In a brief bit of political theater, the House majority leader opened the chamber for business to ask for unanimous consent to accede to President Trump’s request for larger checks. The president-elect insisted that his skills and his history would enable him to secure bipartisan support for bold initiatives. President Trump’s grants of clemency to convicted liars, corrupt congressmen and child-killing war criminals are a way to lash out at a system that he believes has treated him and his friends unfairly. Philip Esformes was sentenced last year to 20 years for Medicare fraud. Then a well-connected organization supported by his family weighed in with the White House. “I am so disappointed and saddened that this happened,” a New York hospital executive wrote to his staff after workers who did not have priority cut the line for the vaccine. The idea of an agile “Global Britain” was an effective sales pitch. But that was before President Trump and other populists began erecting barriers to trade. The trade agreement comes after months of negotiations, and still leaves critical details to be worked out. The Brexit pact preserves crucial E.U. principles like the single market, and lets the bloc look ahead to its future without Britain. “The darkness seems pretty dark at the moment,” said one minister, who will preach about hope in the face of fear. It’s been a rough year. Let’s celebrate the little wins. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. In the spring, with permission from staff, patients and their families, we shadowed one doctor for a day to get a sense of what it is like on the front lines of the pandemic. Blackwater mercenaries committed a massacre. Now they’ll go free. A hard year produces great writing. First-century Christians weren’t prepared for what a truly inclusive figure he was, and what was true then is still true today. For immigrant families from India, the holidays come closest to the long, riotous wedding seasons in the homeland. Father Stan Swamy spent decades fighting for the rights of India’s marginalized people. In October, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government imprisoned him under antiterrorism laws. “Cause of Life” celebrates the messy, tenacious, and extraordinary lives of five people we lost to Covid-19. Virtual services are inadequate — but I keep going. It’s been a year of loneliness and isolation. In 2021, we’ll celebrate. The future of travel will involve fewer selfies from Icelandic spas. There are clear ways to reform the pardon process to work as the founders intended. In a challenging year filled with triumphs and losses, these memories stood out for our reporters. And you thought your Spotify Wrapped was a bummer. Evidence from the security firm CrowdStrike suggests that companies that sell software on behalf of Microsoft were used to break into Microsoft’s Office 365 customers. The police chief said Officer Adam Coy “must be terminated immediately” for not quickly turning on a body camera and not providing aid to the man he shot. On a holiday when health experts admonished people not to travel, the weather brought its own hazards across much of the country. The victim, an 82-year-old man, was hit with an oxygen tank by another patient with whom he was sharing a room, the authorities said. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said he had unintentionally misrepresented the facts around a political scandal after prosecutors announced they would seek to punish a former aide to Shinzo Abe. A Jamaican couple spent nearly two and a half years inside Philadelphia churches, isolated even further by the pandemic. This month, U.S. immigration officials relented. Bryan Fogel’s examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies that can be premier platforms for documentary films. Ola Salem’s body was found in a Staten Island park last year. Her father said she had talked about being followed on the highway. Beijing’s drive to free itself from reliance on imported semiconductors has lifted start-ups and big firms alike. Some have flamed out. But there has been progress. The hamlet that was the backdrop for the hit television series Schitt’s Creek has become a pilgrimage site for fans, to the joy and consternation of locals. The sequel to the 2017 hit finds Diana Prince, a.k.a. Wonder Woman, pining for love and saddled with a movie unworthy of her. Thanks to streaming, two American critics got to binge a bunch of the traditional holiday spectacles. They’re amused, and confused, by what they saw. You may have missed these under-the-radar movies this year. Now’s your chance to catch up. The solitary cephalopods occasionally join a hunting party with fish, then lash out for reasons that scientists are studying. Before someone hung it up in your home, some animal had to get it into the canopies where it thrives to this day. Researchers warn that the British variant is so contagious that new control measures, including closing down schools and universities, may be necessary. Noble lineage, classic beauty and punk attitude combined in a model who stood at fashion’s apex for three decades. More Recent Articles |
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