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Who has four legs, floppy ears and a knack for influencing national politics?
That's Alvin — Alvin the Beagle, to you.
Senator Raphael Warnock was sworn in this week as Georgia’s first Black senator, and he arrived with a canny canine assist.
From the frozen streets of Siberia to the grand plazas of Moscow and St. Petersburg, tens of thousands of Russians rallied in support of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.
The poisoning and arrest of Aleksei A. Navalny set off nationwide protests, beginning in the Far East, where people braved temperatures of minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Thousands gathered in central Moscow, planning to march to the Kremlin as riot police officers detained scores of demonstrators.
“I always thought I wasn’t afraid of death. But I found out during the epidemic that I’m terrified of it.”
One year after China locked down their city, Wuhan residents tell their stories in their own words.
One year after China locked down Wuhan, six people describe how they found courage in adversity, calm amid grief, and meaning in chaos.
A major Houston hospital system said it is nearly out of vaccines, one of several places in the U.S. where supplies are falling short of expectations, leading to canceled appointments and deep frustration.
Health officials are frustrated that available doses are going unused while the virus is killing thousands of people each day. Many vaccine appointments have been canceled.
“My father was still gone. Her husband was still gone,” Merissa Nathan Gerson writes in Modern Love. “And in his absence, with no one else around, my mother and I fell in love with caring for one another.”
We loathed each other quietly, until we made space for grief and good food.
Breaking News: Larry King has died at 87. In five decades on radio and TV, he interviewed presidents, psychics, movie stars and swindlers — anyone with a story to tell.
Over five decades, he chatted with an estimated 50,000 people from all walks of life, from presidents and pundits to swindlers and U.F.O. “experts.”
A New York Times reporter caught the coronavirus during the New York City outbreak last April. But the acute phase of the illness was just the beginning.
A Times reporter caught the coronavirus during the New York City outbreak last April. But the acute phase of the illness was just the beginning.
“Anyone looking for lessons about China in the coming years needs to understand the consequences of what happened in 2020. The tragedy showed Beijing has the ability to control what people in China see, hear and think to a degree that surpasses even what pessimists believed.”
The Communist Party’s success in reclaiming the narrative has proved to the world its ability to rally the people to its side, no matter how stumbling its actions might be.
President Biden’s top economic adviser warned on Friday that the U.S. economy is in a “precarious” position and that the country would face a slower and far more painful recovery if Congress did not agree to provide more aid.
Russia is scrambling to stop young people from protesting for Aleksei Navalny. But it's struggling to rein in TikTok, where in one viral clip, a young woman is giving people tips on how to sound like an American – "I'm gonna call my lawyer!" — if detained.
Schools have scheduled exams and officials asked families to engage in nonpolitical activities like walks in the woods in an effort to keep young people away from demonstrations set for Saturday.
About 1,500 Pacific Islanders are being flown into Victoria, Australia, to help pick fruit on farms and prevent spoilage. Recent reports have detailed exploitation in the industry, and farmers say they've not been able to attract locals to do the work.
The evidence on the fatality rate is worrisome but not yet solid, scientists said. It contrasts with news that Britain is vaccinating its people at a promising pace.
The evidence on the fatality rate is worrisome but not yet solid, scientists said. It contrasts with news that Britain is vaccinating its people at a promising pace.
Some activists say that Donald Trump's pardons, the favors to cronies and the attempts to limit excessive sentences, reflect a deeply flawed process.
The former president doled out pardons to political allies and friends, but he also helped people serving harsh sentences.
Where has nature stashed the equivalent of 10 billion suns? One possibility is that the black hole is there but has gone silent, having temporarily run out of anything to eat. But another provocative possibility is that the black hole was thrown out of the galaxy altogether.
One of the biggest galaxies in the universe seems to lack its dark centerpiece.
President Biden signed two executive orders Friday, directing more aid to Americans struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic and laying the groundwork to institute a $15 minimum wage for federal employees. “This is an economic imperative,” he said. https://nyti.ms/3iBLEno
Some relatives of those killed in the Oakland warehouse fire in 2016 said they were outraged that prosecutors had a deal with the defendant that they said would allow him to avoid additional time behind bars.
Some relatives of those killed in the Oakland warehouse fire in 2016 said they were outraged that prosecutors had a deal with the defendant that they said would allow him to avoid additional time behind bars.
