 | | The Paris climate talks are in their final hours of negotiations today. Tom Jamieson for The New York Times | Your Friday Briefing By ADEEL HASSAN |
| Good morning. |
| Here's what you need to know: |
| • Inching toward a climate deal. |
| The Paris climate talks are in their final hours today. Negotiators have the text of a new climate change accord, but the draft has a hole. |
| What's missing is clear language on monitoring how countries follow through on their promises to cut emissions growth. |
| • Voting patterns. |
| Financial worries and fears about terrorism and immigration are contributing to a rise in support for right-wing populists in Europe similar to Donald J. Trump. |
| Mr. Trump's solid lead among likely Republican primary voters has Democrats beginning to take him seriously. |
| Fears of terrorism are soaring in the U.S., reaching levels not seen since shortly after the 9/11 attacks. |
| • Awash in guns. |
| Connecticut's governor, Dannel P. Malloy, said he would bar people on federal terrorism lists from buying firearms in his state. |
| F.B.I. data shows that people on the watch lists who tried to buy guns and explosives between 2004 and 2014 almost always succeeded. |
| But the fear of restrictions on gun purchases has led to a spike in sales. |
| • Officer found guilty of rapes. |
| Daniel Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma City police officer accused of raping women while on duty, was convicted on 18 of 36 counts of sexual assault in attacks on 13 women — all of them poor and black. |
| About 1,000 officers have lost their badges for sex crimes or other sexual misconduct over a six-year period in the U.S., The Associated Press reports. |
| • On Capitol Hill. |
| Government funding expires at midnight, and the House is expected to pass a five-day funding measure, approved by the Senate on Thursday, to allow more time for talks on a $1.1 trillion federal spending bill. |
| • On campus. |
| More than two dozen colleges and universities across the U.S. with religious affiliations have received exemptions from federal civil rights protections. Activists say the waivers allow them to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. |
| And Justice Antonin Scalia's questioning of whether black students should go to "slower-track" schools is receiving lots of attention. |
| • Firsts for Saudi women. |
| Women can run for local council seats in Saudi Arabia in elections on Saturday, and for the first time they can register to vote. |
| And the kingdom is under new scrutiny as the estimated death toll from a stampede at the hajj three months ago surpassed 2,400. |
| BUSINESS |
| • U.S. retail sales numbers for November, due from the Commerce Department today, are expected to show a stronger rebound in consumer spending and to give the Fed further reason to raise interest rates next week. |
| • A top broker for JPMorgan Chase, who blew the whistle on the bank, was fired. This is his story. |
| • Wall Street stock futures are flat. European markets are lower, and Asian indexes finished mixed. |
| NOTEWORTHY |
| • At the movies. |
| Two films based on books open nationwide tonight. "The Big Short" is about Wall Street shenanigans that led to the economy's collapse in 2008, and "In the Heart of the Sea" tells the 1820 maritime-disaster story that inspired Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick." |
| • Best sellers. |
| "Cross Justice," the latest thriller in James Patterson's long-running Alex Cross series, enters our hardcover fiction list at No.1. And Carly Simon's dishy memoir, "Boys in the Trees," is new at No. 9 in nonfiction. |
| • Presidential picks. |
| The first couple shared their favorite films, books and songs this year. And Mrs. Obama rapped about going to college. |
| • Football roundup. |
| The Arizona Cardinals clinched a playoff berth, holding off the Minnesota Vikings in the final seconds for a 23-20 victory Thursday night. |
| Here are all the N.F.L. playoff scenarios, and our previews and picks for Sunday's games. |
| • Sinatra's centenary. |
| Saturday would have been Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday. A four-CD box set was released recently, and of the more than 100 tracks on it, 91 have never been heard by the public. It comes with a 60-page book. |
| • New to watch. |
| Season 2 of "Transparent," about the romantic, sexual and gender complications of a Los Angeles family, begins streaming today. |
| It's up for 11 awards at the Emmys next weekend. |
| • In case you missed it … |
| Our front-page editorial, "End the Gun Epidemic in America," and "What Drives Gun Sales?" were among our most-read articles this week. |
| So were an article on what makes online ads so maddening and our collection of stories that readers spent the most time on this year. |
| BACK STORY |
| There once was a time you could live next door to a professional baseball player. |
| For most of us, no longer. In a $217 million contract signed last week, the pitcher David Price will get about $1 million every time he steps on the mound for the Boston Red Sox next year. It's the richest contract ever for a major league pitcher. |
| How did baseball salaries become so big? |
| It started after the 1969 season, when Curt Flood, the St. Louis Cardinals' star center fielder, refused to accept a trade to Philadelphia, saying: "I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes." |
| Flood filed a landmark lawsuit to increase players' bargaining rights. While he eventually lost at the Supreme Court, his effort encouraged other players to pursue the right to sell their skills to the highest bidder. |
| In 1976, the players' union and Major League management agreed to free agency, with limitations. |
| The very first big-money free agent was a New York Yankee, because of a separate arbitration case. |
| Then the Yankees used the new rules to sign Reggie Jackson and Goose Gossage for millions in the 1970s. Then the bidding wars broke out. |
| In 1976, the average player salary was $51,000. Today, it is nearly $4 million. |
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