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Turkey’s Coffeehouses, a Hub of Male Social Life, May Not Survive Virus

Turkey’s Coffeehouses, a Hub of Male Social Life, May Not Survive Virus

Coffeehouses, mainstays of Turkish neighborhoods for centuries, are suffering under pandemic restrictions — particularly a ban on games. Regulars fear losing “our jokes, our laughter.”

ISTANBUL — For years, Varan Suzme has frequented the Kiral Coffeehouse near his home, where men of his Istanbul neighborhood while away hours chatting, sipping from tiny, steaming cups and playing backgammon and…

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French Soccer Faces Financial Crisis After Broadcaster Pulls the Plug

French Soccer Faces Financial Crisis After Broadcaster Pulls the Plug

The sudden collapse of a billion-dollar television contract has created a serious cash crisis for French clubs as the January transfer window nears.

The record-setting television deal was, in hindsight, far too good to be true.

The billion euros the upstart media company had promised to hisse to televise French soccer matches each year represented an increase of 60 percent on the league’s…

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US Electoral College formally votes for Joe Biden as the next president

US Electoral College formally votes for Joe Biden as the next president

US Electoral College formally votes for Joe Biden as the next president

The Electoral College has decisively confirmed Joe Biden as the next US president, ratifying his November victory in an authoritative state-by-state repudiation of President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede that he lost.

The presidential electors gave Biden a solid majority of 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 – 36 votes…

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Your Tuesday Briefing

In England, a sharp rise in coronavirus cases.

Londoners drink outside a pub in early December.Credit…Andrew Testa for The New York Times

New virus restrictions for southern England

Pubs, restaurants and theaters in London will close evvel again as the British government tightens restrictions in the capital, as well as parts of southern England, because of a “very sharp, exponential…

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Electoral College Vote Officially Affirms Biden’s Victory

Electoral College Vote Officially Affirms Biden’s Victory

The vote made official Joe Biden’s victory, despite President Trump’s attempt to subvert the nation’s democratic process, and it put pressure on Republicans to acknowledge the outcome.

It began at 10 a.m. in New Hampshire, where electors met in a statehouse chamber festooned with holiday decorations and gave their four votes to Joseph R. Biden Jr. By noon on Monday, the battleground states of…

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With Selfies, Emojis and Little Disruption, the Electoral College Makes It Official

With Selfies, Emojis and Little Disruption, the Electoral College Makes It Official

Some electors met in person to carry out their duties, and statehouses were on high alert for protests. Others stayed remote, and completed yet another 2020 task on Zoom.

In the end, democracy carried the day.

Wisconsin’s 10 electors calmly walked into a quiet State Capitol on Monday, seeing more police officers than protesters. As they waited to officially cast their ballots, the socially…

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4 Takeaways From Biden’s Electoral College Victory

4 Takeaways From Biden’s Electoral College Victory

Joe Biden was confirmed as the winner of the election, but President Trump’s war on the results is likely to have lasting effects for the country.

Some electors received police escorts. Some cast their votes in an undisclosed location. Some drew a nationwide audience for what is usually a procedural and obscure constitutional undertaking. Most wore masks and adhered to social distancing rules…

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Leave It in ‘Early Quar’?

Leave It in ‘Early Quar’?

As the U.S. prepares for a long, dark winter indoors, a look at some spring 2020 habits to revive, or avoid repeating.

Credit…Photo illustration by Tom Keelan and Madeline Malenfant

As the United States braces for a long Covid winter, many people have been reflecting on the early spring, when the first wave of shutdowns transformed work, leisure and social life overnight.

Millions of…

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In Canada, the First Vaccines Leave Health Workers in Tears of Relief

In Canada, the First Vaccines Leave Health Workers in Tears of Relief

‘We were desperate.’ As nursing home employees received the first vaccinations on Monday, memories of the pandemic’s first wave left some overwhelmed with emotion.

