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Wyna Liu, a New York Times Crossword editor, examines a nontraditional puzzle.

The committee investigating the attack also said in a filing that the former White House chief of staff proceeded with a plan for “alternate electors” despite being told it wasn’t legally sound.

Just over two weeks after Election Day, lawyers working with the Trump campaign set out a rationale for creating alternate slates of electors as part of an effort to buy time to overturn the results.

A Times investigation found inconsistent approaches to assessing claims of civilians killed by coalition forces — including failures to conduct simple internet searches.

Tough Sanctions, Then a Mysterious Last-Minute Turnabout The Treasury Department slapped sanctions on the Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler in 2017 for corruption in Africa. In Donald Trump’s final days in office, they were rolled back with no explanation. Dan Gertler, an Israeli billionaire, at an open-pit mining operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The sanctions rollback has left the Biden administration scrambling to determine whether it can be reversed.Credit...Simon Dawson/Bloomb...

“For the last four and a half years, the only spokesman for the Republican Party has been Donald Trump,” said Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. “It’s time to present an alternative narrative and fight for the soul of the party.”Credit...Taylor Glascock for The New York Times Adam Kinzinger’s Lonely Mission Censured by his party and shunned by family members, Mr. Kinzinger, a six-term Illinois congressman, is pressing Republicans to leave Donald Trump behin...

Jan. 28, 2021 The president of the International Biathlon Union told the police that the young woman who had come to his hotel in Moscow was a prostitute, but he was hazy on the details. He did not remember the date or even who had paid for her services, he told the Austrian investigators, but it had assuredly not been him. The president, Anders Besseberg, had led biathlon’s governing body for more than two decades by then, and he was accustomed to receiving gifts from his Russian hosts. C...