President Trump returned to the White House yesterday night, a little hobbled by the coronavirus but with his typical bravado intact. After arriving in Marine One, the president walked up a flight of stairs, turned toward the live television cameras and removed his mask. Then he saluted and walked inside, …...Read More

Rational fear “Don’t be afraid of Covid,” President Trump tweeted, on the same day that the White House outbreak spread further and another several hundred Americans died from virus complications. The president has survived Covid-19 so far, with help from more aggressive medical care than virtually any other American would …...Read More

Born in 1931 into an intellectual family, Dr. Penrose is a professor at the University of Oxford. When he was a child, he recalled in a recent interview, his father and his brother would play mental chess on family hikes, and his job was to keep track of the board. …...Read More

Like many hotels pummeled by the pandemic, the InterContinental Times Square is trying to hang on. After tourists stopped arriving this spring, the 607-room property transformed into housing for doctors and nurses treating coronavirus patients. When they checked out, the high-rise began offering blocks of rooms as office space. And …...Read More

And so in late May, when she saw images of raucous downtown protests on social media, when she read the details of the killing of Ms. Taylor, who, like her, was young, Black and from Louisville, Ms. Scott knew she had no choice. She had to take to the streets. …...Read More

The pandemic has been hard on travel. According to the U.S. Travel Association, it has caused $386 billion in cumulative losses, but the pain hasn’t been evenly distributed. Cities, which are largely reliant on business and group travel, have suffered more compared to rural and outdoor destinations where it is …...Read More

Now Ms. Rangel, 53, is in the middle of a new struggle. Hers is one of several families of JBS employees in Greeley seeking compensation for a death caused by Covid-19. The company has denied her family’s claim, as well as at least two others, according to lawyers representing the …...Read More

U-pick farms — the choose-your-own-fruit-and-vegetable patches that draw droves each summer and fall — have been especially busy this year. Some farms have been so picked over that they’ve had to close their fields for a day or longer to let new fruit ripen. With apple-and-pumpkin season in full swing, …...Read More

At the same time, the country was reckoning with its history of racial injustice, placing an added burden on women of color in academia. They were faced not only with the pandemic’s fallout — which has disproportionately affected and killed Black and Latino Americans — but also the “emotional, physical …...Read More

A white Texas police officer has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old Black man who officials said had begun to walk away as he was confronted at a gas station on Saturday. Police Officer Shaun Lucas of the Wolfe City Police Department was arrested by …...Read More