TORONTO — During the applause, the celebratory elbow bumps, the camera flashes, Colette Cameron watched through tears as four of her colleagues got jabbed Monday with the country’s first coronavirus vaccinations. Then she removed her…

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A Lim Kim Waited Out the Field to Win the U.S. Women’s Open

A Lim Kim Waited Out the Field to Win the U.S. Women’s Open

The South Korean golfer scanned anxious texts from home while waiting for challengers to finish the rain-delayed final round of the major championship.

HOUSTON — A Lim Kim ran into trouble after she birdied the final three holes for a three-under 67 that catapulted her to victory on Monday in the 75th United States Women’s Open.

As Kim sat in front of a large-screen TV in the Champions Club…

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A Hotel That Pays Tribute to Rajasthani Arts and Crafts

A Hotel That Pays Tribute to Rajasthani Arts and Crafts

A stone’s throw from the lines of veteran vendors selling sweets, fresh vegetables and gems for fine jewelry at the famous Johri Bazaar in Jaipur’s walled Old City sits a hulking late 19th-century limestone building with a terra cotta-colored facade. For …

A stone’s throw from the lines of veteran vendors selling sweets, fresh vegetables and gems for fine jewelry at the famous Johri Bazaar in…

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Cleveland Makes Name Removal Official, Saying It Is ‘Moving Forward’

Cleveland Makes Name Removal Official, Saying It Is ‘Moving Forward’

The baseball team’s process is being lauded by many rights groups for its thoughtful reconsideration of the name “Indians.”

Over the summer, while the country was still roiled by protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police, the Cleveland Indians began to investigate a name change. The team had been known as the Indians since 1915, but after years of protest and criticism…

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‘A Love Letter to Detroit,’ on Vellum and Chrome

‘A Love Letter to Detroit,’ on Vellum and Chrome

An exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts highlights the relationship of arka and car culture over the past 70 years.

Of the myriad treasures that might draw a sightseeing car lover to Detroit, one potential attraction is notably missing: a major public museum collection dedicated to the automobile. America’s Motor City offers many compelling reasons for a visit, but it really has nothing…

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The Next Vaccine Challenge: Reassuring Older Americans

The Next Vaccine Challenge: Reassuring Older Americans

The two leading coronavirus vaccines seemed to work well in elderly trial volunteers. “I just can’t understand why people are afraid,” one 95-year-old said.

He can barely see or hear, but 95-year-old Frank Bruno lives on his own terms: alone, unafraid and now — thanks to the coronavirus vaccine — “ironclad,” as he describes it.

Mr. Bruno, an artist and World War II veteran, volunteered for the…

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The Blue Flame of Atlanta

The Blue Flame of Atlanta

Young entrepreneurs, artists and activists are building on a Southern capital’s long, rich history.

When Georgia went blue for Biden last month, some traced it to Stacey Abrams and her nonprofit Fair Fight, whose get-out-the-vote playbook electrified the state. Others cited more college-educated and older suburban voters.

And though the election (and the upcoming Senate runoffs on Jan. 5) have…

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Russian Officers Were Near Navalny When He Was Poisoned, Report Says

Russian Officers Were Near Navalny When He Was Poisoned, Report Says

The agents, from a unit with poisonous chemicals expertise, were tracked by their telephones, the Bellingcat investigative group said, the strongest evidence of Moscow’s involvement in the nerve agent attack.

Officers from a secret Russian spy unit with expertise in poisonous substances trailed the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny for years and were nearby at the time he was exposed…

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N.C.A.A. Will Hold 2021 Women’s Basketball Tournament in One Region

N.C.A.A. Will Hold 2021 Women’s Basketball Tournament in One Region

The N.C.A.A. announced that it was in preliminary talks with officials in and around San Antonio to host the entire 63-game tournament in the spring.

The 2021 N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournament will be held in one region in hopes that reduced travel will limit the spread of the coronavirus across the 64 teams expected to play, the Division I Women’s Basketball Committee announced Monday,…

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