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Plus the virus surge ahead and three beloved divas. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story November 30, 2020 Your Monday Evening Briefing By Victoria Shannon and Judith Levitt Good evening. Here’s the latest. Nathan Howard/Getty Images 1. The holiday shopping season started with a bang. But only online. Consumers spent $9 billion on the web on Friday, a 21.6 percent increase over Black Friday in 2019. The surge in online sales is expected to be outdone today during Cyber Monday, a promotional event that internet retailers concocted in 2005. Physical stores, however, appear to have had more of a “bleak Friday.” A large portion of consumer spending had moved online long before the pandemic, but the global health crisis is accelerating that trend. The holiday shopping season comes at a critical moment for the U.S. economy, which is struggling again as the number of coronavirus cases is soaring amid colder weather. Today, President-elect Joe...

Skimm'd while shopping Cyber Monday deals November 30, 2020 Read in Browser Skimm'd while shopping Cyber Monday deals Quote of the Day "Illegal, no matter what planet you are from" – Utah's Department of Public Safety , on a giant metal slab that mysteriously appeared in a desert. Yet another thing we didn't have on our 2020 bingo. Vowing Revenge The Story Iran's top nuclear scientist has been killed . More details, please. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was one of the masterminds of Iran's military nuclear program, which Iran claims it formally disbanded in 2003. He was compared to the American scientist who spearhead...