TOP NEWS
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and CHARLIE SAVAGE
In the aftermath of the Connecticut school killings, momentum was building on Capitol Hill for tightening controls over firearms.
By DAVID BARSTOW and ALEJANDRA XANIC von BERTRAB
Wal-Mart de Mexico was an aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited, an examination by The New York Times found.
By DAN BARRY
The people of Newtown buried two boys on Monday afternoon, in the first of the many funerals to follow last week's massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. The boys were both 6 years old.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"I used to do everything with him. We liked to wrestle. We played Wii. We just played all the time. I can't believe I'm never going to see him again."
NOLAN KRIEGER, an eight-year-old boy speaking after a funeral service for his friend Jack Pinto in Newtown, Conn.
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WORLD
By CHOE SANG-HUN
Park Geun-hye and Moon Jae-in, the top candidates in the South Korean presidential election, say they would take a softer approach toward North Korea than the departing president.
By JULFIKAR ALI MANIK and JIM YARDLEY
A government inquiry says criminal charges should be brought against the owner of the Tazreen Fashions factory, where a Nov. 24 fire killed 112 people.
By STEVEN ERLANGER
A battle over E1, a largely empty patch of the West Bank, speaks to the seemingly insurmountable differences between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
U.S.
By KIM SEVERSON
The sweeping changes to the Shelby County, Tenn., justice system show a growing momentum of finding new ways to treat teenagers who break the law, advocates say.
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, MICHAEL COOPER and MICHAEL LUO
The National Rifle Association wields one of the biggest sticks in politics, but some opponents argue the Newtown tragedy may provide the N.R.A. its first genuine test in over a decade.
Memo From Washington
By JACKIE CALMES
Though seemingly unrelated, the emotionally wrenching school shooting may soften the hearts of politicians as they try to resolve the fiscal crisis.
POLITICS
By JONATHAN WEISMAN
President Obama delivered Speaker John A. Boehner an offer that would raise revenues by $1.2 trillion over the next decade but keep in place the Bush-era tax rates for any household with earnings below $400,000.
By JEFF ZELENY
Representative Tim Scott, the first black senator from the South since the late 19th century, will become a rising Republican in a party searching for new leaders.
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Daniel K. Inouye, who served nearly 48 years in the Senate, was a Democrat who broke racial barriers on Capitol Hill.
BUSINESS
By JOHN M. BRODER and CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Sasol, a South African company, plans to take advantage of a glut of cheap gas to make diesel and other refined products at competitive prices in Louisiana.
By JAMES KANTER and STEVE LOHR
Google appears to be emerging from an major antitrust investigation in the United States essentially unscathed. But the outlook is not as bright for Google in Europe.
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, chief executive of Norilsk Nickel and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, stepped down as part of the settlement of a shareholder dispute.
TECHNOLOGY
DealBook
By SUSANNE CRAIG and BEN PROTESS
The state's top financial regulator accused the bank of improperly influencing the I.P.O. process.
By JAMES KANTER and STEVE LOHR
Google appears to be emerging from an major antitrust investigation in the United States essentially unscathed. But the outlook is not as bright for Google in Europe.
DealBook
By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED
Sprint increases its offer for Clearwire and its valuable wireless spectrum to $2.97 a share from $2.90 and wins the support of its board.
SPORTS
Rockets 109, Knicks 96
By NATE TAYLOR
Jeremy Lin scored 22 points and had 8 assists and James Harden scored 28 as the Knicks suffered their first loss of the season at Madison Square Garden.
On Basketball
By HARVEY ARATON
As the Rockets went to Madison Square Garden, Kevin McHale was wrestling with the death of his daughter, and Jeremy Lin was revisiting the primary site of last season's heroics.
N.F.L. Fast Forward
By JUDY BATTISTA
On Statement Sunday, the game between San Francisco and New England, a 41-34 victory by the 49ers in Foxborough, Mass., created more questions than it answered.
ARTS
Movie Review | 'Zero Dark Thirty'
By MANOHLA DARGIS
"Zero Dark Thirty" treads on unusual territory for moviegoers used to Hollywood's practice of simplifying morality.
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Even without best sellers on the scale of last year's Steve Jobs biography, owners of independent bookstores say sales are good, and that Kobo e-readers have been a boon.
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
The future Freshkills Park on Staten Island buffered residential areas around it from the worst effects of Hurricane Sandy. Perhaps that will prompt the city to get the park ready for visitors.
NEW YORK / REGION
By SAM DOLNICK and MICHAEL WILSON
A clearer picture is emerging of the scene inside Sandy Hook Elementary School during Adam Lanza's shooting spree; to keep children calm, some teachers sang songs, others handed out lollipops.
By JAMES BARRON and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
As the town buried the first young victims of the killings at an elementary school, investigators said it could take months to recreate a full account of the events.
The Lede Blog
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
At the funeral for Jack Pinto, a boy cannot believe his friend is gone; Bloomberg, angered, demands action.
SCIENCE TIMES
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Scientists aim to take advantage of Hurricane Sandy's aftermath to learn more about how Fire Island, and all barrier islands, respond to and recover from major natural events.
By JAMES GORMAN
In Vietnam, archaeologists say, a Stone Age community took care of a man who couldn't take care of himself.
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
For young people exposed to traumatic violence like the Newtown school shooting, recovery can be torturous, marked by anxiety, nightmares or substance abuse. But the good news is that most children do heal.
EDITORIALS
Editorial
This country has a history of facing tragedy and becoming better for it. Our next challenge is to address the epidemic of gun violence.
Editorial
The courts must be very cautious about extending the individual right to own a gun.
Editorial
Stricter gun control laws in other countries have worked to curtail firearm homicides.
OP-ED
Op-Ed Contributor
By ADAM LANKFORD
Terrorist bombers and rampage shooters have much in common.
Op-Ed Columnist
By FRANK BRUNI
Gunfire atop the Empire State Building changed everything about a vibrant young man's life. It changed nothing about our armed, dangerous and ridiculously permissive ways.
Op-Ed Columnist
By JOE NOCERA
Other countries have tightened their gun laws to good effect. Why not us?
ON THIS DAY
On Dec. 18, 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first civilian nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, went online.
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