Greeks Are Defying an Indoor Smoking Ban

The country, which has one of Europe’s highest smoking rates, is also resisting a wider push for outdoor bans.

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Has Russia’s Shadow Fleet Added Sabotage to Its List?

Russia has assembled a fleet of hundreds of vessels to covertly ship its oil. With so many ships at sea, the idea of using some to cause havoc may be proving irresistible to the Kremlin.

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Takeaways From a Times Correspondent’s Return to Afghanistan

Here’s what he found.

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Greg Gumbel, Who Called N.F.L. and N.C.A.A. Games, Dies at 78

The sportscaster combined play-by-play excitement with a knack for precision in his decades as a sports broadcaster calling N.F.L. and N.C.A.A. games for CBS.

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Ex-N.Y.P.D. Leader Denies Sexual Abuse Accusations, Through His Lawyer

Jeffrey Maddrey, until last week the Police Department’s top uniformed officer, faced reporters for the first time since resigning. He did not say a word.

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Yellen Issues Debt Limit Warning to Congress

The Treasury secretary urged Congress to protect the full faith and credit of the United States by raising the debt limit.

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Trump Urges Supreme Court to Pause TikTok Ban

The president-elect took no position on the app’s First Amendment challenge to the law, which sets a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or close the popular platform.

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Trucks Carrying Aid Finally Reach Sudan’s War-Torn Capital Region

After 20 months of war, and three months of negotiations with the warring sides, a bit of relief arrives for some of the hundreds of thousands of people facing famine.

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Sends Signal Home

The probe sent a signal to Earth indicating that it had survived the closest solar encounter ever attempted by a spacecraft.

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Bird Flu Samples From Very Ill Patient Had ‘Concerning’ Mutations

Tiny genetic alterations could help the bird flu virus enter cells in the upper respiratory tract, the C.D.C. said. But there is no sign that mutations are widespread in nature.

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