The president’s refusal to concede has entered a more dangerous phase as he blocks his successor’s transition, withholding intelligence briefings, pandemic information and access to the government. Even before he was elected in 2016, Donald J. Trump was building a conspiracy theory about voter fraud that took on new energy this year, as his political fortunes ebbed during the coronavirus pandemic. Wisdom from Shakespeare to Dickens to ‘Seinfeld’ on President Trump’s long non-goodbye. Thousands of medical practices are closing, as doctors and nurses decide to retire early or shift to less intense jobs. Activity has jumped as pandemic limits have eased, in a positive sign for global growth, but damage may be deeper than the initial numbers showed. Weeks after he managed to reopen the New York City school system, Mayor Bill de Blasio is facing fresh questions about if and when to close it. The fight club would have been illegal even before the pandemic. Parties in Manhattan and Brooklyn this weekend were also closed down for violating pandemic rules. The deluge of sex-abuse filings, coming ahead of a bankruptcy deadline, far surpasses the number of claims filed in Catholic Church cases. After terrorist attacks, France’s leader accuses the English-language media of “legitimizing this violence.” How the folk duo Gillian Welch and David Rawlings held onto optimism. He has spent his life gaming the system, so it’s no surprise that he can’t accept defeat. The importance of vision, expertise, honesty and simple decency in the management of world affairs cannot be overstated. Our stories still don’t have a permanent home in our nation’s capital. Readers reflect on the change brought on by the pandemic. For 12 years as a columnist I wore my “heart out after the unattainable.” When Michael Knapinski arrived at a Seattle hospital, his heart stopped for 45 minutes and he was put on life support. Two days later, he was walking. A voice for farmers, he lost a re-election bid after it was disclosed that he had joined a health spa that was shut down on prostitution charges. DeAndre Hopkins pulled down a catch that will live forever, Ronald Jones II ran Tampa Bay to victory and Ben Roethlisberger was no worse for the wear after a week of no practice. The sale, which could be announced on Monday, would create the nation’s fifth-largest retail bank. The intensifying storm is expected to make landfall by Monday night along the coast of Nicaragua and Honduras, where Hurricane Eta struck barely two weeks ago. The crew will spend some 27 hours in a capsule built by the private company before docking with the space station Monday night. After bears kept venturing into the city in search of food, officials installed mechanical wolves with bared teeth, glowing red eyes and a fearsome screech to keep the animals away. A deal brokered by Russia ended the fighting for now over Nagorno-Karabakh, leaving Armenians to pack up and burn their houses as they retreat, while Azerbaijanis plan a return to long-lost lands. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s two-year feud with the rebellious ruling party of the Tigray region has exploded into a war, with bombings, massacres and ethnic divisions, that threatens to upend the entire Horn of Africa. A 65-foot-tall stage curtain that the artist created for the Metropolitan Opera in the 1960s will go up for auction Tuesday at Bonhams. After a horrific appearance at No. 12, the five-time Masters winner did not fade — even with no hope of another green jacket and almost no one around to watch. More Recent Articles |
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