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Plus New York's vaccine mandate and baseball's shifting G.M. strategy. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story September 28, 2021 By Remy Tumin Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Tuesday. Gen. Mark Milley testifying at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times 1. Lawmakers put the most senior U.S. military commander in the hot seat. Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, defended his actions in the final months of the Trump administration and warned that Al Qaeda and ISIS could rebuild in Afghanistan. Milley insisted that calls to his Chinese counterpart in October and a meeting in which he told U.S. generals to alert him if the president tried to launch a nuclear weapon were all part of his job. On Afghanistan, top military officers acknowledged publicly for the first time that they had advised President Biden not to withdraw all U.S. troops . They said the collapse of the...

Plus murders spiked across the U.S. in 2020 and R. Kelly is found guilty. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story September 27, 2021 By Victoria Shannon Briefings, Newsdesk Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Monday. The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Monday. Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times 1. President Biden's agenda faces a make-or-break week. The president and top Democrats in Congress are facing a daunting set of challenges as they maneuver to unite their party around their multitrillion-dollar domestic agenda and keep the government from shutting down before the deadline on Friday. Progressives have said they will not back a $1 trillion infrastructure bill — the vote is set for Thursday — until they see action on a sprawling $3.5 trillion social safety net and climate change package. But moderates have balked at the size and scope of that bill, leaving both measures in limbo. The talks are unfolding under the cloud of a pot...