It was a long week in the fraught relationship between Washington and corporate America. Mr. Sonnenfeld regularly gathers C.E.O.s to gauge their views on the most important issues facing their companies, and he did so virtually this week amid increasing alarm in the business community at what they witnessed in Washington. Did President Trump help incite last week’s violent attack on Congress?Do you think Washington will be under attack a week from today, January 13, from domestic terrorists?

NAIROBI, Kenya — On one side was a 76-year-old grandfather in a sunny yellow shirt and hat, who has held onto power in Uganda for 35 years by doling out patronage to preserve loyalty, while deploying his security forces to intimidate critics and muzzle the media. On the other was a charismatic, 38-year-old rapper-turned-lawmaker, whose songs lamenting corruption and joblessness in the country became an anthem for a frustrated younger generation. For the world, Uganda’s election was a vivid demonstration of how autocrats use elections to cement their hold on power. For the country’s younger generation, and throughout Africa, it was a sign of how intractable the old systems are.

Teams in the North Division will play each other nine to 10 times this season. To account for the distance and to limit travel, teams will enter cities and play a series of two or three games. experimented with having teams play eight games against divisional opponents. When the Canucks entered the league in 1970, they played in the East Division along with the Rangers, the Boston Bruins and their expansion cousins, the Buffalo Sabres.

LONDON — A decade ago, Joseph R. Biden Jr. strode into a reception room in Athens for a meeting with the president of Greece, a country then drowning in debt and locked in tense negotiations with the European Union.“This man represents the Treasury Department,” a deadpan Mr. Biden said to his host as he gestured to a gray-suited member of his delegation. And Mr. Biden clearly saw himself as a steward of that legacy, his easy self-confidence the product of four decades as a globe-trotting senator. As Mr. Biden took the oath of office on Wednesday, vowing to “repair our alliances and engage with the world once more,” the question for many overseas is whether they will see this man of the world anytime soon.

MOSCOW — For years, the Kremlin tried to ignore the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, right down to avoiding the very mention of his name. President Vladimir V. Putin’s spokesman appeared on a prime-time show on state television and denied Mr. Navalny’s assertion that Mr. Putin had a secret palace on the Black Sea. On another marquee program, the host devoted 40 minutes to Mr. Navalny, who was described as engaging in “political pedophilia.” And the evening newscast showed tweets by Western officials in support of Mr. Navalny as proof that he was working against Russian interests. The tightly scripted, all-hands attack on Mr. Navalny on Sunday underlined how the opposition leader’s dramatic return to Russia a week earlier and his arrest have changed the landscape of Russian politics.

President Biden is inheriting tricky tech questions including how to rein in powerful digital superstars, what to do about Chinese technology and how to bring more Americans online. Restraining tech powers: Under the Trump administration, there were investigations, lawsuits and noisy squabbles over the power of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and other tech companies. Tech giants can expect more of the same under Mr. Biden and a Congress narrowly controlled by Democrats. More lawsuits could come, too, possibly making it harder for Big Tech to continue as is.

Followers of QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory, have spent weeks anticipating that Wednesday would be the “Great Awakening” — a day, long foretold in QAnon prophecy, when top Democrats would be arrested for running a global sex trafficking ring and President Trump would seize a second term in office. But as President Biden took office and Mr. Trump landed in Florida, with no mass arrests in sight, some believers struggled to harmonize the falsehoods with the inauguration on their TVs. Some QAnon believers tried to rejigger their theories to accommodate a transfer of power to Mr. Biden. Several large QAnon groups discussed on Wednesday the possibility that they had been wrong about Mr. Biden, and that the incoming president was actually part of Mr. Trump’s effort to take down the global cabal.

At a lot of American companies, this is the first time colleagues have had to come to terms with working and socializing almost entirely online. When message boards, chat rooms and Facebook become work tools, off-color humor is more common. Harassment from colleagues in internal messaging platforms is not new, he added, but now there is more of it. These new work tools were designed to look and feel like message boards and social media.

PARIS — France will establish a “memories and truth” commission to review the country’s colonial history in Algeria, following a key recommendation in a new, much-anticipated report commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron and released on Wednesday. But it ruled out issuing an official apology for the past, and the proposals avoided the question of systemic torture by French forces, which Mr. Macron has already acknowledged. The report said its purpose was to achieve a “reconciliation of memories between France and Algeria,” two countries divided not by just the Mediterranean Sea but also by deep animosity stemming from years of colonization and an independence war that left hundreds of thousands dead. In a statement issued late Wednesday, Mr. Macron’s office said that he would create a Memories and Truth Commission as recommended.