Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Thursday |
 | | Nancy Pelosi speaking to the press at the U.S. Capitol. Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times |
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1. The House of Representatives could vote as early as tonight on the $1.85 trillion social policy and climate change bill. |
Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressed optimism that the measure would ultimately reach President Biden's desk and said that the final pieces should fall together to allow for a vote on the legislation known as the Build Back Better Act. |
But if the bill clears the House, it faces a difficult road in the Senate, where Republicans will have a clear shot to offer politically difficult amendments, any one of which could unravel the delicate Democratic coalition behind it. |
 | | Migrants walk from the Polish border to a warehouse shelter in Belarus.James Hill for The New York Times |
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2. Belarus cleared migrant encampments from its border with Poland, removing, for now, a major flash point that had raised tensions across Europe. |
Western leaders were skeptical that Belarus's moves would end the crisis, which they say was engineered by the country's leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko. Some migrants were giving up and going home, despite spending thousands of dollars on a journey that they had hoped would give them better lives. A plane repatriating migrants from Belarus landed in Iraq. |
Thousands of Iraqis are believed to still be in Belarus. The authorities have given little indication of where they might go. |
 | | Muhammad Aziz outside the courthouse in New York.Todd Heisler/The New York Times |
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Muhammad Aziz, one of the two men wrongfully convicted, said the judge's decision 56 years after the assassination could not eliminate the decades he had lost. The other man, Khalil Islam, died in 2009. |
"We can't restore what was taken from these men and their families, but by correcting the record, perhaps we can begin to restore that faith," Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, said. |
 | | President Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada at the White House.Doug Mills/The New York Times |
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4. The leaders from the U.S., Canada and Mexico met to discuss trade and migration. |
The summit at the White House between President Biden, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was the first after a five-year hiatus during the Trump administration. |
 | | A Wuhan emergency response vehicle leaving a seafood market in January 2020.Noel Celis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
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5. The first coronavirus patient was a vendor at a Wuhan animal market, according to a new report. |
A scientist who has pored over public accounts of early Covid-19 cases in China reported that a W.H.O. inquiry published in March 2021 had most likely gotten wrong the early chronology of the pandemic. The analysis suggests that the first known patient sickened with the coronavirus was a vendor in Wuhan, not an accountant who lived many miles from and had no connections to the market. |
 | | Peng Shuai at the Australian Open in Melbourne in January 2020.Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters |
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6. The tennis world is outraged over a Chinese star player's complaint of assault and abrupt disappearance. |
Peng Shuai, a Grand Slam doubles champion, has disappeared from public view after she accused a former vice premier of sexual assault. When the Chinese state media published an email, which was purportedly written by Peng, saying the accusations were not true and asking for officials who run women's tennis to stop meddling, the Women's Tennis Association suggested that the email was very likely a crude fraud. |
"I have a hard time believing that Peng Shuai actually wrote the email we received or believes what is being attributed to her," the association's executive director said. |
 | | Nour Emam wants to fight the notion that women's sexuality is "wrong and shameful and sinful."Heba Khamis for The New York Times |
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7. A group of women is bringing sex ed to the Arab world, shattering myths and misinformation. |
With formal schooling on sexuality minimal to nonexistent in much of the Middle East, and a patriarchal culture that has left many Arab women ignorant and ashamed of their own bodies, activists are building online platforms to educate women about their bodies. |
In Cairo, Nour Emam started a podcast on sexual and reproductive health; the first episode, on orgasms, drew tens of thousands of listeners. |
 | | Jason Mott accepting his award. |
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The novel is an account of a Black author's book tour intertwined with one focused on a Black boy in the rural South and a third character, The Kid, who may be imaginary. Mott said that his agent had picked his work out of the unsolicited "slush" pile 10 years ago. |
 | | From left, Demi Singleton, Saniyya Sidney and Will Smith in "King Richard."Warner Bros |
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9. In "King Richard," Will Smith plays a famous father in an old-fashioned sports drama. |
During the ascent of Venus and Serena Williams, their father, Richard, was a well-known figure often described as "controversial," "outspoken" and "provocative." The film aims in part to rescue him from the condescension of those adjectives, A.O. Scott writes, with Smith digging into the character's Louisiana accent and portraying him as "a charmer with a strategy." |
 | | A lunar eclipse in May over Santa Monica, Calif. Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
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10. And finally, just look up. |
A partial lunar eclipse, the longest in 580 years, will dazzle sky watchers and night owls early Friday morning (or late Thursday night if you're on the West Coast). During the event, the moon will crawl into Earth's shadow for just over six hours, turning the moon rusty reddish hues, and be visible across North America and parts of South America, Asia and Australia. |
To see it, no telescopes or binoculars are necessary. Here's what you need to know about Thursday and Friday's eclipse, which is also being called a blood moon and a Beaver moon. |
Have an extraordinary night. |
| Laurence Tan compiled photos for this briefing. |
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