{"headline":"Stories About Equality that Gave Us Hope in 2019","abstract":"At a time when hate crimes, inequality and white supremacy appear to be on the rise, these stories offered a little hope.","byline":"By Adeel Hassan","pub_date":"2020-01-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/us/stories-about-equality-that-gave-us-hope-in-2019.html"} {"headline":"Rocket Launches, Trips to Mars and More 2020 Space and Astronomy Events","abstract":"A year full of highs and lows in space just ended, and the 12 months to come will be full of new highlights in orbit and beyond.","byline":"By Michael Roston","pub_date":"2020-01-01","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/science/space-astronomy-2020.html"} {"headline":"In a Deadly Start to 2020, Gunfire Erupts Across America","abstract":"It was a typical start to the new year in a country accustomed to gun violence, despite an overall drop in violent crime nationwide.","byline":"By Tim Arango","pub_date":"2020-01-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/us/new-year-shootings.html"} {"headline":"A Restaurant With No Leftovers","abstract":"A Brooklyn wine bar and restaurant is one of a handful of establishments in different cities that are trying to eliminate waste from their premises.","byline":"By Matthew Sedacca","pub_date":"2020-01-01","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/business/zero-waste-restaurants.html"} {"headline":"100 Years Ago, the Booziest January Suddenly Dried Up","abstract":"In 1920, Prohibition went into effect, but America partied on.","byline":"By Jennifer Harlan","pub_date":"2020-01-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/us/100-years-ago-the-booziest-january-suddenly-dried-up.html"} {"headline":"Coast Guard Suspends Search for 5 Missing After Fishing Boat Sinks Off Alaska","abstract":"Two of seven crew members were rescued after the Scandies Rose, a 130-foot-long crab fishing vessel, sank on Tuesday night, the Coast Guard said.","byline":"By Aimee Ortiz","pub_date":"2020-01-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/us/scandies-rose-fishing-boat-alaska.html"} {"headline":"Christianity Today Editor Laments ‘Ethical Naïveté’ of Trump Backers","abstract":"Mark Galli, who is retiring, was overwhelmed by the vocal criticism and quiet praise after his editorial in a prominent evangelical magazine called for President Trump’s ouster.","byline":"By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs","pub_date":"2020-01-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/us/christianity-today-mark-galli-evangelicals.html"} {"headline":"7 of Our Top Stories From 2019","abstract":"A look back at some of our in-depth journalism from the New York region.","byline":"By Azi Paybarah","pub_date":"2020-01-02","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/nyregion/nyc-top-stories.html"} {"headline":"Carlos Ghosn Flirted With Hollywood, Then Delivered a Plot Twist","abstract":"The fallen auto titan held early discussions with a movie producer before his audacious escape. The film’s villain: Japanese justice.","byline":"By Ben Dooley","pub_date":"2020-01-02","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/business/carlos-ghosn-movie.html"} {"headline":"As India Violence Gets Worse, Police Are Accused of Abusing Muslims","abstract":"As demonstrations over a citizenship law sweep India, more accounts are emerging of mistreatment and harsh tactics by police and state officials.","byline":"By Kai Schultz and Sameer Yasir","pub_date":"2020-01-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/world/asia/india-protests-police-muslims.html"} {"headline":"Killing of Iranian Commander Is Met With Criticism and Tough Talk","abstract":"Mixed reaction to the news that Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani died in a targeted strike by the United States at Baghdad International Airport.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor","pub_date":"2020-01-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/world/trump-qassim-suleimani-twitter.html"} {"headline":"Top Education Official Planned to Meet Boy for Sex, Prosecutors Say","abstract":"The former official in New York sent sexually explicit messages to a boy named “Colton,” who was in fact an undercover officer, the charges said.","byline":"By Eliza Shapiro and William K. Rashbaum","pub_date":"2020-01-03","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/nyregion/david-hay-child-sex-crime.html"} {"headline":"The Week in Tech: Our Hidden Gems of 2019","abstract":"The best stories that you might have missed.","byline":"By Nellie Bowles","pub_date":"2020-01-03","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/business/tech-hidden-gems-2019.html"} {"headline":"United Methodist Church Announces Plan to Split Over Same-Sex Marriage","abstract":"Under an agreement to be voted on in May, a new “traditionalist Methodist” denomination would continue to ban same-sex marriage and gay and lesbian clergy.","byline":"By Campbell Robertson and Elizabeth Dias","pub_date":"2020-01-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/methodist-split-gay-marriage.html"} {"headline":"Will There Be a Draft? Young People Worry After Military Strike","abstract":"Interest in the draft and “World War III” surged online, stalling the government website where young men are required to register. Here’s what you need to know.","byline":"By Sarah Mervosh","pub_date":"2020-01-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/military-draft-world-war-3.html"} {"headline":"White House Notifies Congress of Suleimani Strike Under War Powers Act","abstract":"The notification, required within 48 hours of introducing United States armed forces into hostilities, only contained classified information, a senior congressional aide said.","byline":"By Maggie Haberman and Catie Edmondson","pub_date":"2020-01-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/politics/white-house-war-powers-resolution.html"} {"headline":"China Replaces Its Top Representative in Hong Kong With an Enforcer","abstract":"After months of protests and an electoral defeat for pro-Beijing political parties, an official with a record of difficult assignments is on the way.","byline":"By Keith Bradsher","pub_date":"2020-01-04","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/world/asia/china-hong-kong-wang-zhimin.html"} {"headline":"Moving Truck With Possessions of 3 Military Families Stolen on Christmas, Police Say","abstract":"Officials said the families were relocating from the East Coast when the truck with their belongings, valued at more than $100,000, was stolen in Stockton, Calif.","byline":"By Michael Levenson","pub_date":"2020-01-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/military-families-stolen-truck.html"} {"headline":"In Miami Speech, Trump Tells Evangelical Base: God Is ‘on Our Side’","abstract":"President Trump, who has been gripped by anxiety about evangelical voters abandoning him, took wide swipes at Democratic rivals one day after the strike on a top Iranian leader.","byline":"By Jennifer Medina and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-01-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/politics/trump-miami-rally-evangelicals.html"} {"headline":"Tensions Abroad Stir a Whirlwind at Fort Bragg as Soldiers Deploy","abstract":"Some 3,500 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division are bound for the Middle East, spelling uncertainty for families and a community where the base is its backbone.","byline":"By Rick Rojas and Myah Ward","pub_date":"2020-01-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/fort-bragg-iran-military.html"} {"headline":"To Fight Climate Change, One City May Ban Heating Homes With Natural Gas","abstract":"Seeking to do their part to avert climate change, dozens of cities are exploring ways to limit natural gas heating in new homes. One city may also require existing homeowners to make a switch.","byline":"By Mike Baker","pub_date":"2020-01-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/us/bellingham-natural-gas-ban.html"} {"headline":"Your Digital Detox May Be Toxic for Advertising","abstract":"Companies spent $99 billion on mobile ads last year even as some made commercials that acknowledge the downside of smartphones.","byline":"By Tiffany Hsu","pub_date":"2020-01-05","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/business/media/digital-advertising-tech-backlash.html"} {"headline":"The Week in Business: A Former Auto Titan’s Shocking Escape","abstract":"The new decade did not come quietly. Stocks soared on their first day of trading in 2020, but then fell on Friday after President Trump ordered the assassination of a powerful Iranian general, stoking fears that a larger geopolitical conflict could be around the corner. It’s going to be an interesting year. ","byline":"By Charlotte Cowles","pub_date":"2020-01-05","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/business/the-week-in-business-a-former-auto-titans-shocking-escape.html"} {"headline":"As Fires Rage, Australia Sees Its Leader as Missing in Action","abstract":"The country is venting frustration with Prime Minister Scott Morrison over what many view as a nonchalant response to the disastrous blazes and his unwavering dismissal of climate change.","byline":"By Livia Albeck-Ripka, Jamie Tarabay and Isabella Kwai","pub_date":"2020-01-05","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/world/australia/fires-scott-morrison.html"} {"headline":"Buttigieg’s Bet: After Iran Strike, Military Experience Matters Even More","abstract":"With foreign policy emerging as a top priority in the Democratic primary, Pete Buttigieg, a former naval intelligence officer, is leaning harder on his veteran status.","byline":"By Reid J. Epstein","pub_date":"2020-01-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-military-iran.html"} {"headline":"Can Penn Station Handle 175,000 More Riders? Cuomo Thinks So","abstract":"The governor unveiled an ambitious plan to add eight tracks to the station’s existing 21-track layout.","byline":"By Christina Goldbaum","pub_date":"2020-01-06","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/nyregion/andrew-cuomo-penn-station-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Masked Men Attack Students in Rampage at University in New Delhi","abstract":"Dozens were hurt by attackers who shouted Hindu slogans. Some students said they belonged to a far-right Hindu group, which denied involvement.","byline":"By Kai Schultz and Suhasini Raj","pub_date":"2020-01-06","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/world/asia/india-jawaharlal-nehru-university-attack.html"} {"headline":"A Sea of Mourners in Iran, and New Threats From Both Sides","abstract":"Vast crowds thronged the streets of Tehran as a funeral was held for Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, who was killed in an American drone strike on Friday.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-01-06","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/middleeast/iran-soleimani.html"} {"headline":"Republican Congressman Shares Fake Image of Obama and Iranian President","abstract":"The image, shared on Twitter by Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona, is photoshopped and has been circulating online for years.","byline":"By Linda Qiu","pub_date":"2020-01-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/us/politics/paul-gosar-obama-iran.html"} {"headline":"A.I. Comes to the Operating Room","abstract":"Images made by lasers and read by computers can help speed up the diagnosis of brain tumors during surgery.","byline":"By Denise Grady","pub_date":"2020-01-06","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/health/artificial-intelligence-brain-cancer.html"} {"headline":"Charlize Theron and Salma Hayek Are Named as Possible Weinstein Witnesses","abstract":"Several celebrities were among those who might be mentioned or might testify at the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein, a judge said.","byline":"By Jan Ransom","pub_date":"2020-01-07","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-trial.html"} {"headline":"Just 700 Speak This Language (50 in the Same Brooklyn Building)","abstract":"Seke, one of the world’s rarest languages, is spoken by about 100 people in New York.","byline":"By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura","pub_date":"2020-01-07","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/nyregion/rare-languages-seke-vlashki-wakhi.html"} {"headline":"The Nets Called It Home. Now an NBC Drama Lives There.","abstract":"Aging stadiums are usually demolished, but dormant Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey has become a soundstage for a prime-time series.","byline":"By Seth Berkman","pub_date":"2020-01-07","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/business/meadowlands-arena-nbc-studio.html"} {"headline":"Ikea Will Pay $46 Million to Parents of Toddler Crushed to Death by a Dresser","abstract":"The 70-pound Malm dresser had been the subject of a safety recall when it tipped over on Jozef Dudek, killing the 2-year-old.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor","pub_date":"2020-01-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/us/ikea-dresser-lawsuit-settlement.html"} {"headline":"Man Charged With Throwing Lit Incendiary Device at Planned Parenthood","abstract":"An 18-year-old in Delaware was charged with intentionally damaging a facility that provides reproductive health services, among other charges, the authorities said.","byline":"By Johnny Diaz","pub_date":"2020-01-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/us/samuel-james-gulick-planned-parenthood-bombing.html"} {"headline":"Iran’s Long Night Is Capped by an Earthquake","abstract":"No casualties were reported, but the quake was in the same region as a troubled nuclear facility.","byline":"By Ron DePasquale","pub_date":"2020-01-08","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/world/middleeast/iran-earthquake.html"} {"headline":"Connecticut Man Admits He Threatened to Kill President Trump","abstract":"The man, Gary Joseph Gravelle, pleaded guilty to threatening to harm or kill several people and admitted he had sent letters with white powder he claimed was anthrax.","byline":"By Emily S. Rueb","pub_date":"2020-01-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/us/connecticut-man-trump-threats-guilty.html"} {"headline":"‘Targeted’ Shooting in Ottawa Leaves One Dead and at Least 3 Injured, Police Say","abstract":"The police responded to a shooting in the Canadian capital, less than a mile from Parliament Hill.","byline":"By Christine Hauser and Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-01-08","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/world/canada/ottawa-shooting.html"} {"headline":"Major TikTok Security Flaws Found","abstract":"The vulnerabilities, which the app says it has fixed, could have let attackers manipulate content and extract personal data.","byline":"By Ronen Bergman, Sheera Frenkel and Raymond Zhong","pub_date":"2020-01-08","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/technology/tiktok-security-flaws.html"} {"headline":"What You Need to Know About 5G in 2020","abstract":"After years of hype, carriers like AT&T and Verizon are giving consumers clarity on what their next-generation cellular networks will realistically do.","byline":"By Brian X. Chen","pub_date":"2020-01-08","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/technology/personaltech/5g-mobile-network.html"} {"headline":"Attacks by Urban Coyotes Are Rare, but Frightening","abstract":"Two people were injured in Chicago, a reminder that as more coyotes move to the cities, some conflicts are inevitable.","byline":"By James Gorman","pub_date":"2020-01-09","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/science/chicago-coyote-attacks.html"} {"headline":"Wild Gunfire Involving Police Leaves Two Dead in the East Village","abstract":"Before opening fire, officers yelled at a gunman to get on the ground, the police said. “He refused,” a chief said. “He kept on walking.”","byline":"By Edgar Sandoval and Azi Paybarah","pub_date":"2020-01-09","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/nyregion/ny-police-shooting-east-village.html"} {"headline":"Civilian Planes Shot Down: A Grim History","abstract":"If a Ukrainian passenger plane was shot down in Iran on Wednesday, as American officials believe, it would join a long list of civilian aircraft brought down by armed forces.","byline":"By Ron DePasquale","pub_date":"2020-01-09","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/world/middleeast/civilian-planes-shot-down.html"} {"headline":"Some of Australia’s Smallest Species Could Be Lost to Wildfires","abstract":"Velvet worms, trapdoor spiders: Scientists worry about the fate of the nation’s many remarkable, overlooked endemic creatures.","byline":"By Helen Sullivan","pub_date":"2020-01-09","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/science/australia-fire-ecology-insects.html"} {"headline":"Right-Hand-Drive Cars: Not Just for Mail Carriers","abstract":"Vehicles from Japan and Britain strike a chord with collectors looking for a different kind of wow factor.","byline":"By Mercedes Lilienthal","pub_date":"2020-01-09","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/business/right-hand-drive-cars.html"} {"headline":"BBC Underpaid Female TV Host, Tribunal Rules","abstract":"Samira Ahmed sued the British public broadcaster for back pay after she learned that a male colleague doing similar work was paid more than six times as much.","byline":"By Amie Tsang","pub_date":"2020-01-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/business/bbc-samira-ahmed-decision.html"} {"headline":"Defying the Rabbis, Tel Aviv Rolls Out Sabbath Bus Service","abstract":"Ultraconservative Orthodox groups may protest, but for many Israelis, the buses offer a new freedom to travel on the weekend.","byline":"By David M. Halbfinger","pub_date":"2020-01-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/middleeast/sabbath-buses-israel-tel-aviv.html"} {"headline":"Bernie Sanders Leads Tight Race in New Iowa Poll","abstract":"Mr. Sanders edged out his competitors in The Des Moines Register/CNN poll released on Friday, the first significant survey from Iowa in nearly two months.","byline":"By Sydney Ember","pub_date":"2020-01-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/us/politics/des-moines-register-poll.html"} {"headline":"Alcohol Deaths Have Risen Sharply, Particularly Among Women","abstract":"An analysis of death certificates over nearly two decades contained several troubling findings.","byline":"By Matt Richtel","pub_date":"2020-01-10","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/health/alcohol-deaths-women.html"} {"headline":"Twin Court Rulings Buoy Construction of Trump’s Border Wall","abstract":"The decisions, in Texas and Louisiana, come as the administration has found itself behind schedule on the president’s promise to build 450 miles of border wall by 2021.","byline":"By Zolan Kanno-Youngs","pub_date":"2020-01-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/us/politics/trump-border-wall.html"} {"headline":"Carlos Ghosn Skipped Bail. This Man Was Left Behind.","abstract":"The former Nissan executive remains in Tokyo, awaiting a trial on criminal charges that he helped Mr. Ghosn hide his compensation.","byline":"By Emily Flitter","pub_date":"2020-01-11","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/business/greg-kelly-carlos-ghosn-nissan.html"} {"headline":"Two U.S. Service Members Killed in Afghanistan","abstract":"The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, a roadside bomb that hit a U.S. forces vehicle.","byline":"By Fahim Abed","pub_date":"2020-01-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/world/asia/afghanistan-american-casualties.html"} {"headline":"‘Too Much’: Dread Fills Puerto Ricans as New Earthquake Stuns Island","abstract":"A 5.9-magnitude aftershock came on the 15th day since tremors large and small began terrorizing southern Puerto Rico.","byline":"By Patricia Mazzei","pub_date":"2020-01-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/us/puerto-rico-earthquake-inspections-aid.html"} {"headline":"Michael Bloomberg Is Open to Spending $1 Billion to Defeat Trump","abstract":"The Democratic presidential candidate said he would spend big even if the nominee was someone he had sharp differences with, like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-01-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-spending.html"} {"headline":"Plane Crash Leaves Iranian Diaspora in Canada Grief-Stricken","abstract":"Of the 176 victims, 57 Canadians died on the flight that crashed on its way from Tehran to Ukraine. Many were students or faculty at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.","byline":"By Ian Austen","pub_date":"2020-01-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/canada/iran-crash-victims-canada.html"} {"headline":"Schumer, Eyeing Senate’s Top Job, Navigates Tricky Impeachment Terrain","abstract":"Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, knows the Senate is unlikely to convict President Trump. So he is focusing on what constitutes a fair trial — and trying to put Republicans in a box.","byline":"By Sheryl Gay Stolberg","pub_date":"2020-01-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/us/politics/chuck-schumer-impeachment.html"} {"headline":"‘Mona Lisa of Mustangs,’ Raced in ‘Bullitt,’ Sets Auction Record","abstract":"Steve McQueen’s hero car from a renowned Hollywood chase scene breaks expectations in a sale for $3.74 million.","byline":"By Jerry Garrett","pub_date":"2020-01-12","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/business/bullitt-mustang-auction-record.html"} {"headline":"Ronald Melzack, Cartographer of Pain, Is Dead at 90","abstract":"The theory that he and a colleague devised deepened medicine’s understanding of pain and how it is best measured and treated.","byline":"By Benedict Carey","pub_date":"2020-01-12","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/science/ronald-melzack-dead.html"} {"headline":"How the Police Use Facial Recognition, and Where It Falls Short","abstract":"Records from Florida, where law enforcement has long used the controversial technology, offer an inside look at its risks and rewards.","byline":"By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries","pub_date":"2020-01-12","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/technology/facial-recognition-police.html"} {"headline":"A New Home for French Socialists, on Paris’s Periphery","abstract":"Short of cash, the Socialist Party has moved its headquarters from a Parisian mansion once owned by a princess to a converted factory in the suburbs.","byline":"By Norimitsu Onishi","pub_date":"2020-01-12","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/world/europe/france-socialists-home-paris.html"} {"headline":"Subway Service Disrupted After Water Main Break on Upper West Side","abstract":"Subway service on the No. 1, 2 and 3 lines has resumed in time for the evening commute after water flooded the area around Lincoln Center.","byline":"By Michael Gold and Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-01-13","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/nyregion/water-main-break-flood.html"} {"headline":"If the Calendar Says January, Why Does the Thermometer Say May?","abstract":"A wave of warm weather across the Northeast broke temperature records and left many people wondering about a “January thaw.”","byline":"By Vanessa Swales","pub_date":"2020-01-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/us/hot-january-thaw-weather.html"} {"headline":"8 Wounded in Colorado Springs Stabbings","abstract":"Five of the victims were treated in the hospital and later released, and a man was taken into police custody.","byline":"By Christine Hauser and Johnny Diaz","pub_date":"2020-01-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/colorado-springs-stabbing.html"} {"headline":"Warren Says Sanders Told Her a Woman Could Not Win the Presidency","abstract":"Earlier on Monday, Bernie Sanders had denied making the remark in a private 2018 meeting with Elizabeth Warren, accusing her campaign staff of “lying about what happened.”","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon and Jonathan Martin","pub_date":"2020-01-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/politics/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-woman-president.html"} {"headline":"Oyo Scales Back as SoftBank-Funded Companies Retreat","abstract":"The Indian hospitality start-up is losing hotel rooms and has stepped back from more than 200 cities as part of a broader pullback by firms financed by SoftBank.","byline":"By Vindu Goel, Karan Deep Singh and Erin Griffith","pub_date":"2020-01-13","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/technology/oyo-hotel-india-softbank.html"} {"headline":"Chemical Plant Explosion in Spain Kills One and Prompts Order to Stay Inside","abstract":"The shock waves were felt several miles from the factory. At least eight people were injured, two critically.","byline":"By Raphael Minder","pub_date":"2020-01-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/world/europe/spain-chemical-plant-explosion.html"} {"headline":"Two Popes, and One Big Furor After Benedict Weighs in on Priestly Celibacy","abstract":"In a new book, the former pope makes a firm defense of celibacy for priests as Pope Francis is expected to decide whether to allow married priests in remote regions. Let the intrigue begin.","byline":"By Jason Horowitz and Elisabetta Povoledo","pub_date":"2020-01-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/world/europe/pope-francis-celibacy-book.html"} {"headline":"France, Germany and U.K. Serve Notice on Iran Under Nuclear Deal","abstract":"The European nations triggered a dispute mechanism in the 2015 pact, a first step toward reimposing United Nations sanctions.","byline":"By Steven Erlanger","pub_date":"2020-01-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/world/europe/iran-nuclear-deal.html"} {"headline":"6 Takeaways From the January 2020 Democratic Debate","abstract":"While sparks didn’t really fly, Warren and Sanders had a tense moment. Klobuchar was the only one to throw punches in the debate, and Biden largely escaped attacks from his rivals.","byline":"By Reid J. Epstein and Katie Glueck","pub_date":"2020-01-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/us/politics/democratic-debate-live.html"} {"headline":"U.K. Failed to Alert E.U. on 75,000 Criminal Convictions","abstract":"Britain was supposed to notify other member states of foreigners convicted of crimes in Britain. It didn’t.","byline":"By Benjamin Mueller","pub_date":"2020-01-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/world/europe/uk-eu-75000-criminal-convictions.html"} {"headline":"Warren Told Sanders After Debate, ‘I Think You Called Me a Liar on National TV’","abstract":"“You called me a liar,” Bernie Sanders responded, as the candidates’ sudden clash injected new uncertainty into the Democratic presidential race.","byline":"By Reid J. Epstein, Sydney Ember and Alexander Burns","pub_date":"2020-01-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/us/politics/sanders-warren-debate-handshake.html"} {"headline":"Neanderthals Could Swim. They Even Dived.","abstract":"Shell tools found in a Neanderthal cave may have been retrieved from water as deep as 13 feet.","byline":"By Nicholas St. Fleur","pub_date":"2020-01-15","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/science/neanderthals-swimming-diving.html"} {"headline":"Debate Night: The ‘On Politics’ Breakdown","abstract":"The last Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses had high stakes — and low drama.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-01-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/us/politics/lisa-lerer-debate-breakdown.html"} {"headline":"Elizabeth Warren Confronts the Skeptics Who Fear Her Plans Go Too Far","abstract":"In the early fall, Ms. Warren seemed to be the Democratic candidate to beat in Iowa. But many voters have had second thoughts over how her sweeping agenda would sell against President Trump.","byline":"By Shane Goldmacher and Sydney Ember","pub_date":"2020-01-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-iowa.html"} {"headline":"Grief and Fear in Sacramento Over a Death That Set the World on Edge","abstract":"The Sacramento region is home to thousands of Muslim immigrants. The death of one of them in Iraq was the spark that brought the United States and Iran to the edge of war.","byline":"By Tim Arango and Neil MacFarquhar","pub_date":"2020-01-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/us/contractor-killed-in-iraq-sacramento.html"} {"headline":"Boys Could Have ‘Fun With You,’ Michigan Legislator Tells Reporter","abstract":"The state’s Senate has been asked to investigate whether Senator Peter J. Lucido’s remarks to Allison Donahue were sexual harassment. He said the comments were “blown out of proportion.”","byline":"By Christine Hauser","pub_date":"2020-01-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/us/peter-lucido-female-reporter-boys.html"} {"headline":"How Anti-Vaccine Activists Doomed a Bill in New Jersey","abstract":"Angry parents, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group and anti-vaccine celebrities rallied to outmatch one of the state’s most powerful elected leaders.","byline":"By Tracey Tully, Sharon Otterman and Jan Hoffman","pub_date":"2020-01-16","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/nyregion/nj-vaccinations-religious-exemption.html"} {"headline":"U.S. and Iran Are Trolling Each Other — in China","abstract":"On Chinese social media, where diplomatic rows rarely break into view, people have watched with fascination as the two countries’ embassies trade barbs.","byline":"By Javier C. Hernández","pub_date":"2020-01-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/world/asia/china-iran-us-weibo.html"} {"headline":"Impeachment Briefing: Meet the Managers","abstract":"Nancy Pelosi selected seven House Democrats to prosecute the case against President Trump in the Senate.","byline":"By Noah Weiland","pub_date":"2020-01-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/us/politics/impeachment-briefing-meet-the-managers.html"} {"headline":"Ayanna Pressley Opens Up About Living With Alopecia and Hair Loss","abstract":"The congresswoman from Massachusetts said that she was making peace with the condition in a video released on Thursday.","byline":"By Sandra E. Garcia and Roni Caryn Rabin","pub_date":"2020-01-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/us/politics/alopecia-ayanna-pressley.html"} {"headline":"A Blow to the Head Makes an Instant Hero in India","abstract":"Aishe Ghosh, a young woman who was set upon at a campus demonstration, has become an icon in India’s growing protest movement.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-01-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/world/asia/india-protests-aishe-ghosh.html"} {"headline":"SpaceX Test Delayed to Sunday","abstract":"A successful demonstration of the abort system on the company’s Crew Dragon capsule would set up the next flight, which is to have astronauts aboard.","byline":"By Kenneth Chang","pub_date":"2020-01-17","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/science/spacex-launch-dragon.html"} {"headline":"Rapper Pop Smoke Is Charged With Stealing a $375,000 Rolls-Royce","abstract":"The rising star is accused of transporting the car to New York from Los Angeles. It was found outside his mother’s Brooklyn home.","byline":"By Nicole Hong","pub_date":"2020-01-17","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/nyregion/pop-smoke-stolen-rolls-royce.html"} {"headline":"Putin and the Art of Stepping Down Gracefully While Keeping a Grip on Power","abstract":"The Russian president may be leaving the presidency in 2024, but he is not about to retire. That could be dangerous for Russian stability — and himself.","byline":"By Andrew E. Kramer","pub_date":"2020-01-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/world/europe/russia-putin-state-council.html"} {"headline":"Trump to Nominate a Critic and an Insider to the Fed Board","abstract":"The president formally announced that he would nominate Judy Shelton and Christopher Waller to the Federal Reserve’s seven-person Board of Governors.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-01-17","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/business/economy/trump-nominee-federal-reserve.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s Defense Team Calls Impeachment Charges ‘Brazen’ as Democrats Make Legal Case","abstract":"In a six-page filing formally responding to the impeachment charges, President Trump’s lawyers rejected the case against him as illegitimate and described the effort to remove him as dangerous.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear and Nicholas Fandos","pub_date":"2020-01-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/us/politics/house-trump-impeachment.html"} {"headline":"Democrats Release More Material From Lev Parnas on Ukraine Campaign","abstract":"Texts raised more questions about information suggesting that the United States ambassador to Ukraine was under surveillance.","byline":"By Kenneth P. Vogel","pub_date":"2020-01-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/politics/democrats-lev-parnas-material.html"} {"headline":"Clashes Shake Beirut as Anti-Government Protests Explode in Violence","abstract":"Demonstrators and security forces battled in the worst violence yet after three months of protests against Lebanon’s political elite.","byline":"By Ben Hubbard and Hwaida Saad","pub_date":"2020-01-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/world/middleeast/clashes-shake-beirut-as-anti-government-protests-explode-in-violence.html"} {"headline":"Sex, Power and Fury: The Mystery of a Death at Guantánamo Bay","abstract":"The federal trial of a former commander of the naval base put a spotlight on life at the isolated and secretive outpost best known for its terrorist court and prison.","byline":"By Carol Rosenberg","pub_date":"2020-01-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/us/politics/guantanamo-bay-mystery-death.html"} {"headline":"National Archives Apologizes for Altering Image of 2017 Women’s March","abstract":"A photo from the march displayed at the National Archives was altered to blur signs that were critical of President Trump or might be offensive, officials said.","byline":"By Maria Cramer","pub_date":"2020-01-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/us/national-archives-womens-march-images.html"} {"headline":"The Big Ask of Black Voters: Trust the Government","abstract":"Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg are trying to woo older black voters with policy. Those policies may be why they’re struggling to win their support.