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| President Trump discusses pulling out of NATO, Britain's Parliament is set to hold a momentous Brexit vote, and American airports are feeling the government shutdown. Here's the latest: |
 President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the NATO summit meeting in Brussels last July.
Doug Mills/The New York Times |
| President Trump discussed pulling the U.S. from NATO. |
| On multiple occasions last year, the president said that he wanted to withdraw the U.S. from the 69-year-old North Atlantic Treaty Organization, senior administration officials told our reporters, revealing highly sensitive efforts to preserve the alliance. |
| Such desires underline concerns about Mr. Trump's secretive relationship with Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. Withdrawing the U.S. from NATO would be a grand victory for Mr. Putin and effectively destroy a 29-country alliance that undergirds the E.U.'s security and the world order, and senior administration officials were at first unsure if Mr. Trump was serious. He was, and so his national security team scrambled to run interference and keep the U.S. in. |
| Mr. Trump's belief that NATO is a money-loser appears to be fundamental to his worldview, along with an often-stated desire to seize Iraq's oil, officials said. |
| Reaction: "Even discussing the idea of leaving NATO — let alone actually doing so — would be the gift of the century for Putin," said retired Adm. James G. Stavridis, the former supreme allied commander of NATO. He added that withdrawal would be a "geopolitical mistake of epic proportion." |
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 Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain arriving at Downing Street on Monday.
Leon Neal/Getty Images |
| High drama set for the British Parliament. |
| The British Parliament is gearing up for a critical vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan — and defeat is so widely expected that Mrs. May has been fighting not to avert a loss but to manage its magnitude. |
| In that vein, the prime minister enlisted fresh assurances from Europe's most senior officials and warned again of the dangers of a chaotic "no deal" withdrawal from the E.U. She also tried to cajole hard-line Brexiteers to support her, even if they hate her plan. |
| The vote could go down as a historically awful defeat — a margin of more than 100 votes would constitute a big loss. Her leadership hangs in the balance. |
| Another angle: Despite predictions that a no-deal Brexit could cause everything from insulin shortages to an 8 percent drop in gross domestic product, many Brexit supporters brush off the fears, even as some of the strongest pro-Brexit voices join in the warnings. |
| More: The vote is expected to take place on Tuesday evening in London. We'll have live updates on nytimes.com. |
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 A T.S.A. officer closing the entrance to a terminal at Miami International Airport on Saturday.
Cristobal Herrera/EPA, via Shutterstock |
| Airports feel the impact from the U.S. shutdown. |
| Asked to work without pay during a partial government shutdown, one of every 13 airport screeners in the U.S. is now failing to show up, and the country's airports are beginning to groan. International hubs in Houston and Atlanta closed a number of checkpoints. Canadian air traffic controllers sent their American counterparts hundreds of pizzas as consolation for working without pay. |
| What's next? Airport security could eventually collapse as workers desert their jobs. But President Trump rejected a proposal to temporarily reopen the government while continuing talks with Democratic lawmakers on funding a wall on the southern border. |
| Response: Senate Republicans are largely standing behind the president, and so are Republican voters, including many federal workers affected by the shutdown. |
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Ramzan Kadyrov, center, leader of the Russian region of Chechnya, in October. He has instituted brutal crackdowns on gay people.
Yelena Afonina\TASS, via Getty Images |
| Report says Chechnya renewed anti-gay pogrom. |
| Though Russia decriminalized homosexuality during the breakup of the Soviet Union, the police in the region of Chechnya have periodically detained gay people in extrajudicial arrests, and a new report paints a harrowing picture of a recent crackdown that applied tactics used against Islamist terrorists to round up gay people. |
| Details: Since late last year in Chechnya, two gay men have been killed and about 40 men and women who are either gay or suspected of being gay have been detained in a makeshift prison, according to a rights group, the Russian LGBT Network. |
| Background: Moscow gives Chechnya's regional leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, an Islamist, significant leeway in exchange for loyalty, but international pressure had seemed to tamp down an anti-gay campaign his government began in 2017. Rights activists say they are alarmed by the report of a new crackdown. |
| In Poland: Mayor Pawel Adamowicz of Gdansk, a leading liberal critic of the populist, right-wing national government and a supporter of gay rights, died from his injuries after he was stabbed at a charity event by a man described by the authorities as mentally disturbed. |
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| Here's what else is happening |
| China: A court sentenced a Canadian to death for drug smuggling at a one-day retrial ordered weeks after a Chinese executive's arrest in Canada, escalating tensions between the two countries. |
| Saudi Arabia: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that he pressed Saudi Arabia's crown prince on a number of thorny issues that have weakened the American-Saudi alliance, including the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, while affirming a shared goal of opposing Iran. A fractious Middle East means Mr. Pompeo faces major obstacles in trying to form a wider coalition against Iran. |
 Jackals patrolling a garbage dump in Croatia. Their population can swell around such sites.
Janez Tarman |
| Golden jackals: Once barely known in Europe, the species now vastly outnumbers wolves on the Continent, and it is spreading rapidly, capturing scientific interest and forcing Europe to grapple with what the expansion means ecologically. |
| Russia investigation: William Barr, President Trump's nominee for attorney general, told Congress he would allow the special counsel, Robert Mueller, to finish his investigation. |
| Sergei Polunin: Considered by many one of the top male dancers of his generation, he lost an invitation to dance at the Paris Opera, over social media posts that were anti-gay and sexist. |
| U.S. Congress: Representative Steve King of Iowa was denounced by House Republican leaders and removed from two congressional committees after he made comments to The Times questioning why white supremacy is considered offensive. |
| Serena Williams: The tennis star is back in Melbourne for the Australian Open, which she won in 2017 while pregnant. This time, though, the conversation around her threatens to overshadow the tournament itself. Follow along here for the latest from the Open. |
| But why? An image of an egg has become the most liked Instagram post ever. |
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| Smarter Living |
| Tips for a more fulfilling life. |
 Linda Xiao for The New York Times |
| Recipe of the day: Try a tomato-free take on pasta puttanesca, with garlic, anchovies, capers and tuna. (And sign up for Five Weeknight Dishes for more recipes in your inbox.) |
| Tidying up: Here's how you can make some money rather than throwing everything away. |
| Get more sleep on the road: This year, hotels, cruise lines, airports and airlines will furnish amenities to add more shut-eye. |
| Back Story |
| Today is the 10th anniversary of a miracle. |
| On Jan. 15, 2009, Capt. Chesley Sullenberger safely ditched his US Airways Airbus A320 in the Hudson River after striking a flock of geese while taking off from New York City. |
 The US Airways Airbus A320 that was safely ditched in the Hudson River in 2009.
Steven Day/Associated Press |
| But the so-called Miracle on the Hudson hardly stands alone. |
| In 1982, a British Airways crew glided its Boeing 747 down when volcanic ash clogged all four engines. |
| A Taca pilot landed near New Orleans when his Boeing 737's engines flamed out in a storm in 1988. |
| And a DHL crew survived a missile strike. |
| Soon after taking off on a cargo flight from Baghdad to Bahrain on Nov. 22, 2003, their Airbus A300 was hit by a surface-to-air missile launched by Iraqi insurgents. The damage made its flight controls inoperable. |
| Using only the engines to control the plane's direction and altitude, the crew headed back to the airport and landed their aircraft (mostly) on the runway. |
| Where's their Tom Hanks movie? |
| Zach Wichter wrote today's Back Story. |
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