Opioids, Republicans, Joe Girardi: Your Thursday Evening Briefing<br />Tom MacArthur said that Tax reform is good for the country; it’s just not good for the country when it’s on the back of six states,<br />Representatives from high-tax states like New York, New Jersey and California protested, worried<br />that the blueprint will doom deductions for state and local taxes.<br />And don’t miss Your Morning Briefing, posted weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern, and Your Weekend Briefing, posted at 6 a.m. Sundays.<br />_____ As a new trove of documents about the killing of President John F. Kennedy is released,<br />The Times’s Peter Baker walks us through who’s who in this American tragedy.<br />"With a heavy heart, I come to you because the Yankees have decided not to bring me back." Joe Girardi’s email made it official: He’s<br />out as manager of the Yankees, less than a week after the team lost to the Astros in Game 7 of the American League division series.<br />In a speech at the White House attended by families affected by opioid abuse, Mr. Trump said<br />that in addition to measures to combat addiction, he would push a new initiative to develop nonaddictive painkillers.<br />In a series of interviews, the first he has given on the case, Dr. Hannes Vogel of Stanford University explained the process — but noted<br />that his findings might do more to end speculation about a brain abnormality than explain Mr. Paddock’s act.
