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Your nightly rundown of the day's top stories delivered straight to your inbox. View in [Browser] | Add [nytdirect@nytimes.com] to your address book. Wednesday, November 30, 2016 [The New York Times] [NYTimes.com »] [Evening Briefing] Wednesday, November 30, 2016 [Your Wednesday Evening Briefing] By KAREN ZRAICK AND SANDRA STEVENSON Good evening. Here’s the latest. Sam Hodgson for The New York Times 1. President-elect Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he would [take steps to separate from his business empire]. Skeptics said he was unlikely to go far enough to avert conflicts of interest. He also [unveiled his economic team] of investment titans. His secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, above, promised sizable corporate tax cuts in an appearance on CNBC. Sarah Palin is being considered for Veterans Affairs. Next up: Rallies in states that were crucial to his victory, beginning in Cincinnati. One of the stops will be at [a][plant in Indian][a] run by Carrier, which decided against moving about 1,000 jobs to Mexico after pressure from Mr. Trump. ____ Josh Haner/The New York Times 2. Do we have to report everything Mr. Trump tweets? Typically, presidents-elect hold news conferences after the election. Mr. Trump has not, instead exhibiting [an unprecedented reliance on social media]. Editors and reporters said they planned to apply the same news judgment to tweets they would to any statement by a powerful leader. But they acknowledged that the medium allows Mr. Trump to reduce complicated subjects to snappy and sometimes misleading slogans. ____ Al Drago/The New York Times 3. Nancy Pelosi retained her post as the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, but about a third of House Democrats voted for her challenger, Tim Ryan, a 43-year-old Ohioan from a blue-collar district. After a dismal Election Day for Democrats, the fight for the role [had become a proxy battle] for the future of the party. ____ via Reuters 4. A Charlotte, N.C., police officer [will not face charges] in the fatal shooting in September of a black resident, Keith Lamont Scott, above. The killing set off days of unrest. Mr. Scott’s wife recorded the confrontation, in which she yells that he is unarmed. But prosecutors said Mr. Scott was, after all, carrying a handgun. ____ Joe Klamar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 5. OPEC agreed to cut oil production for the first time in eight years. But for the six-month deal to work, non-OPEC member Russia must cooperate. While the announcement [sent oil prices soaring], they’re nowhere near historic highs. Above right, the Saudi energy minister at the group’s meeting in Vienna. ____ Travis Dove for The New York Times 6. Drug regulators [approved large-scale clinical trials] to study MDMA, the illegal party drug better known as Ecstasy, as treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. “It changed my life,” said the veteran above, who had PTSD after three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. “It allowed me to see my trauma without fear or hesitation and finally process things and move forward.” ____ Snap Communications 7. Snapchat’s parent company, Snap, is [headed for a blockbuster I.P.O]. It has overtaken Twitter in terms of daily users, and its new gadget is selling fast: [sunglasses, above, that record video clips]. The service is still frequently dismissed by people over 25. If you are one of them, our tech writer says it’s [time to reconsider]. ___ Tony Cenicola/The New York Times 8. We asked [five writers and showrunners] who have worked on programs like “Homeland” and “Quantico” about whether TV can be fair to Muslims. The takeaways: There’s an oversize appetite for stories about terrorism, and not enough diversity in the industry. “When non-Muslims are writing for some characters, it either becomes they’re terrorists or they’re so P.C. that they end up writing sanctified characters, who are so good and so well-meaning,” said the actor Aasif Mandvi, formerly of “The Daily Show.” ____ Patrick T. Fallon for The New York Times 9. Chronic insomniacs, take heart. New online programs that [use cognitive behavior therapy] helped more than half of the subjects in a study within weeks. ___ Justin Tallis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 10. Finally, British vegetarians are furious. The [Bank of England confirmed] that tallow, which is made from beef or mutton fat, was used in the more durable 5-pound bills it introduced recently. “Being forced to pay taxes to contribute to animal products is a breach of rights,” one vegan wrote on Twitter. “Shut. up. omnivores. 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