With the coronavirus spreading into red America, policymakers there have been forced to change course. Some reopening plans have been scuttled; Republican leaders in Washington have broken ranks with President Trump on response policy; and the president himself eventually declared that Americans should wear protective masks. At the grass-roots level, …...Read More

“With virtually no business travel, the rebound was fueled by existing customers flying for personal reasons and newcomers to the market,” Mr. Gollan said. “Private flying isn’t fully back, but certainly the industry is in much better shape than airlines. There is a strong flow of new-to-private-aviation customers.” XO, which …...Read More

More recently, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has said that Mr. Trump is “more George Wallace than George Washington.” Mr. Trump’s campaign fired back this week in a statement by Katrina Pierson, a senior campaign adviser to the president, who credited him with increasing funding for historically black …...Read More

“All they told me to do was mix plaster,” said Matthews, who had been trained to do more technical work with the molds, which would have paid better. “I said to hell with this damn job, and I left and went back to the G.I. people,” he said. “I told …...Read More

Before her illness, she worked full-time and enjoyed running and playing with her two small, scrappy dogs. Now, she still feels short of breath, can walk only a short distance and needs help to shower and stand up from a chair. The dogs were overjoyed at her homecoming, but their …...Read More

At fund-raising events where he has pulled in more than $24 million for Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign in the past two months, former President Barack Obama has privately unleashed on President Trump to party donors, bringing up past accusations of Mr. Trump’s “assaulting women” and warning of his efforts …...Read More

The report also found that in 2016, the unemployment rate among Black residents was 11 percent, compared with 5 percent for white residents, and the mortality rate for Black infants was 2.5 times higher than for white babies, from 2011 through 2015. “When someone doesn’t look at racism and equity …...Read More

Austin Riddle, a rising high school senior in Alabama, has taken this time to mine the coins for content. He created a TikTok series in 14 parts titled “Ranking State Quarters,” in which he provides commentary on every state quarter to a soundtrack of songs like the Super Smash Bros. …...Read More

The Killers are launching an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse made by a former sound engineer who claimed that members of the band's crew took advantage of a drugged woman in a dressing room. None of the band members were implicated in the alleged assault and they have since …...Read More

If you're fed up of your furniture but would rather not shell out hundreds or even thousands of pounds to replace it, you might want to follow in the footsteps of this savvy mother. Shelley Luton, 51, a mother-of-one from Essex who works for a college, decided to transform her …...Read More