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-01-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/us/politics/bernie-sanders-black-vote-elizabeth-warren.html"} {"headline":"Facebook Apologizes for Vulgar Translation of Chinese Leader’s Name","abstract":"“This should not have happened and we are taking steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again,” the company said.","byline":"By Mariel Padilla","pub_date":"2020-01-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/world/asia/facebook-xi-jinping.html"} {"headline":"These Syrian Women Rarely Left the House. Then the Men Disappeared.","abstract":"In parts of Syria, women once stepped out of their homes only rarely — at least until war came. Now some are relishing a newfound independence.","byline":"By Vivian Yee and Hwaida Saad","pub_date":"2020-01-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/world/middleeast/syria-war-women.html"} {"headline":"‘At 5 P.M., a Woman in a Mechanized Wheelchair Is Loading a Dryer’","abstract":"At the corner laundromat, human punctuation on the subway and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-01-19","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/nyregion/metropolitan-diary.html"} {"headline":"The Trial That Would Be a Template","abstract":"Twenty-one years ago, President Bill Clinton was brought up on charges of high crimes and misdemeanors. But there were some big differences from what President Trump now faces.","byline":"By Peter Baker","pub_date":"2020-01-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/us/politics/clinton-impeachment-trial.html"} {"headline":"‘We’ve Got to Change This’: Has Dixie Highway Reached the End of the Road?","abstract":"In South Florida, leaders are discussing whether to change the name of Dixie Highway, which some say glorifies the nation’s racist history.","byline":"By Audra D. S. Burch","pub_date":"2020-01-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/us/dixie-highway-change-florida.html"} {"headline":"Harvey Weinstein’s Dark Days","abstract":"As his trial begins, he’s hobbled and “terrified.” His accusers say he deserves his misfortune for his treatment of women.","byline":"By Alan Feuer","pub_date":"2020-01-20","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-trial.html"} {"headline":"1945: Court in Paris Sentences Writer to Death","abstract":"Robert Brasillach, a French poet and author, was condemned by the Special Court of Justice for treason and intelligence with the enemy during World War II.","byline":"By The International Herald Tribune","pub_date":"2020-01-20","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/world/europe/robert-brasillach-death-sentence.html"} {"headline":"Psychologist Who Waterboarded for C.I.A. to Testify at Guantánamo","abstract":"James Mitchell will be the first witness to describe the torture of detainees in the secret prisons — some at his own hands — in the trial of the men accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks.","byline":"By Carol Rosenberg","pub_date":"2020-01-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/us/politics/911-trial-psychologists.html"} {"headline":"With Impeachment in the News, Ads Are Staying Away From Politics","abstract":"A desire not to offend potential customers in a divided nation, as well as wariness of President Trump’s Twitter account, means fewer topical ads.","byline":"By Tiffany Hsu","pub_date":"2020-01-20","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/business/media/politics-trump-advertising-2020.html"} {"headline":"A Decade Later, Dutch Officials Publish a Study Critical of Boeing","abstract":"After insisting the study was confidential, the Dutch Safety Board reversed course following an investigation by The Times. A Dutch legislator, fearing “strong-arming” by Boeing, called for a hearing.","byline":"By Chris Hamby","pub_date":"2020-01-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/business/boeing-737-crashes.html"} {"headline":"Barr Once Contradicted Trump’s Claim That Abuse of Power Is Not Impeachable","abstract":"In a memo for the Trump team during the Russia investigation, the attorney general wrote that presidents who misuse their authority are subject to impeachment.","byline":"By Charlie Savage","pub_date":"2020-01-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/us/politics/barr-impeachment-abuse-of-power.html"} {"headline":"Wuhan Coronavirus Map: Tracking the Spread of the Outbreak","abstract":"The virus has sickened tens of thousands of people in China and a number of other countries.","byline":"By K.K. Rebecca Lai, Jin Wu, Allison McCann, Derek Watkins, Jugal K. Patel and Richard Harris","pub_date":"2020-01-21","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/21/world/asia/china-coronavirus-maps.html"} {"headline":"How Fast Can a Human Run?","abstract":"Two legs are good. Four legs might be better.","byline":"By Randall Munroe","pub_date":"2020-01-21","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/science/human-running-speed-quadruped.html"} {"headline":"Recent Commercial Real Estate Transactions","abstract":"Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.","byline":"By Sophia June","pub_date":"2020-01-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/business/new-york-commercial-real-estate.html"} {"headline":"Weinstein Trial Begins With Vivid Descriptions of Several Sexual Attacks","abstract":"A prosecutor offered graphic details, including that Harvey Weinstein showed up uninvited outside Annabella Sciorra’s hotel room in his underwear.","byline":"By Jan Ransom and Alan Feuer","pub_date":"2020-01-22","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-trial.html"} {"headline":"Jack Van Impe, End Times Preacher on TV, Is Dead at 88","abstract":"Known for his prodigious memorization of the Bible, he mingled scripture with commentary on public affairs.","byline":"By Elizabeth Dias","pub_date":"2020-01-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/us/jack-van-impe-dead.html"} {"headline":"Trump Says the Fed Prevented 4% Growth. That Isn’t True.","abstract":"In an extreme scenario, the central bank might have lifted growth to around 3 percent, at a hefty cost.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-01-22","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/business/economy/trump-fed-growth.html"} {"headline":"U.K. Takes a Major Step Toward Brexit","abstract":"Parliament finalized a withdrawal bill with none of the histrionics of the last three years, setting the stage for the country’s formal departure from the European Union next week.","byline":"By Stephen Castle","pub_date":"2020-01-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/world/europe/brexit-withdrawal-bill.html"} {"headline":"Departing: Two Shopkeepers, Their Cat and Part of Paris’s Soul","abstract":"An influx of luxury stores is driving out local businesses in the Marais, the historic Jewish and L.G.B.T. center of Paris. Among the casualties is a minimart, run for more than 35 years by two Moroccan brothers.","byline":"By Liz Alderman","pub_date":"2020-01-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/world/europe/france-paris-marais-gentrification.html"} {"headline":"3 U.S. Firefighters Die in Plane Crash as Australia’s Blazes Intensify","abstract":"The disaster ended a brief lull in the country’s summer of deadly wildfires.","byline":"By Damien Cave and Isabella Kwai","pub_date":"2020-01-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/world/australia/plane-crash-fires.html"} {"headline":"Seeing a Bloomberg Ad on Fox News, Trump Takes the Bait","abstract":"The president’s advisers have urged him not to pay attention to the low-polling Democratic presidential candidate. But as Michael Bloomberg poured cash into attack ads, he became harder to ignore.","byline":"By Maggie Haberman and Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-01-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/us/politics/donald-trump-ads-michael-bloomberg.html"} {"headline":"Is Fairway Really Closing?","abstract":"No, according to a spokeswoman. But the beloved New York supermarket chain faces an uncertain future.","byline":"By Aaron Randle","pub_date":"2020-01-23","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/nyregion/is-fairway-really-closing.html"} {"headline":"Downtown Seattle Shooting Leaves One Dead and Seven Injured, Officials Say","abstract":"The suspects remain at large, the authorities said.","byline":"By Mike Baker and Neil Vigdor","pub_date":"2020-01-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/us/seattle-shooting.html"} {"headline":"A Bank Wouldn’t Take His Bias Settlement Money. So He’s Suing.","abstract":"When Sauntore Thomas, 44, tried to deposit settlement checks at a bank, he was asked where he got the money, a lawsuit claiming discrimination says.","byline":"By Christine Hauser","pub_date":"2020-01-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/us/race-discrimination-check-sauntore-thomas.html"} {"headline":"Officer Charged in Murder of Son, 8, Kept in Freezing Garage, Police Say","abstract":"“Get your hands off his mouth”: Audio was captured hours before the boy’s death at the hands of his N.Y.P.D. father, officials said.","byline":"By Rebecca Liebson","pub_date":"2020-01-24","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/nyregion/michael-valva-thomas-nypd.html"} {"headline":"Philadelphia Mayor Warns Mummers to End Blackface or Risk Parade","abstract":"Mayor Jim Kenney told leaders of the Mummers that their centuries-old tradition could lose the city’s support if they did not better police participants.","byline":"By Alan Yuhas and Derrick Bryson Taylor","pub_date":"2020-01-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/us/mummers-parade-blackface.html"} {"headline":"10 Injured and Community Center Damaged in Chinatown Fire","abstract":"A building critical to several community groups in Chinatown was heavily damaged during a massive blaze Thursday night.","byline":"By Maria Cramer","pub_date":"2020-01-24","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/nyregion/chinatown-fire.html"} {"headline":"Two Dead in Explosion at Houston Plant","abstract":"A blast woke Houston residents from sleep in the early hours of Friday morning, shattering windows and scattering debris. The two fatalities were believed to be employees of the plant, officials said.","byline":"By Christine Hauser and Megan Specia","pub_date":"2020-01-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/us/houston-explosion.html"} {"headline":"When the Prince of Wales Is Your Landlord","abstract":"On England’s southwestern coast, a community built by the Duchy of Cornwall is attracting residents who have bought into Prince Charles’s housing philosophy.","byline":"By Amie Tsang","pub_date":"2020-01-24","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/business/prince-charles-duchy-cornwall-nansledan.html"} {"headline":"Tom Steyer Spends Millions in South Carolina. Black Voters Reap the Benefit.","abstract":"Seeking inroads in the state, Mr. Steyer, a hedge-fund billionaire, is paying black vendors, hiring black staff members and appearing in rural outposts, lavishing money and attention. It’s paying dividends.","byline":"By Stephanie Saul and Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-01-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/us/politics/tom-steyer-millions-south-carolina.html"} {"headline":"Impeachment Briefing: ‘Take Her Out’","abstract":"After a tape of President Trump talking about the ambassador to Ukraine emerged, the secretary of state lashed out at a reporter’s question.","byline":"By Noah Weiland","pub_date":"2020-01-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/us/politics/impeachment-briefing-yovanovitch-pompeo-NPR.html"} {"headline":"Glenn Greenwald in Bolsonaro’s Brazil: ‘I Trigger a Lot of Their Primal Rage’","abstract":"The American journalist has found himself at the center of another political firestorm, this time over press freedom in Brazil.","byline":"By Ernesto Londoño and Letícia Casado","pub_date":"2020-01-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/world/americas/glenn-greenwald-brazil-bolsonaro-cybercrimes.html"} {"headline":"Emotional Schiff Speech Goes Viral, Delighting the Left and Enraging the Right","abstract":"Representative Adam B. Schiff took a risk in telling senators they must convict and remove President Trump because “you know you can't trust this president to do what's right for this country.”","byline":"By Sheryl Gay Stolberg","pub_date":"2020-01-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/us/politics/adam-schiff-closing-remarks.html"} {"headline":"Pompeo Lashes Out at Reporter and Challenges Her to Find Ukraine on a Map","abstract":"“He shouted at me for about the same amount of time as the interview itself had lasted,” said Mary Louise Kelly of NPR.","byline":"By Michael Levenson","pub_date":"2020-01-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/us/mike-pompeo-mary-louise-kelly-npr.html"} {"headline":"2020 Democrats on Debating Trump","abstract":"We asked the candidates about how they would debate President Trump.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-01-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/politics/trump-debate-20-questions.html"} {"headline":"2020 Democrats on Their Economic Priorities","abstract":"We asked the candidates about their fundamental economic priorities.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-01-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/politics/us-economy-20-questions.html"} {"headline":"2020 Democrats on Investigating Trump","abstract":"We asked the candidates whether the next administration should investigate President Trump.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-01-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/politics/trump-investigation-20-questions.html"} {"headline":"2020 Democrats on Their Vice President Picks","abstract":"We asked the candidates about picking a vice president.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-01-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/politics/vice-president-20-questions.html"} {"headline":"Harry and Meghan’s Big Funding Source Is Private. Sort of.","abstract":"Prince Charles’s pledge to help support the couple as they forgo public funding has put a spotlight on his own sources of wealth, including a billion-pound real estate conglomerate.","byline":"By Benjamin Mueller","pub_date":"2020-01-26","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/world/europe/harry-meghan-charles-duchy-of-cornwall.html"} {"headline":"How the G.O.P. Became the Party of the Left Behind","abstract":"Dayton, Ohio, typifies the forces that have pushed those hurt by economic change toward the Republicans, while affluent places become more Democratic.","byline":"By Eduardo Porter","pub_date":"2020-01-27","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/27/business/economy/republican-party-voters-income.html"} {"headline":"Stephanie Parze: Ex-Boyfriend Confessed to Her Killing in Suicide Note","abstract":"Her remains were located three months after she was reported missing and two months after her ex-boyfriend died by suicide.","byline":"By Michael Gold","pub_date":"2020-01-27","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/nyregion/stephanie-parze-body-found.html"} {"headline":"‘Kobe Was Our King’: L.A. Unites in Grief","abstract":"Monday: Fans across Southern California mourned Kobe Bryant.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-01-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/kobe-bryant-la-california.html"} {"headline":"They’re Stealthy at Sea, but They Can’t Hide From the Albatross","abstract":"Researchers outfitted 169 seabirds with radar detectors to pinpoint vessels that had turned off their transponders.","byline":"By Katherine Kornei","pub_date":"2020-01-27","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/science/albatross-ocean-radar.html"} {"headline":"New York Braces for Coronavirus: ‘It’s Inevitable’","abstract":"In Queens, some who recently returned from China have even self-quarantined. But officials have urged calm.","byline":"By Joseph Goldstein and Jeffrey E. Singer","pub_date":"2020-01-27","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/nyregion/new-york-city-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Bolton Was Concerned That Trump Did Favors for Autocratic Leaders, Book Says","abstract":"The former national security adviser shared his unease with the attorney general, who cited his own worries about the president’s conversations with the leaders of Turkey and China.","byline":"By Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-01-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/john-bolton-trump-book-barr.html"} {"headline":"A Primary From the Right? Not in Trump’s G.O.P.","abstract":"With Republicans now unified, it is difficult to find a district where a challenger can credibly claim that the incumbent has been insufficiently supportive of the president.","byline":"By Elaina Plott","pub_date":"2020-01-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/us/politics/pennsylvania-republicans-trump.html"} {"headline":"Chains, Shackles and Threats: Testimony on Torture Takes a Dramatic Turn","abstract":"In a hearing at Guantánamo Bay, an architect of the C.I.A. interrogation program said he told the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks: “I will cut your son’s throat.”","byline":"By Carol Rosenberg","pub_date":"2020-01-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/us/politics/khalid-shaikh-mohammed-threat-torture.html"} {"headline":"Arnold Aronson, Who Revitalized Saks in the ’80s, Dies at 85","abstract":"He transformed a venerable retail chain with a “dowager image” by courting baby boomers, renovating its flagship store and expanding its national reach.","byline":"By Robert D. Hershey Jr","pub_date":"2020-01-28","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/business/arnold-aronson-dead.html"} {"headline":"Joni Ernst Asks if Impeachment Trial Will Turn Iowa Caucusgoers Against Biden. They Answer.","abstract":"As Mr. Biden campaigned in the state, residents appeared unmoved: “I don’t think much about anything Joni Ernst says.”","byline":"By Thomas Kaplan and Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-01-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/us/politics/joe-biden-joni-ernst.html"} {"headline":"Impeachment Enters Volatile New Phase as Senators Get to Ask Their Questions","abstract":"Under impeachment’s arcane rules, senators will submit written queries to be read aloud by the chief justice. Leaders from both parties have strategized for days about what to ask.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear","pub_date":"2020-01-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/us/politics/impeachment-trial-senate-questions.html"} {"headline":"On Politics: Biden Seizes on a Comment","abstract":"A short day of closing arguments from the Trump legal team allowed Amy Klobuchar to fly in from Washington for a campaign event at Barley’s Taproom in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Tuesday.","byline":"By Patrick Healy and Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-01-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/us/politics/on-politics-biden-ernst-iowa.html"} {"headline":"A Deal That Has Two Elections, Rather Than Mideast Peace, as Its Focus","abstract":"The Israeli-Palestinian peace plan unveiled by President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sounds more like a road map for their own futures than for the Middle East.","byline":"By David E. Sanger","pub_date":"2020-01-29","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/world/middleeast/trump-netanyahu-peace-plan.html"} {"headline":"Did You Recently Pay Off Your Student Loans?","abstract":"We’d like to hear from people who paid off their student loans in the past year, or from those who are still making payments.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-01-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/us/elections/pay-off-student-loan-debt.html"} {"headline":"For John Bolton, an ‘Upside-Down World’ After Trump Revelation","abstract":"Democrats who once derided him now want him to testify at President Trump’s impeachment trial while some of his erstwhile Republican friends are throwing him to the curb.","byline":"By Peter Baker","pub_date":"2020-01-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/us/politics/bolton-trump.html"} {"headline":"Press Send for Brexit: E.U. Seals U.K. Withdrawal by Email","abstract":"The European Union’s 27 remaining member nations signed off on Britain’s departure in a typically low-key and bureaucratic style.","byline":"By Matina Stevis-Gridneff","pub_date":"2020-01-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/world/europe/eu-brexit-decision.html"} {"headline":"Duterte Orders Cabinet Not to Visit U.S. After Official’s Visa Is Denied","abstract":"The Philippine president issued the order after one of the architects of his bloody drug war was denied a visa for the United States.","byline":"By Jason Gutierrez","pub_date":"2020-01-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/world/asia/rodrigo-duterte-philippines.html"} {"headline":"Six Takeaways From Senators’ Questions to Impeachment Lawyers","abstract":"The first part of Thursday’s session focused largely on the arguments of one of President Trump’s lawyers, Alan M. Dershowitz.","byline":"By Eileen Sullivan","pub_date":"2020-01-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/us/politics/impeachment-trial-trump.html"} {"headline":"As Coronavirus Spreads, So Does Anti-Chinese Sentiment","abstract":"Fears of the outbreak have fueled xenophobia as a wave of panic spreads, sometimes outstripping practical concerns.","byline":"By Motoko Rich","pub_date":"2020-01-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/world/asia/coronavirus-chinese-racism.html"} {"headline":"E. Jean Carroll, Who Accused Trump of Rape, Seeks His DNA in Lawsuit","abstract":"Ms. Carroll says that President Trump assaulted her in the 1990s, and that she has the dress she was wearing during the incident.","byline":"By Azi Paybarah","pub_date":"2020-01-30","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/nyregion/e-jean-carroll-trump-dna.html"} {"headline":"Here’s What Bernie Sanders Is Saying in Iowa, and Why","abstract":"We analyzed the stump speeches that six Democratic presidential candidates gave in Iowa in the final weeks before the caucuses. Here’s a breakdown of Mr. Sanders’s.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-01-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/31/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-speech.html"} {"headline":"A Scrappy Iowa Start-Up Is the ‘It’ Read for Political Insiders","abstract":"Iowa Starting Line began as a man and his laptop. It’s now a rare success story in the ailing world of local news.","byline":"By Michael M. Grynbaum","pub_date":"2020-01-31","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/business/media/iowa-caucus-media-starting-line.html"} {"headline":"Why Google Backtracked on Its New Search Results Look","abstract":"The internet giant, which some lawmakers and regulators say has grown too powerful, tweaked the way it displayed ads on search results. It did not go over well.","byline":"By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Tiffany Hsu","pub_date":"2020-01-31","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/technology/google-search-results.html"} {"headline":"5 Takeaways From the Trump Impeachment Trial","abstract":"The Senate voted against hearing from new witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial after the House managers and the defense team made their final cases on hearing witnesses.","byline":"By Eileen Sullivan","pub_date":"2020-01-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/politics/impeachment-trial-today.html"} {"headline":"Louis Nirenberg, ‘One of the Great Mathematicians,’ Dies at 94","abstract":"Winner of the math world’s equivalent of a Nobel, he puzzled out equations describing the vibrating of strings, the flow of heat and the movement of water.","byline":"By Kenneth Chang","pub_date":"2020-01-31","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/science/louis-nirenberg-dead.html"} {"headline":"As New Coronavirus Spread, China’s Old Habits Delayed Fight","abstract":"At critical turning points, Chinese authorities put secrecy and order ahead of openly confronting the growing crisis and risking public alarm or political embarrassment.","byline":"By Chris Buckley and Steven Lee Myers","pub_date":"2020-02-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Once Skeptical, Senate Republicans Are All In on Trump","abstract":"In pressing toward their preordained vote of acquittal, Senate Republicans made it clear they see their fortunes and futures intertwined with the president’s.","byline":"By Carl Hulse","pub_date":"2020-02-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/trump-impeachment-senate-republicans.html"} {"headline":"China Increasingly Walled Off as Countries Seek to Stem Coronavirus","abstract":"The number of deaths from the virus outbreak rose to 304 and the number of cases soared to more than 14,000 as Australia and Japan joined the United States in imposing travel restrictions.","byline":"By Alexandra Stevenson","pub_date":"2020-02-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/world/asia/china-coronavirus-us-australia.html"} {"headline":"Plans for Alabama’s Deadly Prisons ‘Won’t Fix the Horrors’","abstract":"A panel appointed by the governor acknowledged that its recommendations could not fully address what the Justice Department has called “severe, systemic” conditions.","byline":"By Katie Benner","pub_date":"2020-02-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/politics/alabama-prisons.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Thwarts Business Travelers Who ‘Need to Be in the Room’","abstract":"The growing uncertainty over the safety of visiting or leaving China is bedeviling companies around the world.","byline":"By David Yaffe-Bellany","pub_date":"2020-02-01","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/business/coronavirus-business-travel.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Pummels Wuhan, a City Short of Supplies and Overwhelmed","abstract":"It is nearly impossible to get the care they need to treat, or even diagnose, the coronavirus, say residents at the crisis’ center.","byline":"By Amy Qin","pub_date":"2020-02-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/world/asia/china-coronavirus-wuhan.html"} {"headline":"Republicans’ Emerging Defense: Trump’s Actions Were Bad, but Not Impeachable","abstract":"A growing number of Republicans have acknowledged that President Trump’s phone call with Ukraine wasn’t perfect. But they argue that it doesn’t merit his removal.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-02-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/us/politics/trump-impeachment-republicans.html"} {"headline":"Juan Guaidó Takes His Appeal to Venezuelans in Florida","abstract":"Juan Guaidó, who last year declared himself Venezuela’s interim president, tried to rekindle the energy of his country’s diaspora.","byline":"By Nick Madigan and Patricia Mazzei","pub_date":"2020-02-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/us/juan-guaido-venezuela-florida.html"} {"headline":"Al Qaeda Claims It Directed Florida Naval Base Shooting","abstract":"In an audiotape message, Al Qaeda’s leader in Yemen claimed responsibility for the December attack that killed three U.S. sailors. The militant himself was most likely killed in a drone strike after he made the tape.","byline":"By Declan Walsh","pub_date":"2020-02-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/world/middleeast/al-qaeda-claims-it-directed-florida-naval-base-shooting.html"} {"headline":"Can Democrats Beat Trump in Iowa in November?","abstract":"Iowa voted strongly for Barack Obama twice and for Donald Trump by nine points in 2016. It could be a national barometer again in November.","byline":"By Trip Gabriel and Jeremy W. Peters","pub_date":"2020-02-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/us/politics/Iowa-trump-democrats.html"} {"headline":"Impeachment Trial Highlights: A Last Chance to Sway Senators","abstract":"House impeachment managers and President Trump’s legal team delivered their closing arguments to senators. A final vote is expected on Wednesday.","byline":"By Maya Blackstone","pub_date":"2020-02-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006957898/impeachment-highlights.html"} {"headline":"London Stabbing Prompts Questions on Policies for Terrorism Convictions","abstract":"The British government proposed extending the prison terms for terrorism-related offenses, but analysts said the move could violate human rights and further radicalize young offenders.","byline":"By Benjamin Mueller","pub_date":"2020-02-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/world/europe/britain-london-stabbing-streatham-terrorism-prison.html"} {"headline":"America Has Had a Year to Learn How to Say Buttigieg. And Yet.","abstract":"You would think voters would get it by now.","byline":"By Sarah Lyall","pub_date":"2020-02-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/us/politics/how-pronounce-buttigieg-name.html"} {"headline":"Turkey Launches Deadly Airstrikes Against Syrian Forces","abstract":"President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that as many as 35 Syrian government troops had been killed, and he warned Russia against trying to prevent his country’s actions.","byline":"By Carlotta Gall","pub_date":"2020-02-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/world/middleeast/turkey-syria-idlib.html"} {"headline":"Keep up with the biggest nights of the 2020 race.","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-02-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/us/politics/iowa-caucus-push-alerts.html"} {"headline":"The Latest on Coronavirus in New York","abstract":"Three people in the city are being tested as an outbreak that began in China continues to spread around the world.","byline":"By Azi Paybarah and Joseph Goldstein","pub_date":"2020-02-04","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-latest.html"} {"headline":"Suspected Coronavirus Case in New York Is Ruled Out","abstract":"A woman hospitalized in the city tested negative for the illness, officials said. Results are pending on tests for two other patients.","byline":"By Joseph Goldstein","pub_date":"2020-02-04","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-test.html"} {"headline":"On Politics: The Uncertainty Continues","abstract":"We’re moving on to New Hampshire, but we’re still stuck in Iowa. This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-02-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/us/politics/on-politics-iowa-caucuses-delay.html"} {"headline":"Set Change on Capitol Hill: An Impeachment Trial to a Presidential Address","abstract":"One night each year, the Capitol is transformed for the State of the Union. This year, it happens to be the day before President Trump’s likely acquittal.","byline":"By Patricia Mazzei","pub_date":"2020-02-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/us/politics/state-of-the-union-capitol-hill.html"} {"headline":"Everyone Kept Saying Politics Was Broken. Well?","abstract":"“It’s hard to look at Washington or look at Iowa and think that our national politics is working.”","byline":"By Matt Flegenheimer","pub_date":"2020-02-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/us/politics/political-system-broken.html"} {"headline":"Trump Impeachment Results: How Democrats and Republicans Voted","abstract":"See how each senator will vote on whether to convict and remove President Trump from office.","byline":"By Weiyi Cai, Alicia Parlapiano, Lauren Leatherby, Blacki Migliozzi and Jeremy White","pub_date":"2020-02-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/05/us/politics/impeachment-vote-results.html"} {"headline":"Avalanche in Turkey Kills Dozens of Rescuers Responding to Earlier Slide","abstract":"Soldiers, village guards, firefighters and civilians were among those looking for survivors of one avalanche when they were buried by a second.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-02-05","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/world/europe/turkey-avalanches.html"} {"headline":"Romney, Defying the Party He Once Personified, Votes to Convict Trump","abstract":"Senator Mitt Romney grew emotional as he pronounced the president “guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust.” The recriminations from fellow Republicans were immediate.","byline":"By Mark Leibovich","pub_date":"2020-02-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/politics/romney-trump-impeachment.html"} {"headline":"Inside the Race to Contain America’s First Coronavirus Case","abstract":"The health emergency is global, but in the United States, it is local public health officials who isolate the sick, trace “close contacts’’ and deliver thermometers.","byline":"By Amy Harmon","pub_date":"2020-02-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/corona-virus-washington-state.html"} {"headline":"Full Transcript: Trump’s 2020 State of the Union Address","abstract":"President Trump spoke of a “great American comeback” in his third State of the Union address.