List of daily viral news

The annual Christmas tree in the Italian capital has come under scrutiny ever since a 2017 debacle. Will this year’s pass social media muster? from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3lU8fOM via IFTTT

Éric Zemmour, the polarizing far-right polemicist, launched his presidential campaign last week with a frenzied rally that was disrupted by a violent brawl. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3EMmiNP via IFTTT

The Six Nations in Ontario have set up a special group to oversee the investigation of student deaths, in a rare collaboration between an Indigenous group and the police. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3yffmGC via IFTTT

At an awards ceremony in Oslo, Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitri A. Muratov of Russia called for peace, democratic renewal and support for a free press. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3IB2a3J via IFTTT

Shot by an American ornithologist in the early years of Irish independence, the footage turned up in the archives of the Chicago Academy of Sciences and is being restored. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/31MfAc9 via IFTTT

Vaccinating Africa is critical to protecting the continent and the world against dangerous variants, but supply isn’t the only obstacle countries face. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/30fZGGy via IFTTT

Two sons of the former president Ricardo Martinelli fled the United States by Uber, private jet and an “unknown vessel,” prosecutors said. The second has now been extradited, weeks after his brother. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3oK5fXj via IFTTT

I visited a spice farm in Zanzibar, an archipelago off the east coast of Tanzania. Here's what I learned. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3IDN1P6 via IFTTT

The fan’s cardboard sign, held up for television cameras with a message for her grandparents, sent dozens of cyclists tumbling to the ground. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/30f0aNh via IFTTT

He was part of one of auto racing’s most celebrated families, whose members won the Indianapolis 500 a combined nine times. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3IDEZWf via IFTTT

Why do Americans say the economy is in rough shape? Because it is. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3IGuVvJ via IFTTT

An exciting battle between two drivers watched by the new fans drawn by Netflix. The sport has taken off. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3dDUAaf via IFTTT

The WikiLeaks founder can still appeal the verdict, which would leave him facing espionage charges that could put him in prison for decades. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3DC1HdO via IFTTT

The coronavirus pandemic still had an impact, but players and leagues had their moments. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3dG02tk via IFTTT

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is increasingly isolated as he clings to an economic prescription that few endorse but that he believes will bear results before elections. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3ydjWFf via IFTTT

The 33-year-old had played for the National Football League for 10 seasons and helped lead the Broncos to victory in the Super Bowl in 2016. He retired in June. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/337Xbak via IFTTT

After years of climate extremes, even the toughest, most community-minded Australians are desperate for a break from the deluge of disaster. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3EItzOO via IFTTT

Prime Minister Sanna Marin said she should have “double-checked the guidance” after someone in her government tested positive for the coronavirus. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/31zAsDX via IFTTT

The proposal, expected to become law next year, would raise the smoking age year by year until it covers the entire population. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3IwvLLz via IFTTT

Women say Saudi Arabia has advanced significantly in just the past year, with more choices regarding work, fashion (including colored abayas) and social spaces, but restrictions remain everywhere. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3oEYiqy via IFTTT

If Russia opts for an invasion, Ukraine’s generals say, they would have no hope of repelling it without a major infusion of military help from the West. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3oCAELa via IFTTT

It has not had a season like this in years because Lewis Hamilton has dominated. Not this year. He or Max Verstappen will become champion on Sunday. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3lME3Fe via IFTTT

He has been in F1 for decades, winning one title, and he plans to walk away to spend more time with his family. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3lNwSg6 via IFTTT

American athletes will still compete at the Winter Games. Here’s a look at what the diplomatic boycott really means. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3oDT5PD via IFTTT

Formula 1 had a record number of races this year, and while the sport’s revenue is increasing, the year is taking a toll on workers and drivers. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3oCN1qF via IFTTT

The White House’s Summit for Democracy has drawn harsh criticism of domestic issues and questions about the guest list. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3IBHrN2 via IFTTT

It has the trappings of popular social media, a young audience and explicit content on suicide that other sites don’t allow. It is linked to a long line of lives cut short. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3ICSMN8 via IFTTT

Boosters against the Omicron variant. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3Iz1BHC via IFTTT

The European Commission is considering sweeping powers to impose punitive sanctions on those seeking to influence its political policies through economic pressure. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3dDWveJ via IFTTT

People in England will be urged to work from home and have to show proof of vaccination. Critics say the prime minister is trying to deflect attention from a growing outcry over reports his staff flouted Covid rules. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3y5fJU0 via IFTTT

