After a day that featured a harrowing video of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, only six Republicans joined Democrats in agreeing to allow the trial to proceed, signaling there is not enough support for a conviction. The result largely mirrored the tally last month, when the Senate voted to kill an attempt to dismiss the trial as unconstitutional. Before senators could get started on the charge against former President Donald J. Trump, they spent a day debating whether they had the right to try a former president in the first place. At issue will be many aspects that defined Donald Trump’s presidency: his relentless assaults on truth, his fomenting of divisions, his shattering of norms and his undermining of an election. Representative Jamie Raskin, the Maryland Democrat who is the lead prosecutor in the second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump, choked back tears in his presentation on Tuesday. The former president was particularly angry at Bruce L. Castor Jr., one of his lawyers, for acknowledging the effectiveness of the House Democrats’ presentation. With the chief justice and vice president standing aside for the first-ever impeachment trial of a former president, it has fallen to Patrick Leahy, the 80-year-old Vermont Democrat and longest-serving senator, to preside. Most Americans say the former president bears responsibility for the Capitol attack by his supporters, but a slimmer majority is in favor of convicting him at the Senate’s impeachment trial. World Health Organization scientists tracing the pandemic’s origin in Wuhan, China, said the virus had probably spread through an animal host. Here’s the latest on Covid-19. With hospitals overrun, Mexicans fighting the coronavirus at home face a deadly hurdle: a lack of oxygen tanks. Experts with the global health agency endorsed critical parts of Beijing’s narrative, even some parts that independent scientists question. The pollution-control gadgets are full of precious metals like palladium, and prices are soaring as regulators try to tame emissions. Crooks with hacksaws have noticed. Under plans by President Biden and Senator Mitt Romney, children would be worthy of government support, no strings attached. The administration has race and ethnicity data for just 52 percent of vaccine recipients. Next week, it will begin shipping doses directly to clinics in underserved communities. China’s censors finally blocked Clubhouse, but not before users were able to bypass the caricatures painted by government-controlled media and freely discuss their hopes and fears. Hundreds of pictures taken decades ago in the Shetland Islands, off northern Scotland, were saved from being thrown away. Now, they are finding new life online. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. As the Senate prepares to hear the case against Donald Trump, here’s what to expect from the prosecution and the defense. They also discuss U.S. cybersecurity priorities and where TikTok fits in. If DNA exonerates Sedley Alley, it could hasten an end to capital punishment. They believed as a matter of civic principle that ethical leadership is the glue that holds a constitutional republic together. If we don’t find a solution fast, China will pass us economically. The legacies of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie offer hints about what could be next for Amazon’s founder. President Biden should choose the next director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office carefully. Readers offer suggestions for what to do — a secret vote, calling Donald Trump and Mike Pence as witnesses — and liken Mr. Trump’s Jan. 6 speech to Mark Antony’s funeral oration for Caesar. A mother told her daughter to keep her father’s absence a secret. Years later, they look back on the prejudices they encountered as a single-parent family in South Korea. Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein discuss what options remain if our political system can’t handle the climate crisis. In “The Good Girls,” Sonia Faleiro writes about the mysterious deaths of two girls, a case that revealed histories, resentments, secrets and competing interpretations. This year, even those who usually go all out on Feb. 14 are reconsidering. The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on choosing a humane end for a pet and what to do with P.P.P. loan money you turned out not to need. The police did not give a motive, but the suspect’s brother said he had become dependent on opioids after back surgery and was recently upset when doctors refused to prescribe them to him. Quaker Oats announced it would drop the name Aunt Jemima last summer after the killing of George Floyd and the widespread protests over racial inequality. The shooting took place in the backyard of a home in Idaho Falls, where police officers were searching for a man who fled a traffic stop on Monday morning. The video was immediately shared widely and brought joy to many. The lawyer, Rod Ponton, said he was happy people got a much-needed laugh. Politicians and prominent intellectuals say social theories from the United States on race, gender and post-colonialism are a threat to French identity and the French republic. Since German courts expanded the definition of who was guilty of Holocaust atrocities, several people over 90 have been charged. After a new documentary about Spears by The New York Times was shown, calls to #FreeBritney were joined by a new message: “We are sorry, Britney.” After buying an awkward 1960s house with a clumsy 1980s addition, a couple set about dragging the lakefront property into the 21st century. Connecting with others on social media has helped ease the fear and loneliness of pandemic living. El Yiyo grew up in Spain’s Roma community. But it was watching Michael Jackson online, he says, that taught him to dance. The theater district restaurateur was famously reserved, but I caught some close-up glimpses from the next bar stool. “In the Long Run,” a sweetly comic series set in 1980s London, is based on the real-life childhood of an actor best known for intense dramas like “The Wire” and “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.” How making healthful treats helped me enjoy desserts again. Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Actions taken by paramilitary groups in Michigan last year, emboldened by President Donald J. Trump, signaled a profound shift in Republican politics and a national crisis in the making. Other companies spent millions on ambitious commercials made for advertising’s biggest day. Reddit’s blip of an ad, made in under a week, connected. Use 7 letters to make as many words as you can. Solve the daily puzzle edited by Will Shortz, or try out other games like the Mini and Vertex. Connect the dots to reveal the hidden picture. 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