Opioids, Republicans, Joe Girardi: Your Thursday Evening Briefingbr 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, worriedbr 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’sbr 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 saidbr 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 notedbr that his findings might do more to end speculation about a brain abnormality than explain Mr. Paddock’s act.