Here are a few ways to make working from home — during a pandemic, to boot — slightly better.
The court will hear arguments on a technical legal question in a case that demands fossil fuel companies help pay for the costs of dealing with climate change.
As their fiscal woes become worse, some government officials are looking more closely at public-private partnerships as a way to jump-start their economies.
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.
Tuesday: An update on the state’s plagued unemployment system. Also: California’s changing of the guard.
Have you been paying attention to the news recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
A new Supreme Court case will take on “dark money” in politics.
The transition of official White House social media handles is more complicated now than four years ago.
The transition of official White House social media handles is more complicated now than four years ago.
Adoptions set a record in the U.S. early in the pandemic, but now millions of animals could be in danger of being abandoned or returned to shelters.
Des beaux-enfants, des nièces, un mari aimant, l’ex-femme de ce dernier: la famille de la vice-présidente, recomposée, multiraciale et multiconfessionnelle, reflète un peu de l'Amérique contemporaine et innove à la Maison Blanche.
The youngest daughter of the founder of the telecommunications giant Huawei debuted a documentary, a magazine cover and a music video — and the response was savage.
Merchandise with phrases like “Battle for Capitol Hill Veteran” could still be purchased on major e-commerce sites, a sign of how the platforms have struggled to remove the goods.
The Nebra sky disk, which has been called the oldest known depiction of astronomical phenomena, is a “very emotional object.”
The authorities continue to piece together what happened aboard Sriwijaya Air Flight 182. For many victims' families, the uncertainty has added to immeasurable grief.
Trump’s final pardons, Biden’s first executive orders: This is your morning tip sheet.
Twitter bloquea a Trump, la regulación del odio en redes sociales, el auge de Only Fans y más para empezar el día.
A group of company leaders and former policymakers argue that “globalism” isn’t an epithet. Instead, they argue, it is the way forward.
And what else you need to know today.
We spoke to fans of President Trump about the Capitol riot and their feelings before Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Even before the pandemic, American culture was embracing numbness as an antidote for the overload of digital capitalism. But is it a real escape — or another trap?
Immediately replace bulbs that are out. Get some screwdrivers. Needle-nose pliers come in handy, too.
“Craft: An American History,” by Glenn Adamson, considers the often disparaged tradition of artisanal work from colonial days to today’s maker movement.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to tell your father your sister is recording him without his knowledge — and more.
Sassy magazine helped me get through my teens. Now I turn to my collection for a different kind of comfort.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Janet L. Yellen, Deanne Criswell and others with connections to the city are poised to have influence on policies.
Real conversations about ideas that matter. And so many book recommendations.
The actor, known for starring roles on shows like “Your Honor” and “The Wire,” has a new apartment — with a key to the park.
The actor, known for starring roles on shows like “Your Honor” and “The Wire,” has a new apartment, with a key to Gramercy Park.
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated medical tourism, but pent-up demand remains for affordable treatment in foreign lands.
Tunisians are putting their hard-won right to criticize the government to good use. They just wish there were less to protest.
It was a prideful journey for the Nepalese climbers, who historically haven’t received their due.
Despite losing a Senate seat and seeing Joe Biden win the state, state party leaders in the land of Barry Goldwater and John McCain aren’t switching gears. They’re doubling down.
The nation’s schools need thousands of more teachers, full-time and substitute, to keep classrooms open during coronavirus outbreaks.
The youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history will read a work she finished after the riot at the Capitol. “I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen,” she says.
Ayudar a superar la crisis humanitaria para salvar a los venezolanos de una hambruna es empresa que necesariamente exige un acuerdo político entre el gobierno y la oposición.
There is no one quite like him in the Republican Party. So where should we look for the president’s inheritors?
“Craft in the Real World,” by Matthew Salesses, dismantles assumptions about the art of fiction and how it should be written.
Biden’s campaign strategy put Democrats in agony. Here’s why it worked.
The judgment of history will be damning.
“Last Orgy of the Divine Hermit,” “Marshlands” and “Saturation Project” are full of inventive twists and innovations.
The actor who portrayed Lyndon Johnson and Walter White says he’s drawn to broken characters. But he’s got his limits.
The uptick will be New York City’s most difficult challenge this year.
“Trio” follows three characters who are connected to a disastrous film production and each has a personal crisis to deal with.
The expectant parents spend weeks deciding on their new baby’s name. Then the grandparents weigh in.
People with knee arthritis were less likely to report pain and stiffness if they wore stable, supportive shoes, versus flat-soled, flexible ones.
Emily Rapp Black ponders the unanswerable in her new memoir, “Sanctuary.”
‘Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: The Postal Service’s on-time performance plummeted in December, after it delivered a record number of mail-in ballots.
A journey through four years of Trump in The Times.
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Biden’s campaign strategies often worried Democrats. But they worked.