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-02-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/politics/state-of-union-transcript.html"} {"headline":"Can a Lame Duck Mayor Get New Yorkers to Believe in Him Again?","abstract":"Bill de Blasio wants to tackle homelessness and the property tax system in his final two years in office. But his clout is in question.","byline":"By Emma G. Fitzsimmons","pub_date":"2020-02-06","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-mayor-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Sanders Raises $25 Million in January, a Huge Show of Financial Strength","abstract":"The Vermont senator’s announcement came as the Biden, Buttigieg and Warren campaigns are showing signs of financial strain.","byline":"By Shane Goldmacher","pub_date":"2020-02-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/us/politics/bernie-sanders-donations.html"} {"headline":"Trump Gives Venezuela’s Guaidó the Embrace He Wanted","abstract":"A guest appearance at the State of the Union and meeting at the White House put to rest talk that President Trump had lost patience with Juan Guaidó’s campaign to oust Nicolás Maduro.","byline":"By Michael Crowley and Julie Turkewitz","pub_date":"2020-02-06","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/world/americas/trump-guaido-venezuela.html"} {"headline":"Facial Recognition Moves Into a New Front: Schools","abstract":"A district in New York has adopted the technology in the name of safety. Opponents cite privacy and bias concerns.","byline":"By Davey Alba","pub_date":"2020-02-06","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/business/facial-recognition-schools.html"} {"headline":"After Acquittal, Trump Repeats Inaccurate Claims on Impeachment and Ukraine","abstract":"We checked misleading statements that President Trump made about his trial, his political enemies and his own record.","byline":"By Linda Qiu","pub_date":"2020-02-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/us/politics/trump-fact-check.html"} {"headline":"Michael Bennet - Foreign Policy","abstract":"The Times sent a survey to the presidential candidates about matters of war and peace, diplomacy and national security.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-02-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/politics/michael-bennet-foreign-policy.html"} {"headline":"In Hong Kong, the Coronavirus Strikes a Wounded City","abstract":"The territory was already reeling from political discord and recession. Now the outbreak is fanning fears of global isolation and worsening mistrust between citizens and their leaders.","byline":"By Alexandra Stevenson, Austin Ramzy and Tiffany May","pub_date":"2020-02-07","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/business/hong-kong-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Why Matteo Salvini Wouldn’t Mind Being Prosecuted","abstract":"The Italian nationalist is facing a potential trial on accusations of abduction for blocking rescued migrants when he was interior minister. And he can’t believe his luck.","byline":"By Jason Horowitz","pub_date":"2020-02-07","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/world/europe/salvini-italy-prosecution.html"} {"headline":"How an Education Visionary Got Canceled","abstract":"Was it a racially dubious blog post? Or did a charter school board seize a chance to get rid of an arrogant autocrat?","byline":"By Ginia Bellafante","pub_date":"2020-02-07","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/nyregion/ascend-charter-schools-steven-wilson.html"} {"headline":"Elizabeth Warren Has a Pete Buttigieg Problem","abstract":"In Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s Mr. Buttigieg — not Bernie Sanders — who has complicated Ms. Warren’s path, winning over college-educated white voters using a similar message of Democratic unity.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-02-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-pete-buttigieg.html"} {"headline":"Trump Has Reshaped the Judiciary. Here’s How the 2020 Democrats Would Address That.","abstract":"The Trump administration has reshaped the courts through conservative judicial appointments. In a candidate forum, Democrats described how they would respond.","byline":"By Matt Stevens","pub_date":"2020-02-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/us/politics/democrats-courts-trump.html"} {"headline":"New Report on 138 Coronavirus Cases Reveals Disturbing Details","abstract":"A highly contagious patient, virus transmission inside a hospital and unexpected turns for the worse have emerged as part of the epidemic in China.","byline":"By Denise Grady","pub_date":"2020-02-08","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/health/coronavirus-patients.html"} {"headline":"A Horse Has 5 Toes, and Then It Doesn’t","abstract":"As a horse’s hoof forms, scientists say something profound is occurring in its anatomical development.","byline":"By Veronique Greenwood","pub_date":"2020-02-08","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/science/horses-toes-hooves.html"} {"headline":"Victors in Iowa, Sanders and Buttigieg Are Targets in Democratic Debate","abstract":"In the most contentious debate so far, Joseph R. Biden Jr. challenged Bernie Sanders over gun regulation, and Amy Klobuchar accused Pete Buttigieg of presenting himself as a “cool newcomer.”","byline":"By Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin","pub_date":"2020-02-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/politics/democratic-debate-recap.html"} {"headline":"Two American Soldiers Killed in Shootout With Afghan Forces","abstract":"Six American service members were wounded, a spokesman for the U.S. military said. He said a person in an Afghan uniform appeared to have opened fire.","byline":"By Mujib Mashal","pub_date":"2020-02-08","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/world/asia/afghan-us-soldiers-shooting-deaths.html"} {"headline":"With a Year Until Guantánamo’s 9/11 Trial, the Military Has a Long To-Do List","abstract":"The judge has set next January to begin jury selection in the long-awaited trial of five men accused of plotting the terrorist attacks. But big logistical challenges remain.","byline":"By Carol Rosenberg","pub_date":"2020-02-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/us/politics/guantanamos-911-trial.html"} {"headline":"Deaths in China Surpass Toll From SARS","abstract":"More than 900 people have died from the new virus in China. The 2002-3 epidemic, which also began in the country, killed 774 people worldwide.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-02-09","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/world/asia/coronavirus-china.html"} {"headline":"Ransomware Attacks Grow, Crippling Cities and Businesses","abstract":"Hackers are locking people out of their networks and demanding big payments to get back in. New data shows just how common and damaging the attacks have become.","byline":"By Nathaniel Popper","pub_date":"2020-02-09","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/technology/ransomware-attacks.html"} {"headline":"6 Children and Mother Die in Mississippi Fire, Officials Say","abstract":"“He was going to lead them outside, and when he got to the door and outside, the children were not with him,” the fire chief said of the children’s father.","byline":"By Aimee Ortiz","pub_date":"2020-02-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/08/us/clinton-mississippi-house-fire.html"} {"headline":"As Virus Cases Rise on Quarantined Cruise Ship, Passengers Are on Edge","abstract":"Thousands are confined to their cabins on the Diamond Princess, docked in Japan, and some fear the quarantine is putting them at risk.","byline":"By Motoko Rich and Eimi Yamamitsu","pub_date":"2020-02-09","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/world/asia/japan-ship-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Charges Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hacking","abstract":"The indictment suggests that the breach was part of a series of thefts by China to use the data to target American officials.","byline":"By Katie Benner","pub_date":"2020-02-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/us/politics/equifax-hack-china.html"} {"headline":"Amazon Looks to Question Trump in Pentagon Contracting Case","abstract":"The Pentagon said it “strongly opposes” the request from the internet giant, which is challenging the awarding of a defense contract to Microsoft.","byline":"By Karen Weise","pub_date":"2020-02-10","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/technology/amazon-depose-trump-pentagon-jedi.html"} {"headline":"Your Foam Coffee Cup Is Fighting for Its Life","abstract":"The Dart Container Corporation, which makes foam products, is a manufacturing behemoth and produced a fortune for the family behind it. Environmentalists say its products are polluting the globe.","byline":"By Michael Corkery","pub_date":"2020-02-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/business/dart-foam-recycling.html"} {"headline":"Sorry, Renters: You Still Have to Pay Brokers’ Fees for Now","abstract":"A New York judge temporarily blocked a new state rule barring brokers from charging tenants.","byline":"By Matthew Haag","pub_date":"2020-02-10","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/nyregion/nyc-broker-fees.html"} {"headline":"A Grim Landmark as Official Death Toll in China Tops 1,000","abstract":"President Xi Jinping, accused of being aloof amid the crisis, made a very public appearance in Beijing.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-02-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/world/asia/coronavirus-china.html"} {"headline":"Harvey Weinstein Wanted to Testify. His Lawyers Stopped Him.","abstract":"The defense rested its case after a half-hour huddle with Mr. Weinstein to discuss his wish to take the stand in his rape trial.","byline":"By Jan Ransom","pub_date":"2020-02-11","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-trial.html"} {"headline":"Her Dream of Becoming a Doctor Turned Into a Nightmare, and a Movie","abstract":"Dr. Amani Ballour was the manager of an underground hospital in Syria. Now her life is the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary.","byline":"By Alisha Haridasani Gupta","pub_date":"2020-02-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/middleeast/her-dream-of-becoming-a-doctor-turned-into-a-nightmare-and-a-movie.html"} {"headline":"Trump Gives Conditional Go Ahead on Peace Deal With Taliban, Officials Say","abstract":"If the Taliban fulfill a promise to reduce violence, the United States would then sign a deal that would begin the gradual withdrawal of American troops.","byline":"By Mujib Mashal and Lara Jakes","pub_date":"2020-02-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-peace-deal.html"} {"headline":"Democrats Get the Attention, but Trump Aims to Put New Hampshire in Play","abstract":"The president, who lost the state by a few thousand votes in 2016, now has the support of the Republican establishment. But not all Republicans are convinced.","byline":"By Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni","pub_date":"2020-02-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/us/politics/trump-nh-new-hampshire.html"} {"headline":"Merkel Succession Crisis in Germany Leaves Europe Leaderless, Too","abstract":"The resignation of the chancellor’s preferred replacement threatens to extend a lack of German leadership. That will be the “elephant in the room” at the annual Munich Security Conference this week.","byline":"By Katrin Bennhold and Steven Erlanger","pub_date":"2020-02-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/europe/eu-germany-merkel.html"} {"headline":"White Supremacist Groups Expand Propaganda Efforts, Report Finds","abstract":"They have a renewed emphasis on spreading their message through pamphlets and stickers, often on college campuses, as large public protests diminish.","byline":"By Adeel Hassan","pub_date":"2020-02-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/us/white-supremacist-propaganda-campus.html"} {"headline":"A Wall St. Giant Says Sanders Would ‘Ruin’ the Economy","abstract":"Lloyd Blankfein, the former Goldman Sachs chief, tweeted an attack on Bernie Sanders after the senator’s New Hampshire primary win.","byline":"By Kate Kelly, Alan Rappeport and Katie Robertson","pub_date":"2020-02-12","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/business/lloyd-blankfein-bernie-sanders.html"} {"headline":"Deval Patrick, Latecomer to the 2020 Race, Drops Out","abstract":"The former Massachusetts governor had a compelling life story and an extensive résumé, but his 11th-hour entry into the Democratic primary hurt him.","byline":"By Stephanie Saul and Maggie Astor","pub_date":"2020-02-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/us/politics/deval-patrick-drops-out.html"} {"headline":"Finding Dolphins Shot and Stabbed, Authorities Offer $20,000 for Help","abstract":"With the latest two dead dolphins, nearly 30 animals have been found shot or impaled in the southeastern United States since 2002.","byline":"By Johnny Diaz","pub_date":"2020-02-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/us/dolphins-shot-stabbed-florida.html"} {"headline":"Syrian Attacks Draw Turkey Deeper Into Syrian War","abstract":"Turkey is sending reinforcements into northwest Syria and pressing for a Turkish-controlled zone there.","byline":"By Carlotta Gall","pub_date":"2020-02-12","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/world/middleeast/syria-turkey-russia-war.html"} {"headline":"Judy Shelton, Trump’s Fed Nominee, Faces Bipartisan Skepticism","abstract":"Republicans and Democrats questioned Ms. Shelton, who has ideas outside the mainstream, over her previous statements and views on the Fed’s independence.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-02-13","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/business/economy/judy-shelton-fed.html"} {"headline":"Sarah Lawrence Parent Used Sex Tapes in Extortion, Prosecutors Say","abstract":"Lawrence Ray was accused of recruiting his daughter’s friends at the elite New York college into a cultlike group.","byline":"By Alan Feuer","pub_date":"2020-02-13","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/nyregion/sarah-lawrence-larry-ray.html"} {"headline":"Barr Says Attacks From Trump Make Work ‘Impossible’","abstract":"The attorney general said that the president’s attacks on prosecutors’ handling of his friend Roger Stone’s sentencing undermine the legal system and the Justice Department.","byline":"By Katie Benner","pub_date":"2020-02-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/us/politics/william-barr-trump.html"} {"headline":"‘Mass of Dead Energy’ vs. ‘Barking Clown’: Trump and Bloomberg Swap Insults","abstract":"President Trump and the Democratic presidential hopeful Michael R. Bloomberg exchanged sharp words on Twitter.","byline":"By Eileen Sullivan","pub_date":"2020-02-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/us/politics/trump-bloomberg.html"} {"headline":"Iowa Woman Declared Mentally Incompetent in Hit-and-Run Cases Tied to Race","abstract":"Nicole Marie Poole Franklin told the police in Clive, Iowa, that she ran over a 14-year-old girl because she looked “Mexican,” the authorities said.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor","pub_date":"2020-02-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/us/nicole-marie-poole-franklin-iowa.html"} {"headline":"800,000 Syrians Have Fled in Three Months. This Is What it Looks Like.","abstract":"Some crowd into trucks. Others go on foot. The current Syrian migration is similar in scale to the Rohingya crisis in 2017.","byline":"By Vivian Yee, Allison McCann, Hwaida Saad and Haley Willis","pub_date":"2020-02-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/14/world/middleeast/syria-idlib-displaced.html"} {"headline":"As Mating Rituals Go, Valentine’s Day Isn’t So Bad","abstract":"Four reproductive tales from the animal kingdom, where sealing the deal doesn’t always turn out so great for one partner.","byline":"By Priyanka Runwal","pub_date":"2020-02-14","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/science/valentines-day-mating-animals.html"} {"headline":"Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop","abstract":"Microphones and cameras lurk everywhere. You may want to slip on some privacy armor.","byline":"By Kashmir Hill","pub_date":"2020-02-14","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/technology/alexa-jamming-bracelet-privacy-armor.html"} {"headline":"Russians Pressure U.S. Forces in Northeast Syria","abstract":"Russian troops are engaging in standoffs with U.S. troops guarding oil fields and fighting remnants of the Islamic State.","byline":"By Eric Schmitt","pub_date":"2020-02-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/world/middleeast/russia-northeast-syria.html"} {"headline":"We Checked the Iowa Caucus Math. Here’s Where It Didn’t Add Up.","abstract":"No winner has been declared in the Iowa Democratic caucuses. The results were so riddled with errors that we may never know what really happened.","byline":"By Keith Collins, Denise Lu and Charlie Smart","pub_date":"2020-02-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/14/us/politics/iowa-caucus-results-mistakes.html"} {"headline":"Ads in Spanish, Obama Cameos: The Democratic Ad Race in Nevada and South Carolina","abstract":"The battle for momentum in the two states could prove pivotal. Here’s how the candidates are making their pitches.","byline":"By Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-02-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/politics/nv-sc-political-campaign-advertising.html"} {"headline":"To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China","abstract":"Despite their high-tech tools, the authorities are mainly relying on a flood of workers to keep hundreds of millions of people from coming in contact with outsiders.","byline":"By Raymond Zhong and Paul Mozur","pub_date":"2020-02-15","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/business/china-coronavirus-lockdown.html"} {"headline":"The End of Australia as We Know It","abstract":"What many of us have witnessed this fire season feels alive and monstrous. With climate change forcing a relaxed country to stumble toward new ways of work, leisure and life, will politics follow?","byline":"By Damien Cave and Matthew Abbott","pub_date":"2020-02-15","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/world/australia/fires-climate-change.html"} {"headline":"Bloomberg’s Money Machine: 5 Takeaways on His Political Spending","abstract":"The presidential candidate has donated billions to progressive causes over the years. That has earned him enormous influence with Democrats, even those who take issue with parts of his record.","byline":"By Nicholas Kulish and Alexander Burns","pub_date":"2020-02-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/us/politics/bloomberg-donations-takeaways.html"} {"headline":"Taming the ‘Wild West’ of New York’s Dangerous Private Trash Trucks","abstract":"A sweeping overhaul aims to make commercial garbage pickup safer for pedestrians, workers and the environment.","byline":"By Anne Barnard","pub_date":"2020-02-15","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/nyregion/nyc-garbage.html"} {"headline":"Democrats Look Ahead From Nevada and See a Common Enemy: Bloomberg","abstract":"The presidential candidates worked to sell their pitches to the state’s caucusgoers on Sunday, but also ripped into the billionaire they will soon face in the Super Tuesday contests on March 3.","byline":"By Rebecca R. Ruiz and Trip Gabriel","pub_date":"2020-02-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/16/us/politics/nevada-caucuses-2020.html"} {"headline":"As Homelessness Plagues Los Angeles, Success Comes for Veterans","abstract":"In California’s biggest city, a nearly 400-acre campus with new housing represents one of the country’s most ambitious plans to address veteran homelessness.","byline":"By Jennifer Steinhauer","pub_date":"2020-02-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/16/us/politics/homeless-los-angeles-veterans.html"} {"headline":"Rate of New Fatalities Drops in China","abstract":"China’s National Health Commission on Monday reported 2,048 new cases of coronavirus infections and 105 new deaths over the previous 24 hours.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-02-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/16/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Trump Administration Considering Halting Sales of Aircraft Parts to China","abstract":"The review is part of a broader effort to restrict the flow of sensitive technology to China.","byline":"By Ana Swanson and Steve Lohr","pub_date":"2020-02-16","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/business/economy/trump-administration-aircraft-china.html"} {"headline":"Britain Battered as Storm Dennis Brings Landslides and Travel Chaos","abstract":"Fast on the heels of another big storm, Dennis has caused flooding and misery for the second straight weekend.","byline":"By Stephen Castle","pub_date":"2020-02-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/16/world/europe/uk-storm-dennis.html"} {"headline":"‘Now We Are Refugees’: A Family in Limbo Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak","abstract":"The family of Chloe Chang, a Taiwanese woman, is effectively trapped in Hubei Province, and in the middle of a spat between China and Taiwan.","byline":"By Amy Chang Chien","pub_date":"2020-02-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/world/asia/china-coronavirus-hubei-taiwan.html"} {"headline":"Virginia Legislature Turns Down Ban on Military-Style Weapons","abstract":"A Virginia State Senate committee rejected a proposal to ban assault-style rifles, showing the limits of Democratic efforts to impose restrictive gun-control laws.","byline":"By Timothy Williams","pub_date":"2020-02-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/us/Virginia-assault-weapons-legislature.html"} {"headline":"Slowed by the Coronavirus, China Inc. Struggles to Reopen","abstract":"Some factories are firing up again, but with many workers quarantined and parts in short supply, production is limited.","byline":"By Keith Bradsher","pub_date":"2020-02-17","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/business/china-coronavirus-economy.html"} {"headline":"How China Tracked Detainees and Their Families","abstract":"A leaked government document shows how people were monitored and selected for internment camps in Xinjiang.","byline":"By Austin Ramzy","pub_date":"2020-02-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/world/asia/china-reeducation-camps-leaked.html"} {"headline":"Young, Conservative and Working for Trump? The Dating Pool Is Small","abstract":"Washington’s highly politicized culture can be brutal on dating life. For Trump aides, one solution is to find love with each other.","byline":"By Katie Rogers","pub_date":"2020-02-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/us/politics/dating-trump.html"} {"headline":"What if Trump Wins? Europeans Fear a More Permanent Shift Against Them","abstract":"Many sense the potential for a real parting of ways should the American president get a second term.","byline":"By Steven Erlanger","pub_date":"2020-02-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/world/europe/trump-europe-nato.html"} {"headline":"New Cases in China Appear to Be Slowing","abstract":"The number of confirmed new cases in China appeared again to be slowing.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-02-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Trump Contradicts Advisers on China Technology Fears","abstract":"The president, in a series of tweets, said the U.S. would not restrict sales to the country, a sharp shift in administration policy.","byline":"By Alan Rappeport","pub_date":"2020-02-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/us/politics/trump-contradicts-advisers-china-technology.html"} {"headline":"Video Chats and Ordering In: Coronavirus Quarantine With a Smartphone","abstract":"This is not your grandmother’s quarantine. People are confined and afraid, but their virtual lives have been largely uninterrupted.","byline":"By Matt Richtel","pub_date":"2020-02-18","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/health/coronavirus-quarantine-smartphone.html"} {"headline":"Recent Commercial Real Estate Transactions","abstract":"Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.","byline":"By Jaclyn Peiser","pub_date":"2020-02-18","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/business/new-york-commercial-real-estate.html"} {"headline":"China Expels 3 Wall Street Journal Reporters as Media Relations Sour","abstract":"Beijing said it had revoked their credentials over a headline the newspaper published in its opinion pages.","byline":"By Alexandra Stevenson","pub_date":"2020-02-19","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/business/media/china-wall-street-journal.html"} {"headline":"Weinstein Jurors Focus on ‘Project Runway’ Assistant’s Complaint","abstract":"The jury is reviewing testimony from Miriam Haley, who said Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her in 2006.","byline":"By Jan Ransom","pub_date":"2020-02-19","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-trial.html"} {"headline":"14 Die and Hundreds Sickened in Pakistan, and the Cause Is a Mystery","abstract":"Officials are giving conflicting explanations of the cause of the trouble, which may stem from a gas leak at Karachi’s port.","byline":"By Salman Masood","pub_date":"2020-02-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/world/asia/karachi-pakistan-gas-leak.html"} {"headline":"Iowa Democrats Complete Recanvass, but No Delegates Are Shifted","abstract":"Bernie Sanders’s campaign said it would request the more intensive step of a recount after the state party announced that it had changed results in 29 precincts but that no national delegates would be moved.","byline":"By Maggie Astor","pub_date":"2020-02-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/us/politics/iowa-recanvass-recount-delegates.html"} {"headline":"Massachusetts Lawmaker Used Campaign Funds to Support Gambling Habit, Officials Say","abstract":"State Representative David M. Nangle, a Democrat, was arrested on 28 counts that included charges of wire and bank fraud, as well as lying to the I.R.S.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor","pub_date":"2020-02-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/us/david-nangle-massachusetts.html"} {"headline":"Clicking Buy on Amazon? It’s Trying to Prevent a Coronavirus Caveat","abstract":"The Everything Store, which stocks more than 100 million items, is working to avoid disruptions in its supply chain.","byline":"By Karen Weise and Michael Corkery","pub_date":"2020-02-20","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/business/amazon-coronavirus-supplies.html"} {"headline":"As China Fights the Coronavirus, Some Say It Has Gone Too Far","abstract":"Some Chinese business figures are taking an unusual public stand, saying the containment efforts threaten to strangle the economy if applied too broadly.","byline":"By Keith Bradsher","pub_date":"2020-02-20","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/business/economy/china-economy-quarantine.html"} {"headline":"Lawrence Tesler, Who Made Personal Computing Easier, Dies at 74","abstract":"When you’re cutting and pasting, dragging the cursor over selected text and performing other common computer tasks, you can thank him.","byline":"By John Markoff","pub_date":"2020-02-20","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/technology/lawrence-tesler-dead.html"} {"headline":"Watch: Highlights From the Democratic Debate","abstract":"Six Democrats took the stage on Wednesday in Las Vegas, three days before the Nevada caucuses. Among them was a new face: former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York.","byline":"By Sarah Kerr and Natalie Reneau","pub_date":"2020-02-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006988654/democratic-debate-nevada-highlights.html"} {"headline":"Democrats Pile on Bernie Sanders as Urgency Grows","abstract":"Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, facing increasing pressure to slow the Vermont senator’s rise before Super Tuesday, criticized his record on gun control and his chances against President Trump.","byline":"By Reid J. Epstein and Katie Glueck","pub_date":"2020-02-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/politics/nevada-debate-democrats.html"} {"headline":"Presidential Pardons Through History","abstract":"The owner of the New York Yankees, pirates, Deep Throat and a former president share the distinction.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor","pub_date":"2020-02-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/us/politics/presidential-pardons.html"} {"headline":"Microbes Point the Way to Shipwrecks","abstract":"Distinct microbiomes flourish around sunken ships as they become artificial reefs, new research in the Gulf of Mexico reveals.","byline":"By Katherine Kornei","pub_date":"2020-02-21","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/science/shipwreck-microbes.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Outbreak Deepens Its Toll on Global Business","abstract":"The disruption of China’s manufacturing network, and slowdown of its economy, have rippled through to airlines, automakers, tech companies and more.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-02-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/business/coronavirus-global-business.html"} {"headline":"Why Does It Cost $750,000 to Build Affordable Housing in San Francisco?","abstract":"As California’s governor vows to tackle the state’s homelessness crisis, housing “insanity” stands in the way.","byline":"By Thomas Fuller","pub_date":"2020-02-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/California-housing-costs.html"} {"headline":"‘Now Is the Time’: A Fed Official Urges Congress to Plan for Recessions","abstract":"As central bankers fret about their ability to offset future recessions given already-low rates, they are asking lawmakers to step up.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-02-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/business/economy/fed-rate-recession-congress-stimulus.html"} {"headline":"José Zalaquett, Leader in Chile’s Search for Truth, Dies at 77","abstract":"He incurred the wrath of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, was exiled, and became an expert in how to heal traumatized countries.","byline":"By Neil Genzlinger","pub_date":"2020-02-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/world/americas/jose-zalaquett-dead.html"} {"headline":"Loathing in Las Vegas: This Week in the 2020 Race","abstract":"The Democratic candidates ripped into one another — and especially Michael Bloomberg — as the Nevada caucuses approached.","byline":"By Matt Stevens and Maggie Astor","pub_date":"2020-02-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/us/politics/democratic-debate-2020-race.html"} {"headline":"What ‘Medicare for All’ Means After a Six-Year Strike for Health Benefits","abstract":"To understand how union members in Las Vegas are thinking about Bernie Sanders, it helps to remember a picket line in the 1990s.","byline":"By Jennifer Medina","pub_date":"2020-02-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/us/politics/sanders-culinary-union-nevada-2020.html"} {"headline":"‘We’re in a Petri Dish’: How a Coronavirus Ravaged a Cruise Ship","abstract":"More than three days passed before Japan imposed a quarantine. That delay and other missteps helped produce the largest outbreak of the virus beyond China.","byline":"By Motoko Rich","pub_date":"2020-02-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/world/asia/coronavirus-japan-cruise-ship.html"} {"headline":"Are You a Guilty Feminist?","abstract":"The comedian Deborah Frances-White discusses the perfectly funny side of oh-so-imperfect feminism.","byline":"By Alisha Haridasani Gupta","pub_date":"2020-02-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/us/guilty-feminist.html"} {"headline":"Israel Strikes Militants in Syria and Gaza After Clash Over Body at Border","abstract":"A failed attempt to plant a bomb at the border cost a Palestinian militant his life. But the seizure of his body drew harsh criticism within Israel.","byline":"By David M. Halbfinger","pub_date":"2020-02-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-bulldozer-body-palestinian.html"} {"headline":"A Bittersweet Homecoming for Egypt’s Jews","abstract":"A rare ceremony at an ancient synagogue brought 180 Jews back to Egypt, decades after they were pressured to leave. But few Egyptians knew about it, highlighting government ambivalence.","byline":"By Declan Walsh and Ronen Bergman","pub_date":"2020-02-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/world/middleeast/a-bittersweet-homecoming-for-egypts-jews.html"} {"headline":"Venezuela’s Socialists Embrace Business, Making Partner of a ‘Parasite’","abstract":"Decades of socialist-style control devastated the economy. Now, capitalism is back, helping keep the country afloat — and Nicolás Maduro in power. One deal was the cornerstone of that transformation.","byline":"By Anatoly Kurmanaev","pub_date":"2020-02-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/world/americas/venezuela-economy-polar.