The president-elect is rolling out a large spending package aimed at helping battle the virus and alleviate the economic toll it has taken. Weekly filings for jobless benefits hit the highest level since July as the pandemic’s resurgence batters the service industry. The value of office buildings and hotel properties, which have all but emptied out since the pandemic began, is expected to take a nosedive. Senate leaders were working to agree on a dual track to try the departing president at the same time it considered the agenda of the incoming one, an exercise never tried before. As President Trump prepares to exit the White House, his ideas, including falsehoods and conspiracy theories, continue to exert a gravitational pull among grass-roots G.O.P. officials. White House officials are universally angry with Rudolph W. Giuliani and blame him for both of President Trump’s impeachments. But he remains one of few people still willing to join Mr. Trump in the foxhole. Dozens of people in Washington on the day of the attack on the Capitol were said to be on a terrorism watch list. A federal prosecutor said that a retired Air Force officer who stormed the Senate chamber holding zip ties had intended to “take hostages.” At least 16 states and territories are using the National Guard to give shots, drawing on doctors, nurses, medics and other troops who are skilled in administering injections. Toyota’s $180 million settlement with the federal government follows a series of emissions-related scandals in the auto industry. Ex-governor Rick Snyder was leading the state when the city’s water became tainted in 2014. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. The House of Representatives has voted for President Trump to be tried for a second time. How did it happen and what comes next? In a special bonus episode of “The Argument,” Jane Coaston defends the law that made the internet as we know it. After a week of Trumpist mayhem, white evangelicals wrestle with what they’ve become. On the way out the door, the Trump administration is trying its utmost to make things difficult for Joe Biden. Basically, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. Now that his presidency has disintegrated into mayhem, how are the conservative justices processing his tenure? In an interview, the incoming Senate Banking Committee Chairman opened up about bypassing bipartisanship if necessary, the looming housing crisis and more. Right-wing influencers embraced extremist views, and Facebook rewarded them. Readers discuss when to hold the trial and whether to have witnesses, and praise two members of Congress for showing courage by voting to impeach and working amid grief. The protesting farmers fear that new laws will help giant corporations and leave them at their mercy. Those hard-won gains were never guaranteed to last. Now we’re seeing just how precarious they were all along. He is the poster child for why such accountability is not just constitutionally permissible but necessary. As a tech era draws to an end, more workers and companies are packing up. What comes next? Out with the (very) old at Sotheby’s. Kirbyjon H. Caldwell was senior pastor of the Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston and rose to prominence as a supporter of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Adam Schmidt had accused U.S. Figure Skating, the sport’s national governing body, of failing to protect him from sexual abuse by Richard Callaghan, a once-prominent coach of Olympians. One of the resident birds at the Tower of London is feared to have died. Legend says at least six must be kept there, or the nation will fall. Australians are facing a messy patchwork of border restrictions that lock out both the coronavirus and fellow citizens. A new ad offers a biting, if humorous, commentary on the state of affairs. The conditions of the Huawei executive, Meng Wanzhou, who is wanted in the U.S. on fraud charges, are even more luxurious than previously known. You can’t avoid fighting. You can only hope to contain it. In the international hit from Netflix, the actor plays a modern gentleman thief, inspired by the charming rapscallion Arsène Lupin. Jessie Diggins won the notoriously grueling Tour de Ski, after she and Rosie Brennan notched 1-2 finishes in two consecutive stages. She died above the bookstore, founded in 1840, where she had worked since the waning months of World War II. She locked it up for the last time in December. An existential philosopher reflects on the mortality of motherhood. The U.S. needs J.&J.’s one-shot vaccine more than ever. But the company is behind on manufacturing promises made in its Operation Warp Speed contract. Administrators and young graduate students have been inoculated at leading research hospitals, contrary to state and federal guidelines. 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