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| Good evening. Here's the latest. |
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| 1. Vice President-elect Mike Pence, above center, will lead Donald Trump's transition effort, taking the reins from Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. |
| Mr. Trump now says he may be willing to leave in place two popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act. |
| He is holding meetings with his advisers in Trump Tower, which has been transformed into a kind of fortress by the Secret Service and the local police. |
| So far, the transition team includes some of the very same people Mr. Trump said had too much clout in Washington: corporate consultants and lobbyists. |
| Names circulating include Myron Ebell, an outspoken "climate contrarian," to head the Environmental Protection Agency. |
| Some of the foreign policy experts who derided Mr. Trump's campaign could also end up joining his administration. |
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| 2. As the dust settles, Democrats are recognizing two central problems of Hillary Clinton's flawed candidacy. |
| After her decades in Washington and paid speeches for financial institutions, she couldn't connect with voters who felt rage at the establishment and Wall Street. |
| And she ceded white working-class voters, instead focusing on young, Latino and African-American voters who did not turn out for her as they did for President Obama. |
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Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press |
| 3. After the election, the West Coast feels a little like its own country. |
| In California, 61.5 percent of voters chose Mrs. Clinton, the highest percentage for a Democrat since 1936. |
| Residents also voted to legalize marijuana, making it legal along the entire West Coast. Above, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke at a rally in support of that issue on Tuesday. |
| There and in surrounding states, voters also embraced bilingual education, gun control, higher taxes and more funding for schools and transportation. |
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| 4. Today is Veterans Day. With many World War II veterans in their twilight years, one teenager has started a nonprofit to record video interviews with them for posterity. |
| "These men are my biggest heroes and my closest friends," Rishi Sharma wrote on a crowdfunding site. |
| Above, a woman held photos of her nephew, Pfc. Le Ron A. Wilson, who was killed in Iraq at age 18, along the parade route in New York City. |
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| 5. Leonard Cohen, the masterly songwriter who died this week at 82, intoned his songs with serene gravity. |
| On his last album, "You Want It Darker," released less than a month ago, Mr. Cohen's voice had descended to a husky recitation, cushioned by choirs and string arrangements but as fearlessly flinty as ever, our critic writes. |
| His final ruminations were on mortality, love and a divinity that he faced and questioned to the very end. As always, he sought stark truth before comfort. |
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| 6. In Iraq, Islamic State militants are killing scores of civilians as troops advance toward the city of Mosul, the U.N. says. |
| The militants have forced children to kill and have used chemical agents against Iraqi and Kurdish forces, the agency said. |
| In one massacre, militants were said to have shot 40 civilians, then strung up their bodies from electricity poles. Above, Iraqi special forces in a quiet moment during the advance. |
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Sara Krulwich/The New York Times |
| 7. If you're wrestling with the major themes of this week's election, you may want to look to art for insight. |
| Here's a look at six recent plays that reckon with the lives of working-class Americans and others facing economic anxiety. |
| Four are onstage now in New York, two are available to read, and all of them are favorites of our critics. Above, "Sweat," at the Public Theater. |
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Terry Townshend |
| 8. Chinese and British bird groups began tracking two cuckoo subspecies found near Beijing to unravel the puzzle of their winter getaways. |
| Turns out they cover thousands of miles, across a dozen countries and an ocean. |
| The "common cuckoo," as the species is called, is capable of exhilarating odysseys, despite a reputation as a not-so-great flier. |
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Jan Thijs/Paramount Pictures |
| 9. The sci-fi film "Arrival," in theaters now, has some eerie extraterrestrials, but not a lot of action. |
| Instead, it "leans into feeling and thinking, and reminds you again that there's more to this genre than heavy artillery," our critic says. |
| Above, Amy Adams plays Louise Banks, a linguistics professor who leads a team of investigators when spaceships touch down. |
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Evan Sung for The New York Times |
| 10. Finally, Thanksgiving approaches. |
| Here are recipes you can make in advance, so you can focus on the turkey (and your guests) on the big day. |
| Pie crust, stock, bread as well as most cakes, casseroles and relishes can be made weeks in advance and frozen. |
| Have a great weekend. |
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