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African National Congress, Amtrak, Donald Trump: Your Tuesday Briefing

Penn Bullock and

Good morning.

Here’s what you need to know:

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• “America is in the game, and America is going to win.”

That was President Trump in his first national security speech. He dwelled on the “mistakes” of prior America leaders and presented a strategy that envisions a world in which the United States confronts China and Russia to protect America’s interests.

His plan includes a detailed effort to push back against China’s global economic ambitions, but says little about dealing with the kind of cyber and information warfare techniques that Moscow used to try and influence the 2016 presidential election.

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It’s been a dark few days for transportation in the U.S.

A passenger train derailed in Washington State, killing at least three people and leaving a train car dangling over a highway from an overpass and another flipped upside down on the road below.

And the power is back on at the international airport in Atlanta, the world’s busiest, but thousands of passengers worldwide are stuck or seeking new travel plans after an underground fire apparently knocked out both the main power supply and the backup.

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• Deliverance, from 27,000 feet.

About 5,000 people have reached the top of Mount Everest since the feat was first accomplished in 1953, and nearly 300 people have died in the attempt.

In 2016, two climbers perished near the summit, where their bodies lay frozen for a year. This is the story of the journey to bring them home.

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• India’s governing party fended off concerns about the economy to easily win two state elections, a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

His Bharatiya Janata Party is criticized for stoking religious divisions but showed continued strength. Still, there were cracks, with some weakening in Gujarat, one of India’s most industrialized states, where Mr. Modi was a celebrated chief minister.

“The arrogance of the B.J.P. has been tamed a bit,” one analyst said.

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson revealed details about secret U.S. planning on North Korea, surprising the White House.

In a speech last week, Mr. Tillerson said the U.S. would seize the North’s nuclear weapons and then quickly withdraw to South Korea if Kim Jong-un’s government ever showed signs of collapse. That would effectively cede the North to China, which would likely deploy its own troops to locate warheads. Mr. Tillerson said that Chinese officials had discussed the scenario — typically taboo in China — with the U.S.

The North has as many as 50 warheads, and there are fears they could be launched if the regime unravels.

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• European regulators opened an investigation into the tax structure of the furniture retailer Ikea, the latest inquiry in a crackdown on potential tax evasion by multinational corporations.

• Boeing clashed with Canadian jet maker Bombardier in a hearing before the International Trade Commission in a trade conflict adding to an atmosphere of rising tensions between the U.S. and its closest allies. Bombardier, meanwhile, announced a joint venture in China to build a monorail for the eastern city of Wuhu.

• The computer chip industry is being shaken up by an aggressive set of chief executives who are pushing big acquisitions, slashing costs and driving up profits.

• The Instant Pot is a global phenomenon. We visited the Canadian company's Taiwan-born founder to learn why. (And our reporter went out and bought one, too.)

• Bitcoin’s futures dropped slightly as trading began on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange financial futures market, the world’s largest. Meanwhile, researchers found signs that North Korean hackers are trying to steal cryptocurrency.

• U.S. stocks were strong. Here’s a snapshot of global markets.

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• Cyril Ramaphosa, an anti-apartheid hero and business tycoon, has become the new leader of the African National Congress, positioning him to become South Africa’s next president. [The New York Times]

• The U.S. vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning its decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But the lopsided vote — 14-1 — underscored U.S. isolation on the issue. [The New York Times]

• South Korea scrambled fighter jets after five Chinese military aircraft entered a disputed area, a tense episode that came just days after President Moon Jae-in returned from meetings in Beijing seeking “a new start” with China. [Korea JoongAng Daily]

• Hua Yong, an artist who has been documenting the mass expulsion of migrant workers from Beijing, was detained in Tianjin, but released on bail. [The New York Times]

• An air base in England used by the U.S. Air Force was put on lockdown after American military personnel shot at and detained an intruder who tried to force his way through a checkpoint. [The New York Times]

• Puerto Rico’s governor ordered a review of every death on the island since Hurricane Maria struck, after independent analyses — including our own — yielded far higher estimates than the official count of just 64. [The New York Times]

Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.

• Don’t waste your time with bad resolutions. This is how to do them right.

• Recipe of the day: How about some smashed cucumbers with sesame oil and garlic, alongside a big vat of takeout-style sesame noodles?

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• This week’s Australia Diary is by an American who was touched by the kindness of strangers after the online friend she was planning to finally visit in Sydney died unexpectedly. “I’d been thinking maybe Australia wasn’t meant to be. And yet, one year later, here I am.”

• In memoriam: the K-pop star Jonghyun, 27, who was found unconscious in a Seoul apartment by his sister.

• We told you yesterday about our Pentagon reporter’s discovery of a secret program that investigates service members' reports of U.F.O.s.

Today on “The Daily,” she describes how a tip led her to a four-hour meeting in a nondescript hotel lobby in Washington with the intelligence officer who led the program. And we talk to him, too.

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The National Hockey League wrapped up a yearlong celebration of its 100th anniversary on Saturday with an outdoor game, above, between the Montreal Canadiens and the Ottawa Senators.

It commemorated a matchup between the teams on this day in 1917, when the first games in the league’s history were played. On the same night that the Canadiens beat the Senators, 7-4, the Montreal Wanderers defeated the Toronto Arenas, 10-9.

Now with 31 teams from South Florida to Vancouver, the N.H.L. started with four Canadian teams spread over less than 350 miles. The league was founded in a Montreal hotel in late November 1917, in the thick of World War I, when professional hockey was still a fairly new concept.

The Canadiens are now one of North America’s oldest professional sports franchises. The Arenas eventually became the Maple Leafs. And although the original Senators folded in 1934, the franchise returned as an expansion team in 1992.

But the Wanderers are a blip in N.H.L history. Their victory on opening night was their only win in the league. They lost their next five games and then quit the league after their arena burned down on Jan. 2, 1918.

Naila-Jean Meyers contributed reporting.

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