Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Monday. |
 | | John Marro, the dean of students at a public school in New York, checked temperatures on Monday.Jennifer Peltz/Associated Press |
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1. As schools struggled to reopen, the F.D.A. cleared coronavirus boosters for some adolescents. |
A vast majority of U.S. public schools appeared to be operating as planned this week, but the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant, along with labor and testing shortages, has led to a growing number of disruptions. |
Districts in Detroit, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Newark were among those announcing that their schools would switch to remote learning for periods lasting from a few days to several weeks. Here are the latest updates. |
Separately, the F.D.A. authorized boosters of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds. Regulators also shortened by a month the amount of time that adults and adolescents should wait between second and third doses, and allowed some immunocompromised children ages 5 to 11 to seek a third shot. |
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2. Apple became the first $3 trillion company. |
Apple's value has tripled since 2018 as its sales soared and it spent hundreds of billions of dollars to repurchase its own stock. Apple now accounts for nearly 7 percent of the total value of the S&P 500, breaking IBM's record of 6.4 percent in 1984. |
The company's huge sales and profit margins have created a stockpile of cash big enough to buy a company like Starbucks outright. But Apple has opted to give its cash back largely to its investors by buying its own stock — $488 billion worth in the last decade, by far the most of any company. |
In other news from Silicon Valley, jurors in the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos, said they were unable to agree on three of the 11 counts in her fraud case. |
 | | At least seven people died in connection with the Capitol attack.Jason Andrew for The New York Times |
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3. The first anniversary of Jan. 6 is looming, and the Congressional committee investigating the insurrection faces difficult questions. |
Lawmakers, aiming to release a final report before the November midterm elections, are planning for a more public stage of the investigation. Representative Adam Schiff, a member of the panel, said on Sunday that public hearings could begin within a few weeks or months. |
The committee is waiting to see whether the Supreme Court will refuse a request from former President Donald J. Trump to block the committee's access to White House records related to the riot. The committee has not ruled out issuing subpoenas to members of Congress, Trump or former Vice President Mike Pence. |
Congressional investigators are also examining the role of a right-wing paramilitary group that was involved in an expansive effort to keep Trump in power: the 1st Amendment Praetorian. |
 | | Viktor Orban, left, was an early supporter of former President Donald Trump.Doug Mills/The New York Times |
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4. Donald Trump endorsed Viktor Orban, Hungary's far-right prime minister. |
The E.U. is trying to rein Orban in after indulging him for years. A forthcoming decision from the European Court of Justice could allow the E.U. to punish Orban by making its funds to member states conditional on those states meeting the bloc's core values. |
 | | Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok in Berlin, Germany, in 2020.Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters |
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5. Abdalla Hamdok, the civilian prime minister of Sudan, resigned on Sunday night, leaving military generals firmly in control. |
Hamdok rose to power as part of a civilian-military coalition after the 2019 ouster of the longtime dictator Omar Hassan al-Bashir. In the months after Hamdok's government was appointed, it achieved a series of political, social and economic gains that gave hope to many Sudanese. |
But he could not unite the disparate actors who are vying to shape Sudan's future. The military removed him from office on Oct. 25, then reinstalled him a month later after he signed a deal with them. |
Sudan now has no civilian government to tackle its staggering problems and no proper structures to appoint a new prime minister. |
 | | Smoke was still billowing from the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town on Monday. Nardus Engelbrecht/Associated Press |
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6. A 49-year-old man is facing charges of arson and theft in a fire that heavily damaged South Africa's Houses of Parliament on Sunday. |
As firefighters raced to the scene, security personnel spotted the man. He had gained unauthorized entry and was found to be carrying stolen property, the police said. |
Those who saw the damage described the buildings as "gutted." |
 | | Paula Hammond, a department head at M.I.T., was first approached about joining a public company board in 2020.Lauren O'Neil for The New York Times |
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7. Corporate board diversity increased in 2021. |
Boards, which wield crucial power in business and society, have long been overwhelmingly white and dominated by men. Executives have often complained that there aren't enough women and nonwhite people qualified to be directors. But now, under pressure to diversify, companies appear to be discovering that a deeper talent pool does, in fact, exist. |
Women of all races have also made gains. They now account for 27 percent of all directors, up from 24 percent. |
 | | Canids frolic in Galveston Island State Park, south of Galveston, Texas.Tristan Spinski for The New York Times |
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8. Meet the ghost wolves of Galveston Island in Texas. They're a population of strange canids that could hold the key to reviving the red wolf, which was declared extinct in the wild in 1980. |
After a determined local biologist persuaded scientists to take a closer look, they found that the canids — which include wolves, coyotes, foxes and domestic dogs — are mostly coyote, but have a legacy of red wolf DNA. |
The hybrid canids raise new conservation possibilities. For instance, scientists might be able to restore genetic diversity by breeding captive red wolves with hybrids that have high levels of red wolf ancestry. |
 | | Stop dieting and start savoring, writes The Times's health columnist Tara Parker-Pope. Photo Illustration by Andrew B. Myers for The New York Times |
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9. Diets make you feel bad. Train your brain instead. |
Research shows that food restrictions often just make you want to eat more. But techniques that encourage awareness of how we eat, acceptance related to the foods we want and intuitive eating exercises can be used to quell cravings and reshape habits. |
To test it yourself, try this year's Eat Well Challenge from The Times's health columnist Tara Parker-Pope. Be patient — it can take a few tries. This week starts with two simple exercises. |
 | | Nadia Popovici, left, with Brian Hamilton.Christopher Mast/NHLI via Getty Images |
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10. And finally, a hockey fan saves a life. |
Nadia Popovici kept shifting her eyes from the hockey game to Brian Hamilton, the assistant equipment manager for the Vancouver Canucks. |
The mole was malignant, but it could be easily removed and treated because it was discovered early. "She took me out of a slow fire," he said. "And the words out of the doctor's mouth were if I ignored that for four to five years, I wouldn't be here." |
| Bryan Denton compiled photos for this briefing. |
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