Party conventions are in jeopardy, campaigning is on hold and local candidates are playing the role of good Samaritan instead of traditional politician.
In France and the rest of Europe, the affluent decamp cities to spend their confinement in vacation homes, widening class divides.
The broader struggle for women’s equality may be lagging in Egypt, but six women dominate the field of lion taming in the country.
Seeing a familiar face while waiting for the No. 6, a snack on the go and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
At least four children in government custody have tested positive for Covid-19, raising concerns about the virus’s spread in shelters.
Hundreds of thousands of migrant laborers began long journeys on foot to get home. Most live and eat where they work, and the shutdown made them suddenly homeless.
Watch a tender romance on Hulu, or try out a new sitcom from Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.
Corrections that appeared in print on Sunday, March 29, 2020.
Quotation of the Day for Sunday, March 29, 2020.
India’s abrupt nationwide lockdown left hundreds of thousands of laborers homeless and prompted one of the largest migrations in the country’s modern history.
The couple attended the same church and worked for the same San Francisco company, but they were brought together by the dating app Hinge.
The couple met at Princeton, from which they graduated.
They are to hike with their families through Medicine Bow–Routt National Forests in Colorado to find a spot for the ceremony.
Dolan is the first N.B.A. owner to publicly confirm
The country has carried out a handful of similar tests this month. The missiles fell into waters between the North and Japan.
Amid calls for more transparency, a debate is raging among public health experts over how much data on the spread of the virus should be released.
Best known for his long association with Dizzy Gillespie, Mr. Longo, who died of the coronavirus, also led a big band and promoted the work of other musicians.
Two journalists, with five children between them, discuss what life is like with schools closed and kids at home.
An airport, a shopping mall and various local businesses were damaged.
“Ecstatic may not be a good enough word — it was extremely emotional,” Sheriff Jay Jones of Lee County, Ala., said of finding Evelyn Sides, better known as Vadie.
Union officials at FEMA say they would like to know where they work in order to warn other employees who might be exposed and to avoid putting the public at added risk.
Officials are investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a family home and killed six people early Saturday morning.
American Media is the latest media outlet to announce cuts as the coronavirus has shaken the economy and the advertising market.
The 2020 Summer Games, postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, would start July 23, 2021, under a plan organizers are considering.
Si te sientes enfermo y preocupado de que se trate del coronavirus, esto es lo que puedes hacer.
Medical providers must not engage in “ruthless utilitarianism” in deciding who gets lifesaving treatment for the coronavirus, a federal civil rights officer warned.
Medical providers must not engage in “ruthless utilitarianism” in deciding who gets lifesaving treatment for the coronavirus, a federal civil rights officer warned.
Police and National Guard troops are deployed to warn visitors they must self-quarantine, as local resentment builds toward people fleeing coronavirus hot spots.
Ricky Cruz’s Sunday debut rewards scrutiny.
In times of fear and anxiety, we find solace in foods that conjure up memories and emotions. Why not wines?
He was adept at a range of instruments, particularly the congas and timbales, and he could make himself at home in almost any ensemble.
With coronavirus cases mounting, emergency workers are making life-or-death decisions about who goes to a hospital, and who is left behind.
Companies see the outbreak as a chance to cash in, do some good, or both. Among the early winners: the Washington influence industry.
The U.S. had imposed sanctions on two Rosneft oil trading subsidiaries this year for helping Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro.
As many as 200,000 workers could walk off the job unless demands for improved equipment and hazard pay are met.
In response to some private hospitals’ decision to bar partners, New York will order all hospitals to allow partners in delivery rooms, despite the coronavirus risk.
The country is not immune to the pandemic. So what explains its current low fatality rate?
The hit cartoon series has helped me process my biracial identity.
Plague erased social, gender and personal differences. Shakespeare responded by emphasizing people’s unique and inerasable difference. His work is a narrative vaccine.
My childhood friend has joined America’s “deaths of despair.”
We need to recognize any signposts leading up and out.
Technical flaws, regulatory hurdles and failures of leadership impeded early screening in the United States, allowing the pandemic to spread.
Aggressive screening might have helped contain the coronavirus in the United States. But technical flaws, regulatory hurdles and lapses in leadership let it spread undetected for weeks.
College students across the country are pushing to abolish grades, saying the only letters that matter now are C-O-V-I-D.
New York became the latest state to move its primary in an attempt to limit the risk of spreading the virus.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the administration’s most outspoken advocate of emergency virus measures, faces a torrent of false claims that he is mobilizing to undermine the president.
Darrell Woolsey does not know when he will go home to Wyoming and his wife and three children.
High school and college students urge their cohort to take the threat seriously, and adults reassure the young that past adversities and uncertainties have been overcome.
Lawmakers unanimously approved a historic government aid package, but the debate was vicious.
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, !!? — #%&?!!
The suggestion of a quarantine, which would have been a drastic exercise of power, drew swift condemnation and surprised top officials in the area.
How the ruling Communist Party manages the coming months will help shape how hundreds of millions of young people see its authoritarian political bargain for decades to come.
One Kentucky community has seen a wave of violence and homelessness as methamphetamine use returns.
His prolific use of a bill-blocking measure earned him his nickname, but he also won grudging respect on Capitol Hill as a political maverick.
These are the people still working on a single block in Manhattan.
Get tough now. Test widely to isolate those infected, and slowly revive businesses with workers and customers who have developed immunity.
There’s a long history of illness being used to stoke hatred. We cannot succumb to it now.
In a rare move, a group of lawmakers voted to give up their own redistricting power.
Ariana Neumann’s father had nightmares and an ID card in a different name. In her memoir, “When Time Stopped,” she unspools the past he kept hidden for so long.
Why virus denial resembles climate denial
Why virus denial resembles climate denial.
“In the United States, people are supposed to survive on their own. Those who cannot, are often left to sink.”
This week’s popular dishes, including pasta e ceci and no-knead bread.
In “Dragon Hoops,” Gene Luen Yang intercuts the thrilling wins and crushing losses of one high school team with basketball’s own turbulent history.
Insurance premiums could spike as much as 40 percent next year, a new analysis warns, as employers and insurers confront the projected tens of billions of dollars in additional costs of treating coronavirus patients.
A tight social circle bound by New York City basketball is hit hard by Covid-19, with two dead and others ailing.
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The dining and bar scene, so central to the city’s identity, emerged strong from Hurricane Katrina. But the coronavirus crisis is different.
Insurgents launched major assaults as preparations continued for a prisoner exchange and as diplomats worked to revive the peace plan.
It’s difficult to balance the risks of exercising outside against the benefits.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo compared the president’s suggestion that he was considering a quarantine on the New York region to “a declaration of war on states.”
The couple met as students a week before classes began at Grinnell College in 2009. He was there early for a canoe trip; she was a student adviser.
President Vladimir Putin’s grand plans to celebrate the 75th anniversary of victory in World War II, and his own leadership, may be foiled by the coronavirus, which also threatens war heroes.
Esta es la historia de cinco venezolanos que estaban en la cima del mundo. Hasta que el mundo se les vino abajo.
Scientists proposed a technique that would allow us to see more of the unseeable.
The Oregon star had been called “the puppet master” by Kobe Bryant, but faced tragedy and canceled games in what was supposed to be a dream college season.
With businesses and personal finances hit hard by a loss of income, the first of the month may mean triage in deciding what to pay.