Survivors Turn Toward Recovery Efforts

One Family’s Overwhelming Start to Rebuilding

By JACK HEALY

Our reporter spent two days with a family as it tried to put its life back together after the flooding from Harvey left them homeless.
There are forms to fill out, a house to repair and a car to rent. Now if someone would just answer the phone.

Trump, in Texas, Says Relief Efforts ‘Well-Received’

By GLENN THRUSH and JACK HEALY 7:41 PM ET

“There’s a lot of love,” the president said on his second trip to the region this week. “As tough as it’s been, it’s been a wonderful thing to watch.”

The Daily 360

Town After Town Under Water in the 100 Miles From Houston to Beaumont

Floods had devastated towns all along our route.

By TIM WALLACE and DEREK WATKINS

A Week Later, Texans Are Exhausted and Still Stranded

By AUDRA D. S. BURCH and RICK ROJAS 9:44 PM ET

As Houston residents tackled the long process of repair, others near Beaumont were still underwater or without tap water.

Astros Return to Houston, Looking to Help in Storm’s Wake

Human Toll Rises
as Waters Recede

By JULIE BOSMAN 9:38 PM ET

Among the dead were volunteers, people who went out to check on relatives, and some who lived alone and died solitary deaths.

To Our Readers

The Times is providing free digital access to coverage of the storm.

Developing

North Korea Has Tested a 6th Nuclear Device, South Says

By CHOE SANG-HUN 1:24 AM ET

The test came just days after North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan and raised the stakes against President Trump, who has warned he would unleash “fire and fury” against the North.

U.S. Mulls Exit From Trade Agreement With South Korea

By GLENN THRUSH and GARDINER HARRIS 7:42 PM ET

Mr. Trump’s advisers are deeply divided over the idea, as negotiators from both countries struggle to rewrite the five-year-old deal.

Top Democrats Have 2020, and Money, on Their Minds

By KENNETH P. VOGEL and RACHEL SHOREY

Well before most of them will announce they are running, prospective Democratic candidates for president are taking steps to lay the financial foundation for a campaign.

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Chief of Staff Grates on Trump, and the Feeling Is Mutual

By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN

Even as John Kelly has brought order to the West Wing, President Trump has bristled at being handled. But the president needs Mr. Kelly more than Mr. Kelly needs him.

‘It Is All Gone’: Desperate Muslims Flee Myanmar

By HANNAH BEECH 7:38 PM ET

Tens of thousands escaped into Bangladesh, where they told Times journalists accounts of massacres by security forces. Hunger and hardship await them across the border.

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The Upshot

Fentanyl Deaths in 2016 Were Up 540% in Three Years

By JOSH KATZ

The first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths in 2016 shows overdose deaths growing even faster than previously thought.

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Education Disrupted

Kayla Delzer, a teacher in Mapleton, N.D., has created a flexible classroom where her third graders sit where they please and learn to post on Instagram. Tech companies are courting teachers like Ms. Delzer to help improve and promote their education tools. Credit Dan Koeck for The New York Times

Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues

As teachers launch personal brands and cast themselves as influencers, start-ups and tech giants alike are racing to cultivate them to spread their wares.

By NATASHA SINGER

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Bike-Sharing and Bad Manners Have China Asking Why

By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ

The popularity of shared-use bikes has brought a wave of misbehavior, raising questions about social decay and the decline of decorum.

U.S. Open

A Crude Rant Gets a Player Booted From the Open

By JULIET MACUR 10:14 PM ET

It may take a while for officials to decide the long-term fate of Fabio Fognini. Based on his past behavior, though, it should be a no-brainer, our columnist writes.

Nadal and Federer Steady a Course for Semifinals 12:37 AM ET

A Controversial Restoration That Wipes Away the Past

By BENJAMIN RAMM

The restoration of Chartres Cathedral in France asks questions about how we preserve the past — and which past we preserve.

Nomadic Herders’ Vanishing Way of Life

By MICHAEL BENANAV

A community in the Himalayan valleys of Sikkim is abandoning the mountains, and with it an incredibly harsh life. Documenting their world captures it before it disappears.