Thanksgiving, Net Neutrality, Ratko Mladic: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing

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Good evening. Here’s the latest.

1. Families who have suffered through the year’s wildfires, hurricanes and mass shootings face an almost impossible question: How does one give thanks after losing so much?

Sherri Pomeroy, above center, the wife of the pastor at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., lost her 14-year-old daughter in the massacre there. But she will get up on Thanksgiving and cook for the shattered congregation.

“I just know that I’m not going to dishonor them by giving up,” she said. “Because then their lives would be in vain. Or their deaths would be in vain.”

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2. President Trump is at his resort in Florida for the Thanksgiving holiday, but he was up early, railing against a college basketball player’s father (“ungrateful fool!”) for failing to recognize Mr. Trump’s role in securing his son’s release from China.

And the Trump Organization announced that it would walk away from its long-troubled SoHo hotel in New York, which has had to drop prices to fill rooms.

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3. How much market power should big companies be allowed to have? The Trump administration showed this week that it disagrees with itself on the answer.

The Justice Department suit to block AT&T’s proposed takeover of Time Warner was a brake on power. (Above, AT&T’s headquarters in Dallas.) But the F.C.C.’s plan to end net neutrality would empower, and enrich, internet providers. (Here’s how that could affect you.)

According to Tim Wu, the Columbia professor who coined the term net neutrality, there is a common theme: Both moves are “defense strategies against Silicon Valley,” offering help to old-school media.

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4. U.S. and Japanese naval forces were searching for three people still missing after a U.S. Navy aircraft carrying 11 people crashed southeast of Okinawa, Japan. Eight were rescued and said to be in good condition. The plane was on its way to the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, above.

It was the fifth accident this year for the Seventh Fleet, the Navy’s largest overseas fleet. “This year needs to be over already,” one service member wrote on Facebook, adding, “7th fleet can’t handle any more curse.”

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5. Europe closed one of its most shameful chapters of bloodletting since World War II.

After a trial that lasted years, the Bosnian Serb warlord Ratko Mladic was sentenced to life in prison by a U.N. tribunal. He was convicted in the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims during the breakup of Yugoslavia, including the mass executions of 8,000 men and boys in Srebrenica. Above, people there celebrated the verdict.

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6. Seventeen months after Britain voted to leave the European Union, many Europeans are leaving Britain — some 122,000 as of March. And thousands are doctors and nurses whose departures are damaging the treasured national health care system.

Our correspondent spoke to some of them for our “Losing London” series, which looks at whether Brexit will sink a great global city.

“Psychologically Brexit has had a huge impact,” said Cyril Noël, a French doctor, above. “You feel rejected as a group.”

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7. Saad Hariri is back home in Lebanon — and now says he’s delaying his resignation as prime minister. Above, he greeted supporters outside his home.

It’s a surprise turn in a weekslong international mystery. On Nov. 4, while in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Hariri abruptly announced that he was stepping down. Speculation that the Saudis had forced his hand ran rife, especially when he dropped out of view.

He attended a military parade in Beirut for Lebanon’s Independence Day on Wednesday.

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8. We crunched the numbers about the jobs you’re most likely to inherit from your parents. Sara Genn, above, followed in her father’s footsteps and became a painter.

Our data analysis was one of the first to look at mothers and daughters in addition to fathers and sons. We found that working fathers and sons are 2.7 times as likely as the rest of the population to have the same job. The numbers are slightly lower for women.

Some of the jobs most likely to be passed down include steelworker, legislator, baker, lawyer and doctor. How dynastic is your field? Find out using the interactive feature in our article.

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9. The list of candidates for the Pro Football Hall of Fame is down to 27, including first appearances for Ray Lewis and Randy Moss, above. So whose names will be announced this summer? Our sports desk has some theories.

The Thanksgiving Day N.F.L. matchups are: Vikings vs. Lions, Chargers vs. Cowboys and Giants vs. Redskins.

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10. Finally, Stephen Colbert addressed the recurring themes of one-sided nudity and robes that have emerged in the recent flood of sexual misconduct charges.

“What is it with the robes?” he asked. “First Cosby, then Weinstein, now Charlie Rose. Who’s next, Yoda? ‘Hmm, tense you seem. Shoulders I will rub. Reported to H.R. I am.’”

But don’t laugh too hard: Our critic says the comedy market is oversaturated — and, for his part, he can’t wait for the crash.

The Evening Briefing will be off on Thursday.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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