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New Year’s Eve, Omicron, Betty White: Your Friday Evening Briefing

New Yorkers navigate another muted New Year’s Eve, hoping for better days ahead.

French ban on plastic packaging for fruit and vegetables begins

A landmark Brooklyn restaurant reopens — again — in time for the New Year.

Trump Appointee Resigns After Fight With Democratic Bank Regulators

Scientists say Omicron may peak in the U.S. in mid-January but still may overwhelm hospitals.

Tens of thousands are ordered to evacuate in Colorado as winds fan wildfires.

Cape Verde: Drone delivers medical supplies to remote islands

What I Saw While Covering In-Custody Deaths

Avoid cruises even if vaccinated, CDC tells Americans

Your Friday Briefing: Biden and Putin discuss Ukraine

The C.D.C. tells travelers to avoid cruises, regardless of vaccination.

Grand Jury Report in Anthony Ardo Case

As Omicron Spreads, Officials Ponder What It Means to Be ‘Fully Vaccinated’

John Madden Changed How We Consume Football

An overwhelmed testing site in Connecticut is forced to close after a gun threat.

John Madden’s Life in Football: Decades of Passion for the Game

Syntropic agriculture: A new way of farming in dry climates?

How John Madden Became the ‘Larger-Than-Life’ Face of a Gaming Empire

Harry Reid Had a Rare Political Superpower

Berlin Zoo animals feast on unsold Christmas trees

With his inauguration ceremony postponed, Eric Adams will be sworn in on New Year’s Eve in Times Square.

Fighting to learn in Venezuela

Coronavirus Briefing: Covid family feuds

Robert E. Lee: Virginia workers open Civil War era time capsule

‘The Music Man’ is canceling shows after Hugh Jackman announces he has Covid.

Richard Marcinko: Seal Team Six founder dies at 81

‘El peor escenario es que todo se seque’: Chile discute su nueva Constitución, mientras enfrenta el cambio climático

Afghanistan: Children in Kabul working for a piece of bread

Your Tuesday Briefing: Israel Collects Data on Fourth Dose

India blocks foreign funding for Mother Teresa charity

France sets new restrictions amid record cases.

US animal shelter shocked after 800 parakeets surrendered

Donald H. Elliott, Innovative Urban Planner, Dies at 89

Three college football bowl games are canceled because of virus cases.

Using Journalism to Give Back

India's unwinnable battle against spitting

My art channels the pain from Ethiopia's war

Why the Police Believe They’re Not to Blame for Deaths in Custody

No sailors on a Navy ship have needed hospitalization after outbreak.

For the Warriors and the Suns, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like the Playoffs

Pest Control

Why a former oil executive is capping abandoned wells

N.F.L. playoff implications are everywhere as Covid impacts rosters.

Surfer killed in apparent shark attack in California

For some, Christmas was close to normal. For others, it was yet again disrupted by the coronavirus.

Sardi’s, Broadway’s iconic watering hole, is back, just in time for Omicron show closures.

Art: 'People amazed I fold paper for a living, then they see it'

Omicron, Myanmar, Christmas: Your Friday Evening Briefing

French zoo closed temporarily after pack of nine wolves escape

Willie Garson Found a Home Playing the Canonical ‘Gay Best Friend’

Judge Upholds His Block on New York Times Coverage of Project Veritas

At Home and Away’s Best of 2021

How to Navigate the Omicron Surge

Daunte Wright shooting: Key moments in the trial of Kimberly Potter

New Yorkers Wait in Long Line for Covid Tests as Cases Surge

For 2nd Time This Week, a Deadly Crash of a Migrant Boat Off Greece

New York’s Virus Surge Has Leaders Balancing Health and Political Risks

SafeSport Bars Alberto Salazar for Life, Citing Misconduct

Labor organizers at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse refile petition for a union election.

Pillar of Shame: Hong Kong's Tiananmen Square statue removed

The Lives They Lived

Holiday travel in the U.S. is expected to jump, even as Omicron spreads.

Your Wednesday Briefing: Omicron Restrictions

Covid Omicron: Variant will push Europe hospitals towards brink, says WHO

Broadway Grosses Drop 26 Percent as Many Shows Cancel Performances

Saudi-led coalition forces target Yemeni airport in air strike

Your Tuesday Briefing: European Leaders Weigh Covid Rules

Covid: An event cancelled is better than a life cancelled - WHO chief

Haitian Migrants File Lawsuit Protesting Treatment by Border Patrol

Novavax’s Covid vaccine is authorized in Europe.

Manchin Rejects Landmark Legislation, Putting Biden’s Climate Goals at Risk