“There will be effectively a diplomatic boycott,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said of the decision to join the United States and others in registering discontent over human-rights abuses in China. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3GmEa2n via IFTTT

The Natural History Museum in London outfitted its animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex in a colorful Christmas sweater. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3pFpKn1 via IFTTT

Williams, 40, withdrew from her second straight Grand Slam, saying, “I am not where I need to be physically to compete.” from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/304B4Ar via IFTTT

And why people are fearing war there. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3ovRsU6 via IFTTT

Chinese propaganda officials have tried to shape the global discussion of the tennis player Peng Shuai’s #MeToo accusations, but their top-down strategy has largely stumbled. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3IrSpES via IFTTT

Though its plans are aspirational for the moment, its commitments to Europe, NATO and the trans-Atlantic relationship are solid. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/31HLc2O via IFTTT

And experts’ answers. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3pCFfML via IFTTT

The announcement came after weeks of speculation about whether Djokovic would travel to Australia. It’s still uncertain if he’ll play in the Australian Open. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3dscGvH via IFTTT

The announcement came after weeks of speculation about whether Djokovic would travel to Australia. It’s still uncertain if he’ll play in the Australian Open. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3dscGvH via IFTTT

About 17 people were still missing as rescuers searched for survivors buried under volcanic ash. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3rGVD1i via IFTTT

As the clean energy revolution upends the centuries-long lock of fossil fuels on the global economy, dealmakers and hustlers converge on the Fleuve Congo Hotel. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3pFw66e via IFTTT

The economically troubled country banned chemical fertilizers without preparing farmers, prompting a surge in food prices and worries about shortages. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3Dq58nS via IFTTT

Devon Simmons served 15 years in prison for crimes he committed as a teenager. Since then, he’s been on a mission to remake not just his own life, but the legal system itself. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3y9WPvu via IFTTT

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s vast supply of cobalt is attracting an international cast of investors, including an R&B singer and a basketball star. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3rFrRtJ via IFTTT

The assault of a top women’s player made headlines, with masked men, a metal bar and a teammate arrested. But weeks later, new details suggest the original story might have been wrong. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3GglmBC via IFTTT

Beijing argues that its system represents a distinctive form of democracy, one that has dealt better than the West with challenges like the pandemic. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3lIjQAr via IFTTT

Early reports on Omicron. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3lCMnYc via IFTTT

Olaf Scholz wants to win back workers who defected to the populist far right. Success could make him a model for Social Democrats everywhere. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3pQVg1R via IFTTT

The hedge fund pioneer is barred for life from buying more antiquities. He turned over 180 stolen objects that had decorated his homes and office. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3rEyvjV via IFTTT

In Sylvia Khoury’s suspenseful new play, the characters sometimes feel too much like wheels in a machine, but it’s a tense thrill to watch it work. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3pC54g1 via IFTTT

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Gil Hodges struggled to make the Hall of Fame because voters had to consider him as a player or as a manager. Hodges was decidedly both and is finally headed to Cooperstown. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3DvAZn1 via IFTTT

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President Biden will hold a high-stakes video call with Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Tuesday. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3orBKcp via IFTTT

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Inbound travelers must now show a negative result from a test taken no more than a day before departure, a requirement some say may be hard to satisfy. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3rFFmKb via IFTTT

Elected by the Hall’s Early Days committee, Bud Fowler was a pioneer who played organized professional baseball against white players as early as 1878. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3lElRxK via IFTTT

The colt suffered an apparent heart attack while working out at Santa Anita racetrack in California. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/31pv4Df via IFTTT

Speaking after his trip to Cyprus and Greece, Francis also said he had no choice but to accept the resignation of the archbishop of Paris because of the harmful gossip surrounding him. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3Ew7p2f via IFTTT

Angela Merkel is handing over the chancellery to a man. But in a watershed moment for the country, women will run all security and diplomacy-related ministries in the new government. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3xZbjhA via IFTTT

With two wins in his pocket, Magnus Carlsen knows only a huge stumble will keep from retaining the world title he has held since 2013. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3xWV0BK via IFTTT

Karl Nehammer, the former interior minister, becomes the country’s leader two months after the resignation of Sebastian Kurz, amid an investigation into corruption and influence-peddling. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3y2Dpsb via IFTTT

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Mayor Bill de Blasio described the measure as a “pre-emptive strike” designed to stall another wave of coronavirus cases and help reduce transmission of the Omicron variant. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3orXLbj via IFTTT

Should wrongfully convicted people falsely admit guilt to win parole? from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/2ZZ1KCP via IFTTT

