The Biden administration has called managing America’s relationship with Beijing “the biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century.” Billions of dollars will now pour into American communities, although the final package falls short of the president’s ambitions. President Biden, who is facing low approval ratings, hopes the infrastructure bill will help him project sustained progress in confronting a surge in inflation and growing alarm about the midterm elections. The head of the Congressional Budget Office said on Monday that beefed-up tax enforcement would raise far less money than the White House projected. Austria took the hardest line yet on Monday, beginning a lockdown aimed exclusively at those who are not inoculated, part of a pattern to make life harder for resisters. A focus on the challenges of the Great Recession has fueled some of the challenges of this crisis. The former aide to President Donald J. Trump had refused to comply with a demand from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In a sign of volatile East-West relations, a dispute over shopping in the Ukrainian conflict zone spiraled into fighting that sent war jitters rippling through Europe and the U.S. A Sotheby’s executive called the court-ordered sale on Monday night “the most valuable single-owner auction ever staged.” The jury will begin deliberating on Tuesday. The prosecution says Kyle Rittenhouse shot three men after instigating the shootings, while his lawyers say he was defending himself. The barrel of Mr. Rittenhouse’s rifle was too long, defense lawyers argued, to be in violation of a Wisconsin statute that says minors can’t possess dangerous weapons. His age was also a factor. A Connecticut judge’s ruling against the Infowars host combines with decisions in Texas to grant a clean sweep for the families of 10 shooting victims. 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Without U.S. and Chinese willingness to enter a clear dialogue, the results could be catastrophic. Family leave should be a right, not a privilege. Companies use market power to suppress wages as well as to raise prices. The government is finally paying attention. Readers discuss the rise in death threats and calls for bloodshed. Also: Senator Sinema; gerrymandered districts; immigration; Somalia. The relative decline of whites in the population does not guarantee racial progress. In many cities, towns and rural areas, homicides are up in 2021, even after a sharp rise last year. The reasons are elusive. The impact is immeasurable. Here are four stories from one month that offer a glimpse of the toll. Dozens of drivers were trapped by landslides, and the city of Merritt warned of a “mass sewage backup.” The rainfall was part of a system that also pummeled Washington State. One defense lawyer objected to the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s presence in court. Another said jurors looked sympathetically at Ahmaud Arbery’s mother as she sobbed at the sight of her son’s photo. The State Department said the cloud of debris from the missile strike added more than 1,500 pieces of sizable space junk to Earth’s orbit. The injured, all students at Aurora Central High School in Colorado, were shot at nearby Nome Park. They range in age from 14 to 18. A confrontation at the Polish-Belarusian border, a funeral for a dead Syrian boy trapped in between and a new round of E.U. sanctions mark the struggle with Aleksandr G. Lukashenko. Border crossings declined for the third consecutive month in October, but thousands of Haitians and other migrants were waiting in Mexico, hoping to head north. Faced with sectarian violence in the country’s northeast, the government has responded by disputing reports on the clashes and punishing those who covered them. Ji-Young, a guitar-playing Korean American character, will bring rock music and conversations about racism to the long-running children’s show starting on Thanksgiving Day. Security footage of the attack on Halloween night showed the man carrying a five-gallon fuel jug and a roll of toilet paper to the synagogue’s entrance, the F.B.I. said. Swept from desert burrows, hundreds, if not thousands, of scorpions skittered into villages, stinging at least 503 people. A Times investigation found that dozens of women and children were killed in the bombing, which the military sought to conceal. Byatt has been an articulate advocate for tapping the depths of fairy tales, but her stories tend to stay in realms of thinner altitude. The gown Adele wore for her ‘One Night Only’ concert was fit for a diva, but the white pantsuit she wore for her Oprah interview made an even stronger statement. 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