This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. In his youth, Dennis Nagle resembled Dennis Hopper’s character in “Easy Rider”: same bushy counterculture mustache and long hair, same pirate’s smile and wild glint in his eyes. And like …...Read More

In 2016, scientists for the first time detected the collision of two distant black holes, using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, a pair of L-shaped antennas in Hanford, Wash., and Livingston, La. Since then LIGO and a third antenna, Virgo, located in Italy, together have charted dozens of …...Read More

In India, where some of the most polluted skies in the world turned clear and blue for the first time in decades, Sarath Guttikunda, director of Urban Emissions.info, a New Delhi-based research organization, spent the shutdown monitoring air quality data gathered by government-operated atmospheric monitors across 122 Indian cities. “This …...Read More

“I can’t wait. God, I can’t wait,” he said. Corporal Moore responded that he would not do that. Officer Piner is quoted as saying that society needed a civil war to “wipe ’em off” the map, to which Corporal Moore responded, “You’re crazy.” When supervisors confronted the officers with the …...Read More

In a statement, the Justice Department called the decision “an important victory for enforcement of the immigration laws,” adding that it “allows the Trump administration to continue to defend our borders, uphold the rule of law and keep Americans safe.” The case concerned Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam, a member of Sri Lanka’s …...Read More

Rebuffing strong opposition from industry, California on Thursday adopted a landmark rule requiring more than half of all trucks sold in the state to be zero-emissions by 2035, a move that is expected to improve local air quality, rein in greenhouse gas emissions and sharply curtail the state’s dependence on …...Read More

An Oakland bar navigates reopening My colleague Jack Nicas usually covers tech in the Bay Area, but recently he snagged what sounded like a dream assignment: reporting on his local bar. It was actually heart-wrenching. Here’s an update about the Hatch, an Oakland watering hole: On March 15, Gov. Gavin …...Read More

Damning testimony and election warnings. It’s Thursday, and this is your tip sheet. Two Justice Department officials sat before a congressional committee yesterday and stated plainly that President Trump and his attorney general, William Barr, had interfered in criminal and antitrust cases to advance their own personal interests. Aaron Zelinsky, …...Read More

As a result, the official statistics on wages and many other economic subjects ignore a growing segment of the black population. They cover only those men fortunate enough to be working. “It’s a weird hole,” Kerwin Kofi Charles, the dean of the Yale School of Management, told me. When you …...Read More

Annie and Isabel seem to see Edward as a potential love interest. (This relationship structure — a triangle of affection — would be revisited in many of Alcott’s later works.) At one point in the story, the girls attend a masquerade ball in costume as Night and Morning. “Isabel in …...Read More