A U.S. citizen who entered the country nearly a week ago received his first positive test result on Dec. 1. Thailand has pushed to reopen to tourists, aiming to revive its economy. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3osOGyS via IFTTT

The ousted civilian leader faces years in custody after being sentenced on the first of several charges. In her absence, a new generation of younger, more progressive politicians is emerging. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3lFYDXQ via IFTTT

Cybersecurity experts tracing money paid by American businesses to Russian ransomware gangs found it led to one of Moscow’s most prestigious addresses. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/31CufGA via IFTTT

To visitors, the Norwegian archipelago can seem both ethereal and eternal. But climate change all but guarantees an eventual collapse of its vulnerable ecosystem. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3DsQUm3 via IFTTT

Average blood pressure readings increased as the coronavirus spread, new research suggests. The finding portends medical repercussions far beyond Covid-19. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3lCj6wK via IFTTT

The country regards children as crucial in its quest for herd immunity, but some parents, worried about the vaccines’ safety, are pushing back. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/31sZxzP via IFTTT

The court also sentenced U Win Myint, the former president, and U Myo Aung, the ousted mayor of Naypyidaw. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3pyiXM7 via IFTTT

Omicron in Europe. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3xXUnI7 via IFTTT

He rode a wave of royalist sentiment to win a United Nations-sponsored election in 1993, but was later ousted in a power struggle with his co-prime minister. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3xYKmKX via IFTTT

A rested Kyler Murray dazzled against the Bears, the Chargers went for broke to beat the Bengals, and the Lions finally won one. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3Gx4QxB via IFTTT

A pair of committees asked to review candidates from previous eras elected Buck O’Neil, Gil Hodges, Minnie Miñoso, Tony Oliva, Jim Kaat and Bud Fowler. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3Dobsfv via IFTTT

Neither team won on Sunday, with the Jets falling to the Philadelphia Eagles’ backup quarterback, and the Giants’ offense scuffling against the renewed Miami Dolphins. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3doFtkM via IFTTT

With cases of the Omicron variant rising in Europe, there are worries that even tougher restrictions are looming over a holiday period that many had hoped would be a return to some normalcy. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3rDYpo8 via IFTTT

Omicron’s rapid spread. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3Dsv42f via IFTTT

While visiting a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, Pope Francis urged the world to face the migrant crisis with respect toward the migrants’ human rights, and chastised European nations for not practicing the values they promote abroad. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/31x72WD via IFTTT

The nations are widely perceived as leaders in genomic sequencing and testing, giving them an edge over tracking the spread of the virus and its mutations. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3DqdV9e via IFTTT

The semifinal games are scheduled for New Year’s Eve, with the national championship planned for Jan. 10 in Indianapolis. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3lEEh1n via IFTTT

In the busy summer of 1981, he mediated labor disputes involving baseball players, postal workers and air traffic controllers. He later briefly ran the players’ union. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3GhjI2Y via IFTTT

Eight mine workers were shot in a mistaken ambush by soldiers seeking insurgents, and six protesters died later in clashes with government forces, stoking fears of further violence in the restive region. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3os57M1 via IFTTT

Nathaniel Woods was unarmed when three Birmingham police officers were fatally shot by someone else in 2004. But Woods, a Black man, was convicted of capital murder for his role in the deaths of the three white officers. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3xVMGCe via IFTTT

“It was cool, but I also didn’t really let myself think about it too much,” Annie Frisbie said, after leading the first half of the New York City Marathon. Her finishing time was the fourth fastest marathon debut for an American woman. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3dioCQK via IFTTT

A series of races known as Birds of Prey in the Rocky Mountains helped to show who is rounding into form ahead of the Beijing Games. A Norwegian, the Swiss and Austrians appear strong — as usual. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/330RCdU via IFTTT

Even before Omicron’s arrival, China was discouraging its citizens from traveling abroad. That has had a huge impact on global tourism. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3DuG9Q5 via IFTTT

Powerful associates of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, are making and selling captagon, an illegal amphetamine, creating a new narcostate on the Mediterranean. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3lAQIeF via IFTTT

Nathaniel Woods was unarmed when three Birmingham police officers were fatally shot by someone else in 2004. But Woods, a Black man, was convicted of capital murder for his role in the deaths of the three white officers. from NYT > Sports https://ift.tt/3rE78Xk via IFTTT

Witnesses said soldiers also fired into the crowd and kicked wounded demonstrators, the latest in a series of confrontations in which the military’s behavior has infuriated citizens. from NYT > World News https://ift.tt/3pr4qBK via IFTTT