While millions of people struggled to make ends meet, many of the companies hit hardest in 2020 showered their executives with riches. Fatalities have been overlooked or downplayed, understating the human toll of the country’s outbreak, which accounts for nearly half of all new cases in a global surge. Sister Teresa Forcades, Spain’s most provocative Catholic nun, is at odds with governments, medical experts and even Pope Francis, who endorse the coronavirus vaccines. Pandemic denial groups are spreading her views. In Houston, election officials found creative ways to help a struggling and diverse work force vote in a pandemic. Record turnout resulted. Now the G.O.P. is targeting those very measures. Mr. Carter, a state senator from New Orleans, defeated State Senator Karen Carter Peterson in a race to succeed former Representative Cedric Richmond, who left Congress to become an adviser to President Biden. For decades, the producer has cultivated and castigated people at all levels of entertainment. Now his past is catching up with him. George Floyd was presented as a full person, not just a body beneath a police officer’s knee. Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in his murder, remained an aloof figure. Isaiah Brown was on a cordless phone with an emergency dispatcher when he was shot, his lawyer said. His family said he was in intensive care. A Black man was fatally wounded while the authorities were executing warrants. Law enforcement officials are under mounting public pressure. The Turkish government, as well as human rights activists and ethnic Armenians, had a muted response to the news, describing the move as largely symbolic. After years of avoiding the topic, the U.S. government now officially views the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire a century ago as genocide. Here’s what it means. She has no large foundation, headquarters or public website. That makes it easier to dispense money on her own terms — and for others to prey on the vulnerable in her name. As online attacks against Chinese feminists intensify, popular social media companies are responding by removing the women — not the abusers — from their platforms. Hear lessons and songs from shows now opening on Australia’s stages. Subscribers can R.S.V.P. here. We owe him gratitude, not grief. People who live in homes-on-wheels should not have to be in constant fear of “the knock.” Joan Robinson upended the misogynistic good-old-boys’ network of economists and devised theories around competition and labor vital to the antitrust debates of today. Dr. Tedros of the W.H.O. publicly focuses on managing the pandemic. Privately, he weeps as his Tigrayan people are raped, starved and slaughtered. The G.O.P. doesn’t know how to win majorities; the right doesn’t know what it’s conserving anymore. Wealthy nations have to step up. Craving escapism from the Oscar contenders that reflect our sad reality. If the industry won’t change on principle, it can at least change for the money. Reform would enrich people of color, and everyone else. What can be done about all of the suffering that remains? In a typical sale, anything affixed to the walls, floors or ceilings stays with the house. But there’s always room for negotiation. The memorial event at Barclays Center was closed to the public, but hundreds of fans congregated outside to honor the rapper’s life. Search teams from several countries had been looking for the navy vessel, which sank near Bali with 53 people aboard. Russian spies have twice tried to poison Emilian Gebrev. Now, revelations in the Czech Republic show they also destroyed shipments of his military supplies. The prime minister likes to flout convention, but a litany of cozy dealings between the government and business is beginning to take its toll. In a guest column for The Orlando Sentinel, a Disney fan said he was reconsidering his commitment to the park “because Disney cares more about politics than happy guests.” Musk, who runs Tesla and SpaceX, will become the rare “S.N.L.” host not from the worlds of entertainment, politics or sports. Sun Dawu, a rural tycoon who has been a thorn in the Communist Party’s side, was detained in November as the party moved to silence critics and keep the private sector in line. The advocacy group for the over-50 set welcomes a mercurial generation that never wanted to grow up in the first place. The actor and advocate thinks it’s time to make fashion statements. Excavations at the city, famous for its pre-Columbian mounds, challenge the idea that residents destroyed the city through wood clearing. Coffee for immune support. Supplements for inflammation. And psychedelics promising relief from serious ailments. Mushrooms are everywhere, and investors are paying attention. The disclosure that anthropologists at two Ivy League universities had kept bones from a victim of the 1985 MOVE bombing infuriated its members as well as city leaders. More Recent Articles |
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