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Spreads as New Cases Double in South Korea","abstract":"The spike raised fears that another Asian country was losing control over the rapid spread of the virus, making it more difficult to avert a global pandemic.","byline":"By Choe Sang-Hun and Derrick Bryson Taylor","pub_date":"2020-02-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/22/world/asia/coronavirus-south-korea-iran.html"} {"headline":"Gunmakers Battle ‘Trump Slump’ With a Softer Sales Pitch","abstract":"The firearms industry is moving beyond macho marketing, testing a more inclusive strategy to counter sagging sales.","byline":"By Tiffany Hsu","pub_date":"2020-02-23","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/business/media/guns-sales-advertising-strategy.html"} {"headline":"The Legacy of the Willowbrook Scandal","abstract":"Children with developmental disabilities endured inhumane treatment at an institution. Decades later, they were abused in a group home.","byline":"By Azi Paybarah","pub_date":"2020-02-24","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/nyregion/willowbrook-scandal.html"} {"headline":"Under Pressure From Trump, Extraditions to U.S. From Mexico Soar","abstract":"The increased pace follows a threat by President Trump to designate drug traffickers as terrorists and amid two visits by his attorney general to Mexico to push for more cooperation.","byline":"By Kirk Semple","pub_date":"2020-02-24","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/world/americas/mexico-extraditions-william-barr.html"} {"headline":"Reactions to the Harvey Weinstein Verdict: ‘You Did a Public Service’","abstract":"Rose McGowan and Asia Argento were among the public figures and activists who celebrated a jury’s verdict that Harvey Weinstein was guilty on two counts.","byline":"By Christine Hauser and Heather Murphy","pub_date":"2020-02-24","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/nyregion/weinstein-verdict-reaction.html"} {"headline":"‘Never Say Die’: Genetic Sleuths Rediscover Extinct Species","abstract":"The rediscovery of an insect in Wales hints at environmental DNA sampling’s potential to change endangered species protection.","byline":"By Marion Renault","pub_date":"2020-02-24","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/science/environmental-dna-sampling.html"} {"headline":"At Supreme Court, a Case on Abuse of the No-Fly List","abstract":"Three Muslim men say F.B.I. agents tried to use the list to coerce them into becoming informants, in violation of a federal law protecting religious freedom.","byline":"By Adam Liptak","pub_date":"2020-02-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/supreme-court-case-no-fly-list.html"} {"headline":"Mental-Health Researchers Ask: What Is ‘Recovery’?","abstract":"There are many ways to measure mental distress. But it’s far harder to predict, or even describe, the improvement that often follows.","byline":"By Benedict Carey","pub_date":"2020-02-25","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/health/mental-health-depression-recovery.html"} {"headline":"Nevada Caucuses Repeat Errors of Iowa Contest","abstract":"After the final results were released, the Nevada State Democratic Party chairman said the state should consider shifting to a primary process.","byline":"By Keith Collins, Denise Lu and Charlie Smart","pub_date":"2020-02-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/24/us/politics/nevada-democratic-caucus-errors.html"} {"headline":"Fashion Mogul Peter Nygard to Step Down Amid Federal Raids","abstract":"Under investigation for rape, and after his brand was dropped by a major distributor, the Canadian multimillionaire is leaving his company.","byline":"By Kim Barker and Catherine Porter","pub_date":"2020-02-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/peter-nygard-international-fbi-raid.html"} {"headline":"Judge in Roger Stone Case Warns About Attacks on Juror by Trump and Others","abstract":"Judge Amy Berman Jackson held a hearing on the defense’s request for a new trial even as the president claimed the jury’s forewoman was biased.","byline":"By Zach Montague and Sharon LaFraniere","pub_date":"2020-02-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/politics/roger-stone-jury-bias.html"} {"headline":"Supreme Court Weighs Whether Encouraging Unlawful Immigration Is a Crime","abstract":"The justices seemed troubled by the possibility that a 1986 law applied to all sorts of speech and therefore ran afoul of the First Amendment.","byline":"By Adam Liptak","pub_date":"2020-02-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/us/politics/supreme-court-immigration-first-amendment.html"} {"headline":"Another Rocky Day in the Markets as the Coronavirus Spreads","abstract":"The Fed’s vice chair warned that the disruptions “could spill over to the rest of the global economy.”","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-02-26","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/business/dealbook/coronavirus-cdc-markets.html"} {"headline":"Trump Campaign Sues New York Times Over 2019 Opinion Article","abstract":"The lawsuit concerns an essay published a year ago and headlined “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo.”","byline":"By Michael M. Grynbaum and Marc Tracy","pub_date":"2020-02-26","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/business/media/trump-new-york-times-lawsuit.html"} {"headline":"What to Know About Proposition 13","abstract":"Wednesday: No, not that Proposition 13. Also: Disney’s chief executive steps down.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-02-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/us/california-prop-13-pros-cons.html"} {"headline":"The Roots of the Delhi Riots: A Fiery Speech and an Ultimatum","abstract":"A local Hindu politician told the police to evict a group of Muslim protesters or he and his men would. Now, 25 have died in some of the worst violence in years.","byline":"By Jeffrey Gettleman, Suhasini Raj and Sameer Yasir","pub_date":"2020-02-26","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/world/asia/delhi-riots-kapil-mishra.html"} {"headline":"Analysis of the Feb. 25 South Carolina Debate","abstract":"Follow the Democratic presidential debate — the last before the South Carolina primary and the Super Tuesday contests — with our reporters in real time.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-02-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/25/us/politics/democratic-debate-live-stream.html"} {"headline":"How Much Has the California Primary Mattered in the Past?","abstract":"Thursday: We asked a historian about the Golden State’s role in the nominating process. Also: Coronavirus updates; and an otter rescue.","byline":"By Jill Cowan and Marie Tae McDermott","pub_date":"2020-02-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/california-primaries.html"} {"headline":"Tessa Majors’s Murder: A Police Bluff, Then a Teen's Confession","abstract":"“We can lie”: A detective pretended to have evidence linking a 13-year-old to the stabbing of Ms. Majors.","byline":"By Edgar Sandoval","pub_date":"2020-02-27","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/nyregion/tessa-majors-murder.html"} {"headline":"Founder of 8chan Faces Arrest on ‘Cyberlibel’ Charge","abstract":"Fredrick Brennan, who founded the site that has given visibility to violent extremists, gave up control of it in 2015 and has criticized 8chan’s current leader.","byline":"By Daniel Victor","pub_date":"2020-02-27","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/technology/8chan-fredrick-brennan-libel.html"} {"headline":"Body Camera Footage Shows Arrest by Orlando Police of 6-Year-Old at School","abstract":"The episode, which occurred in September, prompted fierce criticism of the treatment of young children by law enforcement. The officer who arrested the girl was fired.","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-02-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/orlando-6-year-old-arrested.html"} {"headline":"Warren, Bloomberg and Rivals Agree: Trump Is ‘Not Ready’ for Coronavirus","abstract":"Elizabeth Warren called for redirecting funds from President Trump’s border wall to fight possible outbreaks, and many candidates voiced skepticism of the administration’s leadership.","byline":"By Rebecca R. Ruiz","pub_date":"2020-02-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/coronavirus-democrats.html"} {"headline":"Elizabeth Warren Has Won Black Activists. She’s Losing the Black Vote.","abstract":"She earned coveted endorsements and released racial justice plans that scholars agree could make a real difference. That hasn’t meant much on the ground.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-02-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-black-vote.html"} {"headline":"Trump Criticizes Media for Coverage of Coronavirus","abstract":"The president seeks to reassure the public while blaming the media and Democrats for trying to score points by exaggerating the threat of the outbreak.","byline":"By Annie Karni","pub_date":"2020-02-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/us/politics/cpac-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Italy’s Quarantine Leaves Locked-Down Towns Feeling ‘Sacrificed’","abstract":"Friends and families have been divided and businesses shuttered. But care packages of focaccia and cigarettes ease the strain.","byline":"By Jason Horowitz and Emma Bubola","pub_date":"2020-02-28","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/world/europe/italy-coronavirus-quarantine.html"} {"headline":"In China’s War on the Coronavirus, a Community Is Besieged","abstract":"The people of Zuoling, a suburb of Wuhan, have gone through a gamut of emotions as the epidemic raged: from complacency, to alarm, and finally, to anger.","byline":"By Amy Qin and Sui-Lee Wee","pub_date":"2020-02-28","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/world/asia/china-coronavirus-wuhan.html"} {"headline":"Who Will Win on Super Tuesday? Here’s What Polls Show in 6 Key States","abstract":"With states like California and Texas voting on Tuesday, about one-third of all pledged delegates are up for grabs.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-02-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/us/politics/latest-democratic-polls.html"} {"headline":"Live Analysis: South Carolina Primary","abstract":"Times reporters provided real-time updates from the campaign trail.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-02-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/29/us/elections/results-south-carolina-live-updates.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Fears Reverberate Across Global Economy","abstract":"The stock market had its worst week since 2008, signaling that one of the longest expansions in history could be ending. Policymakers said they were ready to act.","byline":"By Michael Corkery","pub_date":"2020-02-29","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/business/economy/coronavirus-economy.html"} {"headline":"Life Inside an Afghan Women’s Prison","abstract":"The photographer Kiana Hayeri documented mothers inside an Afghan prison. Here’s what it was like.","byline":"By Francesca Donner","pub_date":"2020-02-29","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/world/middleeast/life-inside-an-afghan-womens-prison.html"} {"headline":"Surgeon General Urges the Public to Stop Buying Face Masks","abstract":"“Seriously people,” the surgeon general said on Twitter, warning that a run on the masks could risk a shortage harmful to public health professionals.","byline":"By Maria Cramer and Knvul Sheikh","pub_date":"2020-02-29","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-n95-face-masks.html"} {"headline":"In Prosperous California, Anxiety Over Inequality Abounds","abstract":"As millions of Californians prepare to vote on Super Tuesday, the state’s affordability crisis is weighing heavily on their minds.","byline":"By Tim Arango and Thomas Fuller","pub_date":"2020-02-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/us/california-primary-super-tuesday.html"} {"headline":"Afghan Peace Plan Faces Its First Roadblock: Releasing Taliban Prisoners","abstract":"Afghanistan’s president said he had not agreed to release up to 5,000 prisoners, as a deal between the United States and the Taliban appears to require.","byline":"By Lara Jakes, Fatima Faizi and Najim Rahim","pub_date":"2020-03-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/asia/US-taliban-deal-reaction.html"} {"headline":"Why Afghanistan Became an Invisible War","abstract":"This war is different.","byline":"By Juliette Love and Rod Nordland","pub_date":"2020-03-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/01/world/asia/afghanistan-invisible-war.html"} {"headline":"Baristas at Starbucks Accuse Service Company of Abuse and Pay Gaps","abstract":"A union representing employees at airport Starbucks locations says immigrant, transgender and black baristas have faced discrimination.","byline":"By Maria Cramer","pub_date":"2020-03-01","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/business/starbucks-discrimination-race.html"} {"headline":"Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan Priest, Poet and Revolutionary, Dies at 95","abstract":"Father Cardenal defied the Roman Catholic Church in the 1980s by serving as a minister in the revolutionary government of Nicaragua.","byline":"By Elias E. Lopez","pub_date":"2020-03-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/americas/ernesto-cardenal-dead.html"} {"headline":"After Factory Disaster, Bangladesh Made Big Safety Strides. Are the Bad Days Coming Back?","abstract":"The Rana Plaza collapse, which killed over 1,100 garment workers, led to much better labor conditions. Now that legacy could be in jeopardy, as a power struggle unfolds over factory safety.","byline":"By Elizabeth Paton","pub_date":"2020-03-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/asia/rana-plaza-bangladesh-garment-industry.html"} {"headline":"Apple Agrees to Pay Some iPhone Owners $25 Each","abstract":"A settlement for as much as $500 million would resolve a lawsuit accusing Apple of slowing old iPhones as it released new ones.","byline":"By Jack Nicas","pub_date":"2020-03-02","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/technology/apple-iphone-lawsuit-settlement.html"} {"headline":"Supreme Court Weighs Whether Rejected Asylum Seekers Can Sue","abstract":"The case, which concerns a member of Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority, could affect thousands of asylum seekers.","byline":"By Adam Liptak","pub_date":"2020-03-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/us/supreme-court-asylum-habeas.html"} {"headline":"Child Dies at Sea as Greece Cracks Down on Migrants From Turkey","abstract":"The drowning, after a dinghy capsized, was the first since the Turkish government said it would no longer stop migrants from crossing into Europe.","byline":"By Matina Stevis-Gridneff","pub_date":"2020-03-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/world/europe/migrant-death-greece.html"} {"headline":"At Center of Taliban Deal, a U.S. Envoy Who Made It Personal","abstract":"Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born veteran American diplomat, earned the trust of the militants, if not of Afghan officials.","byline":"By Mujib Mashal and Lara Jakes","pub_date":"2020-03-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/asia/zalmay-khalilzad-afghanistan-taliban.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Limits Chinese Staff at News Agencies Controlled by Beijing","abstract":"The new rule could effectively force 60 Chinese citizens to leave the United States in a tit-for-tat campaign between Washington and Beijing that has caught journalists in the crossfire.","byline":"By Lara Jakes and Marc Tracy","pub_date":"2020-03-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/world/asia/china-journalists-diplomats-expulsion.html"} {"headline":"Israel’s Election: 7 Takeaways","abstract":"Benjamin Netanyahu has a narrow lead in Israel’s third general election in year, but he still might not be able to form a government.","byline":"By Patrick Kingsley","pub_date":"2020-03-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/world/middleeast/israel-election-takeaways.html"} {"headline":"After Decades of Suspicion, Robert Durst Faces Justice","abstract":"The subject of HBO’s “The Jinx” goes on trial this week, accused of killing a dear friend. But the case will reach deep into his past, to the unsolved disappearance of his first wife.","byline":"By Charles V. Bagli","pub_date":"2020-03-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/article/robert-durst-trial.html"} {"headline":"The Magic Number on Super Tuesday","abstract":"As we watch the returns roll in on Tuesday night, a key threshold could make all the difference.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-03-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/us/politics/on-politics-super-tuesday-delegates.html"} {"headline":"With Disney, a Manhattan Neighborhood Reinvents Itself","abstract":"In the two years since Disney announced it would move its New York offices to Hudson Square, the former manufacturing district has risen in stature.","byline":"By C. J. Hughes","pub_date":"2020-03-03","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/business/disney-hudson-square.html"} {"headline":"A School Administrator Contracted Coronavirus on a Class Trip. A Week Later, Parents Found Out.","abstract":"Rhode Island’s first coronavirus case is an administrator at a Catholic school, who came down with symptoms after a trip to Italy.","byline":"By Ellen Barry","pub_date":"2020-03-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/us/coronavirus-schools-rhode-island.html"} {"headline":"What Is ‘Let Dairy Die,’ and Why Is It All Over the Democratic Race?","abstract":"A coalition of activists determined to end the dairy industry has been using the Democratic primaries to get attention.","byline":"By Maria Cramer","pub_date":"2020-03-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/politics/joe-biden-let-dairy-die.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s Economic Cheerleading Is Suddenly Tested","abstract":"President Trump has convinced his supporters that the economy’s ability to grow rests solely with his continued leadership.","byline":"By Jim Tankersley and Ben Casselman","pub_date":"2020-03-04","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/business/trump-economy-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Harvey Weinstein Adds ‘Prison Consultant’ to His Entourage","abstract":"Craig Rothfeld has been advising Mr. Weinstein and his lawyers as the producer prepares for living behind bars.","byline":"By Alan Feuer","pub_date":"2020-03-04","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-prison-consultant.html"} {"headline":"5 Takeaways From a Super Tuesday That Changed the Democratic Race","abstract":"From Maine to California, the results clarified a race that is increasingly a two-person contest between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders.","byline":"By Lazaro Gamio and Shane Goldmacher","pub_date":"2020-03-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/04/us/politics/super-tuesday-2020-results.html"} {"headline":"Biden Revives Campaign, Winning Nine States, but Sanders Takes California","abstract":"The voting on the biggest day of the Democratic presidential campaign increasingly suggested a two-person race between candidates representing competing wings of the party.","byline":"By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns","pub_date":"2020-03-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/us/politics/super-tuesday-primary-winners.html"} {"headline":"How Huge Voter Turnout Eluded Bernie Sanders on Super Tuesday","abstract":"“Have we been as successful as I would hope in bringing young people in?” he said a day after Joe Biden beat him in several key states. “The answer is no.”","byline":"By Sydney Ember and Maggie Astor","pub_date":"2020-03-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/us/politics/bernie-sanders-young-voter-turnout.html"} {"headline":"Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Drops Out of Presidential Race","abstract":"Ms. Warren, a senator and former law professor, staked her campaign on fighting corruption and changing the rules of the economy.","byline":"By Shane Goldmacher and Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-03-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-drops-out.html"} {"headline":"How Worried Should You Be About the Coronavirus?","abstract":"A brief guide to the health and systemic risks of an outbreak.","byline":"By Max Fisher","pub_date":"2020-03-05","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/coronavirus-interpreter.html"} {"headline":"Will Elizabeth Warren Endorse a Candidate? She Has a Few Options","abstract":"Ms. Warren’s support is being sought by both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, and her political future is of great interest to Democrats.","byline":"By Katie Glueck","pub_date":"2020-03-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-endorsement.html"} {"headline":"Tulsi Gabbard’s $50 Million Suit Against Google Is Dismissed","abstract":"The Democratic presidential candidate had accused the tech giant of infringing on her free speech when it temporarily suspended her advertising account.","byline":"By Daisuke Wakabayashi","pub_date":"2020-03-05","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/technology/google-tulsi-gabbard-lawsuit.html"} {"headline":"‘It’s Pure Panic’: A Wrenching Wait at Nursing Home Where Coronavirus Took Hold","abstract":"Cut off from their relatives inside a virus-stricken nursing center, families are frantically searching for help and basic information.","byline":"By Jack Healy, Karen Weise and Mike Baker","pub_date":"2020-03-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/coronavirus-nursing-home-relatives.html"} {"headline":"Trump Says ‘People Have to Remain Calm’ Amid Coronavirus Outbreak","abstract":"During a visit to the C.D.C., the president sought to play down the risk from the virus and said he would not be inclined to cancel events and travel except to infected areas.","byline":"By Peter Baker","pub_date":"2020-03-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-cdc.html"} {"headline":"Boeing’s C.E.O. Throws His Predecessor Under the Plane","abstract":"In a wide-ranging, eye-opening interview, David Calhoun, the plane maker’s new chief, took some direct shots at Dennis Muilenburg over the 737 Max crisis.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-03-06","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/business/dealbook/boeing-calhoun-muilenburg.html"} {"headline":"On Politics: Warren’s Out but Not Down","abstract":"Endorsement speculation, voter-desire divination: This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-03-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/us/politics/on-politics-warren-sanders-biden.html"} {"headline":"Excerpts from the Sanders Files in a Russian Archive","abstract":"Here are five excerpts from an 89-page Soviet-era file that tracked the efforts made by Bernie Sanders in the 1980s to find a sister city in Russia for Burlington, Vt.","byline":"By Anton Troianovski","pub_date":"2020-03-06","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/europe/sanders-russia-excerpts-archive.html"} {"headline":"Boris Johnson Launches War on U.K.’s Own ‘Deep State’","abstract":"A juicy boss-from-hell story illuminates the tensions between Britain’s radical new government and its solicitous but unyielding civil service.","byline":"By Mark Landler","pub_date":"2020-03-07","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/world/europe/boris-johnson-dominic-cummings-civil-service.html"} {"headline":"A Quebec Ban on Religious Symbols Upends Lives and Careers","abstract":"Four women recount how Quebec’s new secularism law has changed their lives.","byline":"By Dan Bilefsky and Nasuna Stuart-Ulin","pub_date":"2020-03-07","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/world/canada/quebec-religious-symbols-ban.html"} {"headline":"A Sanders Voter, Weary of Debt at 29: ‘I Have Nothing to Lose’","abstract":"Brian Michelz has never worn a political T-shirt or been to a campaign rally. But when he voted for the first time in his life, it was for Bernie Sanders. What will he do if Mr. Sanders loses?","byline":"By Sabrina Tavernise","pub_date":"2020-03-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/bernie-sanders-voters.html"} {"headline":"No Handshakes, No New Citizens: Coronavirus Halts Danish Naturalizations","abstract":"The government in Denmark has asked mayors to suspend naturalization ceremonies, which since a law passed in 2018 require a mandatory handshake.","byline":"By Elian Peltier","pub_date":"2020-03-07","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/world/europe/denmark-coronavirus-citizenship.html"} {"headline":"Pence, a Loyalist Tapped for Coronavirus Effort, Adds to Trump’s Mixed Messages","abstract":"In wresting control of the administration’s haphazard response to the virus, Mike Pence has taken on a familiar role as the president’s political janitor.","byline":"By Katie Rogers","pub_date":"2020-03-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/us/politics/pence-trump-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"A Secret Accord With the Taliban: When and How the U.S. Would Leave Afghanistan","abstract":"The Taliban have read the secret annexes of the recently signed peace deal. But most Americans haven’t, nor have many of their elected representatives.","byline":"By David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt and Thomas Gibbons-Neff","pub_date":"2020-03-08","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan-annexes-peace-agreement.html"} {"headline":"Before the Clyburn Endorsement, an Elderly Church Usher With a Question","abstract":"Jannie Jones is the 76-year-old woman who had to know who Representative James Clyburn was voting for in the South Carolina primary. Did her question change the Democratic presidential race?","byline":"By Chris Dixon","pub_date":"2020-03-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/us/clyburn-biden-endorsement.html"} {"headline":"1 Killed and 17 Wounded in Biker Clubs Shooting, Police Say","abstract":"The shooting in Cleveland happened on Saturday night after a fight broke out at a party, and some people left then later returned, firing on attendees, officials said.","byline":"By Aimee Ortiz","pub_date":"2020-03-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/us/Cleveland-shooting.html"} {"headline":"Surge of Virus Misinformation Stumps Facebook and Twitter","abstract":"Secret labs. Magic cures. Government plots. Despite efforts by social media companies to stop it, false information about the coronavirus is proliferating around the world.","byline":"By Sheera Frenkel, Davey Alba and Raymond Zhong","pub_date":"2020-03-08","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/technology/coronavirus-misinformation-social-media.html"} {"headline":"After Deadly Jam on Everest, Nepal Delays New Safety Rules","abstract":"The country said it would toughen regulations after several climbers died last year. But the rules will not go into effect this spring, and climbers want to know why.","byline":"By Kai Schultz and Bhadra Sharma","pub_date":"2020-03-08","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/world/asia/everest-nepal-climbing.html"} {"headline":"When an Oil Price War Meets Coronavirus Fears, Markets Get Punched in the Face","abstract":"The turmoil deepened as coronavirus fears were met by an oil price war between two of the world’s largest producers.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-03-09","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/business/dealbook/oil-coronavirus-market-turmoil.html"} {"headline":"On Politics: Scrambling to Michigan","abstract":"Biden locks down his former rivals, Sanders an old ally: This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-03-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/us/politics/biden-sanders-michigan-primary.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Is Very Different From the Spanish Flu of 1918. Here’s How.","abstract":"The fear is similar, but the medical reality is not.","byline":"By Gina Kolata","pub_date":"2020-03-09","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/health/coronavirus-is-very-different-from-the-spanish-flu-of-1918-heres-how.html"} {"headline":"Several East Coast Universities Cancel Classes in Coronavirus Response","abstract":"Columbia and Princeton said lectures and seminars would be taught remotely. Scarsdale, N.Y., also announced it was closing its public schools for the week after a teacher tested positive for the virus.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor and Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-03-09","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/nyregion/columbia-classes-canceled-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus Outbreak","abstract":"Monday: Here’s what you may have missed about the spread of the coronavirus in California over the weekend.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-03-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/us/coronavirus-grand-princess-california.html"} {"headline":"On Politics: A Big Day in Michigan","abstract":"It may not be Super, but it’s a pretty important Tuesday. This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-03-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/politics/biden-sanders-michigan-washington.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Airlines Say They Can Absorb Impact of Coronavirus on Travel","abstract":"American, United and Delta pointed to strong cash positions and said they were cutting costs to offset lost bookings.","byline":"By Niraj Chokshi","pub_date":"2020-03-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/business/airlines-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Recent Commercial Real Estate Transactions","abstract":"Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.","byline":"By Jaclyn Peiser","pub_date":"2020-03-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/business/new-york-commercial-real-estate.html"} {"headline":"Nursing Homes Becoming Islands of Isolation Amid ‘Shocking’ Mortality Rate","abstract":"With the deaths of 18 residents in a single nursing home amid a coronavirus outbreak in Washington State, industry leaders recommend strict limits on visits at nursing homes across the country.","byline":"By Jack Healy, Matt Richtel and Mike Baker","pub_date":"2020-03-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-nursing-homes-washington-seattle.html"} {"headline":"Man Who Threatened to ‘Put a Bullet’ in Ilhan Omar Is Sentenced to a Year in Prison","abstract":"Patrick W. Carlineo Jr. pleaded guilty to making a threatening call to the congresswoman’s office and telling a staff member, “I’ll put a bullet in her [expletive] skull.”","byline":"By Johnny Diaz","pub_date":"2020-03-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/politics/llhan-omar-patrick-carlineo-sentencing.html"} {"headline":"2 Rare White Giraffes Slaughtered by Poachers in Kenya","abstract":"The killing of a female and her calf leaves just one, a bull, out of a family of three that lived in the conservancy.","byline":"By Abdi Latif Dahir and Neil Vigdor","pub_date":"2020-03-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/world/africa/kenya-white-giraffes-poachers.html"} {"headline":"Insulin Costs May Be Capped in a Medicare Program","abstract":"If drug companies and insurers agree to participate, the Trump administration proposes limiting insulin costs to $35 a month for some older Americans.","byline":"By Katie Thomas","pub_date":"2020-03-11","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/health/insulin-drug-prices.html"} {"headline":"Tell Us: How Has the Coronavirus Affected Your College?","abstract":"We would like to hear from students around the world who attend colleges that have disrupted classes because of the coronavirus outbreak.","byline":"By Hannah Wise","pub_date":"2020-03-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/us/tell-us-how-has-the-coronavirus-affected-your-college.html"} {"headline":"U.K. Shields Its Economy From the Virus, but Not Yet Its People","abstract":"The government is spending $38 billion to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus outbreak, but so far has ruled out aggressive measures to fight it.","byline":"By Mark Landler, Stephen Castle and Benjamin Mueller","pub_date":"2020-03-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/world/europe/economy-britain-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Why Sanders Is Staying In","abstract":"He got trounced last night. His path forward is exceedingly steep. But he has reasons to fight on.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-03-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/us/politics/bernie-sanders-strategy.html"} {"headline":"Chelsea Manning Is Ordered Released From Jail","abstract":"The former Army analyst had been jailed last year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.","byline":"By Charlie Savage","pub_date":"2020-03-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/politics/chelsea-manning-released-jail.html"} {"headline":"How the Coronavirus Changed the 2020 Campaign","abstract":"The three major presidential candidates have quickly pivoted to try to shape a new political discourse, as they face a real-time test of leadership in a national crisis.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein","pub_date":"2020-03-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/politics/coronavirus-2020-campaign.html"} {"headline":"Airlines Cancel Flights and Lay Off Workers as Stocks Plummet","abstract":"The Trump administration’s 30-day ban on most travelers from Continental Europe because of the coronavirus has dealt a fresh blow to the industry. Norwegian will temporarily halve its staff.","byline":"By Niraj Chokshi","pub_date":"2020-03-12","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/business/economy/coronavirus-airlines-trump-europe.html"} {"headline":"Out of Touch","abstract":"The campaign as we know it is over, especially if candidates can’t even interact with voters.