farming a different mind-altering crop for his livelihood: marijuana. “We’ve got big dreams,” Mr.

When Bill Cosby walks into a Pennsylvania courtroom on Monday for the opening of his sexual assault trial, the issues before the jury will concern only what he may have done 13 years ago to one woman in his stone mansion outside Philadelphia. But to his many accusers, Mr.

DETROIT — The chief executive of General Motors, an automaker synonymous with Detroit, saw the future of driving not in the Motor City but on the streets of San Francisco. Mary T. Barra, a G.M.

WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama’s term ended in January, he left a momentous decision to the Trump administration: whether to continue a 30-year, $1 trillion program to remake America’s atomic weapons, as well as its bombers, submarines and land-based missiles. Mr. Trump has pledged to overhaul the arsenal, which he has called obsolete.

SYDNEY, Australia — Hours after four Arab countries broke diplomatic relations with Qatar, a key U.S. ally, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson offered Monday to broker the impasse in hopes of preserving the Trump administration’s efforts to create broad coalitions against Iran and terrorist groups in the Middle East. “We certainly would encourage the parties to sit down together and address these differences,” Mr.

It has offices in a sleek Manhattan skyscraper. Its bonds are accessible to millions of American investors. And it holds ties to some of New York’s biggest banks. Despite this presence on Wall Street, detailed in previously unreported financial records, Vnesheconombank, or VEB, is no normal bank. It is wholly owned by the Russian state. It is intertwined with Russian intelligence.

London was stunned Saturday night by attacks that killed seven people in the center of the capital. A van ran down pedestrians on London Bridge, then continued to nearby Borough Market, where three attackers emerged and began stabbing people, the police said. Armed officers responded and killed the assailants, who were wearing fake explosive vests, the police said. Witnesses described scenes of confusion and panic.

A CNN host called President Trump a “man baby” and a piece of excrement.