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Plus Stephen Sondheim and Thanksgiving leftovers. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story November 26, 2021 By Will Dudding Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Friday. People waiting to board flights in Johannesburg today. Jerome Delay/Associated Press 1. The U.S. will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other African countries to contain the new variant of the coronavirus. The W.H.O. said the new variant detected in South Africa was " of concern " and gave it the name Omicron. At least 10 other countries have halted or restricted flights. There is no proof yet that the variant is more contagious or lethal, or could diminish the protective power of Covid-19 vaccines, but uncertainty on those questions was one factor in the speed with which countries moved toward restrictions. In response, stocks tumbled. So far, only a few dozen cases of the new variant have been identified in South Africa, Botswana, Belgium, Hong Kong an...

Plus Germany's new center-left government and a town where it's always Thanksgiving. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story November 24, 2021 By Remy Tumin Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Wednesday. Outside the courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., after the jury reached a guilty verdict. Nicole Craine for The New York Times 1. A jury found three white men guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man. The case, together with the killing of George Floyd, helped inspire racial justice protests last year . The three defendants — Travis McMichael, 35; his father, Gregory McMichael, 65; and their neighbor William Bryan, 52 — face sentences of up to life in prison. They will stand trial on federal hate crime charges next year. Arbery was chased through a Georgia neighborhood by the three men in February 2020 and shot at close range. The defense lawyers argued that the men were trying to make a citizen's arrest. Br...