U.S. elections: President Trump appeared to briefly acknowledge for the first time on Sunday that Joe Biden had defeated him, but he reversed himself less than two hours later, insisting that “I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go.”
John Paul II, reconsidered: The former pope was fast-tracked for canonization immediately after his death. But a tarnished legacy in dealing with the church’s s** abuse scandals left critics to wonder whether it was too fast.
Space X launch: A rocket is scheduled to blast off from Florida in the coming hours with a capsule carrying four astronauts — three from NASA, and one from JAXA, the Japanese space agency — to the International Space Station. It will be the second such Space X mission after a May launch and the return of two astronauts to Earth in August.
Nagorno-Karabakh: After a deal brokered by Russia ended weeks of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Armenians are packing up and burning their houses as they retreat from areas near the enclave while Azerbaijanis plan a return to long-lost lands.
The New York Times
