When MacArthur called, N. K. Jemisin figured it was spam. She had been getting a lot of those kinds of calls lately — peddling car insurance and such — so she didn’t pick up. It took a text from someone at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to …...Read More

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the F.D.A., described these procedures as a misguided attempt at a “zero-fail testing protocol” in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, saying that officials “weren’t taking any precautions beyond testing people who are going to be in contact with the …...Read More

Florida’s voter registration website crashed on Monday, giving users error messages and causing delays, after an “unprecedented” number of people tried to register before the state’s midnight deadline. Secretary of State Laurel M. Lee, the state’s top elections official, who was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said on …...Read More

President Trump’s conduct on Monday evening — leaving Walter Reed hospital despite being infectious and in the relatively early stages of the coronavirus, making a show of taking off his mask before re-entering the White House, and exhorting Americans, “Don’t be afraid of Covid” — struck many health experts as …...Read More

A Republican super PAC founded by the chairman of the U.S. Postal Service board of governors, plans to pump about $7 million over the next month into Senator Thom Tillis’s North Carolina re-election bid, raising fresh questions about partisanship at the Postal Service. The infusion — which leaders of the …...Read More

Two novels with eerie echoes of world catastrophes, both set at summer houses, are among this year’s five fiction finalists for the National Book Award. Lydia Millet’s “The Children’s Bible,” about multiple families whose kids have come to disdain their parents, has been read as an allegory about religious storytelling, …...Read More

SYDNEY, Australia — Xi Jinping celebrates China’s battle against the coronavirus as a success. But in the United States and other wealthy democracies, the pandemic has driven negative views of China to new heights, a survey published on Tuesday showed. The illness, deaths and disruption caused by the coronavirus in …...Read More

As a former state attorney general, Senator Kamala D. Harris, the Democratic nominee for vice president, has received significant scrutiny of her record on law enforcement, facing questions and criticism about uneven prosecutions of killings by police officers. But she is less known for another role she took on, opposing …...Read More

Mere hours before the midnight cutoff for Arizona voters to register for the November election, a federal district court judge extended the deadline by nearly three weeks, saying that thousands of people weren’t able to register because of the pandemic. The Monday night ruling means that voters will have until …...Read More

On Tuesday evening, senior administration officials confirmed that Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s top speechwriter and a policy adviser, had tested positive for the coronavirus, joining a growing list of Mr. Trump’s close aides who have the virus. “Over the last five days I have been working remotely and self-isolating, testing …...Read More