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-03-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/politics/on-politics-campaign-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Why Women May Face a Greater Risk of Catching Coronavirus","abstract":"Health experts worry that the roles women hold in society, such as nurses or caregivers, place them squarely in the virus’s path.","byline":"By Alisha Haridasani Gupta","pub_date":"2020-03-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/women-coronavirus-greater-risk.html"} {"headline":"Can Our Political Leaders Still Reassure Us?","abstract":"People in a country in trouble look to the president to help soothe and to tell them that although things might be bad, we will eventually be all right.","byline":"By Sarah Lyall","pub_date":"2020-03-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/politics/president-trump-coronavirus-speech.html"} {"headline":"Bill Gates Stepping Down From Microsoft’s Board","abstract":"Mr. Gates, who founded the company with Paul Allen four decades ago, will also step down from the board of Berkshire Hathaway.","byline":"By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Steve Lohr","pub_date":"2020-03-13","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/technology/bill-gates-microsoft-board.html"} {"headline":"Turkey Steps Back From Confrontation at Greek Border","abstract":"The country is winding down an aggressive two-week operation to move tens of thousands of migrants to its frontiers. But relations with Greece and Europe have suffered.","byline":"By Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Patrick Kingsley","pub_date":"2020-03-13","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/europe/turkey-greece-border-migrants.html"} {"headline":"Worst-Case Estimates for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths","abstract":"Projections based on C.D.C. scenarios show a potentially vast toll. But those numbers don’t account for interventions now underway.","byline":"By Sheri Fink","pub_date":"2020-03-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html"} {"headline":"Something Else Troubling Is Going Around: Dubious Investments","abstract":"As markets plunge, investors are likely to see more pitches from annuity brokers peddling complex products. Buyer beware.","byline":"By Tara Siegel Bernard","pub_date":"2020-03-13","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/business/coronavirus-scams.html"} {"headline":"Chinese Tycoon Who Criticized Xi’s Response to Coronavirus Has Vanished","abstract":"Ren Zhiqiang appears to be the latest government critic silenced by the Communist Party as it cracks down on dissent over the epidemic.","byline":"By Javier C. Hernández","pub_date":"2020-03-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/world/asia/china-ren-zhiqiang.html"} {"headline":"Canadian and Italian Hostages Are Freed in Mali After 15 Months","abstract":"Edith Blais and Luca Tacchetto went missing in December 2018, in an area known to be an Islamic State stronghold.","byline":"By Rukmini Callimachi","pub_date":"2020-03-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/world/africa/mali-hostages-released.html"} {"headline":"How the Coronavirus Could Hurt the Accuracy of the 2020 Census","abstract":"Many people were already hard to count or suspicious of participating in the census. The virus will amplify those problems.","byline":"By Michael Wines","pub_date":"2020-03-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/us/how-the-coronavirus-could-hurt-the-accuracy-of-the-2020-census.html"} {"headline":"She Wanted to Revive a Park. First She Had to Take On the Rats.","abstract":"One woman’s mission to breathe new life into a small slice of Manhattan.","byline":"By Michael McDowell","pub_date":"2020-03-14","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/nyregion/verdi-square-nyc-park.html"} {"headline":"Full Appeals Court to Decide Whether Congress Can Sue Executive Branch","abstract":"The court took up disputes over funding for President Trump’s border wall and a subpoena to Donald F. McGahn II, his former White House counsel.","byline":"By Charlie Savage","pub_date":"2020-03-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/politics/appeals-mcgahn-border-wall-cases.html"} {"headline":"The Man With 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer Just Donated Them","abstract":"A Tennessee man had planned to sell his stockpile at marked-up prices online. Now he is under investigation for price gouging.","byline":"By Jack Nicas","pub_date":"2020-03-15","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/technology/matt-colvin-hand-sanitizer-donation.html"} {"headline":"‘A Car That Was Turning Slowed Down, and the Window Rolled Down’","abstract":"Wearing a favorite dress, a Manhattan wedding and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-03-15","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/nyregion/metropolitan-diary.html"} {"headline":"Puerto Rico Orders Coronavirus Lockdown. Violators Could Be Fined.","abstract":"In one of the most serious U.S. crackdowns yet over Covid-19, the governor ordered most businesses on the island to shut down. Other U.S. cities were imposing control measures of their own.","byline":"By Edmy Ayala and Patricia Mazzei","pub_date":"2020-03-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/us/coronavirus-puerto-rico.html"} {"headline":"For Biden and Sanders, the Fight’s Not Personal","abstract":"The amicable relationship the two have maintained could become an important factor in the Democrats’ ability to unite quickly against President Trump.","byline":"By Glenn Thrush","pub_date":"2020-03-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/us/politics/joseph-biden-bernie-sanders.html"} {"headline":"Benny Gantz, With Thin Majority, Wins Chance to Form Israeli Government","abstract":"In a first, all 15 members of the combined slate of predominantly Arab parties joined lawmakers from Jewish parties in recommending Mr. Gantz over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.","byline":"By David M. Halbfinger","pub_date":"2020-03-15","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/world/middleeast/netanyahu-trial-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"When Arizona Elected a Mexican Immigrant Governor","abstract":"Border Patrol agents once ordered an elderly Hispanic man out of his vehicle and requested his identity papers, which showed that he was a Mexican-born immigrant named Raúl H. Castro. Turns out he was Arizona’s former governor.","byline":"By Simon Romero","pub_date":"2020-03-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/arizona-immigration-new-nativists.html"} {"headline":"Some Ask a Taboo Question: Is America Overreacting to Coronavirus?","abstract":"With “social distancing” now widely adopted nationwide, a small group of contrarians urge a more careful weighing of the harm as well as the benefits of such policies.","byline":"By Amy Harmon","pub_date":"2020-03-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/coronavirus-hype-overreaction-social-distancing.html"} {"headline":"Trump Urges Limits Amid Pandemic, but Stops Short of National Mandates","abstract":"President Trump issued national guidelines that included closing schools and avoiding bars, restaurants and groups of more than 10 as he prepared for months of upheaval.","byline":"By Katie Rogers and Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-03-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-guidelines.html"} {"headline":"Macron Declares France ‘at War’ With Virus, as E.U. Proposes 30-Day Travel Ban","abstract":"President Emmanuel Macron commanded the French to stay at home for at least 15 days, joining other European leaders who are taking measures never before seen in the postwar West.","byline":"By Steven Erlanger","pub_date":"2020-03-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/world/europe/coronavirus-france-macron-travel-ban.html"} {"headline":"Trial of Coronavirus Vaccine Made by Moderna Begins in Seattle","abstract":"Healthy volunteers will test different doses of the first vaccine to find out if it is safe.","byline":"By Denise Grady","pub_date":"2020-03-16","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/health/coronavirus-vaccine.html"} {"headline":"This Mysterious Ancient Structure Was Made of Mammoth Bones","abstract":"The ring of skulls, skeletons, tusks and other bones was too large for a roof, scientists say, so what was it for?","byline":"By Nicholas St. Fleur","pub_date":"2020-03-17","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/science/mammoth-bones-circle.html"} {"headline":"Where Women Are Ahead of Men: Hand Washing","abstract":"During a global pandemic, personal hygiene habits have far-reaching consequences.","byline":"By Alyson Krueger","pub_date":"2020-03-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/us/women-men-hand-washing-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Can California Keep 9 Million People at Home?","abstract":"Eight counties in Northern California have ordered residents to “shelter in place.” In the Sacramento area, residents were also being asked to stay home as much as possible.","byline":"By Thomas Fuller, Jack Nicas and Kate Conger","pub_date":"2020-03-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/us/california-shelter-in-place-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Hundreds of Scientists Scramble to Find a Coronavirus Treatment","abstract":"In an ambitious international collaboration, researchers have “mapped” proteins in the coronavirus and identified 50 drugs to test against it.","byline":"By Carl Zimmer","pub_date":"2020-03-17","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/science/coronavirus-treatment.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s Call With Governors on the Coronavirus","abstract":"President Trump held a call with governors on Monday about the response to the coronavirus, discussing work on a vaccine, the impact on the economy and more.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-03-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007037792/trumps-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"New York’s Food Distribution Networks Brace for an Unprecedented Threat","abstract":"Organizations expect labor shortages — just as an influx of ill and unemployed people hit the emergency feeding system.","byline":"By Katy Lederer","pub_date":"2020-03-18","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/business/coronavirus-food-supply-kitchens.html"} {"headline":"Defying Virus Rules, Large Hasidic Jewish Weddings Held in Brooklyn","abstract":"The Fire Department dispersed revelers at one celebration that more than 200 attended in defiance of restrictions on public events.","byline":"By Liam Stack and Nate Schweber","pub_date":"2020-03-18","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/nyregion/coronavirus-hasidic-weddings-brooklyn.html"} {"headline":"A Deadly Coronavirus Mix in Florida: An Aging Population and Lots of Young Visitors","abstract":"In Florida, where a quarter of the population is older than 60, Gov. Ron DeSantis has started to control public gatherings. But testing has been slow.","byline":"By Patricia Mazzei, Frances Robles and Audra D. S. Burch","pub_date":"2020-03-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/us/coronavirus-florida-desantis.html"} {"headline":"Trump Signs Relief Package; China Reports Zero New Local Infections","abstract":"Two congressmen tested positive for the virus, as work continued on a larger stimulus package. The European Union found that Russia was behind harmful misinformation circulating in the West.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-03-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/world/coronavirus-news.html"} {"headline":"Is Coronavirus Widening Generational Divides, or Bridging Them?","abstract":"Shutdowns have sometimes been interpreted through the prism of intergenerational tension, but in Europe there is also a call for an “internationale of generations.”","byline":"By Patrick Kingsley","pub_date":"2020-03-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/world/europe/shutdowns-coronavirus-age.html"} {"headline":"Foster Pets Are Finding Homes With Quarantined Americans","abstract":"Shelters across the United States are reporting a rise in foster applications as people seek out a friend to ride out the coronavirus crisis with.","byline":"By Sandra E. Garcia","pub_date":"2020-03-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/coronavirus-foster-pets.html"} {"headline":"Keep Calm and Listen to Brian Lehrer","abstract":"New York’s beloved radio host is part Mister Rogers, part policy wonk. And he’s doing his best to help a city in a pandemic keep its cool.","byline":"By Jazmine Hughes","pub_date":"2020-03-19","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/nyregion/keep-calm-and-listen-to-brian-lehrer.html"} {"headline":"On Politics: We’ll Be Here a While","abstract":"Election and household stasis set in: This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-03-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/biden-sanders-trump-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"The Delivery Workers Who Risk Their Health to Bring You Food","abstract":"Demand for home delivery is rising, and New Yorkers barricaded in their homes are leaning more and more on a largely immigrant work force.","byline":"By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura and Jeffrey E. Singer","pub_date":"2020-03-19","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-delivery-workers.html"} {"headline":"Queen Urges Britons to Pull Together as Nation Charts an Uncertain Course","abstract":"Elizabeth, sequestered at Windsor Castle, offered encouragement in a statement. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, after a week of mixed messages, hewed to mostly voluntary curbs.","byline":"By Mark Landler and Stephen Castle","pub_date":"2020-03-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/world/europe/virus-queen-elizabeth.html"} {"headline":"An Opera Singer Goes From Tenor to Soprano, and Her Career Takes Off","abstract":"María Castillo de Lima was doing well, with a coveted spot in a renowned Argentine theater. But she became a breakout star after her transition.","byline":"By Ernesto Londoño","pub_date":"2020-03-20","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/world/americas/opera-maria-castillo-de-lima-argentina.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Could Overwhelm U.S. Without Urgent Action, Estimates Say","abstract":"Immediate steps to limit social contact in parts of the United States where few cases have been identified are needed to slow the outbreak, a model suggests.","byline":"By James Glanz, Lauren Leatherby, Matthew Bloch, Mitch Smith, Larry Buchanan, Jin Wu and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs","pub_date":"2020-03-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/20/us/coronavirus-model-us-outbreak.html"} {"headline":"Pakistani Doctor, Arrested in Minneapolis, Is Accused of Plan to Join ISIS","abstract":"Muhammad Masood, 28, a doctor, said he wanted to “fight on the front line as well as help the wounded brothers,” according to the F.B.I.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor","pub_date":"2020-03-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/minnesota-doctor-isis.html"} {"headline":"‘Chilling’ Plans: Who Gets Care as Washington State Hospitals Fill Up?","abstract":"Fearing a critical shortage of lifesaving resources as the coronavirus spreads, Washington State is engaged in grim discussions to determine which dying patients would get priority.","byline":"By Karen Weise and Mike Baker","pub_date":"2020-03-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/us/coronavirus-in-seattle-washington-state.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus in N.Y.: ‘Deluge’ of Cases Begins Hitting Hospitals","abstract":"There are already critical shortages: A Bronx hospital is running out of ventilators. In Brooklyn, doctors are reusing masks.","byline":"By Brian M. Rosenthal, Joseph Goldstein and Michael Rothfeld","pub_date":"2020-03-20","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-hospitals.html"} {"headline":"Freezers Sell Out as Consumers Stock Up","abstract":"As the coronavirus pandemic continues, people are preparing to hunker down for weeks or longer.","byline":"By Aimee Ortiz","pub_date":"2020-03-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/business/coronavirus-freezers-sold-out.html"} {"headline":"Biden Takes Charge as Coronavirus Spreads: This Week in the 2020 Race","abstract":"Joe Biden won all three states that held primary contests on Tuesday, forcing Bernie Sanders to reassess the future of his campaign in a race that has been upended by a public health crisis.","byline":"By Maggie Astor and Matt Stevens","pub_date":"2020-03-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/politics/biden-sanders-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Al Qaeda Branch in Somalia Threatens Americans in East Africa — and Even the U.S.","abstract":"Several ominous signs indicate that the Qaeda affiliate, the Shabab, is seeking to expand its lethal mayhem well beyond its home base, and attack Americans wherever it can.","byline":"By Eric Schmitt and Abdi Latif Dahir","pub_date":"2020-03-21","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/world/africa/al-qaeda-somalia-shabab.html"} {"headline":"Governments and Companies Race to Make Masks Vital to Virus Fight","abstract":"President Trump resists using emergency powers to compel production, saying companies will voluntarily provide much-needed protective gear.","byline":"By Rachel Abrams, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Andrew Jacobs, Vanessa Friedman and Michael Rothfeld","pub_date":"2020-03-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/business/coronavirus-masks-hanes-trump.html"} {"headline":"How You Can Help Victims of the Coronavirus Pandemic","abstract":"From charities that support children to organizations that feed families, there is no shortage of ways to get involved.","byline":"By Derrick Bryson Taylor and Mariel Padilla","pub_date":"2020-03-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-how-to-help-donations-charities.html"} {"headline":"A Boom Time for the Bean Industry","abstract":"“It’s just shocking,” one bean supplier said. “I used to be the loneliest man at the farmer’s market.”","byline":"By David Yaffe-Bellany","pub_date":"2020-03-22","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/business/coronavirus-beans-sales.html"} {"headline":"Some Tips on How to Stay Sane in a World That Isn’t","abstract":"The coronavirus outbreak has magnified all kinds of fears. Try living in the moment. Take stock of what’s working. Turn off the television.","byline":"By Katherine Rosman","pub_date":"2020-03-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/us/coronavirus-mental-health-anxiety-tips.html"} {"headline":"Daniel S. Greenberg, Science Journalist and Iconoclast, Dies at 88","abstract":"He challenged peers who acted as “cheerleaders” for science, and influenced government science policy with a Washington-based newsletter.","byline":"By Cornelia Dean","pub_date":"2020-03-22","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/science/daniel-s-greenberg-dead.html"} {"headline":"In a Pandemic, Religion Can Be a Balm and a Risk","abstract":"As scientists and politicians struggle for a response to the coronavirus, many people are turning to faith. But some practices raise public health concerns.","byline":"By Vivian Yee","pub_date":"2020-03-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/world/middleeast/coronavirus-religion.html"} {"headline":"Target Apologizes for Selling N95 Masks in Seattle","abstract":"The company said the masks were offered for sale “in error” at some stores in Washington State, which has been a hot spot for the coronavirus pandemic.","byline":"By Johnny Diaz","pub_date":"2020-03-22","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/business/coronavirus-n95-masks-target.html"} {"headline":"As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets","abstract":"Tracking entire populations to combat the pandemic now could open the doors to more invasive forms of government snooping later.","byline":"By Natasha Singer and Choe Sang-Hun","pub_date":"2020-03-23","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/technology/coronavirus-surveillance-tracking-privacy.html"} {"headline":"Back at Work but Not on the Bench, Supreme Court Issues 3 Major Opinions","abstract":"The court ruled in cases on the insanity defense, race discrimination and copyright infringement.","byline":"By Adam Liptak","pub_date":"2020-03-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/supreme-court-insanity-defense-race-copyright.html"} {"headline":"Scientists Identify 69 Drugs to Test Against the Coronavirus","abstract":"Two dozen of the medicines are already under investigation. Also on the list: chloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria.","byline":"By Carl Zimmer","pub_date":"2020-03-23","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/science/coronavirus-drugs-chloroquine.html"} {"headline":"The View From Your Window","abstract":"Life has changed in big ways and small for our On Politics readers from around the world.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-03-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/politics/on-politics-your-window.html"} {"headline":"The Fed Goes All In With Unlimited Bond-Buying Plan","abstract":"The Federal Reserve will buy bonds as needed to calm markets, and will buy corporate debt in a series of emergency lending programs.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-03-23","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/business/economy/coronavirus-fed-bond-buying.html"} {"headline":"Shortage of Virus Tests in U.K. Lures Profiteers and Con Artists","abstract":"Private labs, clinics and opportunistic go-betweens have been snapping up diagnostic kits, often selling them at steep markups.","byline":"By Jane Bradley","pub_date":"2020-03-24","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/world/europe/uk-coronavirus-tests-profiteering.html"} {"headline":"Women Should Have to Register for Military Draft, Too, Commission Tells Congress","abstract":"A commission appointed by Congress will recommend that expanding selective service registration to women is a “necessary and fair step.”","byline":"By Sarah Mervosh and John Ismay","pub_date":"2020-03-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/us/women-military-draft-selective-service.html"} {"headline":"In Pandemic, Justice Dept. Seeks Video Court Hearings and Home Detention","abstract":"Lawmakers are said to be skeptical about other Trump administration ideas, including expanding presidential power to curb asylum and suspending deadlines for arraignments.","byline":"By Charlie Savage","pub_date":"2020-03-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/politics/justice-department-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Drivers Say Uber and Lyft Are Blocking Unemployment Pay","abstract":"States like New York and California have made gig workers eligible for jobless benefits and sick days. But the companies have resisted complying.","byline":"By Noam Scheiber","pub_date":"2020-03-24","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/business/economy/coronavirus-uber-lyft-drivers-unemployment.html"} {"headline":"Modi Orders 3-Week Total Lockdown for All 1.3 Billion Indians","abstract":"With four hours’ notice, India’s prime minister announced that no one could leave home for 21 days — the most severe step taken anywhere in the war against the coronavirus.","byline":"By Jeffrey Gettleman and Kai Schultz","pub_date":"2020-03-24","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/world/asia/india-coronavirus-lockdown.html"} {"headline":"Stimulus Money to Protect Elections Falls Short, Critics Say","abstract":"State officials and voting rights advocates say the $400 million to safeguard elections in the coronavirus stimulus package is far less than what states will need to implement voting by mail.","byline":"By Michael Wines","pub_date":"2020-03-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/us/coronavirus-voting-stimulus.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Means Funerals Must Wait: ‘We Can’t Properly Bury Our Dead’","abstract":"The prohibition on public gatherings imposed as a result of the coronavirus has made it difficult to memorialize those who have died of complications from the virus — or anything else.","byline":"By Kirk Johnson","pub_date":"2020-03-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/us/coronavirus-funerals.html"} {"headline":"13 Deaths in a Day: An ‘Apocalyptic’ Coronavirus Surge at an N.Y.C. Hospital","abstract":"Hospitals in the city are facing the kind of harrowing increases in cases that overwhelmed health care systems in China and Italy.","byline":"By Michael Rothfeld, Somini Sengupta, Joseph Goldstein and Brian M. Rosenthal","pub_date":"2020-03-25","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-hospitals.html"} {"headline":"Brooklyn High School Principal, 36, Dies from Coronavirus","abstract":"The “healthy and vibrant” high school head Dez-Ann Romain was the first apparent death of a public school employee from the virus.","byline":"By Corey Kilgannon","pub_date":"2020-03-25","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/nyregion/coronavirus-death-brooklyn-school-principal.html"} {"headline":"Economic Crisis Prompts a Showdown, and a Shutdown, in Suriname","abstract":"The coronavirus pandemic is but one factor in a confrontation between the South American nation’s business sector and its authoritarian government.","byline":"By Harmen Boerboom and Anatoly Kurmanaev","pub_date":"2020-03-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/world/americas/suriname-economic-crisis.html"} {"headline":"Mississippi Governor Clarifies Order Defining Most Businesses as Essential","abstract":"Gov. Tate Reeves issued a supplement to an executive order about essential businesses, saying it was a standard for local leaders, who had already issued their own.","byline":"By Christine Hauser","pub_date":"2020-03-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/mississippi-coronavirus-essential-businesses-tate-reeves.html"} {"headline":"She’s 10, Homeless and Eager to Learn. But She Has No Internet.","abstract":"Thousands of students living in shelters and doubled up in overcrowded apartments have not received web-enabled devices for online learning.","byline":"By Nikita Stewart","pub_date":"2020-03-26","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/nyregion/new-york-homeless-students-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"How Will the Spending Be Spun?","abstract":"American politics were rewired after the Great Recession. The current crisis could shake things up again.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-03-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/politics/on-politics-coronavirus-congress.html"} {"headline":"As Coronavirus Spread, Largest Stimulus in History United a Polarized Senate","abstract":"Markets shuddered as the $2 trillion economic stabilization package stalled before negotiators cemented a historic deal.","byline":"By Carl Hulse and Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-03-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/coronavirus-senate-stimulus-package.html"} {"headline":"A Promoter’s Screen Tests Involved Sex on Camera, Lawsuits Charge","abstract":"Actresses and models have sued a Brooklyn agent, saying he pressured them into sex. A film depicting one encounter opens online this week.","byline":"By Michael Wilson and Melena Ryzik","pub_date":"2020-03-26","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/nyregion/tape-movie-2020-real-story.html"} {"headline":"John Sears, Strategist for Nixon and Reagan, Dies at 79","abstract":"Some thought he was “Deep Throat,” the secret source who helped The Washington Post unravel Watergate. He was not.","byline":"By Katharine Q. Seelye","pub_date":"2020-03-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/politics/john-sears-dead.html"} {"headline":"A Heart Attack? No, It Was the Coronavirus","abstract":"Cardiologists are seeing infected patients whose worst symptoms are not respiratory, but cardiac.","byline":"By Gina Kolata","pub_date":"2020-03-27","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/health/coronavirus-cardiac-heart-attacks.html"} {"headline":"Are You a Health Care Worker in the New York Area? Tell Us What You’re Seeing.","abstract":"We want to talk to doctors, nurses, lab technicians — anyone who can share what they're seeing in the region’s hospitals and health care centers.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-03-27","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-health-care-workers.html"} {"headline":"Fed Releases Details of BlackRock Deal for Virus Response","abstract":"BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, will earn relatively modest fees for helping the Federal Reserve run a bond-buying program to steady markets unsettled by the pandemic.","byline":"By Matthew Goldstein","pub_date":"2020-03-27","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/business/coronavirus-blackrock-federal-reserve.html"} {"headline":"Has Coronavirus Affected Your Fertility Treatments? Tell Us Your Concerns.","abstract":"If you’ve had to cancel a fertility treatment because of coronavirus, we’d like to hear from you. Please fill out this form.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-03-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/has-coronavirus-affected-your-fertility-treatments-tell-us-your-concerns.html"} {"headline":"Trump Backtracks After Cuomo Criticizes Quarantine Idea","abstract":"Gov. Andrew Cuomo compared the president’s suggestion that he was considering a quarantine on the New York region to “a declaration of war on states.”","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-03-28","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html"} {"headline":"Doctor, Refugee. Violinist, Refugee. Model, Refugee.","abstract":"They felt on top of the world. Then the world turned upside down.","byline":"By Nicholas Casey, Megan Janetsky and Andrea Zarate","pub_date":"2020-03-28","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/world/americas/doctor-refugee-violinist-refugee-model-refugee.html"} {"headline":"Trump Says a Quarantine ‘Will Not Be Necessary’","abstract":"At least 17 states reported tallies of at least 1,000 infections. Illinois reported the first known U.S. death of an infant with the virus.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-03-28","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/world/coronavirus-live-news-updates.html"} {"headline":"The Lost Month: How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to Covid-19","abstract":"Aggressive screening might have helped contain the coronavirus in the United States. But technical flaws, regulatory hurdles and lapses in leadership let it spread undetected for weeks.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear, Abby Goodnough, Sheila Kaplan, Sheri Fink, Katie Thomas and Noah Weiland","pub_date":"2020-03-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/testing-coronavirus-pandemic.html"} {"headline":"Tornado Strikes Jonesboro, Ark., Injuring 22, Officials Say","abstract":"Many residents were staying home because of the coronavirus pandemic, reducing the number of those hurt, the mayor said.","byline":"By Michael Levenson","pub_date":"2020-03-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/Arkansas-tornado.html"} {"headline":"How Asian-American Leaders Are Grappling With Xenophobia Amid Coronavirus","abstract":"As Asian-Americans face racist attacks and President Trump has tied the virus to China, community and political leaders have tried to comfort constituents. But even they admit to feeling unnerved.","byline":"By Matt Stevens","pub_date":"2020-03-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/politics/coronavirus-asian-americans.html"} {"headline":"Bail Out Journalists. Let Newspaper Chains Die.","abstract":"The coronavirus is likely to hasten the end of advertising-driven media, our columnist writes. And government should not rescue it.","byline":"By Ben Smith","pub_date":"2020-03-29","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-journalists-newspapers.html"} {"headline":"‘Thousands of People Will Pass Away’ From Virus, Cuomo Warns","abstract":"Mayor de Blasio said the city had only a week’s worth of medical supplies as the death toll continued to climb.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-03-29","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Slowdown in Seattle Suggests Restrictions Are Working","abstract":"Officials in Washington State worry that their gains are precarious, but they see evidence that containment strategies have lowered the rate of virus transmission.","byline":"By Mike Baker","pub_date":"2020-03-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/us/seattle-washington-state-coronavirus-transmission-rate.html"} {"headline":"The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed.","abstract":"As the coronavirus spreads, the collapse of the project helps explain America’s acute shortage.","byline":"By Nicholas Kulish, Sarah Kliff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg","pub_date":"2020-03-29","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html"} {"headline":"914 Dead in N.Y.C., and City’s Virus Case Count Tops 38,000","abstract":"The outbreak’s toll continued to rise amid a hopeful sign: the arrival of a Navy hospital ship to ease the strain on the city’s overwhelmed hospitals.