Lawyers said it was the longest sentence yet for violating Thailand’s notoriously harsh lèse-majesté law.
In this lesson, students will learn about Kamala Harris and her extended family, and how together they may broaden the nation’s ideas about family dynamics and gender roles.
A campy Gothic house in Poughkeepsie’s “Witchcraft District” that served as a gathering place for the atheist group went up in flames.
One of the biggest galaxies in the universe seems to lack its dark centerpiece.
La juramentación de los presidentes estadounidenses ha evolucionado un poco desde los días de George Washington.
OnlyFans, una plataforma de redes sociales que permite que sus usuarios vendan fotos explícitas, ha tenido un gran auge durante la pandemia. Pero la competencia en el sitio significa que no todas las personas ganarán mucho dinero.
What’s the best thing you’ve done virtually this year?
This word has appeared in two articles on NYTimes.com in the past year.
“Normally, after a president’s term, they show before and after photos to prove how much the job aged him. This time, they’re showing before and after photos of all of us,” Jimmy Fallon joked on Monday.
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In an interview, Doug Mills, a Times photographer in the Washington bureau, reflects on a relentless four years.
Jared Porter reportedly sent dozens of unsolicited text messages — including one with a nude photo — to a reporter in 2016.
The confrontation came days after the state’s attorney general sued the New York Police Department for its handling of protests following the death of George Floyd.
Doug Mills, who covers the White House, got more access to President Trump than to previous presidents.
The report charges that Americans are being indoctrinated with a false narrative of the nation’s founding and identity, including the role of slavery in its history.
The president’s proclamation, which would not take effect until Jan. 26, after Joe Biden assumes office, was part of a flurry of orders that Mr. Biden is likely to reverse.
The president’s proclamation, which would not take effect until Jan. 26, after Joe Biden assumes office, was part of a flurry of orders that Mr. Biden is likely to reverse.
The socialite and style setter began making a name for himself as a teenager.
Europe won’t wait for Biden.
Olivia Mitra Framke sets out a buffet for us.
Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, January 19, 2021.
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Inauguration Day brings with it an awkward transition when one family moves in and another moves out, made all the more so this year by the coronavirus and President Trump’s stormy departure.
Events on Wednesday, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes the oath of office, will have a more celebratory theme.
The sanctions are the first targeting the Nord Stream 2 undersea pipeline, which is to carry natural gas directly from Russia to Germany, whose government backs the project.
After recovering from a near-fatal poisoning in Germany, the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny returned to Moscow on Sunday and was detained at the airport.
With the Rev. Al Sharpton playing host in Harlem, the crowded field of Democratic candidates tried to sell themselves and inspire a battered city.
The inaugural of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is not the first to take place at a tense moment in American history.
Before Jefferson Davis there was John C. Calhoun. What rougher beasts do Trump, Hawley and Cruz prefigure?
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President Trump ordered an end to the ban on travelers from Europe and Brazil to the United States, a move that was quickly rejected by aides to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Evidence has a well-known liberal bias.
The project had already been languishing, but the action by Mr. Biden would signal his determination to undo President Trump’s environmental legacy.
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Coach Jeremy Pruitt and nine members of his football program’s staff were fired after ongoing investigations into the team’s recruitment practices showed violations of N.C.A.A. rules.
The country has relatively few doses and is paying a price for its leader’s slow pursuit of vaccines early on. That lapse may hinder Brazil’s ability to fight worrisome variants.
Among those under consideration for grants of clemency are the former New York Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and the rapper Lil Wayne.
The Trump White House released the report of the presidential “1776 Commission,” a sweeping attack on liberal thought and activism that calls for a “patriotic education,” defends America’s founding on the basis of slavery and likens progressivism ...
On Wednesday, Joseph R. Biden Jr. will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. What do you think should be the goals and priorities for the new Biden-Harris administration?
The Times is hosting a series of virtual events ahead of global climate talks in November. This month’s topic: the demand for energy and what can be learned from the pandemic.
The nation’s military has a history of downplaying white nationalism and right-wing activism, but the siege of the Capitol has created a new urgency for dealing with them.
The Paycheck Protection Program’s loose rules allowed organizations that have questioned the safety of vaccines to qualify for aid.
Policymakers are eager to return to the period of low unemployment that preceded the pandemic and are less concerned than in previous eras about sparking inflation and taking on debt.
The lives of the people who died on a single January day reflect an extraordinary national loss.
The actor, best known as the clumsy Neville Longbottom of “Harry Potter” fame, is a dashing suitor in the PBS reboot of “All Creatures Great and Small.”
The government is expanding university capacity, but some young people worry that the option will only postpone a crisis stemming from a shortage of well-paying work.
The F.B.I. has arrested several members associated with violent right-wing extremist groups known as the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Health officials in Brazil recently began giving the first Covid-19 vaccinations after the country’s health regulator approved two vaccines for emergency use.
