Your Friday Evening Briefing

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. Monday, December 12, 2016 [The New York Times] [NYTimes.com »] [Evening Briefing] Monday, December 12, 2016 [Your Friday Evening Briefing] By KAREN WORKMAN AND SANDRA STEVENSON Good evening. Here’s the latest. Doug Mills/The New York Times 1. President-elect Donald Trump was in Louisiana, above, early Friday to campaign for a Republican seeking a United States Senate seat. He headed to Michigan afterward to continue his victory tour. Rex Tillerson, the head of Exxon Mobil, appears to be the [leading candidate][for][secretary of state]. Mr. Trump said earlier that Rudolph Giuliani was no longer in the running for the job. Selections for other top posts keep coming: [Gary][D.][Cohn], the president of Goldman Sachs, will be named to direct the National Economic Council. And Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a representative from Washington State, may be chosen for secretary of the interior. _____ Doug Mills/The New York Times 2. President Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to produce a [full report on Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election], days after Mr. Trump dismissed the possibility that Russia intervened. A broader look at cybermischief linked to Russia indicates it has expanded in both range and sophistication, with some dissidents saying hackers have [planted child pornography on their computers]. _____ Facundo Arrizabalaga/European Pressphoto Agency 3. Russia is also coming under fire in sports after a new report laid out mountainous evidence of the broad scale of a [state-sponsored doping program]. The investigation implicates more than 1,000 athletes in 30 sports and could affect the outcomes of past Olympics and other competitions. _____ George Ourfalian/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 4. Hundreds of men have been reported missing in eastern Aleppo as the [Syrian Army continues its push to retake the city]. Human rights groups are blaming both government forces and some rebel fighters. In Afghanistan, where the Taliban is threatening major cities and Islamic State affiliates are gaining a foothold, the [U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter visited the Bagram Air Base] to thank American troops stationed there. _____ Bart Maat/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 5. A Dutch politician who is using the campaign slogan “Make the Netherlands Great Again” was [convicted of inciting discrimination] for saying the country would be safer with fewer Moroccans. Geert Wilders, above, is a likely contender for prime minister, and the trial seems to have improved his party’s standing among voters. _____ Baek Sung-Ryul/Yonhap, via Associated Press 6. It is now up to South Korea’s Constitutional Court to decide whether the charges against President Park Geun-hye, above, merit her ouster. The country’s Parliament [voted on Friday to impeach Ms. Park], the nation’s first female leader, following a corruption scandal. She has given no indication she’ll resign. _____ Joshua Lott for The New York Times 7. Our investigation into Chicago’s crisis of violence took our journalists to the city’s 11th police district, where [homicides are up 89 percent from a year ago]. Only about 74,000 residents call it home, yet 91 people have been killed there so far in 2016 — more homicides than larger cities like Seattle and Buffalo saw in all of last year. “It’s about desperation, decadence, depression and rage,” said a reverend. _____ Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times 8. “Did you know that the Nazis took loads of drugs?” That was the question from a D.J. and fan of mind-altering substances that set a Berlin author, Norman Ohler, above, on a path to years of researching [drug use in The Third Reich]. Now, his book chronicling the meth-fueled blitzkreig of France and Hitler’s addiction to powerful opiates is a best seller in Germany and Britain. It will be published in the U.S. in April. _____ _____ Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images 9. Taylor Swift surprised fans with the [release of a new single] — her first new music since the album “1989” came out in the fall of 2014. The moody track “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” was a collaboration with the former One Direction member Zayn Malik and will be featured in the movie soundtrack “Fifty Shades Darker.” _____ Kayla Iacovino 10. A volcano straddling the border between China and North Korea remains largely tranquil. But when North Korean scientists recorded a swarm of tiny earthquakes rumbling underground years ago, they reached out to the West for help. [The rare collaboration with scientists] from the U.S. and Britain led to a new understanding of the volcano, which unleashed one of the most violent eruptions in recorded human history when Mount Paektu last awoke. _____ Don Ryan/Associated Press 11. Finally, bundle up. A winter storm has begun making its way across the northern swath of the U.S., bringing [plunging temperatures, snow, or in some places, freezing rain]. The weather system is projected to reach the Northeast late Sunday and into Monday. 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