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-03-30","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html"} {"headline":"For India’s Laborers, Coronavirus Lockdown Is an Order to Starve","abstract":"Despite leaders’ decrees on staying home, laborers who live hand-to-mouth say they have no choice but to keep hitting the streets. Here are their stories.","byline":"By Maria Abi-Habib, Sameer Yasir and Rebecca Conway","pub_date":"2020-03-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/world/asia/coronavirus-india-lockdown.html"} {"headline":"Number of Coronavirus Deaths in N.Y. Verges on 1,000","abstract":"\"Thousands of people will pass away,\" the governor warned.","byline":"By Azi Paybarah","pub_date":"2020-03-30","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc.html"} {"headline":"‘Jails Are Petri Dishes’: Inmates Freed as the Virus Spreads Behind Bars","abstract":"Some jails are releasing people to stem outbreaks, but critics say it is not happening quickly enough to save lives and resources.","byline":"By Timothy Williams, Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum","pub_date":"2020-03-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/us/coronavirus-prisons-jails.html"} {"headline":"For Autocrats, and Others, Coronavirus Is a Chance to Grab Even More Power","abstract":"Leaders around the world have passed emergency decrees and legislation expanding their reach during the pandemic. Will they ever relinquish them?","byline":"By Selam Gebrekidan","pub_date":"2020-03-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/world/europe/coronavirus-governments-power.html"} {"headline":"Strikes at Instacart and Amazon Over Coronavirus Health Concerns","abstract":"The two companies are the latest targets of labor action by groups fearing virus exposure on the job.","byline":"By Noam Scheiber and Kate Conger","pub_date":"2020-03-31","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/business/economy/coronavirus-instacart-amazon.html"} {"headline":"Why This Economic Crisis Differs From the Last One for Women","abstract":"Unlike the financial crash of 2008, this downturn will likely lead to more job losses for women, according to new research.","byline":"By Alisha Haridasani Gupta","pub_date":"2020-03-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/us/equal-pay-coronavirus-economic-impact.html"} {"headline":"No Crowds. No Flying Fish. Coronavirus Empties Pike Place Market.","abstract":"A hub since frontier days, the Seattle market is weathering the outbreak as best it can.","byline":"By Ruth Fremson","pub_date":"2020-03-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/us/coronavirus-seattle-market.html"} {"headline":"Airlines Refused to Collect Passenger Data That Could Aid Coronavirus Fight","abstract":"Public health officials have been pushing airlines for years to gather more traveler data, but airlines have balked, citing cost and time.","byline":"By Natalie Kitroeff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg","pub_date":"2020-03-31","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/business/coronavirus-airlines-contact-tracing-cdc.html"} {"headline":"Sanders Argues He Has ‘Narrow Path’ and Says He Wants to Push His Issues","abstract":"In an interview with Seth Meyers on “Late Night,” Bernie Sanders said that raising consciousness on the issues he cares about is an argument for continuing his campaign.","byline":"By Katie Glueck","pub_date":"2020-03-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democrats-virus.html"} {"headline":"Patient Has Virus and Serious Cancer. Should Doctors Withhold Ventilator?","abstract":"With a looming shortage of equipment for coronavirus patients in New York City, doctors say they may soon need to make difficult choices.","byline":"By Joseph Goldstein, Michael Rothfeld and Benjamin Weiser","pub_date":"2020-04-01","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/nyregion/coronavirus-doctors-patients.html"} {"headline":"Maine Covid Map and Case Count","abstract":"A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county. ","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-04-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/maine-coronavirus-cases.html"} {"headline":"New Jersey Covid Map and Case Count","abstract":"A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county. ","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-04-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/new-jersey-coronavirus-cases.html"} {"headline":"Retailers Under Growing Pressure to Let Workers Wear Masks","abstract":"Restrictions that follow current C.D.C. guidelines have become a source of tension at many stores supplying essential goods during the coronavirus pandemic.","byline":"By Michael Corkery and Sapna Maheshwari","pub_date":"2020-04-01","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/business/coronavirus-retail-workers-masks.html"} {"headline":"Fire at Bronx Apartment Building Kills 4","abstract":"The cause of the three-alarm blaze remains under investigation.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor and Mariel Padilla","pub_date":"2020-04-01","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/nyregion/bronx-fire-building.html"} {"headline":"One Hospital’s Last Resort to Protect Doctors: Yankee Rain Ponchos","abstract":"The hospital, in the Bronx, said the ponchos were intended as a gift to weary workers, but several staffers said they were told to use them as protective equipment.","byline":"By Brian M. Rosenthal and James Wagner","pub_date":"2020-04-02","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/coronavirus-yankees-ponchos.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Layoffs Are Hitting Start-Ups Hard","abstract":"Job losses are steep in many corners of the corporate world, but they’ve pummeled start-ups — which are often pushed to grow fast or die — with particular ferocity.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-04-02","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/business/dealbook/coronavirus-startups-layoffs.html"} {"headline":"Empty Hotels. Idled Tour Buses. The Pandemic Is Devastating Tourism.","abstract":"Millions are losing their jobs and economies are suffering as once-bustling tourist sites give way to eerie emptiness. The Caribbean is suffering a particularly heavy blow.","byline":"By Kirk Semple","pub_date":"2020-04-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/americas/virus-tourism-caribbean.html"} {"headline":"‘The Fields Heal Everyone’: Post-Soviet Leaders’ Coronavirus Denial","abstract":"The heads of several former Soviet republics have persisted in playing down the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, with some also promoting unproven folk remedies.","byline":"By Andrew E. Kramer","pub_date":"2020-04-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/asia/coronavirus-denial-post-soviet.html"} {"headline":"New York City Deploys 45 Mobile Morgues as Virus Strains Funeral Homes","abstract":"“When you overwhelm the health system, you also overwhelm the death system,” one funeral director said.","byline":"By Alan Feuer and Andrea Salcedo","pub_date":"2020-04-02","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-bodies.html"} {"headline":"What It’s Like to Run for Congress Without Health Insurance During a Pandemic","abstract":"Uninsured candidates must take extra care to protect their health as they campaign amid the coronavirus outbreak: “What if something does happen to me?”","byline":"By Isabella Grullón Paz","pub_date":"2020-04-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/us/politics/coronavirus-health-care-candidates.html"} {"headline":"Cuomo Emerges as ‘Trump Whisperer’ During Coronavirus Crisis","abstract":"Using flattery and indirect attacks, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has nurtured a working relationship with President Trump.","byline":"By Jesse McKinley","pub_date":"2020-04-03","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/nyregion/cuomo-trump-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"A Debate Over Masks Uncovers Deep White House Divisions","abstract":"The Trump administration remains deeply divided over whether to tell all Americans to cover their faces in public to stop the spread of coronavirus.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear and Sheila Kaplan","pub_date":"2020-04-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/us/politics/coronavirus-white-house-face-masks.html"} {"headline":"Stranded Abroad, Americans Ask: Why Weren’t We Warned Sooner?","abstract":"As the coronavirus spreads, American tourists say the State Department was slow to inform citizens of the challenges in returning home.","byline":"By Kai Schultz and Bhadra Sharma","pub_date":"2020-04-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/world/asia/coronavirus-state-department-tourists.html"} {"headline":"Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome","abstract":"The virus injects a tiny but remarkably complex strand of RNA into infected cells.","byline":"By Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer","pub_date":"2020-04-03","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/science/coronavirus-genome-bad-news-wrapped-in-protein.html"} {"headline":"The Killer Flu of 1918: A Philadelphia Story","abstract":"The brutal toll taken by the flu that claimed 20,000 lives in the city has not been forgotten as Philadelphia braces for the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.","byline":"By Dan Barry and Caitlin Dickerson","pub_date":"2020-04-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-spanish-flu-philadelphia-pennsylvania.html"} {"headline":"What It’s Like to Be a Critical Care Doctor Battling the Coronavirus in New York","abstract":"The Brooklyn Hospital Center is on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.","byline":"By Sheri Fink, Victor J. Blue and Ben Laffin","pub_date":"2020-04-04","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000007065082/coronavirus-brooklyn-hospital-icu-tour.html"} {"headline":"All I Wanted Was to Be Interrogated","abstract":"On a reporter’s 27-hour journey from Hong Kong to New York City, hardly anyone seemed to care about her health.","byline":"By Heather Murphy","pub_date":"2020-04-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/airline-travel-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"How Many Coronavirus Cases Are in Each California County?","abstract":"Saturday: A special edition of California Today.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-04-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-cases-california-county.html"} {"headline":"College Made Them Feel Equal. The Virus Exposed How Unequal Their Lives Are.","abstract":"When they were all in the same dorms and eating the same dining hall food, the disparities in students’ backgrounds weren’t as clear as they are over video chat.","byline":"By Nicholas Casey","pub_date":"2020-04-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/politics/coronavirus-zoom-college-classes.html"} {"headline":"Another Thing to Fear Out There: Coronavirus Scammers","abstract":"The authorities say there has been a surge in fraud and cons seeking to capitalize on fears of the virus.","byline":"By Sharon LaFraniere and Chris Hamby","pub_date":"2020-04-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/politics/coronavirus-scams-fraud-price-gouging.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Military Seeks More Funding for Pacific Region After Pandemic","abstract":"A report delivered to Congress last week called for $20.1 billion in equipment, exercises and defense investments to counter China in 2021 and beyond.","byline":"By Julian E. Barnes","pub_date":"2020-04-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/politics/us-china-military-funding-virus.html"} {"headline":"How to Live in the Face of Fear: Lessons From a Cancer Survivor","abstract":"Kate Bowler is a religion scholar and best-selling author who is sharing daily reflections on Instagram.","byline":"By Elizabeth Dias","pub_date":"2020-04-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/kate-bowler-cancer-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"The Rising Heroes of the Coronavirus Era? Nations’ Top Scientists","abstract":"Scientists in Europe are becoming household names, fulfilling societies’ emotional and practical need for the truth.","byline":"By Matina Stevis-Gridneff","pub_date":"2020-04-05","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/world/europe/scientists-coronavirus-heroes.html"} {"headline":"The Week in Business: Grim Numbers Get Even Worse","abstract":"The coronavirus has cost nearly 10 million people their jobs. What comes next?","byline":"By Charlotte Cowles","pub_date":"2020-04-05","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/business/the-week-in-business-grim-numbers-get-even-worse.html"} {"headline":"Despite Promises, Testing Delays Leave Americans ‘Flying Blind’","abstract":"Even as new and faster tests become available, lengthy delays to obtain results continue and test materials are running low, compounding the crises hospitals are facing.","byline":"By Sheila Kaplan and Katie Thomas","pub_date":"2020-04-06","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/health/coronavirus-testing-us.html"} {"headline":"Great Barrier Reef Is Bleaching Again. It’s Getting More Widespread.","abstract":"New data shows example after example of overheating and damage along the 1,500-mile natural wonder.","byline":"By Damien Cave","pub_date":"2020-04-06","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/world/australia/great-barrier-reefs-bleaching-dying.html"} {"headline":"European Banks Prepared for a Crisis. But Not This One.","abstract":"The financial impact of the coronavirus surpasses the old worst-case scenarios, threatening a credit crunch or even a new financial crisis.","byline":"By Jack Ewing","pub_date":"2020-04-06","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/business/european-banks-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"U.N. Inquiry Into Syria Bombings Is Silent on Russia’s Role","abstract":"Experts say a “mealy-mouthed” United Nations report failed to blame Russia for bombing hospitals and a school, for fear of alienating Moscow.","byline":"By Evan Hill","pub_date":"2020-04-06","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/world/middleeast/UN-Syria-Russia-hospital-bombings.html"} {"headline":"Wisconsin Is Set to Vote on Tuesday After Court Overrules Governor’s Postponement","abstract":"Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, ordered the presidential primary and thousands of local races delayed, but a conservative majority on the state’s Supreme Court said he could not unilaterally reschedule elections.","byline":"By Nick Corasaniti, Reid J. Epstein and Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-04-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/wisconsin-primary-election-postponed-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"‘I Just Need the Comfort’: Processed Foods Make a Pandemic Comeback","abstract":"Shoppers, moved by nostalgia and hunting for longer shelf lives, are returning to old standbys like Chef Boyardee and Campbell’s soup.","byline":"By Julie Creswell","pub_date":"2020-04-07","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/business/coronavirus-processed-foods.html"} {"headline":"Wisconsin Primary Recap: Voters Forced to Choose Between Their Health and Their Civic Duty","abstract":"The state was the first to hold a major election with in-person voting since stay-at-home orders were widely instituted because of the coronavirus.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-04-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/politics/wisconsin-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"Cruise Industry, a Symbol of the Pandemic, Scrambles to Survive","abstract":"Carnival and the other big companies have no revenue and face questions over whether customers will return once the threat of the coronavirus passes.","byline":"By David Yaffe-Bellany","pub_date":"2020-04-07","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/business/coronavirus-cruise-industry-carnival.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Deaths Are Relatively Flat Across Region","abstract":"For the second day in a row, officials found reasons for hope, with fewer than 600 deaths in the state.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-04-07","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Oil Companies Are Collapsing, but Wind and Solar Energy Keep Growing","abstract":"The renewable-energy business is expected to keep growing, though more slowly, in contrast to fossil fuel companies, which have been hammered by low oil and gas prices.","byline":"By Ivan Penn","pub_date":"2020-04-07","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/business/energy-environment/coronavirus-oil-wind-solar-energy.html"} {"headline":"Dow Jones Chief, William Lewis, to Step Down","abstract":"Mr. Lewis, who is also the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said he was leaving the company in “strong financial shape.”","byline":"By Marc Tracy and Edmund Lee","pub_date":"2020-04-08","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/business/media/dow-jones-wall-street-journal-william-lewis.html"} {"headline":"How Delays and Unheeded Warnings Hindered New York’s Virus Fight","abstract":"The federal response was chaotic. Even so, the state’s and city’s own initial efforts failed to keep pace with the outbreak, The Times found.","byline":"By J. David Goodman","pub_date":"2020-04-08","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus-response-delays.html"} {"headline":"41 Transit Workers Dead: Crisis Takes Staggering Toll on Subways","abstract":"The M.T.A. has been criticized for its response to the outbreak. Now a staffing shortage has made it difficult to keep even a diminished system running.","byline":"By Christina Goldbaum","pub_date":"2020-04-08","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-mta-subway.html"} {"headline":"Summer Heat May Not Diminish Coronavirus Strength","abstract":"A new report, sent to the White House science adviser, says the country should not rely on warm weather to stop contagion.","byline":"By James Gorman","pub_date":"2020-04-08","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/health/coronavirus-summer-weather.html"} {"headline":"Biden vs. Trump: The General Election Is Here, and Transformed","abstract":"The coronavirus crisis means many questions remain about how the 2020 race will proceed, but the top of the ticket is now clear.","byline":"By Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin","pub_date":"2020-04-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump-2020-election.html"} {"headline":"Yemen Cease-Fire Is, at Best, First Step on Long Road to Peace","abstract":"The country’s warring parties have proposed ways to end a devastating war, but yawning gaps remain and making progress will be tricky.","byline":"By Ben Hubbard","pub_date":"2020-04-09","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/world/middleeast/saudi-houthi-yemen-ceasefire-questions.html"} {"headline":"OPEC and Russia Agree to Cut Oil Production","abstract":"The reductions for May and June were smaller than some investors and analysts had expected, and oil prices gave up earlier gains.","byline":"By Stanley Reed","pub_date":"2020-04-09","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/business/energy-environment/opec-saudiarabia-russia-oil-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Baltimore Hopes Surveillance Planes Lower Crime, but Residents Fear Abuse","abstract":"The A.C.L.U. has challenged a six-month trial program endorsed by the police chief in a city with one of the highest murder rates in the nation.","byline":"By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs","pub_date":"2020-04-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/us/baltimore-surveillance-planes-aclu.html"} {"headline":"Stark Death Toll, but Cautious Optimism in N.Y. Over Hospitalizations","abstract":"The number of coronavirus patients in the state’s hospitals rose by only 200, the smallest one-day increase since restrictions began.","byline":"By Alan Feuer","pub_date":"2020-04-09","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-hospitalizations-flattening-the-curve.html"} {"headline":"Enlisted Late, Online Lenders Still Must Wait to Help Speed Up Stimulus","abstract":"The government wants to get loans to small businesses fast. But the lenders with the most experience with this have been unable to take part.","byline":"By David McCabe and Nathaniel Popper","pub_date":"2020-04-09","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/technology/online-lenders-stimulus-virus.html"} {"headline":"William R. Polk, Historian and Middle East Envoy, Dies at 91","abstract":"He wrote and edited many books, but he was no armchair academic — he crossed a desert by camel in part to understand a poem.","byline":"By Katharine Q. Seelye","pub_date":"2020-04-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/us/william-polk-dead.html"} {"headline":"Childbirth in Venezuela, Where Women’s Deaths Are a State Secret","abstract":"We spent weeks following women inside the country’s health care system, which has been crippled by a broken economy overseen by an increasingly authoritarian government.","byline":"By Julie Turkewitz, Isayen Herrera and Meridith Kohut","pub_date":"2020-04-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/world/americas/venezuela-pregnancy-birth-death.html"} {"headline":"Global Trade Sputters, Leaving Too Much Here, Too Little There","abstract":"As the pandemic stretches on, consumers and businesses could run short of some products in months to come.","byline":"By Ana Swanson","pub_date":"2020-04-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/business/economy/global-trade-shortages-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"To Battle Isolation, Elders and Children Connect as Pen Pals","abstract":"Pen pal programs have sprouted up around the world as schools and senior centers try to keep older adults connected and children occupied.","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-04-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/us/coronavirus-seniors-pen-pals.html"} {"headline":"Photos Show Lori Loughlin’s Daughters Posing as Rowers, Prosecutors Say","abstract":"In a legal battle over how much parents in the nation’s largest college admissions scandal knew, prosecutors say the images show that the parents knew of the fraud.","byline":"By Kate Taylor","pub_date":"2020-04-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/us/lori-loughlin-rowing-photograph.html"} {"headline":"Hospital Chaplains Try to Keep the Faith During the Coronavirus Pandemic","abstract":"They are used to serving as vessels for others’ grief and fear, but the outbreak has changed how they practice their work, and how they feel.","byline":"By Emma Goldberg","pub_date":"2020-04-11","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/health/coronavirus-chaplains-hospitals.html"} {"headline":"China Delays Mask and Ventilator Exports After Quality Complaints","abstract":"Chinese customs officials, facing accusations from Europe that some medical supplies have been defective, say they will inspect every shipment.","byline":"By Keith Bradsher","pub_date":"2020-04-11","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/china-mask-exports-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Keep Workers On, or Lay Them Off? Small Businesses Face Hard Choices","abstract":"The $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program is intended to help small employers weather the pandemic. But whether it does isn’t clear.","byline":"By Amy Haimerl","pub_date":"2020-04-11","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/article/ppp-paycheck-protection-program-small-business.html"} {"headline":"Fight Over Texas Abortion Ban Reaches Supreme Court","abstract":"State officials say the pandemic requires restricting abortions, while clinics say the state is cynically using the crisis to achieve longstanding goals.","byline":"By Adam Liptak","pub_date":"2020-04-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/coronavirus-texas-abortion-ban-supreme-court.html"} {"headline":"He Beat Coronavirus. Now His Blood May Help Save Lives.","abstract":"A New Jersey doctor’s blood was found to have high levels of virus antibodies. Researchers plan to use it to treat other patients.","byline":"By Tracey Tully","pub_date":"2020-04-11","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/nyregion/coronavirus-antibodies-nj-doctor.html"} {"headline":"‘There Will Be Losses’: How a Captain’s Plea Exposed a Rift in the Military","abstract":"The coronavirus crisis aboard the carrier Theodore Roosevelt spurred another chapter in the hollowing out of the Navy’s leadership, in particular under the Trump administration.","byline":"By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper and John Ismay","pub_date":"2020-04-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/coronavirus-roosevelt-carrier-crozier.html"} {"headline":"Israel’s Not-So-Secret Weapon in Coronavirus Fight: The Spies of Mossad","abstract":"The Israeli intelligence agency has played an outsize role in acquiring the medical gear, and knowledge, needed in the pandemic.","byline":"By Ronen Bergman","pub_date":"2020-04-12","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/world/middleeast/coronavirus-israel-mossad.html"} {"headline":"At Least 29 Are Killed as Tornadoes and Severe Weather Strike Southern States","abstract":"Storms tore a destructive path across parts of the South, where a series of tornadoes damaged houses and commercial buildings.","byline":"By Sandra E. Garcia, Aimee Ortiz, Christine Hauser and Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-04-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/south-severe-weather.html"} {"headline":"Pregnant in the Coronavirus Epicenter","abstract":"The Brooklyn Hospital Center’s maternity floor is a place of anxiety for staff and patients. But amid the fear, mothers with Covid-19 are experiencing moments of joy and gratitude.","byline":"By Sheri Fink, Victor J. Blue and Ben Laffin","pub_date":"2020-04-12","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000007080665/coronavirus-brooklyn-hospital-maternity-ward.html"} {"headline":"Trump and Allies Push Toward Reopening Economy. But Governors Urge Caution.","abstract":"Officials still in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday voiced fears that relaxing protective measures too early could cause the virus to surge once again.","byline":"By Rick Rojas","pub_date":"2020-04-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/when-lockdown-ending-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Fears Terrify and Impoverish Migrants in the Persian Gulf","abstract":"Millions of migrant workers in Gulf countries have found themselves locked down, laid off and stranded, with no place to turn for help.","byline":"By Ben Hubbard","pub_date":"2020-04-13","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/world/middleeast/persian-gulf-migrants-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Food Workers Say C.D.C. Guidelines Put Them at Greater Risk for Infection","abstract":"The agency now says “critical infrastructure workers” who may have been exposed to the coronavirus can stay on the job under certain conditions, instead of isolating.","byline":"By David Waldstein","pub_date":"2020-04-13","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/health/workers-protections-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"The Big Deal to Cut Oil Production May Not Be Big Enough","abstract":"Saudi Arabia, Russia and other oil-producing nations have pledged to cut about 10 percent of global production, but demand is down by much more than that.","byline":"By Clifford Krauss","pub_date":"2020-04-13","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/economy/coronavirus-oil-opec-trump.html"} {"headline":"Apollo 13: As They Shot It","abstract":"Surviving disaster, in the astronauts’ words and photographs.","byline":"By Jonathan Corum","pub_date":"2020-04-13","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/science/apollo-13-moon-photos-as-they-shot-it.html"} {"headline":"Why New Orleans Pushed Ahead With Mardi Gras, Even as It Planned for Coronavirus","abstract":"A cache of internal emails reveals city officials believed chances were “low” that the festivities would help spread the virus, a prediction that proved tragically off base.","byline":"By Richard Fausset and Derek Kravitz","pub_date":"2020-04-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/coronavirus-new-orleans-mardi-gras.html"} {"headline":"I.M.F. Predicts Worst Downturn Since the Great Depression","abstract":"The global economy is expected to contract by 3 percent this year as quarantines and lockdowns cripple output.","byline":"By Alan Rappeport and Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-04-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/politics/coronavirus-economy-recession-depression.html"} {"headline":"Court Strikes Down Trump Rollback of School Nutrition Rules","abstract":"A federal district judge has ruled that the Agriculture Department’s regulation easing sodium and whole-grain standards in school meals violated regulatory law.","byline":"By Lola Fadulu","pub_date":"2020-04-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/politics/trump-school-nutrition-rule.html"} {"headline":"Trump Stops U.S. Funding of W.H.O.; U.K. Coronavirus Deaths May Be Higher Than Official Toll","abstract":"Confirmed infections neared 2 million, with more than 120,000 dead, and the I.M.F. predicted the worst global downturn since the Great Depression. New York City passed 10,000 fatalities.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-04-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/world/coronavirus-news-world-global-live.html"} {"headline":"Big Banks, Readying for a Recession, Set Aside Billions","abstract":"First-quarter earnings reports from JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo showed the country’s largest banks were preparing for customer pain.","byline":"By Emily Flitter","pub_date":"2020-04-14","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/business/bank-earnings-jpmorgan-wells-fargo.html"} {"headline":"The White House Blessed a War in Libya, but Russia Won It","abstract":"Russia wanted more leverage over an aspiring Libyan strongman. The White House provided it by assenting to a disastrous civil war.","byline":"By David D. Kirkpatrick","pub_date":"2020-04-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/world/middleeast/libya-russia-john-bolton.html"} {"headline":"Baghdad, a City Gone Still","abstract":"The picnicking families are gone by the Tigris. So are the peddlers. But a twilight walk along the river still offers a sad solace.","byline":"By Alissa J. Rubin","pub_date":"2020-04-15","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/world/middleeast/iraq-baghdad-lockdown-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Virus Is Costing N.Y.C. Billions","abstract":"Mayor de Blasio said the city faces a revenue shortfall of up to $10 billion.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-04-15","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html"} {"headline":"Relying on Science and Politics, Merkel Offers a Cautious Virus Re-entry Plan","abstract":"Shorn of any bravado, her announcement seemed again to make Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, a de facto leader on the Continent and something of an example for Western nations","byline":"By Katrin Bennhold","pub_date":"2020-04-15","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/world/europe/coronavirus-germany-merkel.html"} {"headline":"Testing Is Biggest Obstacle to Reopening States, Experts Say","abstract":"Health, business and political leaders warn against a rush to lift restrictions. New Yorkers will have to wear face coverings in public, and California will extend aid to undocumented workers.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-04-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/us/coronavirus-cases-update-live.html"} {"headline":"Why the Big Bang Produced Something Rather Than Nothing","abstract":"How did matter gain the edge over antimatter in the early universe? Maybe, just maybe, neutrinos.","byline":"By Dennis Overbye","pub_date":"2020-04-15","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/science/physics-neutrino-antimatter-ichikawa-t2k.html"} {"headline":"Boeing to Restart Production in Washington State With 27,000 Workers","abstract":"The aerospace giant said employees in the Puget Sound area would begin manufacturing commercial planes by the end of next week.","byline":"By Niraj Chokshi","pub_date":"2020-04-16","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/business/boeing-restart-production-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Who Is Likely to Become Unemployed?","abstract":"Thursday: A report analyzes which workers are most vulnerable and what that says about California’s economy. Also: An update from the U.S.N.S. Mercy.","byline":"By Jill Cowan and John Ismay","pub_date":"2020-04-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/us/california-unemployment-edd-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"The Democratic Establishment Suddenly Loves Bernie Sanders","abstract":"When he was winning primaries, many in the Democratic Party were wary of the Vermont senator. Now, he’s a friend, chess-playing companion and “American original.”","byline":"By Sydney Ember","pub_date":"2020-04-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/us/politics/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-democrats.