Mr. Biden has spoken about requiring companies to disclose more information about their environmental impact, while members of Congress have discussed limiting corporate share buybacks and asserting greater control over so-called shadow banking activities by hedge funds and private equity firms. Ms. Schapiro cited climate, along with trading and market structure issues, as likely to be among the priorities for Mr. Gensler. When Mr. Gensler took over the helm of the C.F.T.C., it had a lackluster reputation mostly limited to bringing enforcement actions against small trading firms. cracked down on manipulation by big banks of Libor — the London Interbank Bank Offered Rate — which is used to set interest rates on many bank loans.

At least 80 people were killed on Tuesday when unidentified gunmen stormed through a village in western Ethiopia in the latest of a series of ethnically driven massacres in the area, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and witnesses said on Wednesday. The massacre in Benishangul-Gumuz region, along the border with Sudan, is the latest challenge to the regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who came to power in 2018 promising to unite Ethiopia but has struggled to contain a growing wave of ethnic violence. Analysts say the campaign in Tigray has hampered Mr. Abiy’s ability to stem clashes like the recent one in Benishangul-Gumuz, because it has forced him to divert soldiers from across Ethiopia to Tigray. As a result, ethnic clashes that had already been growing for months have only gotten worse.

The 6,000 students returning Monday are to be followed on Feb. 1 by another 70,000 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Prekindergarten and some special education students will attend school five days a week; other students will attend two days a week. There are currently no plans to allow high school students to return to classrooms. As in other cities, race has been a subtext of the fight in Chicago, with Mayor Lightfoot arguing that Black and Latino students are being harmed the most by keeping schools closed.

This spring, when the federal government disbursed billions of dollars in emergency pandemic funding, the traditional K-12 public schools in Los Angeles got an average of about $716,000. Meanwhile, Sierra Canyon School, a private school in the San Fernando Valley where LeBron James’s son is a basketball standout, got $3.14 million — part of a forgivable pandemic loan to its foundation from the federal Paycheck Protection Program. But Poly Prep Country Day School, a private school in Brooklyn with more than $114 million in the bank, got a $5.83 million P.P.P. Public schools in Washington, D.C., averaged $189,000 in federal funding.

On Oct. 12, 2020, Fox News agreed to pay millions of dollars to the family of a murdered Democratic National Committee staff member, implicitly acknowledging what saner minds knew long ago: that the network had repeatedly hyped a false claim that the young staff member, Seth Rich, was involved in leaking D.N.C. And Fox paid so much that the network didn’t have to apologize for the May 2017 story on FoxNews. com. But there was one curious provision that Fox insisted on: The settlement had to be kept secret for a month — until after the Nov. 3 election. Why did Fox care about keeping the Rich settlement secret for the final month of the Trump re-election campaign?

The Chinese economy rose 2.3 percent last year, the country’s National Bureau of Statistics announced on Monday in Beijing. As travel and business ground to nearly a halt, the economy shrank 6.8 percent in the January-March period compared with 2019, the first contraction in half a century. Since then, the economy has improved steadily, finishing the year with growth of 6.5 percent in the last three months compared to the same period in 2019. While the recovery remains uneven, factories across China are running in overdrive to fill overseas orders and cranes are constantly busy at construction sites — a boom in exports and infrastructure that is expected to drive the economy in the coming year.

Intel declined to make Mr. Swan and Mr. Gelsinger available for interviews. Venkata Renduchintala, a former Qualcomm manager who had been trying to help Intel recover from its manufacturing problems, also departed in 2020 after Intel disclosed that its next production process would be delayed. Besides making engineering improvements, Mr. Swan signaled that Intel might take the radical step of turning beyond its own factories for some of its flagship chips. The company already uses TSMC to make some products, but outsourcing some of its most important processors would be a blow to Intel’s image.

According to the Cartagenera novelist Margarita García Robayo, it is impossible not to draw connections between her hometown and the books of Gabriel García Márquez, who died in 2014.“If you have read García Márquez, there is no way you can go to Cartagena and not hear all the alarm bells of recognition,” said Ms. García Robayo, whose collection “Fish Soup” includes explorations of life on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Many people don’t realize how influential the city of Cartagena, where Mr. García Márquez worked for a time as a journalist, was to his writing.“The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination,” Mr. García Márquez told The Paris Review in 1981.