The administration is stepping up the pace of vaccinations and expanding access to shots, but it remains in a race against a virus on the upswing. The move to allow larger gatherings outdoors and reopen some sports centers came as many countries in Europe are tightening restrictions as their coronavirus cases shoot up. Texas and five other states began providing coronavirus vaccines to everyone 16 and older regardless of health conditions on Monday, with other states scheduled to do the same this week. A judge in the Bronx ruled that people incarcerated in the state’s prisons and jails had been arbitrarily excluded from the coronavirus vaccine rollout. Far more work is needed to understand how the pandemic began, the report says, but it is not clear that Beijing will cooperate. “We may never find the true origins,” an expert said. The lawyer for Mr. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer charged in the killing of George Floyd, suggested that jurors should look beyond the video. The prosecution’s opening remarks focused on nine minutes and 29 seconds of bystander video. A single stuck ship stymied global trade for nearly a week. That raises fundamental questions about risks in the supply chain industry. The White House said the program could create tens of thousands of new jobs while moving the country toward clean energy As vice president, Joe Biden oversaw a “green jobs” stimulus package that produced notable failures. This time, with more money and more demand for clean technology, will be different, Democrats say. Criticized for partisan activity even when he was the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo is taking aim at the Biden administration and talking like a candidate. House Democrats face hurdles to pushing through the president’s big spending plans, including Republican opposition and resistance from their own ranks. “They are complicit in their silence,” one activist said, as bills that would disproportionately affect Black citizens across the country stir public debate. The San Francisco school board has infuriated parents and the mayor. Now it has descended into chaos over accusations of racism. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Get our best ideas for leading a full and cultured life every day. The establishment has been routed, but its economic orthodoxy rules. Biden has a chance to turn China’s strengths into weaknesses. Roosevelt’s choice to run the antitrust wing of the Justice Department, Robert Jackson, took just 14 months to change the country. An estimated 45,000 Americans are behind bars for thefts of less than $10,000. The punishment doesn’t fit the crime. The Minnesota senator presents her case for why regulating companies like Facebook and Google is crucial for the future of our democracy. Broadcast television and talk radio are just as problematic as social media. Readers chastise health officials for not speaking out earlier, urge a slower reopening for New York City and propose a national day of mourning. Whether you like him or hate him, the president isn’t quite who we thought he was. So far, children have mostly been spared from the worst aspects of Covid-19. Let’s keep it that way. Blake Bailey’s biography spends a lot of time on the minute details of its subject’s love life. A new indictment accuses Ms. Maxwell of paying a victim of her longtime associate Jeffrey Epstein. The slugfest in the round of 8 delivered what the coaches had predicted: a thriller that could have been a title game. Videos echoing the death of George Floyd showed a police officer kneeling on the back of the woman, who died of a broken spine, just days before an international forum on gender equality began in Mexico. Nike is suing MSCHF, a small Brooklyn-based company, over its sale of 666 pairs of altered Nike Air Max 97s as “Satan Shoes” in collaboration with the rapper Lil Nas X. The Rangers raised eyebrows by opening 40,300 seats at Globe Life Field for Monday’s exhibition. Only 12,911 fans showed up. Archegos Capital Management, led by Bill Hwang, couldn’t meet financial demands, creating turmoil on Wall Street and raising questions about the fund’s ties to lenders. The tortoises were found on Sunday wrapped in plastic inside a red suitcase that was bound for mainland Ecuador. A police officer has been taken into custody, the authorities said. Critics say HS2, a $140 billion project sold as a green alternative to planes and cars, makes less sense than ever in a world where people work from home. A sobering nature program with David Attenborough airs on PBS. And FX debuts a documentary about women in comedy. The chef Ben Shewry’s countryside pop-up is a comforting escape for pandemic times. Researchers figured out how a jolt of discomfort gets from the damaged outside of your tooth to the nerves inside it. The harrowing injustice I suffered as a boy should never happen to another child in this country. More Recent Articles |
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