• Our correspondent in Cairo reports: “The bombing comes at a time when the Egyptian authorities had been hoping to stem the tide of Islamist violence in Sinai thanks to their sponsorship of a peace initiative in Palestine involving Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza.”
The new voices of politics.
• Ben Shapiro disagrees with his former boss, Stephen Bannon, and does not like President Trump. But liberals loathe the 33-year-old, who has been described as the voice of the young conservative movement.
“There’s a real battle for hearts and minds going on right now, and Ben is one of the main warriors,” said David French, a columnist for National Review, who describes Mr. Shapiro as a “principled gladiator.”
• Separately, we talked to the young founders of Crooked Media, which is trying to become the liberal version of conservative talk radio.
A radiation cloud, and a mystery.
• Last month, officials in Europe traced the release of a nuclear isotope to an area with a Soviet-era nuclear plant.
Although scientists said the contamination did not threaten human health or the environment, Moscow’s shifting statements and reluctance to release information have raised worries about more dangerous leaks in the future.
• “The cover-up is more interesting than the accident,” one expert said.
Pistorius’s sentence is more than doubled.
• Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic sprinter convicted of killing his girlfriend in 2013, had his sentence increased to 15 years today by South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal.
• Prosecutors had called the original six-year term “shockingly lenient.”
Reading this while waiting in line?
• You aren’t alone.
We’ll have the latest updates from Black Friday, as the holiday shopping season begins in earnest today. Wirecutter, our sister site, is tracking the best deals.
• Looking for inspiration? Here’s our gift guide. (Have we mentioned that everyone loves a subscription to The Times?)
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“The Daily” is off today.
• Michael Barbaro and friends will return on Monday.
Business
• Will cutting corporate tax rates lift worker pay, as Republicans promise? One union wants it in writing.
• Privately owned bridges on the U.S.-Mexico border earn millions of dollars in tolls. That business is threatened by the talks to renegotiate Nafta.
• Led by young shoppers, a boom in the cosmetics industry is a bright spot in an otherwise challenging environment for retailers.
• U.S. markets were closed for Thanksgiving. Here’s a snapshot of global markets.
Smarter Living
Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.
• Phone slow? It isn’t because a new model has been released.
• How to give your fridge a good, deep cleaning.
• If you have leftovers, we have more than 30 ways to use them up.
Noteworthy
• How Parmesan cheese gets made.
In today’s 360 video, visit a dairy in northern Italy, where Parmigiano-Reggiano originates, and learn how the cheese is made.
VideoWhere It’s Made: Parmesan Cheese
Visit a parmesan dairy in northern Italy, where Parmigiano-Reggiano originates and learn how the cheese is made.
By GUGLIELMO MATTIOLI and JOSHUA THOMAS on Publish Date November 24, 2017. Photo by Guglielmo Mattioli/The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.. Watch in Times Video »• Saudi Arabia’s Arab spring, at last.
In an exclusive interview, the kingdom’s 32-year-old crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, spoke with our opinion columnist Thomas Friedman about his plans to bring back a level of tolerance to his country — and to change the global tenor of Islam.
• In memoriam.
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, a charismatic Siberian baritone, won critical acclaim and the devotion of opera fans around the world. He was 55.
(You can listen to some of his best performances here.)
• Ready for the weekend.
At the movies, our critics review “Coco,” from Pixar, and “Call Me by Your Name,” the latest from the Italian director Luca Guadagnino.
We also catch up with Spike Lee, who has returned to the film that made him famous 30 years ago. (Here’s our review of his reboot of “She’s Gotta Have It,” now a series on Netflix.)
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We recommend seven new books and compile our annual list of 100 notable titles.
And if you’re in New York City, we offer advice on how to do Broadway and review a retrospective of David Hockney, one of painting’s elder statesmen, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Best of late-night TV.
Our roundup will return on Tuesday.
• Quotation of the day.
“People’s willingness to wait is, in some sense, proportional to the perceived value of whatever they’re waiting to acquire. Even if they don’t know what the line is for, they reason that whatever’s at the end of it must be fantastically valuable.”
— Richard Larson, a professor at M.I.T. who has spent years studying line behavior.
Back Story
Britain is a country rich in tradition, and this week featured one of its lesser — but still curious — bits of pomp.
On Wednesday, the chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, left his official residence at No. 11 Downing Street (the prime minister is at No. 10) holding a red box. He then traveled to Parliament to deliver his annual budget.
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The box customarily contains the chancellor’s speech to the House of Commons.
The word “budget” comes from the Old French word “bougette,” or little bag, drawing on a time when financial documents were carried in leather pouches. British officials started using boxes in the mid-1800s, and chancellors kept the same one until, quite battered, it was replaced in 2010.
It is said that George Ward Hunt, the chancellor in 1869, arrived at Parliament only to realize that he had left his speech behind. Chancellors since have held the box aloft upon leaving home, a sight always dutifully photographed by assembled journalists.
The theatrics surrounding a new budget have been adopted by some of Britain’s former colonies, including India and the U.S., where the Government Publishing Office proudly displays copies of the White House’s spending plan before distributing it to Congress.
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