Markets shuddered as the $2 trillion economic stabilization package stalled before negotiators cemented a historic deal. A deal with General Motors and Ventec Life Systems to produce tens of thousands of the critical lifesaving devices seemed imminent. Then the announcement was pulled back. The weekly figure is among the first data on the economic toll of the vast disruption of normal life and commerce caused by the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m okay. Don’t tell Mom and Dad. They’ll worry,” he wrote to his sister. He may be the first nurse in New York City to die from the coronavirus. An upscale waterfront community in New York and a nursing home in New Jersey are the latest epicenters, sparking fears of an even bigger outbreak among a vulnerable, confined population. The federal guidelines are meant to help states decide whether to relax or enhance the quarantine and social distancing measures they have put in place. The $2 trillion aid package is expected to save jobs and bail out companies, but it reorders the relationship between government and private industry. The opposite is more likely to be true, according to research and experts. The country has not widely tested. Its people are going about their lives, even crowding into clubs that had previous outbreaks. But now Japan is warning of the risk of rampant infection. Millions of older Americans make an annual migration between the North and the South. The coronavirus pandemic has them questioning their plans to return home. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. A new season for a new time. The nation craves a plan, not hunches. European countries are paying to preserve jobs during the coronavirus crisis. Sadly for American workers, the United States is charting its own path. But we’re doing some things right despite Trump. The virus is a test. We have the freedom to respond. No matter how ill I have been, I’ve always gone to work. Empty gestures of solidarity aren’t going to bring back the gear that has grown legs and walked out of my hospital. This crisis has underscored the need for greater access to reproductive health care. For over a week, my family has been caught in limbo, preparing for the worst. “You feel radioactive,” say doctors who are treating coronavirus patients while trying, desperately, to protect their own families. A conversation with the Princeton scholar Moulie Vidas on mortality and the embrace of life in Judaism. The dramatic falloff in air travel is captured in travelers’ photographs of their recent flights. An industry that symbolized the distant past has grown in recent years. Now, with the coronavirus, milkmen are deluged with customers. Allen’s “Apropos of Nothing,” recently released after being canceled by its original publisher, covers his childhood in Brooklyn, his career and the abuse allegations against him. The agency said it would not penalize companies that violate rules on monitoring and reporting pollution discharges. David Daniels, a professor of voice and one of the world’s leading countertenors, was dismissed one year after he and his husband were charged with sexually assaulting another singer. Trump administration officials are discussing taking action after China said it would expel almost all American journalists for The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Gov. Tate Reeves issued a supplement to an executive order about essential businesses, saying it was a standard for local leaders, who had already issued their own. Federal prosecutors accused President Nicolás Maduro of participating in a narco-terrorism conspiracy, in a major escalation of the Trump administration’s efforts to pressure him to leave office. He admittedly “didn’t know anything about being funny” when he joined the comedic basketball team, but he became one of its biggest stars. With the odds of winning long, some Democrats wonder why Bernie Sanders is still in the presidential race. He’s still pushing his agenda, though it’s not clear who’s listening. For the third time in five years, abnormally warm water has caused a “mass bleaching” of coral, and some of it will not survive. Scientists say global warming is killing reefs worldwide. Many assume the “accessibility” features on our devices are helpful only to those with visual or hearing impairments, but they’re useful for everyone. In 1995 I modeled as part of a feature on “Women of the Internet.” As the magazine ceases print publication, I’m feeling weirdly nostalgic. New albums by two of Latin pop’s biggest stars find them chasing inspiration in opposite directions, with contrasting results. The comedy duo wanted to make a sitcom for Adult Swim about a house full of awkward men (and, somehow, one woman). It’s as weird as Tim and Eric fans would expect. An influential art historian, he called out racism in the museum world, and in the broader culture as well. Sometimes these leaders of the free world rose to the challenge, and sometimes they sunk as low as you can get. More Recent Articles |
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