Researchers in South Africa, where the variant is spreading quickly, say it may cause less serious Covid cases than other forms of the virus, but it is unclear whether that will hold true. The mandate, set to take effect just before Mayor Bill de Blasio leaves office, will apply to workers at about 184,000 businesses. It is likely to face legal challenges. It was unclear if the incoming mayor, Eric Adams, who is on vacation in Ghana, intended to enforce a vaccine mandate for private employers. The conflict in Ukraine will be a major topic during a high-stakes video call between President Biden and Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Tuesday. After eight years in the trenches, Ukrainian soldiers are resigned to the possibility that the Russian military, which dwarfs their own in power and wealth, will come sooner or later. The department said the state’s redistricting plan would violate the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against minority voters. American athletes will still be able to compete in the Winter Games, but the diplomatic boycott is a slap at China for human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Former Senator David Perdue, encouraged by Donald Trump, is challenging Gov. Brian Kemp, a fellow Republican who defied the former president. A financing company told investors that it wasn’t in deal talks, weeks after its C.E.O. held a private videoconference about a possible deal with Donald Trump. The California Republican, who had pugnaciously defended Donald J. Trump, chose the media company role over a potentially powerful new post in Congress. A plan to “daylight” Tibbetts Brook in the Bronx would be one of the city’s most ambitious green infrastructure improvements. Some social media users are not feeling the Christmas spirit — or this box of mini lipsticks and branded stickers. Even when a film wasn’t great, filmgoing was. But there were some truly wonderful releases, ranging from music docs and musicals to westerns and the just plain weird. America can’t arrest its way out of a problem caused by the fundamental human need to connect. During his 1996 presidential campaign, Senator Dole would often go off script. But it was those moments that revealed his rare empathy. The halting of executions and the guilty verdicts in the Ahmaud Arbery case have given us the slightest bit of hope for change. Why it’s so difficult to find viable solutions for California’s homelessness crisis. Yet another school shooting, the Supreme Court argument over Roe and much else in American life give us pause. The historian Rutger Bregman makes a case for the “collective brilliance” of humanity. Democracies can find strength in numbers. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is another Mississippi case poised to roll back constitutional rights. How do we respond to a culture in which the guardrails of so-called civility are gone? Thoughts I had as I watched a white couple browsing books. Giving thanks for everything from stents to foliage to a musical dog. Readers criticize the school’s decision to allow Ethan Crumbley back into class, and the nation’s gun laws. Also: Chris Cuomo; gender-neutral in French; happiness. Anna Wintour is the embodiment of the glory days of the magazine dynasty. Now she is pitching its global, digital future. For two decades, Correll Jones has been the man to ask about New York’s most famous tree — and where to find the public bathrooms. A woman identified only as “Kate” told jurors at Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial that Ms. Maxwell leveraged their friendship to encourage her to have sex with Jeffrey Epstein. Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s former chief of staff, said in his new book that the weakened president’s blood oxygen level reached 86 during a harrowing fight against the coronavirus. Lawyers for Michael Sussmann, accused by the Trump-era special counsel of lying to the F.B.I., asked for a quick trial after receiving what they said was helpful material from prosecutors. A draft version of the document flagged deep disputes over court expansion while exploring how phasing in term limits might work. The hedge fund pioneer is barred for life from buying more antiquities. He turned over 180 stolen objects that had decorated his homes and office. Kim Taylor, 73, went into cardiac arrest after being attacked while caring for livestock at a Massachusetts farm, the police said. He used his powerful platform to champion human rights, caution against a Trump presidency and condemn the killing of a Saudi columnist for the paper. India’s purchase of a missile defense system signaled that it was more worried about an emboldened China at its borders than about angering the United States. Robert Fehring warned that an attack on New York City’s Pride March would make the Pulse nightclub shooting “look like a cakewalk,” the authorities said. In the ’90s, “Sex and the City” celebrated single women. Can a new, more nuanced version make a comedy of middle-aged ones? The HBO mini-series stars Olivia Colman and David Thewlis as a British couple convicted of killing the wife’s parents and burying them in the backyard. The actor, who died at the age of 72, was known for his commanding performances of Shakespeare’s Richard III and the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi. Journalists love subjecting online jokes to semantic dissection. So, shall we? Elected by the Hall’s Early Days committee, Bud Fowler was a pioneer who played organized professional baseball against white players as early as 1878. More Recent Articles |
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