The Paycheck Protection Program’s loose rules allowed organizations that have questioned the safety of vaccines to qualify for aid.
An interim report is both a bleak recounting of deadly missteps and an early blueprint for repairs: “We have failed in our collective capacity.”
As she packs her things to make a move, a critic lingers over her memories, many slickly packaged, some not.
Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes did not return to games over the weekend after exhibiting concussion symptoms, satisfying critics who have long accused the league of turning a blind eye to brain injuries.
With several positive tests among people arriving from abroad, and a strict quarantine, the Australian Open is not going the way organizers expected it would.
The state epidemiologist made the recommendation after several people who received the vaccine at one community clinic needed medical attention in the span of 24 hours.
The state epidemiologist made the recommendation after several people who received the vaccine at one community clinic needed medical attention in the span of 24 hours.
From financial regulation to minority lending, Biden’s pick is poised to change course sharply from the policies of Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Virginia’s State Capitol building was surrounded by police officers and news reporters, who outnumbered the small knots of heavily armed gun-rights supporters.
El presidente de México llegó a apreciar el estilo no intervencionista de Trump y ha empezado a agitar las aguas frente a un gobierno que anticipa será más entrometido.
The nation’s capital has been secured with checkpoints, tens of thousands of National Guard troops and miles of fencing and barricades, security at the cost of normalcy.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came to appreciate Mr. Trump’s hands-off style, and is already making waves with an incoming administration he expects to be more meddlesome.
Jan. 6 wasn’t Keller’s first election protest in Washington. But as he makes tearful apologies and faces federal charges, even his closest confidants aren’t sure why he was there at all.
Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 attack in Oklahoma City spurred legislation that gutted death row inmates’ rights. In the wake of the siege of the Capitol, will we make a similar mistake?
A Stanford professor, she pushed the legal profession to confront the ways it failed clients and to be more inclusive of women.
Six organizations that have challenged the safety of vaccines and made claims that scientists have called false received loans.
Six organizations that have challenged the safety of vaccines and made claims that scientists have called false received loans.
Six organizations that have challenged the safety of vaccines and made claims that scientists have called false received loans.
رأى كثيرٌ من المصريين في مقطع فيديو مشهدا نادرًا وغير مألوف للخسائر الفعلية التي خلّفها فيروس كورونا في ذروة الموجة الثانية من الجائحة في مصر.
As artists saw liberties threatened and inequities exacerbated, the stage became more thrillingly urgent than it had been in decades.
Jack Dorsey, el director ejecutivo de la red social, tenía reservas sobre el bloqueo de la cuenta del presidente de Estados Unidos. Pero los llamados a la violencia que sus tuits provocaban eran demasiado abrumadores.
He was appointed to fill Kamala Harris’s seat, and will take office as his state struggles with record Covid rates, especially in the neighborhood he grew up in.
He shared a Nobel Prize for research that helped explain the fundamental forces in the universe.
Some problems in India’s vaccine rollout.
William Feaver’s “The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame, 1968-2011” completes a two-volume biography of the pioneering realist painter.
Experts say the $1.9 trillion package will help women get back to work. Here’s how.
A wave of testimonies from people who say they were victims of incest has surfaced on Twitter after a scandal in which a prominent French intellectual was accused of abusing his teenage stepson.
“Dangerous: The Double Album” had 240 million streams — more than double the previous high set by Luke Combs.
The acting U.S. attorney in Washington said that focusing on militia members and other extremists would be a top priority.
Artists say officials tied to the country’s ruling party use pressure to stem criticism. Streaming services hoping to tap the Indian market’s potential have been caught in the middle.
A wave of testimonies from people who say they were victims of incest has surfaced on Twitter after a scandal in which a prominent French intellectual was accused of abusing his teenage stepson.
Ante la propagación del coronavirus y sus variantes, los expertos en salud redoblan los esfuerzos para frenar los contagios.
The European Union is eager for “a political climate change” and cooperation, but if the new president is consumed with domestic problems, it won’t put its own agenda on hold.
He was convicted of murder and died an inmate in California, but the producer’s work in the early 1960s is an inextricable part of pop music history.
Black artists and activists in Birmingham, England, say the city’s largest playhouse has sold out by leasing its auditoriums to the criminal justice system.
The conservative publishing house said Senator Josh Hawley had been the victim of cancel culture.
A reader says publishers aren’t bound by free-speech protections. Also: Remote work; evictions in the pandemic; landlords in a bind.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s attorney, said he was taking part in the trial and then a day later said he would have no involvement.
Environmentalists have long targeted the nearly 1,200-mile pipeline as both a contributor to climate change and a symbol of the country’s unwillingness to move away from an oil-based economy.
Red curry lentils, a shrimp scampi with orzo or a satisfying chicken French.