Will a Looted Pissarro End Up in Oklahoma, or France?

A painting by the French Impressionist artist, with a back story of plunder and family tragedy, is at the center of courtroom battles on both sides of the Atlantic.


Indian Call-Center Plot Fooled Americans Into Paying Over $14 Million

The scammers told victims that their assets and bank accounts had been linked to drug cartels and would be seized if they didn’t pay up, the authorities in India said.


California Coronavirus Cases Rise Despite Strict Measures


Your Friday Briefing

European leaders who met Macron go into quarantine.


A day of hope, and warning, as a vaccine is rolled out in the U.S.


51 Is Greater Than 1

And what else you need to know today.


In the U.K., Johnson resists ‘canceling’ Christmas to stem the coronavirus.


Misinformation peddlers have shifted gears from the election to coronavirus vaccines.


Cold storage, crucial to the vaccine, has caught Wall Street’s eye.


M.T.A. officials breathe a sigh of relief with Biden.