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READ MORE Advertisement Supported by 10 Polaroids The designer for Santoni documents his excursion to Italy’s Marche region exclusively for T. By Isabel Wilkinson Nov. 30, 2017 Marco Zanini , the designer behind Santoni, is a man of many inspirations: He is influenced by everything from Brutalist architecture to children’s toys, all of which he documents religiously on his Instagram account . But for a recent work trip from his home base of Milan to the small town of Corridonia in the country’s Marche region, Zanini did something out of the ordinary: He brought along a Polaroid camera, and captured what he saw over three days of meetings, fittings and factory visits exclusively with T. (He even took a break for some chocolate.) “To extensively travel between workshops and factories is my way of doing my job: As a designer I always seek direct contact and one-to-one exchange of ideas with artisans, pattern-makers and seamstresses,” he says. “In my opin...

READ MORE Sue Kinsey, the senior pollution policy officer for the Marine Conservation Society , a charity based in the United Kingdom, said she was happy to see citizens taking steps to protect the environment, but she would not encourage legislators to ban craft glitter in the United Kingdom. “That would possibly be a little bit draconian,” she said. British lawmakers are, however, working now to phase out something similar to glitter: microbeads, those little plastic particles that are used as exfoliants in cleansing products. And in 2015, the United States also passed a law to phase out microbeads. But has the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which helped lawmakers shape that legislation, ever paid special attention to glitter alone? Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Thank you for subscribing. An error has occurred. Please try again later. You are already subscribed to this email. View all New York Times newsletters. See Sample Manage ...

READ MORE Finance Minister Bill Morneau found himself fending off fresh Opposition broadsides Thursday during another tumultuous question period — this one so turbulent a Conservative MP was booted from the House of Commons. Morneau has been at the centre of an ethics controversy for weeks, and the latest questions were focused on new revelations his father sold off about $1.5 million shares in their family-built company right before the minister made a major 2015 tax-change announcement. Opposition MPs say they believe the tax news led to a dip in the stock market — including the value of Morneau Shepell shares. All week, the Conservatives and the New Democrats have been grilling the Liberals about Morneau’s late-2015 sale of millions of dollars worth of his own shares in Morneau Shepell Inc. The transaction took place days before the Dec. 7 announcement. They insist the early sale resulted in a savings of half a million dollars. Opponents allege Morneau’s 2015 ...

READ MORE House of Commons Speaker Geoff Regan gave the boot to Conservative MP Blake Richards for excessive heckling today, the first such expulsion in 15 years. During a raucous daily question period that saw Finance Minister Bill Morneau face more questions about his ethics and financial dealings, Regan ordered the Sgt.-at-arms to remove Richards from the chamber. He first offered Richards a choice to come to order, to step outside, or to be “helped outside.” Heckling in the House Naming and shaming hecklers “Which would he prefer?” he asked. After a short pause, Regan called on the sergeant-at-arms to remove the MP, specifically naming him as “Mr. Richards.” “Naming” is the term for a disciplinary measure invoked against an MP who persistently disregards the authority of the chair, and is considered a “coercive measure of last resort,” according to the House of Commons Procedure and Practi...

READ MORE Photo Rex Tillerson at his confirmation hearing in January. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Rex Tillerson, who has clashed with President Trump and may be fired soon , has presided over the hollowing out of the State Department. The exodus of senior and rising Foreign Service officers will debilitate American diplomacy for a generation. It’s hard to imagine doing more damage to an institution and less good for America’s standing in the world in such a short period of time. Meanwhile, Mr. Tillerson’s sound instincts on the substance of foreign policy were routinely undermined by Mr. Trump and his incontinent Twitter feed. Mr. Tillerson’s obsession with downsizing our diplomacy has colored his time at the State Department. Instead of defending the department against the White House’s proposed 30 percent budget cut, he embraced it. Fortunately, Congress stopped — for now — the gutting of our diplomatic, democracy and development pr...

READ MORE The Senate may raise some taxes. Senate Republicans are scrambling to figure out how to offset the deficit effects of the bill after the Senate parliamentarian rejected a trigger mechanism that would have automatically increased taxes if revenue growth projections were not met. Among the ideas being discussed are reinstating the alternative minimum tax, or A.M.T., on C-corporations and some high net worth individuals. There is also discussion about increasing the corporate tax rate above the 20 percent over a period of years, an idea that Republicans are calling “stair-stepping.” This would involve slowly raising the rate after some time, though it is unclear when it would take place. Senators Bob Corker and Jeff Flake have said they want to raise another $500 billion given a new analysis by the Joint Committee on Taxation , which found that the bill will increase the deficit by $1 trillion over a decade. Senate tax cut will increase federal deficit by $1 trillion ...

READ MORE (Reuters) – Tiger Woods dazzled in his much-anticipated return from injury on Thursday at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas where the former world number one flashed a fist pump and did not seem bothered by his troublesome back. Woods, competing for the first time after a near 10-month layoff during which he had spinal fusion surgery, appeared pain free at the Albany course on the island of New Providence where he mixed five birdies with two bogeys for a three-under-par 69. That left him in a four-way share of eighth place and three shots behind Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood after the first round of the elite 18-man event featuring eight of the world’s top 10. “I didn’t know what I could do,” Woods told Golf Channel. “I’ve been playing a lot of holes at home, but it’s a little different when you have to tee it up in a tournament.” Woods, who two months ago said he was only hitting 60-yard shots, drove mostly well of...