In a call with the chief of the National Guard Bureau, President Biden asked what he could do about the situation. The two men also talked about Biden’s personal connection to the Guard; Biden’s son, Beau, who died in 2015, served as a Major in the Delaware Army National Guard.
Photographs of Guard soldiers resting on the concrete floor of a parking garage prompted swift condemnation and apologies from members of Congress.
“We have the tools to help people,” President Biden said. “So let’s use the tools. All of them. Now.”
The president called it an “economic imperative” to provide more aid for millions of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet as the virus exacts a bruising toll.
What the White House did not mention is that Jonathan Braun, a drug smuggler, still faces both criminal and civil investigations in an entirely separate matter, and has a history of violence and threatening people.
Jonathan Braun’s 10-year sentence for running a drug ring was commuted by the departing president. The White House did not mention that he faces separate accusations of violence and threats.
President Biden's promise to administer 100 million vaccines in 100 days is no longer a lofty goal. Here's how the campaign could play out.
Federal data shows that the country is administering about one million doses a day and that it has enough vaccine to increase that number significantly.
Double-masking is a sensible and easy way to lower your risk when you have to spend more time around others — in a taxi, on a train or plane, or at an inauguration.
Double-masking is a sensible and easy way to lower your risk when you have to spend more time around others — in a taxi, on a train or plane, or at an inauguration.
“I feel extremely bad that I’m portrayed as some kind of money-grubbing ambulance chaser,” Rudy Giuliani said.
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President Biden called the chief of the National Guard Bureau to apologize and ask what he could do. Jill Biden visited some of the troops, thanking them and handing out cookies. “The National Guard will always hold a special place in the hearts of all the Bidens,” she said, noting that their son Beau, who died in 2015, was a member of the Delaware Army National Guard.
Three Republican governors have called for their troops to return home, though many were already leaving Washington after the inauguration.
Breaking News: Donald Trump and a Justice Department official plotted to oust the acting attorney general to try to advance baseless election claims, interviews show.
Trying to find another avenue to push his baseless election claims, Donald Trump considered installing a loyalist, and had the men make their cases to him.
The Chinese government has pressed people across the country to race into the future, and play down, if not forget, the deaths and hardship of the pandemic.
But in Wuhan, scars remain.
A year ago, Wuhan offered a warning about the coronavirus. Now, it heralds a world where relief at the recovery conceals the emotional aftershocks.
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general who is under federal investigation for bribery and abuse of power allegations raised by former aides, sent a letter to the Biden administration on Thursday threatening a lawsuit over a pause on some deportations.
You can’t buy Senator Bernie Sanders’s mittens, but you can make them yourself.
Crafters in search of Harry Styles’s colorful cardigan and Bernie Sanders’s inauguration mittens are designing their own patterns.
Breaking News: Senate leaders struck a deal to effectively delay Donald Trump’s impeachment trial for two weeks, aiming to start the week of Feb. 8.
Pfizer will ship fewer vaccine vials after successfully lobbying the U.S. government to count — and pay for — “extra” doses found in the vials.
After the surprise discovery of an extra dose in every vial, Pfizer executives successfully lobbied the F.D.A. to change the vaccine’s formal authorization language. The company charges by the dose.
Coronavirus case numbers in the U.S. have finally started to drop — but fast-spreading variants are threatening to undo that progress.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
United Airlines might make the coronavirus vaccine mandatory for all of its employees, the CEO said. https://nyti.ms/3sJ0Sf7
Public health experts say they’re wondering how much worse New York City’s coronavirus data needs to get before officials consider new restrictions: “I worry about the focus on vaccines, rather than what’s happening with the virus.”
As the focus turns to vaccinations, the virus continues to spread, leaving health experts to wonder if officials will mull new steps and restrictions.
Representative Cori Bush and the musician FKA twigs have described how manipulative, isolating behavior had trapped them in abusive relationships. Now lawmakers like Bush want to make such conduct, known as “coercive control,” criminal.
The Congresswoman Cori Bush and the musician FKA twigs describe how manipulative, isolating conduct known as “coercive control” helped trap them in abusive relationships. Lawmakers are starting to listen.
The White House has ordered intelligence agencies to work with the FBI and the Department Homeland Security to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the threat from domestic violent extremism.
Canadians welcome a renewed relationship with the U.S. after years of insults and threats from the Trump administration. “We have so much alignment," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. "Not just me and President Biden, but Canadians and President Biden.”
Canadians welcome a renewed relationship with the United States after tolerating four years of insults and threats from the Trump administration.
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