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s ‘Opening Our Country Council’ Runs Into Its Own Opening Problems","abstract":"Instead of a formal council, the president created several industry groups, and joined four calls with them. But some participants had no notice they would be included, and others could not join in.","byline":"By Annie Karni, Kate Kelly and David Gelles","pub_date":"2020-04-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-economy-panel.html"} {"headline":"Israel Edges Closer to 4th Election as Unity Talks Falter","abstract":"After a year of political deadlock, lawmakers have just 21 days to come up with a formula for a majority government.","byline":"By Isabel Kershner","pub_date":"2020-04-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/middleeast/israel-election-gantz-netanyahu.html"} {"headline":"In Australia, an Architect Designs for a Future of Fire","abstract":"As the country rebuilds after its devastating wildfires, Ian Weir is leading the push for integrating houses with the land, rather than mass clearance of vegetation.","byline":"By Casey Quackenbush","pub_date":"2020-04-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/world/australia/australia-wildfires-bushfires-architecture.html"} {"headline":"Norman Platnick, the ‘Real Spider-Man,’ Is Dead at 68","abstract":"A renowned expert on arachnids, he traveled the world to identify unknown species. He also showed that Tobey Maguire wasn’t afraid of them.","byline":"By John Schwartz","pub_date":"2020-04-17","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/science/earth/norman-platnick-the-real-spider-man-is-dead-at-68.html"} {"headline":"‘Grammie’s Taking Food to Other People’: A Trucker Keeps Trucking","abstract":"Ingrid Brown, a truck driver, can’t easily find masks or disinfectant supplies. She worries about getting infected, or infecting others. But she keeps going.","byline":"By Sophia Jones","pub_date":"2020-04-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/coronavirus-trucker-food-delivery-protection.html"} {"headline":"Sugarcoating and Brutal Honesty: How Leaders Are Handling Coronavirus Crisis","abstract":"The pandemic is a challenge not only for public health but also for messaging. Here’s how some world leaders have talked to their citizens about the outbreak.","byline":"By Megan Specia","pub_date":"2020-04-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/world/europe/leaders-coronavirus-france-new-zealand-philippines-germany.html"} {"headline":"Dr. Oz Faces Backlash After Saying Schools Could Reopen","abstract":"Dr. Mehmet Oz, a heart surgeon and television personality, said he “misspoke” on Fox News when he said that reopening schools “might be a trade-off some folks would consider.”","byline":"By Maria Cramer","pub_date":"2020-04-17","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/business/media/dr-oz-apology-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"No Fight Over Red Ink Now, but Virus Spending Will Force Tough Choices","abstract":"The surge of deficit spending to “never-before-seen levels” is viewed as necessary, but dangerous for the future.","byline":"By Carl Hulse","pub_date":"2020-04-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/us/coronavirus-deficits-spending.html"} {"headline":"Gretchen Whitmer Isn’t Backing Down","abstract":"Right-wing protesters, Republican lawmakers and President Trump are attacking the Michigan governor, a possible vice-presidential pick. “I’m not thinking about politics,” she says.","byline":"By Trip Gabriel and Jonathan Martin","pub_date":"2020-04-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/us/politics/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-protests.html"} {"headline":"How to Survive the Coronavirus Markets","abstract":"One of the worst stretches in market history has included one of the most rapid stock rallies. How can investors get through this ordeal?","byline":"By Jeff Sommer","pub_date":"2020-04-18","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/business/mutfund/stock-market-investing-tips-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"With Broad, Random Tests for Antibodies, Germany Seeks Path Out of Lockdown","abstract":"It was the first large Western democracy to contain the spread of the coronavirus and is now the first to methodically go about reopening its economy. Others are watching.","byline":"By Katrin Bennhold and Laetitia Vancon","pub_date":"2020-04-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/world/europe/with-broad-random-tests-for-antibodies-germany-seeks-path-out-of-lockdown.html"} {"headline":"Are Face Masks the New Condoms?","abstract":"If people with no symptoms are spreading the coronavirus, as some studies suggest, it may be time to give face masks the kind of advertising and promotion that support condoms as lifesavers.","byline":"By James Gorman","pub_date":"2020-04-18","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/health/coronavirus-mask-condom.html"} {"headline":"North Korea Denies Sending a ‘Nice Note’ to Trump","abstract":"​The North’s Foreign Ministry ​disputed an assertion by President Trump and warned that his relationship with Kim Jong-un should not “be misused for meeting selfish purposes.”","byline":"By Choe Sang-Hun","pub_date":"2020-04-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/world/asia/north-korea-denies-nice-note-trump.html"} {"headline":"Hollywood’s Specialized Backstage Workers Try to Soldier On","abstract":"Production has ground to a halt, leaving a vast number of people without work and others trying to figure out how to finish projects remotely.","byline":"By Brooks Barnes and Nicole Sperling","pub_date":"2020-04-19","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/business/media/coronavirus-hollywood-production-jobs.html"} {"headline":"Wyoming Caucus Election Results 2020","abstract":"Detailed results and maps from the Wyoming presidential caucus election.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-04-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/19/us/elections/results-wyoming-president-democrat-caucus-election.html"} {"headline":"Trump Has Begun His Corona Campaign. We Don’t Have to Play Along.","abstract":"The coronavirus story isn’t about the president.","byline":"By Ben Smith","pub_date":"2020-04-19","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/business/media/donald-trump-coronavirus-campaign-media.html"} {"headline":"The Week in Business: Everyone’s Broke, and Relief Runs Dry","abstract":"President Trump wants to reopen the economy, but health officials say we need rapid testing first.","byline":"By Charlotte Cowles","pub_date":"2020-04-19","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/business/the-week-in-business-coronavirus-economy-retail.html"} {"headline":"1970: Jet’s Engine Explodes, Injuring 23","abstract":"A Scandinavian Airlines jet with 75 people aboard caught fire and burned when an engine exploded during takeoff.","byline":"By The International Herald Tribune","pub_date":"2020-04-20","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/world/europe/air-accident-rome-1970.html"} {"headline":"Doctors and Governors Vie for Masks in Cloak-and-Dagger Deals","abstract":"Despite plans to reopen states, equipment to protect workers from the coronavirus remains in high demand. “The need for an organized, equitable distribution system is dire,” a doctor said.","byline":"By Katharine Q. Seelye, Andrew Jacobs, Jo Becker and Tim Arango","pub_date":"2020-04-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/us/coronavirus-states-masks.html"} {"headline":"Excluded From Bailouts, Mortgage Servicers Face Cash Crunch","abstract":"Lawmakers and lobbyists warn that missed house payments could leave servicers insolvent but federal officials are not sold on the need for a rescue.","byline":"By Alan Rappeport, Matthew Goldstein and Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-04-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/us/politics/coronavirus-housing-mortgages.html"} {"headline":"Two E.R. Workers Worry: If They Died, Who’d Take Care of Their Son?","abstract":"A couple who both work in New York City public hospitals are facing unimagined strain as they fight the coronavirus pandemic.","byline":"By Jesse Drucker","pub_date":"2020-04-20","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/nyregion/er-workers-hospitals-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Trump, Head of Government, Leans Into Antigovernment Message","abstract":"With his poll numbers fading after a rally-around-the-leader bump, the president is stoking protests against stay-at-home orders.","byline":"By Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-04-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Online School Demands More of Teachers. Unions Are Pushing Back.","abstract":"Educators say they want to teach from home during the pandemic, but are fighting to limit work hours and counter demands that they consider unreasonable.","byline":"By Dana Goldstein and Eliza Shapiro","pub_date":"2020-04-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/coronavirus-teachers-unions-school-home.html"} {"headline":"Gaming Sales Are Up, but Production Is Down","abstract":"The coronavirus pandemic is offering mixed news and new challenges for gaming companies, both independent and corporate.","byline":"By Jason Schreier","pub_date":"2020-04-21","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/technology/personaltech/coronavirus-video-game-production.html"} {"headline":"At Least 7 in Wisconsin Got Coronavirus During Voting, Officials Say","abstract":"Milwaukee health officials said six voters and one poll worker contracted the coronavirus from participating in Election Day, which was held despite a stay-at-home order issued throughout the state.","byline":"By Nick Corasaniti and Reid J. Epstein","pub_date":"2020-04-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/politics/wisconsin-election-coronavirus-cases.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Warships Enter Disputed Waters of South China Sea as Tensions With China Escalate","abstract":"The move comes as a war of words between the United States and China over the coronavirus pandemic intensifies.","byline":"By Hannah Beech","pub_date":"2020-04-21","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/world/asia/coronavirus-south-china-sea-warships.html"} {"headline":"Spectrum Employees Are Getting Sick Amid Debate Over Working From Home","abstract":"More than 230 workers at Charter Communications, the cable and internet giant known as Spectrum, have tested positive for Covid-19, as employees question how many of them must work in the office.","byline":"By Rachel Abrams","pub_date":"2020-04-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/business/spectrum-employees-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Poland and Hungary Use Coronavirus to Punish Opposition","abstract":"The European Union seems helpless, even complicit, as authoritarian-minded governments cite the pandemic to consolidate their power.","byline":"By Steven Erlanger","pub_date":"2020-04-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/europe/poland-hungary-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Chinese Agents Helped Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic in U.S., Officials Say","abstract":"American officials were alarmed by fake text messages and social media posts that said President Trump was locking down the country. Experts see a convergence with Russian tactics.","byline":"By Edward Wong, Matthew Rosenberg and Julian E. Barnes","pub_date":"2020-04-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/politics/coronavirus-china-disinformation.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Death in California Came Weeks Before First Known U.S. Death","abstract":"The earliest U.S. deaths publicly attributed to the virus had been on Feb. 26, when two people died in the Seattle area. Santa Clara County said an autopsy showed a Feb. 6 death was also related.","byline":"By Thomas Fuller and Mike Baker","pub_date":"2020-04-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/coronavirus-first-united-states-death.html"} {"headline":"Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Doom North Sea Oil?","abstract":"The steep fall in prices and demand is undermining a proud yet declining industry.","byline":"By Stanley Reed","pub_date":"2020-04-22","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/business/north-sea-oil-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"U.S. May Share Less Intelligence With Countries That Criminalize Homosexuality","abstract":"The move is part of an effort by the acting director of national intelligence to prod countries that outlaw homosexuality to instead decriminalize it.","byline":"By Julian E. Barnes","pub_date":"2020-04-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/politics/intelligence-sharing-lgbt-laws.html"} {"headline":"Rule No. 1 for Parents Doing ‘Crisis Schooling’: Take a Deep Breath","abstract":"It’s not like you have to worry about teaching calculus or advanced biology. Not yet, at least.","byline":"By Melinda Wenner Moyer","pub_date":"2020-04-23","section_name":"Education","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/education/learning/coronavirus-remote-learning-tips-home-schooling.html"} {"headline":"House Passes Relief for Small Businesses and Aid for Hospitals and Testing","abstract":"The chamber also established a special committee to investigate the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and the multitrillion-dollar government rescue effort enacted to address it.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-04-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/house-passes-relief-for-small-businesses-and-aid-for-hospitals-and-testing.html"} {"headline":"Hollywood Beacons in the Night","abstract":"The great movie palaces of Los Angeles have withstood much upheaval over the decades. Now closed because of the coronavirus, they await their fate in silence.","byline":"By Brooks Barnes and Kate Warren","pub_date":"2020-04-23","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/business/coronavirus-los-angeles-movie-theaters.html"} {"headline":"Why These Protesters Aren’t Staying Home for Coronavirus Orders","abstract":"A vocal minority is pressing for an end to restrictions despite the continued spread of the virus. “Not everybody can put on their fashionable loungewear and get on Zoom,” a protester said.","byline":"By Julie Bosman, Sabrina Tavernise and Mike Baker","pub_date":"2020-04-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/coronavirus-protesters.html"} {"headline":"New Yorkers Want Cheap Wine, and Lots of It","abstract":"Pandemic drinking has changed what liquor stores are selling and how they are conducting business.","byline":"By Alix Strauss","pub_date":"2020-04-23","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-liquor-stores-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Do You Want to Die in an I.C.U.? Pandemic Makes Question All Too Real","abstract":"Sobering statistics for older patients sharpen the need to draw up advanced directives for treatment and share them with their families.","byline":"By Paula Span","pub_date":"2020-04-24","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/health/coronavirus-icu-advanced-directives.html"} {"headline":"Biden Steps Up Warnings of Possible Trump Disruption of Election","abstract":"Joseph R. Biden Jr. has increasingly speculated that President Trump may try to delay or disrupt the election in some way, sending a warning signal that attempts to frame the president as desperate.","byline":"By Katie Glueck","pub_date":"2020-04-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/joseph-biden-trump-election.html"} {"headline":"Durham Inquiry Includes Scrutiny of a Media Leak","abstract":"The attorney general has suggested that the Justice Department review of the Russia investigation has uncovered “troubling” findings without going into details.","byline":"By Adam Goldman, Julian E. Barnes and Katie Benner","pub_date":"2020-04-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/john-durham-ignatius-column.html"} {"headline":"Virus Deaths in New York Hit Lowest Level Since April 1","abstract":"The number of coronavirus patients in hospitals in the state was down almost 25 percent since last week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Friday.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-04-24","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html"} {"headline":"Missouri Pork Plant Workers Say They Can’t Cover Mouths to Cough","abstract":"A lawsuit filed against a Smithfield Foods plant claims it has created a public nuisance by failing to protect workers from coronavirus infection.","byline":"By Noam Scheiber and Michael Corkery","pub_date":"2020-04-24","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/business/economy/coronavirus-smithfield-meat.html"} {"headline":"Americans Stranded Abroad Weigh Options; Spain Announces Easing of Restrictions","abstract":"Belarus, led by a virus-denying autocrat, has imposed no lockdowns. Brazil’s leader, who has played down the virus, faces an uncertain future.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-04-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/world/coronavirus-news.html"} {"headline":"Health Officials Responding to Coronavirus Lacked Proper Gear and Training, Investigation Finds","abstract":"Lawyers at the Department of Health and Human Services reported that protocols “temporarily broke down” when employees were working with people in quarantine.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-04-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/coronavirus-federal-response.html"} {"headline":"A Ramadan Like No Other: Images From Around the World","abstract":"The coronavirus pandemic is forcing Muslims to adapt, observing the holy month more at home than in the mosque, more online than in person, and with greater uncertainty about the future.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-04-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/world/ramadan-photos.html"} {"headline":"Jailed Huawei Workers Raised a Forbidden Subject: Iran","abstract":"China arrested five former employees who had discussed the tech giant’s Iranian sales in a chat group, raising questions about its government ties.","byline":"By Raymond Zhong","pub_date":"2020-04-25","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/technology/china-huawei-iran-arrests.html"} {"headline":"The Paramedics Couldn’t Find Lysol. They Turned to Their Congressman.","abstract":"“They don’t know who else to come to.” Members of Congress have overhauled their offices to answer increasingly desperate calls from constituents in search of a lifeline and unsure of who can help.","byline":"By Catie Edmondson","pub_date":"2020-04-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/politics/coronavirus-lawmakers-constituents.html"} {"headline":"As States Push to Reopen, Business Leaders Say Not So Fast","abstract":"“Shutting down was hard, but opening up is going to be harder,” one C.E.O. said of balancing public health and a damaged economy.","byline":"By David Gelles, Kate Kelly and David Yaffe-Bellany","pub_date":"2020-04-26","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/business/coronavirus-states-businesses-reopen.html"} {"headline":"‘He Continued to Stand With His Back to Me While I Awaited His Attention’","abstract":"Seeking alterations for a new pair of pants, an exchange at a deli and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-04-26","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/nyregion/metropolitan-diary.html"} {"headline":"Dozens of Gay Men Are Outed in Morocco as Photos Are Spread Online","abstract":"The idea was to show the hypocrisy of Moroccan society by showing how many gay men are living quietly in straight society. It backfired badly.","byline":"By Aida Alami","pub_date":"2020-04-26","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/world/middleeast/gay-morocco-outing.html"} {"headline":"Volunteer Emergency Responders Face a Dilemma: Save Lives or Stay Safe","abstract":"The coronavirus has overwhelmed scores of volunteer emergency response units, many of which are the sole responders across America.","byline":"By Dan Levin","pub_date":"2020-04-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/us/coronavirus-volunteer-emergency-responders.html"} {"headline":"This Florida Student Was Accepted at All 8 Ivy League Schools. (He Chose Yale.)","abstract":"Craig McFarland, the valedictorian of his high school in Jacksonville, Fla., received acceptance letters from 17 colleges and universities in all.","byline":"By Johnny Diaz","pub_date":"2020-04-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/us/craig-mcfarland-ivy-league-accepted.html"} {"headline":"Europe’s Privacy Law Hasn’t Shown Its Teeth, Frustrating Advocates","abstract":"Nearly two years in, there has been little enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation, once seen as ushering in a new era.","byline":"By Adam Satariano","pub_date":"2020-04-27","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/technology/GDPR-privacy-law-europe.html"} {"headline":"260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus","abstract":"Three journalists from The New York Times reviewed more than 260,000 words spoken by President Trump during the pandemic. Here’s what we learned.","byline":"By Jeremy W. Peters, Elaina Plott and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-04-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/26/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-briefings-analyzed.html"} {"headline":"Boris Johnson, Back on the Job, Urges Caution in Easing Covid-19 Rules","abstract":"The British prime minister, newly recovered from the coronavirus, says easing social-distancing rules too quickly would be dangerous.","byline":"By Mark Landler and Stephen Castle","pub_date":"2020-04-27","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/world/europe/coronavirus-britain-boris-johnson.html"} {"headline":"Soccer Coach in El Paso Shooting Dies 9 Months Later","abstract":"A soccer coach whose extensive injuries kept him hospitalized died nearly nine months after the shooting, the deadliest anti-Latino attack in modern American history.","byline":"By Manny Fernandez and Sarah Mervosh","pub_date":"2020-04-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/us/el-paso-shooting-guillermo-memo-garcia.html"} {"headline":"‘Afraid to Be a Nurse’: Health Workers Under Attack","abstract":"Stigmatized as vectors of contagion in some countries, health care workers have been assaulted, abused and ostracized.","byline":"By Kirk Semple","pub_date":"2020-04-27","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/world/americas/coronavirus-health-workers-attacked.html"} {"headline":"Married to an Undocumented Immigrant? You May Not Get a Stimulus Check.","abstract":"Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for federal payments to help families during the coronavirus pandemic. So are their spouses, even if they are U.S. citizens.","byline":"By Caitlin Dickerson","pub_date":"2020-04-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-undocumented-immigrants-stimulus.html"} {"headline":"Live Results: Ohio Presidential Primary 2020","abstract":"Detailed results and maps from the Ohio presidential primary election.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-04-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/elections/results-ohio-president-democrat-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"War Within War: As Saudi Prince Edges Away from Yemen, His Allies Feud","abstract":"A declaration of self-rule by Yemeni separatists has complicated Saudi efforts to withdraw from the war.","byline":"By Declan Walsh","pub_date":"2020-04-28","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/world/middleeast/yemen-separatists-saudi-arabia.html"} {"headline":"Digital Ad Strategy Shows Impact on Voters’ Views of Trump","abstract":"Here’s a deeper look at how the Barometer team at Acronym is testing the impact of its Facebook ads.","byline":"By Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-04-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/us/politics/trump-campaign-acronym.html"} {"headline":"How a Digital Ad Strategy That Helped Trump Is Being Used Against Him","abstract":"A former Facebook employee is using a tool he employed to help President Trump win to conduct tests for a progressive group, Acronym, dedicated to ousting Mr. Trump from office.","byline":"By Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-04-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/us/politics/Facebook-Acronym-advertising.html"} {"headline":"Navy Secretary Orders Deeper Inquiry Into Virus-Stricken Ship","abstract":"The investigation delays a decision on whether to reinstate the captain of the aircraft carrier Roosevelt, Brett E. Crozier, who has assumed the role of an unlikely hero.","byline":"By Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper","pub_date":"2020-04-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/us/politics/navy-coronavirus-ship.html"} {"headline":"Peace Corps Volunteers Can Get Unemployment Benefits, Officials Say","abstract":"In previous years, returned volunteers were not eligible for unemployment benefits, but they will now be covered by the coronavirus relief plan.","byline":"By Mariel Padilla","pub_date":"2020-04-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/us/peace-corps-americorps-coronavirus-unemployment.html"} {"headline":"Reopening California","abstract":"Wednesday: A look at the four phases state leaders laid out to lift stay-at-home orders. Also: Getting creative for gatherings.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-04-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/us/california-reopen-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"As Fighting Surges, Yemen Is Hit With 1st Cluster of Covid-19 Infections","abstract":"A handful of coronavirus cases in Aden appeared to confirm fears that the virus has been spreading, stoking concerns of an outbreak that could quickly overwhelm Yemen’s devastated health system.","byline":"By Declan Walsh","pub_date":"2020-04-29","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/world/middleeast/yemen-saudi-coronavirus-cholera.html"} {"headline":"Trump Administration Signals Support for Allies’ Fight Against Virus Orders","abstract":"Conservative groups making a legal assault against state and local coronavirus restrictions are backed by the Justice Department’s willingness to “take action.”","byline":"By Lisa Lerer and Kenneth P. Vogel","pub_date":"2020-04-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-justice-department.html"} {"headline":"NASA Picks Moon Lander Designs by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Rocket Companies","abstract":"It seems unlikely the space agency will meet President Trump’s goal of a return to the lunar surface by the end of 2024.","byline":"By Kenneth Chang","pub_date":"2020-04-30","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/science/nasa-moon-lander.html"} {"headline":"Trump Officials Are Said to Press Spies to Link Virus and Wuhan Labs","abstract":"Some analysts are worried that the pressure from senior officials could distort assessments about the coronavirus and be used as a weapon in an escalating battle with China.","byline":"By Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Adam Goldman","pub_date":"2020-04-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/us/politics/trump-administration-intelligence-coronavirus-china.html"} {"headline":"Putin, Russia’s Man of Action, Is Passive, Even Bored, in the Coronavirus Era","abstract":"The pandemic has derailed Vladimir V. Putin’s plans for a big military parade and a referendum extending his rule — and now knocked out his prime minister — as the Russian leader struggles to find his stride.","byline":"By Andrew Higgins","pub_date":"2020-04-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/world/europe/russia-putin-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Germany Hardens Ban on Hezbollah","abstract":"The United States and Israel welcomed Berlin’s move to effectively outlaw all activity by the militant group and called on the rest of Europe to follow suit.","byline":"By Christopher F. Schuetze and Melissa Eddy","pub_date":"2020-04-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/world/europe/germany-hezbollah.html"} {"headline":"Two Women, Two Career Paths and a Shared Passion: Cars","abstract":"The hall of famer and the young gun. How two enthusiasts have carved a life in racing.","byline":"By Mercedes Lilienthal","pub_date":"2020-04-30","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/business/women-automotive-careers.html"} {"headline":"Michigan Governor Reinstates State of Emergency as Protests Ramp Up","abstract":"The governor’s moves were in response to the Republican-led Legislature’s refusal to extend the original emergency declaration.","byline":"By Jacey Fortin","pub_date":"2020-05-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/us/michigan-protests-capitol-virus-armed.html"} {"headline":"Drive-Throughs Are Now a Lifeline for Fast-Food Chains","abstract":"With dine-in restaurants shuttered and social distancing paramount, drive-throughs are now providing a crucial source of revenue during the pandemic.","byline":"By David Yaffe-Bellany","pub_date":"2020-05-01","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/business/coronavirus-fast-food-drive-throughs.html"} {"headline":"3 Africans in Mexico City Grave Tell Stories of Slavery’s Toll","abstract":"The men might have been among the earliest to be stolen from their homeland and brought to the Americas.","byline":"By Nicholas St. Fleur","pub_date":"2020-05-01","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/science/africans-slavery-mexico-grave.html"} {"headline":"New York Closes Schools Through End of Academic Year","abstract":"Governor Cuomo said it was impossible to reopen schools “in a way that would keep our children and students and educators safe.”","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-01","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html"} {"headline":"Kim Jong-un Resurfaces, State Media Says, After Weeks of Health Rumors","abstract":"The North Korean leader was said to have visited a factory on Friday, after a series of unsubstantiated news reports suggested that he was gravely ill.","byline":"By Choe Sang-Hun","pub_date":"2020-05-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/world/asia/kim-jong-un-resurfaces.html"} {"headline":"Was That a Cough? Going Back to the Movies in Texas","abstract":"A few movie theaters in Texas opened on Saturday, early experiments in back-to-normal living after a long coronavirus lockdown.","byline":"By Manny Fernandez","pub_date":"2020-05-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/us/coronavirus-movie-theaters-texas.html"} {"headline":"My Retirement Plan Is You","abstract":"Americans without retirement savings are increasingly moving in with their millennial children.","byline":"By Charlotte Cowles","pub_date":"2020-05-02","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/business/Parents-retirement-moving-in-millennials.html"} {"headline":"Pence’s Virus Role Enhances His Profile While Showing Limits of His Influence","abstract":"“Task forces and vice presidents don’t get to decide things,” said Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor.","byline":"By Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-05-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/us/politics/coronavirus-mike-pence.html"} {"headline":"Photos of Life Transformed by a Pandemic","abstract":"People are seeking a bit of normalcy as governments wrestle with the shutdowns aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-05-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/us/photos-pandemic-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Stark Symbol of Pandemic in N.Y.: Homeless People Huddled on the Subway","abstract":"New Yorkers with no better place to go keep riding and sleeping on otherwise empty trains, stirring public health fears and prompting a nightly shutdown for cleaning.","byline":"By Nikita Stewart and Nate Schweber","pub_date":"2020-05-02","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-subway-homeless.html"} {"headline":"Concert for One: I.C.U. Doctor Brings Classical Music to Coronavirus Patients","abstract":"Dr. Rachel Easterwood, a professionally trained musician-turned-physician, has found a unique way to help her patients with Covid-19 — live classical music concerts.","byline":"By Sarah Kerr, Noah Throop and Aaron Byrd","pub_date":"2020-05-03","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000007092240/coronavirus-covid-patients-classical-music.html"} {"headline":"North and South Korea Exchange Gunfire Across Demilitarized Zone","abstract":"The reports of gunfire came two days after the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, reappeared in public after three weeks of absence and rumors about his health.","byline":"By Choe Sang-Hun","pub_date":"2020-05-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/world/asia/South-Korea-North-Gunfire-DMZ.html"} {"headline":"Virus Pushes a Staid Supreme Court Into Revolutionary Changes","abstract":"The court is set to depart from history twice on Monday: The justices will hear arguments by conference call, and the public will be able to listen in.","byline":"By Adam Liptak","pub_date":"2020-05-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/politics/supreme-court-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Seven States to Coordinate on Amassing Medical Equipment to Fight Coronavirus","abstract":"New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will unite to purchase medical supplies.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-03","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html"} {"headline":"My Co-Anchor Is Pawing at the Door: Back to You in the Studio","abstract":"As TV meteorologists and reporters work from home, pets have become a part of their reports — often by accident, and always to delightful effect.","byline":"By Johnny Diaz","pub_date":"2020-05-03","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/business/media/meteorologists-dogs-cats-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"As Trump Pushes to Reopen, Government Sees Virus Toll Nearly Doubling","abstract":"An internal Trump administration model projects a near-doubling of daily coronavirus deaths by June 1 as the nation begins to reopen, as well as a rapid rise in daily infections.","byline":"By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Eileen Sullivan","pub_date":"2020-05-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-death-toll.