Senator Mitch McConnell dropped his demand that Democrats promise to preserve the procedural weapon that can grind the Senate to a halt, but with President Biden’s agenda in the balance, the fight is not over. House managers presented the Senate with an article charging Donald J. Trump with “incitement of insurrection.” But Republicans are increasingly indicating they are unlikely to find him guilty. The inquiry was announced after revelations about a plot between Donald Trump and a top former department official to promote false claims of voter fraud by replacing the acting attorney general. Janet L. Yellen, who received bipartisan support, now faces a big challenge in confronting an economic threat that has caused financial hardship for millions of Americans. The president will announce a suite of executive actions on Wednesday to combat climate change, two people familiar with his plans said, and will ask federal agencies to determine the extent of a drilling ban. The action reverses a Trump administration move, and came less than a week after the new president issued another wide-ranging civil rights executive order. President Biden now says he hopes to administer 1.5 million coronavirus vaccinations a day, a 50 percent increase from his initial target, and he extended and expanded virus-driven travel bans. Vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech effectively protect recipients. But in a worrying sign, they are slightly less effective against a variant found in South Africa. The variant was identified in a Minnesota resident who had recently traveled to Brazil. Catch up on Covid-19 news. The state is returning to a tiered system of rules tied to the prevalence of the coronavirus in each county. Gov. Gavin Newsom has been under pressure from business owners. The names of Lara Trump, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and others have been floated as potential political candidates. Here’s what we know about the chances they could run and their considerations. The respected Republican legislator cited gridlock and partisanship in deciding to give up his seat. His exit underscores how far the party has strayed from its former identity. Dominion Voting Systems sued Rudy Giuliani, former President Trump’s lawyer, for defamation after he made inaccurate statements about the company. An inquiry’s finding that Leon Black, the billionaire boss of Apollo Global Management, paid the convicted sex offender $158 million touched off an attempt to remove him. To celebrate the Book Review’s 125th anniversary, we’re dipping into the archives to revisit our most thrilling, memorable and thought-provoking coverage. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Over the weekend, a standoff between President Vladimir Putin and his loudest critic became a showdown in the streets. Could this be a turning point? The Times would like to hear from readers who want to share messages and materials with our journalists. Crackdown and coercion are no longer enough to stop people protesting. The administration’s vaccine plan isn’t ambitious enough. Republicans won’t support the Democrats’ proposal, but they should. A dissident is to a dictatorship what a bald fact is to an edifice of lies, the revelation of which causes the whole thing to crumble. Climate change is upending the world as we know it, and coping with it demands widespread, radical action. Electric cars are an even better value than I understood when I first bought one. The White House, Congress and the media are all going to have to make some big adjustments. New antiterrorism laws could end up targeting people of color. What we’re facing in Brazil is an educational catastrophe. The Biden administration needs a game plan to deal with what will be a rolling and escalating threat from platform migration. Initial studies show a significant drop in infections and hospitalizations after just one dose, and very few cases after two. Experts caution that the results are preliminary. Mr. Murdoch of News Corp, who spoke in a video, has been relatively quiet publicly in recent years. He called conformity on social media “a straitjacket on sensibility.” The indictments brought the total number of officers charged after the January 2019 killing of a couple to 12. Two face murder counts. Johnathon Lomeli was sentenced to 60 days in jail after he pleaded no contest to false imprisonment of a woman during a security screening at Los Angeles International Airport in June 2019. An alleged racial profiling of a Latino man quickly escalated and led to the demotion of a police sergeant. Life in Cañada Real, home to about 8,000 people, is “just as horrendous” as in Bosnian refugee camps, said one humanitarian aid worker who has visited both. “We Are Water Protectors,” illustrated by Michaela Goade and written by Carole Lindstrom, won the Caldecott Medal. Delays, inconsistent data, spotty disclosures and the country’s attacks on Western rivals have marred its ambitious effort to portray itself as a leader in global health. Researchers propose that some remote ancestors of Native Americans may have been the first humans to forge the bond with wolves that led to domestication. Marsibil Erlendsdottir runs a farm and provides weather reports from a remote outpost in eastern Iceland. The job requires vigilance and an unfailing resolve. Short of a total lockdown, universal mask-wearing is the most effective way to slow the relentless rise in hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19. “Snowpiercer” returns on TNT. And Alan Tudyk stars in a new comedy series on Syfy. Mark Harris’s biography tells the story of the writer and director who formed a beloved comedy duo with Elaine May and directed movies including “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “The Graduate.” Designers in Paris turned inward during lockdown and collectively found resources to keep creativity alive. Still looking for some new things to watch? Take some chances on these titles. A handful of other six-star systems have been discovered, but this one is unique. Laboratory studies of mutations circulating in South Africa suggest they may dodge some of the body’s immune responses. No cause of death was disclosed, but the case followed a string of suicides by young entertainers in the country. The instrument’s holders refuse to compensate the heirs of a Jewish music dealer, jeopardizing a system for restitution that has been in place for nearly two decades. More Recent Articles |
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