When he was growing up, Bernard Harcourt often heard stories about theman who had saved his father’s life, in 1940, after Germany invadedFrance. At the time, his father, who was Jewish and born in Paris, wastwelve years old. Harcourt’s father, aunt, and grandmother fled in aboat to Portugal with the help of a man named Aristides de Sousa Mendes.The story left a deep impression on Harcourt, who says he grew upfeeling that his own life “was in some way made possible by someone’scourage” and “that I, too, owed that back to others.”

In Jerusalem, Palestinians watch Donald Trump’s announcement that the American government will recognize the city as Israel’s capital, and will relocate the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv.

On Monday night, during what turned out to be a loss against the BostonCeltics, the Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton jumped,unsuspected, into a passing lane and, after securing the ball, threw itahead to his superstar teammate, Giannis Antetokounmpo. Antetokounmpoloped downcourt, all alone, for a fast-break dunk. He took a few giantsteps and floated upward kind of casually, and, just before he flushedthe two points home, his eyes were almost level with the rim. The momentwas amazing, all the more so because it is, by now, commonplace: thisplay, or a display more or less like it, happens just about every timeGiannis puts on his jersey. All game, he did things that—given hisalmost seven-foot frame and long, stretchy limbs—he shouldn’t, byrights, be able to do, but which have become staples of the diet heoffers to fans: deceptive hesitations before journeys into the paint;flicked fifteen-foot turn-around jumpers; easy sprints to regain aposition on defense that seemed hopelessly lost.

Michael Flynn said that pleading guilty to lying about his contacts with the Russian ambassador was “a decision I made in the best interests of my family and of our country.”

Time magazine’s coverstory from its November 6th issue was a point of pride in its twelve-personWashington bureau. It featured three swinging wrecking balls emblazonedwith Donald Trump’s face and a tough-minded, fact-laden investigativereport on three Trump Cabinet secretaries who were systematicallydismantling protective regulations in their respective governmentagencies. The section on Scott Pruitt, the head of the EnvironmentalProtection Agency, was particularly critical, opening with a story froma mother from Minnesota whose eight-month-old baby appeared to havesuffered brain damage from a pesticide that Pruitt’s E.P.A. had recentlyremoved from the list of banned chemicals after meeting with executivesfrom the company that manufactures it. (An E.P.A. spokesperson toldTime that the conversation was brief and that the pesticide,chlorpyrifos, was not discussed.)