Gene Editing, White House, Venezuela: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing
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Today in Washington, Mr. Trump criticized — but signed — legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, saying he was doing so "for the sake of national unity."
And the White House announced support for a new immigration policy based on skill and employability, rather than family ties.
The editor who discovered Julia Child — and persuaded Doubleday to publish Anne Frank’s diary in English — died at 93.
Your Evening Briefing is posted at 6 p.m. Eastern.
"For example, the entire Chinese Olympic team will be played by white actors." Dave Chappelle just began a three-and-a-half-week run at Radio City Music Hall, and he’ll join Stephen Colbert to discuss it tonight on "The Late Show." (Our critic says
that "some of his agility and mischievousness has been replaced with an increased narrative ambition" in his new show.)
The breakthrough raises the prospect that gene editing could protect babies from hereditary conditions — but there are also deep ethical concerns.
The video shows an officer who appears to place a bag of white capsules in an alley before walking toward the street.
