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The primary in June, which had been canceled over concerns about the coronavirus, should still be held, with all qualifying candidates restored to the ballot, a federal judge ruled. A sample taken on Dec. 27 from a French patient with pneumonia has tested positive for coronavirus, nearly a month before the disease was first officially acknowledged to have emerged in France. Blood tests of 100,000 Israelis will try to assess exposure to Covid-19 on a nationwide scale. In 1847 the Choctaw people sent $170 to help during the potato famine. Irish donors are citing that gesture as they help two tribes during the Covid-19 pandemic. Millions of Americans are taking part in an unprecedented experiment in working from home. Many are happier, more efficient and want to hang onto the benefits when the pandemic ends. Tens of millions of people have already received their payments, but if you haven’t, these are the things you should check on. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Not all students are experiencing the effects of the pandemic equally. How to live a full and cultured life during the pandemic, at home. Many sources of the nation’s strength have eroded. The various factions in the Democratic Party should step back and let the presumptive nominee decide with whom he wants to campaign and govern. This country seems resigned to preventable firearm deaths. It appears that the same is starting to happen with fatalities from the pandemic. Adam Sandler has a normal-looking hallway! Bill Belichick likes nautical maps! I’m a New York City subway conductor who had Covid-19. Now I’m going back to work. One reader is horrified by projections showing a possible sevenfold increase in cases. Another notes that they “will come as no surprise to public health professionals.” A look at the style of Dr. Amy Acton, who has earned praise for her daily briefings on the pandemic. Planners once dreamed of cities with vast empty plazas and quiet streets. Post-pandemic, might they do so again? Contact tracing helps people to protect themselves and their families. Alone in the long Antarctic night, Adm. Richard E. Byrd endured the ultimate in social distancing. Players must submit to temperature checks several times a day, but professional baseball games go on amid the coronavirus pandemic, even if the stadium is empty. The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on voicing concerns to a sibling about how he brings up his child and to officemates who embrace coronavirus conspiracies. The Supreme Court said she expected to participate in Wednesday’s oral arguments by telephone from the hospital. MiChance Dunlap-Gittens was fatally shot by officers during an undercover operation in 2017. The settlement includes a promise to pursue a policy requiring dashboard and body cameras. Shelley Luther tore up a cease-and-desist letter after she reopened Salon À La Mode on April 24. “Our businesses have been hugely impacted,” the company’s C.E.O. said after quarterly profit dropped more than 90 percent. And that was for a period only partly upended by the coronavirus. The boy was driving to California to buy a Lamborghini, the Utah Highway Patrol said. With the Senate back in session, masked lawmakers, hushed corridors and socially distanced news conferences and hearings gave an eerie feel to the Capitol Hill routine. Mr. Arbery, 25, was killed after a confrontation with two men who pursued him in a South Georgia neighborhood. For the second time in about a month, some crew members are sounding alarms aboard the Theodore Roosevelt. New legislation would try to curb the illegal imagery with record levels of funding for law enforcement. The bill, coming in response to a Times investigation, also calls for a new oversight position in the White House. One European director said guidelines intended to get actors back to work were “cuckoo.” Some will return only when coronavirus testing, or a vaccine, allows performers to get close. “Little Eyes,” by Samanta Schweblin, is a brisk survey of 21st-century life as seen through the camera eyes of a plausible consumer fad. Outside Europe’s big five leagues, selling talent to bigger clubs helps balance the books. But with the game on hold, uncertainty is compounded by an awareness that they are not in control of their fate. Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Wastewater could provide early, painless and localized data about the rise or fall of coronavirus levels. Telemedicine is teaching us new ways to communicate with our patients. With the coronavirus pandemic shutting down most productions for now, TV makers are now primarily TV viewers. Here’s what they’re watching as they shelter in place. 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