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• New York Today: Queasy Rider - The New York Times

  

  PhotoHold on tight (but wash those hands).CreditSam Hodgson/The New York TimesUpdated 7:06 a.m.Good morning on this chilly Monday.New York often seems to be traveling at warp speed, but there’s one thing that can bring our city to an unnerving halt: a sick passenger on the subway.Ailing commuters frequently cause more than 3,000 trains delays per month — and that figure has nearly doubled since 2012.Emma G. Fitzsimmons, The Times’s transportation reporter, grabbed a bottle of Purell andset out t..

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• Pfizer and Allergan to Merge in $160 Billion Deal

  

  PhotoThe deal between Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, and Allergan, which makes Botox, could face strong opposition from lawmakers in Washington.CreditReutersThe pharmaceutical giantPfizersaid on Monday that it had struck a $160 billion deal, including debt, to merge with Allergan, the maker of Botox, in one of the biggest takeovers in the health care industry.The agreement would also be the biggest deal in what has been a banner year for mergers, driven in part by consolidation in the health care ..

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• For Third Day, Brussels Is Paralyzed by Terror Dragnet

  

  PhotoSecurity forces stood guard on Rue des Bouchers, a street famous for its restaurants, on Monday in Brussels.CreditStephanie Lecocq/European Pressphoto AgencyBRUSSELS — On what normally would be a bustling Monday, empty streets and an eerie silence attested to the reality that this capital city, the heart of the European Union, had been paralyzed by a terrorist cell answering to the leaders of the Islamic State.As universities, shopping malls, museums, food markets, the subway system and eve..

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• New York prepares for Thanksgiving parade as Islamic State threat looms | Reuters

  NEW YORKDavid Huddle and his daughter Megan, a flute player for the North Hardin High School marching band in Kentucky, have been preparing for more than a year for the band's performance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.They have no intention of letting threats of further violence from the militant Islamic State deter them from making the trip."The main goal of a terrorist attack is to create terror," David Huddle said in a phone interview. "It's important to go on with your li..

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• Daily Fantasy Sports Sites Face Challenges, and Options

  

  PhotoDraftKings, a daily fantasy sports site, brought in David Boies to fight the New York case.The adage that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” certainly does not apply to criminal laws, which are routinely used in new situations hardly conceived when they were adopted. That will play out this week in New York when a judge will have to decide whether daily fantasy sports constitute gambling under laws adopted long before these contests were even possible.New York State’s attorney general,..

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• Your Monday Briefing: Brussels, Mauricio Macri, American Music...

  

  PhotoA sign reading "school closed" in Brussels today.CreditFrancois Lenoir/Reuters(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’sthe sign-up.)Good morning.Here’s what you need to know:• Support for France.Prime MinisterDavid Cameron of Britain, in Paris today with the French president, François Hollande, said he will seek Parliament’s approval this week to join bombings in Syria.Mr. Hollande is pressing other national leaders to support his campaign to obliterate the Islamic State militants, meetin..

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• NYCIslamic State Plot: Italian Mafia Warns ISIS To Stay Away From...

  

  Correction, Nov. 23, 2015, 5:51 p.m. EDT --The New York Postreported in recent days that the son of infamous mobster John Gambino, Giovanni Gambino, had told NBC News that the Islamic State was an opportunity to show the world that the Italian mafia could do a better job of protecting New York than the New York City Police Department. Those reports appear to be based on a 2012 interview, not a recent interview. Gambino actually told NBC News that the New York mob was prepared to protect the city..

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• Homeless Man Finds Stolen Army Weapons: NYPD

  

  The weapons were taken from the Lincoln Stoddard U.S. Army Reserve Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, authorities said. A homeless man walking through a Bronx park near Yankee Stadium found several guns that had been stolen from an Army facility in Massachusetts, police said Sunday. Investigators traced the weapons to a recent break-in at a military armory in Worcester. ..

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• Meet Some of Our Top Commenters

  

  Display name:SocratesAge:51Occupation:Internal audit directorFavorite Issues:Religion, politics“Socrates,” whose avatar is an image of Buddha, is well-known in The Times’s comments section as an agitator.“I do like Zen Buddhism quite a lot,” Mr. Handler said. “That’s a reflection of some attempt to achieve a level of balance in life. There’s a leaning toward a philosophical point of view, even though it appears I may be very opinionated.”He added that he chose Socrates as his handle because..

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• Jury Hears Closing Arguments in Sheldon Silver Corruption Trial

  

  A federal prosecutor told a jury on Monday thatSheldon Silver, the former speaker of the New York State Assembly and once one of the state’s most powerful politicians, had made millions of dollars through two corrupt schemes and should be convicted of all seven of the counts against him.“What you heard during this trial is what Sheldon Silver secretly has been doing for years: Cheating, lying and getting away with it,” the prosecutor, Andrew D. Goldstein, said in a closing argument as Mr. Silver..

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