A group of experts gathered to debate the prospects for the new White House administration’s big promises on the environment.

The new policy, which will take effect next summer, was described by Britain’s health secretary as a landmark and by an activist as “a fundamental shift toward recognizing people are individuals.”

China’s Communist Party is pushing the narrative that the pandemic has proved the superiority of its authoritarian model. The muscular message is finding fans at home.

Silicon Valley is building a powerful influence industry in Brussels, which has “never seen this kind of money” spent this way.

Germany prepares for a lockdown.

In one of the most sophisticated and perhaps largest hacks in more than five years, email systems were breached at the Treasury and Commerce Departments. Other breaches are under investigation.

Vikas Khanchandani was accused of involvement in an effort to falsely bolster ratings data at Republic TV, a right-wing news broadcaster. The network said the allegations were politically motivated.

The U.S. prepares to start vaccinating.

Hundreds of Nigerian students are feared missing after gunmen raided a secondary school in the northern state of Katsina. The military later exchanged fire with the attackers in a forest.