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Survivors Want Answers, and China Is Silencing Them","abstract":"In Wuhan, where the pandemic started, the police have threatened and interrogated grieving relatives. Lawyers have been warned not to help them sue.","byline":"By Vivian Wang, Amy Qin and Sui-Lee Wee","pub_date":"2020-05-04","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/world/asia/china-coronavirus-answers.html"} {"headline":"New Mexico Invokes Riot Law to Control Virus Near Navajo Nation","abstract":"The lockdown in Gallup, on the edge of the country’s largest Indian reservation, comes in response to a worsening outbreak.","byline":"By Simon Romero","pub_date":"2020-05-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/coronavirus-new-mexico-gallup-navajo.html"} {"headline":"An Amazon Vice President Quit Over Firings of Employees Who Protested","abstract":"Tim Bray, an engineer who had been a vice president of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, said the firings were “evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture.”","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-05-04","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/business/amazon-tim-bray-resigns.html"} {"headline":"Newspaper’s Top Editor Is Now a ‘Homeless’ Blogger","abstract":"A 54-year-old journalist lost his job running an Indiana newspaper, as well as the apartment that went with it. He moved to a Motel 6.","byline":"By Marc Tracy","pub_date":"2020-05-04","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/business/newspaper-editor-gannett-homeless-blogger.html"} {"headline":"King County in Washington Agrees to $2.25 Million Settlement in Teen’s Shooting","abstract":"MiChance Dunlap-Gittens was fatally shot by officers during an undercover operation in 2017. The settlement includes a promise to pursue a policy requiring dashboard and body cameras.","byline":"By Christine Hauser","pub_date":"2020-05-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/king-county-shooting-lawsuit-settlement.html"} {"headline":"Self-Isolated at the End of the World","abstract":"Alone in the long Antarctic night, Adm. Richard E. Byrd endured the ultimate in social distancing.","byline":"By Dennis Overbye","pub_date":"2020-05-05","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/science/antarctica-byrd-distancing-expedition.html"} {"headline":"Greg Zanis, Who Made Crosses for Mass Shooting Victims, Dies at 69","abstract":"Mr. Zanis, a carpenter who traveled the country honoring the dead, made over 26,000 wooden memorials over the past two decades.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor","pub_date":"2020-05-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/us/greg-zanis-dead-wooden-crosses.html"} {"headline":"Top U.K. Scientist Resigns Over Coronavirus Distancing Violation","abstract":"French doctors found that a patient had the virus on Dec. 27, suggesting that it was circulating long before containment efforts began. A major Philippine broadcaster critical of Duterte has been forced off the air.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-05","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/world/coronavirus-world-coverage.html"} {"headline":"Pair Is Arrested on First Fraud Charges Tied to Small-Business Loan Program","abstract":"The case against two men from New England is part of the Justice Department’s effort to fight crimes related to the coronavirus.","byline":"By Katie Benner","pub_date":"2020-05-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/politics/virus-fraud-justice-department.html"} {"headline":"Small Businesses Counting on Loan Forgiveness Could Be Stuck With Debt","abstract":"Business owners who took out loans under the Paycheck Protection Program thought converting them to grants would be easy. It’s not.","byline":"By Alan Rappeport and Emily Flitter","pub_date":"2020-05-06","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/business/small-businesses-loans-ppp-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"The New York Times Tops 6 Million Subscribers as Ad Revenue Plummets","abstract":"Widespread interest in coronavirus coverage drew nearly 600,000 digital subscribers during three months of 2020. But the chief executive, Mark Thompson, gave a bleak forecast for ads.","byline":"By Marc Tracy","pub_date":"2020-05-06","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/business/media/new-york-times-earnings-subscriptions-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"A New Coronavirus Threat to Children","abstract":"Here’s what we know about the mysterious and frightening ailment that doctors are seeing in a small but growing number of very young Covid-19 patients.","byline":"By Pam Belluck","pub_date":"2020-05-06","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/article/kawasaki-disease-coronavirus-children.html"} {"headline":"The Jobs Numbers Will Be Terrible. Here’s How to Interpret Them.","abstract":"Government figures due Friday will undoubtedly show that job losses in April were the worst ever. But they could provide key hints about the recovery.","byline":"By Ben Casselman","pub_date":"2020-05-06","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/business/economy/coronavirus-unemployment-jobs-report.html"} {"headline":"How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home","abstract":"As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us.","byline":"By Adam Satariano","pub_date":"2020-05-06","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/technology/employee-monitoring-work-from-home-virus.html"} {"headline":"This Brooklyn High School Found a Way to Honor Its Graduating Seniors","abstract":"With almost all Class of 2020 ceremonies canceled, high schools like James Madison have devised creative methods to celebrate their departing students.","byline":"By Elizabeth A. Harris","pub_date":"2020-05-07","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/nyregion/coronavirus-high-school-graduations-2020.html"} {"headline":"The Results Are In for the Sharing Economy. They Are Ugly.","abstract":"Lyft, Uber and Airbnb depend on travel, vacations and gatherings. That’s a problem when much of the world is staying home.","byline":"By Kate Conger and Erin Griffith","pub_date":"2020-05-07","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/technology/the-results-are-in-for-the-sharing-economy-they-are-ugly.html"} {"headline":"Google Sibling Abandons Ambitious City of the Future in Toronto","abstract":"In scrapping the project, the company cited the economic upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but critics say it was a loser from the start and a failure in “surveillance capitalism.”","byline":"By Ian Austen and Daisuke Wakabayashi","pub_date":"2020-05-07","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/world/americas/google-toronto-sidewalk-labs-abandoned.html"} {"headline":"Moderna Gets OK to Start Larger Trial for a Coronavirus Vaccine","abstract":"The company announced that the Food and Drug Administration had cleared its application to proceed to a clinical trial involving about 600 people.","byline":"By Knvul Sheikh","pub_date":"2020-05-07","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/health/coronavirus-vaccine-moderna.html"} {"headline":"Indianapolis Police Fatally Shoot Man Who May Have Streamed Encounter on Facebook Live","abstract":"The police said the man was killed after shooting at an officer who chased him for driving recklessly. The man apparently recorded a video several minutes long during the pursuit.","byline":"By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs","pub_date":"2020-05-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/indianapolis-police-shooting.html"} {"headline":"Protests, Calls for Justice in Georgia Over Ahmaud Arbery Killing","abstract":"A crowd of protesters gathered outside the Glynn County Courthouse in Georgia to demand a thorough investigation into the killing of Ahmaud Arbery after a father and son were arrested, and charged with murder.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-05-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007129860/ahmaud-arbery-killing-protests.html"} {"headline":"In Flynn Case, Barr Again Takes Aim at Mueller Inquiry","abstract":"The Justice Department’s move was the latest example of the attorney general’s effort to chisel away at the special counsel investigation and emphasize an alternate narrative.","byline":"By Mark Mazzetti","pub_date":"2020-05-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/us/politics/barr-mueller-investigation-flynn.html"} {"headline":"Haphazard Rollout of Coronavirus Drug Frustrates Doctors","abstract":"Remdesivir was shipped to small hospitals even as besieged medical centers were denied access.","byline":"By Gina Kolata","pub_date":"2020-05-08","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/health/coronavirus-remdesivir-hospitals.html"} {"headline":"Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Ex-French President, Accused of Groping Journalist","abstract":"The German reporter said that the former French president grabbed her repeatedly after a 2018 interview. He has denied the accusations.","byline":"By Aurelien Breeden and Christopher F. Schuetze","pub_date":"2020-05-08","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/world/europe/german-journalist-valery-giscard-destaing.html"} {"headline":"How Bad Is Unemployment? ‘Literally Off the Charts’","abstract":"The U.S. jobless rate for April is put at 14.7 percent, with 20.5 million jobs lost, figures that almost certainly understate the economic devastation.","byline":"By Nelson D. Schwartz, Ben Casselman and Ella Koeze","pub_date":"2020-05-08","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/08/business/economy/april-jobs-report.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Hits Back at China With New Visa Restrictions on Journalists","abstract":"The Trump administration is imposing 90-day limits on work visas for Chinese journalists, raising the threat of further retaliation by the Chinese government.","byline":"By Vivian Wang and Edward Wong","pub_date":"2020-05-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/us/politics/china-journalists-us-visa-crackdown.html"} {"headline":"The Grapelord of Napa Faces a Threat Worse Than Plague","abstract":"For 50 years, Andy Beckstoffer drove up the price of wine. Did the strategy work too well?","byline":"By Ben Ryder Howe","pub_date":"2020-05-09","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/business/beckstoffer-wine-napa.html"} {"headline":"Three Children Have Died in New York of Illness Linked to Virus","abstract":"Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said New York was working with the C.D.C. to investigate a mysterious illness linked to the coronavirus that causes life-threatening inflammation in children.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-09","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html"} {"headline":"Elon Musk Lashes Out at Officials Keeping Tesla Plant Closed Over Virus","abstract":"He says he’ll move the headquarters of his electric car company out of California to Texas or Nevada.","byline":"By Neal E. Boudette and Emily Flitter","pub_date":"2020-05-09","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/business/coronavirus-elon-musk-tesla-california.html"} {"headline":"As Job Losses Mount, Lawmakers Face a Make-or-Break Moment","abstract":"The United States just lost 20 million jobs. The wrong federal response could make those layoffs a permanent fixture of the U.S. economy and sentence thousands of companies to bankruptcy.","byline":"By Jim Tankersley","pub_date":"2020-05-09","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/business/as-job-losses-mount-lawmakers-face-a-make-or-break-moment.html"} {"headline":"Thomas Reppetto, Crime Watchdog and Historian, Is Dead at 88","abstract":"A former police officer with a Harvard Ph.D., he brought a street cop’s experience and a scholarly perspective to the Citizens Crime Commission in New York.","byline":"By Richard Sandomir","pub_date":"2020-05-10","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/nyregion/thomas-reppetto-dead.html"} {"headline":"Ex-Deputy Charged After Armed White ‘Mob’ Confronts Black Family","abstract":"The deputy was fired after “terrorizing” a North Carolina family in what appeared to be a case of mistaken identity, officials said.","byline":"By Johnny Diaz and Aimee Ortiz","pub_date":"2020-05-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/us/North-Carolina-deputy-charges-racism.html"} {"headline":"Lost Your Job but Still Have a 401(k)? Here’s What to Do With It","abstract":"Many newly unemployed Americans may have to dip into retirement funds to cover expenses. Even if you don’t, you have some decisions to make.","byline":"By Mark Miller","pub_date":"2020-05-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/business/401k-rollover-faq.html"} {"headline":"As Europe Reopens Schools, Relief Combines With Risk","abstract":"Restarting classes is central to reviving economies. But one question haunts the efforts: Just how contagious are children, and could they be the next super spreaders?","byline":"By Katrin Bennhold","pub_date":"2020-05-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/world/europe/reopen-schools-germany.html"} {"headline":"Repeat After Me: The Markets Are Not the Economy","abstract":"The two have been intertwined in the American psyche since the 1929 stock crash and the onset of the Great Depression. But stocks are not a reliable gauge of overall economic health.","byline":"By Matt Phillips","pub_date":"2020-05-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/business/stock-market-economy-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"App Shows Promise in Tracking New Coronavirus Cases, Study Finds","abstract":"The app, which allows people to record their symptoms, was remarkably effective in predicting infections. The most reliable indicators, researchers found, were loss of smell and taste.","byline":"By Andrew Jacobs","pub_date":"2020-05-11","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/health/coronavirus-symptoms-app.html"} {"headline":"Shanghai Disneyland Reopens With Strict Safety Procedures","abstract":"Limited capacity, face masks and plastic gloves to ride: The opening offers a glimpse of how other Disney parks may cope.","byline":"By Brooks Barnes","pub_date":"2020-05-11","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/business/shanghai-disneyland-reopens.html"} {"headline":"As Banks Stumble in Delivering Aid, Congress Weighs Other Options","abstract":"Accounts provided by the Federal Reserve and distributions handled by payroll processors are among the ideas floating around Capitol Hill.","byline":"By Emily Flitter and Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-05-11","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/business/coronavirus-aid-banks.html"} {"headline":"Why Kamala Harris Isn’t Clamoring to Be Biden’s Running Mate","abstract":"The California senator is considered a potential running mate for Joe Biden. But unlike other possible contenders, she has avoided making a pitch for the ticket.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-05-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/us/politics/kamala-harris-biden-vp.html"} {"headline":"A Coronavirus Mystery Explained: Moscow Has 1,700 Extra Deaths","abstract":"Russia’s government has boasted of a low coronavirus mortality rate, but figures from an obscure city agency cast doubt on those claims.","byline":"By Ivan Nechepurenko","pub_date":"2020-05-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/world/europe/coronavirus-deaths-moscow.html"} {"headline":"House Democrats Unveil $3 Trillion Pandemic Relief Proposal","abstract":"The proposal was immediately rejected by Senate Republicans, who called it too large and far-reaching.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane and Nicholas Fandos","pub_date":"2020-05-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/us/politics/democrats-coronavirus-relief-proposal.html"} {"headline":"Recent Commercial Real Estate Transactions","abstract":"Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.","byline":"By Jaclyn Peiser","pub_date":"2020-05-12","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/business/new-york-commercial-real-estate.html"} {"headline":"Quietly but Savagely, the Coronavirus Is Decimating Latin America","abstract":"As nations loosen rules, new clusters in places that seemed to have tamed the virus show how hard success is to sustain. In Wuhan, a seemingly small cluster led to a giant response — tests for the entire city.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-12","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/world/coronavirus-global-live-news.html"} {"headline":"Top Health Experts Paint Bleak Picture of Pandemic","abstract":"At a hearing, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci told senators that if the country did not adequately prepare, “then we run the risk of having a resurgence.”","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/us/coronavirus-live-news-updates.html"} {"headline":"Manhattan Faces a Reckoning if Working From Home Becomes the Norm","abstract":"Even after the crisis eases, companies may let workers stay home. That would affect an entire ecosystem, from transit to restaurants to shops. Not to mention the tax base.","byline":"By Matthew Haag","pub_date":"2020-05-12","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/nyregion/coronavirus-work-from-home.html"} {"headline":"A Guide to Pandemic Scams, and What Not to Fall For","abstract":"Fraudsters see opportunities to target us in these uncertain times. Here are their most popular schemes and how we can protect ourselves.","byline":"By Brian X. Chen","pub_date":"2020-05-13","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/technology/personaltech/pandemic-scams.html"} {"headline":"Republican Wins House Seat in California Special Election","abstract":"Mike Garcia, who won the endorsement of President Trump, flipped California’s 25th Congressional District after Representative Katie Hill, a Democrat, resigned last year.","byline":"By Jennifer Medina","pub_date":"2020-05-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/politics/christy-smith-mike-garcia.html"} {"headline":"N.Y.C. Commissioner Denies Racial Bias in Social Distancing Policing","abstract":"Dermot F. Shea acknowledged racial disparities in the enforcement of pandemic-related rules but said they did not stem from “racist policing.”","byline":"By Ashley Southall","pub_date":"2020-05-13","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/nyregion/nypd-social-distancing-race-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Businesses Chafing Under Covid-19 Lockdowns Turn to Armed Defiance","abstract":"Armed militia-style protesters have helped businesses across Texas defy coronavirus lockdowns and reopen. Protesters say they are enforcing the Constitution.","byline":"By Manny Fernandez and David Montgomery","pub_date":"2020-05-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/coronavirus-businesses-lockdown-guns.html"} {"headline":"Uber’s Bid for Grubhub Shows That Deals Aren’t Dead Yet","abstract":"Mergers are taking a hit during the pandemic, but there’s still an appetite for certain types of transactions.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-13","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/business/dealbook/uber-grubhub-deals.html"} {"headline":"Praying Mantises: More Deadly Than We Knew","abstract":"New research shows these ferocious insects don’t just hunt like robots.","byline":"By Cara Giaimo","pub_date":"2020-05-14","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/science/praying-mantis-strike.html"} {"headline":"District of Columbia Is Investigating Trump Nominee to Lead Media Agency","abstract":"The announcement was a significant setback in the effort to quickly confirm Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker President Trump has personally lobbied to install.","byline":"By Catie Edmondson","pub_date":"2020-05-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/us/politics/michael-pack-trump-nominee.html"} {"headline":"Amazon’s Showdown in France Tests Its Ability to Sidestep Labor","abstract":"The pandemic has intensified the push-pull between labor and the retail giant, which is required by European law to deal with unions — and has prospered anyway.","byline":"By Liz Alderman and Adam Satariano","pub_date":"2020-05-14","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/amazon-unions-france-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Navy Reports Describe Encounters With Unexplained Flying Objects","abstract":"While some of the encounters have been reported publicly before, the Navy records are an official accounting of the incidents, including descriptions from the pilots of what they saw.","byline":"By Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean","pub_date":"2020-05-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/us/politics/navy-ufo-reports.html"} {"headline":"Wall Street Recovers After a Day of Turbulent Trading","abstract":"The latest on stock market and business news during the coronavirus outbreak.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-14","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/business/stocks-live-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Hospitals Knew How to Make Money. Then Coronavirus Happened.","abstract":"Surgeries are canceled. Business models are shifting. Some of the hardest-hit hospitals may close, leaving patients with fewer options for care.","byline":"By Sarah Kliff","pub_date":"2020-05-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/hospitals-revenue-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"‘There May Not Be Pomp Because of Our Circumstances,’ Oprah Tells Students","abstract":"Oprah Winfrey addressed graduates in the Class of 2020. More than 75 other celebrities joined her.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-05-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007142140/oprah-winfrey-coronavirus-commencement.html"} {"headline":"A Drug Company Wagers the U.S. Won’t Dare Charge It With Crimes","abstract":"Teva, the world’s largest maker of generic drugs, recently pulled out of settlement talks with the Justice Department.","byline":"By Katie Benner, David Enrich and Katie Thomas","pub_date":"2020-05-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/politics/teva-antitrust-hydroxychloroquine-settlement.html"} {"headline":"A Sitting President, Riling the Nation During a Crisis","abstract":"By smearing his opponents, championing conspiracy theories and pursuing vendettas, President Tru​mp has reverted to his darkest political tactics in spite of a pandemic hurting millions of Americans.","byline":"By Alexander Burns, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Martin and Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-05-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/politics/president-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-response.html"} {"headline":"‘Everybody Was Sick’: Inside an ICE Detention Center","abstract":"Like jails, ICE facilities are faced with tough decisions as to how to keep their dense populations safe.","byline":"By Tammy La Gorce","pub_date":"2020-05-15","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/nyregion/coronavirus-ice-detainees-immigrants.html"} {"headline":"Obama Says U.S. Lacks Leadership on Virus in Commencement Speeches","abstract":"The virus has “torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” the former president said. “A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”","byline":"By Audra D. S. Burch and John Eligon","pub_date":"2020-05-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/us/barack-obama-2020-commencement-graduation-speech.html"} {"headline":"F.D.A. Clears Another Coronavirus Testing Kit for Use at Home","abstract":"The agency granted emergency clearance for a testing kit that allows a consumer to take a nasal sample at home and send it to a laboratory for the diagnosis.","byline":"By Sheila Kaplan","pub_date":"2020-05-16","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/health/fda-clears-another-coronavirus-testing-kit-for-use-at-home.html"} {"headline":"5 Takeaways on U.S. Involvement in the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis","abstract":"Thousands of civilians have died in Yemen, and American-made bombs sold to the Saudis have played a key role as the White House has sought to boost the arms industry.","byline":"By Michael LaForgia and Walt Bogdanich","pub_date":"2020-05-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/us/arms-deals-yemen.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Lacks Leadership on Virus, Obama Tells Graduates","abstract":"Investigators have uncovered a fraud ring that may have siphoned millions of dollars in unemployment payments. With more than two-thirds of states significantly relaxing restrictions, an uptick in cases is predicted.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/us/live-coronavirus-news-cases-deaths.html"} {"headline":"Rwandan Genocide Suspect Arrested After 23 Years on the Run","abstract":"Félicien Kabuga, 84, had been on the run for 23 years, since he was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on multiple charges of genocide.","byline":"By Marlise Simons and Norimitsu Onishi","pub_date":"2020-05-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/world/europe/france-rwanda-genocide-kabuga.html"} {"headline":"Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?","abstract":"He has delivered revelatory reporting on some of the defining stories of our time. But a close examination reveals the weaknesses in what may be called an era of resistance journalism.","byline":"By Ben Smith","pub_date":"2020-05-17","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/business/media/ronan-farrow.html"} {"headline":"Inspector General’s Firing Puts Pompeo’s Use of Taxpayer Funds Under Scrutiny","abstract":"Accusations of improperly using government resources have trailed the secretary of state, but President Trump’s move to fire the State Department inspector general has handed Democrats a new weapon.","byline":"By Edward Wong","pub_date":"2020-05-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/us/politics/pompeo-inspector-general-steve-linick.html"} {"headline":"Chinese Ambassador Is Found Dead at Home in Israel","abstract":"An embassy worker found the body of Du Wei, 57, in his bed in a coastal suburb north of Tel Aviv, Israeli officials said. The Chinese government in preliminary findings attributed his death to unspecified health problems.","byline":"By David M. Halbfinger and Adam Rasgon","pub_date":"2020-05-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/world/middleeast/israel-china-ambassador-du-wei.html"} {"headline":"One More Relationship Tested by the Pandemic: Siblings","abstract":"For many brothers and sisters, the coronavirus and its limits on relationships outside the home have upended their dynamics.","byline":"By Katherine Rosman","pub_date":"2020-05-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/us/virus-siblings-stay-at-home.html"} {"headline":"Autoworkers Are Returning as Carmakers Gradually Crank Up Factories","abstract":"After being idle for nearly two months, G.M., Ford and Fiat Chrysler will restart assembly plants on Monday with masks, gloves and curtains.","byline":"By Neal E. Boudette","pub_date":"2020-05-17","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/business/coronavirus-auto-manufacturing-restart.html"} {"headline":"Can Biden Expand the Map?","abstract":"There are signs that Joe Biden’s campaign is exploring more paths to victory in the Electoral College than recent Democratic nominees.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-05-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/politics/joe-biden-electoral-map.html"} {"headline":"Poor Countries Borrowed Billions from China. They Can’t Pay It Back.","abstract":"Nations want Beijing to forgive or renegotiate loans as their economies suffer. Doing so would be costly. Saying no could hurt China’s global image.","byline":"By Maria Abi-Habib and Keith Bradsher","pub_date":"2020-05-18","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/business/china-loans-coronavirus-belt-road.html"} {"headline":"Jailed Saudis Seek Influence in Washington to Counter Crown Prince","abstract":"Some are hiring lobbyists with links to the Trump administration, looking to build support at a time when the de facto Saudi ruler is beset by economic problems and criticism over human rights violations.","byline":"By Kenneth P. Vogel and Ben Hubbard","pub_date":"2020-05-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/politics/jailed-saudis-crown-prince-mbs.html"} {"headline":"Passed By for Decades, Clarence Thomas Is a New Symbol of the Trump Era","abstract":"He isn’t yet the pop culture star that Ruth Bader Ginsburg — “Notorious R.B.G.” to many — is. But his fans think he could be.","byline":"By Nicholas Casey","pub_date":"2020-05-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/politics/clarence-thomas-supreme-court.html"} {"headline":"Cuffing of Black Miami Doctor Was Justified, Review Finds","abstract":"But a Police Department investigation found that a sergeant had violated department rules in other ways when he detained Dr. Armen Henderson outside his home last month.","byline":"By Johnny Diaz","pub_date":"2020-05-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/armen-henderson-miami-police.html"} {"headline":"California Is Slowly Reopening. It’s Complicated.","abstract":"Tuesday: Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out new criteria for counties that hope to reopen faster than the state. There was good news for sports lovers.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-05-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/us/california-reopening.html"} {"headline":"Annie Glenn, Champion of Those With Speech Disorders, Dies at 100","abstract":"Being an astronaut’s wife thrust her into the spotlight, but a stutter left her struggling for words until she found help.","byline":"By Neil Genzlinger","pub_date":"2020-05-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/us/annie-glenn-dead.html"} {"headline":"A.C.L.U. Warns Against Fever-Screening Tools for Coronavirus","abstract":"A report by the civil liberties group contends that reliance on thermal cameras and temperature-sensing guns to resume work at factories and offices and to encourage travel is flawed and intrusive.","byline":"By Natasha Singer","pub_date":"2020-05-19","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/health/coronavirus-aclu-fever.html"} {"headline":"Clinic Bombed as Afghan Forces Fend Off Taliban Attack on Kunduz","abstract":"Airstrikes destroyed much of a health center after the militants again attacked the northern city, which they have repeatedly overrun.","byline":"By Mujib Mashal, Najim Rahim and Fahim Abed","pub_date":"2020-05-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-kunduz.html"} {"headline":"Cambridge University Will Hold Its Lectures Online Next Year","abstract":"Colleges and universities around the world, confronting the coronavirus pandemic, are studying whether and how to move forward with classes next year.","byline":"By Stephen Castle","pub_date":"2020-05-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/world/europe/cambridge-university-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Child Vaccinations Plummet 63 Percent, a New Hurdle for N.Y.C. Schools","abstract":"Parents have hesitated to take children to doctors’ offices, but students will have to meet immunization requirements to attend school in the fall.","byline":"By Eliza Shapiro","pub_date":"2020-05-20","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/nyregion/coronavirus-schools-vaccinations.html"} {"headline":"From Chaos to ‘Scary Silence’: Elmhurst Hospital After the Coronavirus Surge","abstract":"Elmhurst Hospital in Queens had been inundated by patients. The Times went back to see how the staff was recovering, and planning for the possibility of another wave.","byline":"By Sheri Fink, Erin Schaff and Ben Laffin","pub_date":"2020-05-20","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000007134835/elmhurst-hospital-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"The Law of Supply and Demand Isn’t Fair","abstract":"In a crisis, consumers think it is outrageous to jack up prices of essential items, yet that social norm predictably leads to shortages.","byline":"By Richard Thaler","pub_date":"2020-05-20","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/business/supply-and-demand-isnt-fair.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Arrests 2 Suspected of Helping Carlos Ghosn Flee Japan","abstract":"Japanese authorities believe the men, a father and son arrested in Massachusetts, helped plan and carry out Mr. Ghosn’s escape to Lebanon in December.","byline":"By Ben Dooley and David Yaffe-Bellany","pub_date":"2020-05-20","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/business/carlos-ghosn-escape-arrest.html"} {"headline":"Sleepless and Going Broke: Riding Out Coronavirus Alone","abstract":"Najee Wilson is a 32-year-old artist’s muse who is quarantining alone in Crown Heights. Unable to work or see his friends, his video diary documents what it means to find a new virtual community while organizing a rent strike.","byline":"By Alexandra Eaton, Corina Knoll and Kevin Oliver","pub_date":"2020-05-20","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000007141545/coronavirus-quarantine-alone-nyc-rent-strike.html"} {"headline":"China’s Hong Kong Crackdown Could Put Trump in an Unwelcome Spot","abstract":"A proposed new security law has senators calling for sanctions. But the president is reluctant to jeopardize his ties to President Xi Jinping.","byline":"By Michael Crowley and Edward Wong","pub_date":"2020-05-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/politics/trump-china-hong-kong.html"} {"headline":"Abdullah al-Hamid, Saudi Dissident, Dies in Detention at 69","abstract":"A tireless advocate for human rights and a thorn in the side of the monarchy, he spoke out for democratic reforms and was imprisoned seven times.","byline":"By Vivian Yee","pub_date":"2020-05-21","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/world/middleeast/abdullah-al-hamid-saudi-dissident-dies-in-detention-at-69.html"} {"headline":"Fed Chair Warns This Is a ‘Downturn Without Modern Precedent’","abstract":"It’s impossible to guess what the trajectory for the economy will look like, a series of central bankers warned. That makes nimbleness key.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek and Alan Rappeport","pub_date":"2020-05-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/business/economy/fed-chair-warns-this-is-a-downturn-without-modern-precedent.html"} {"headline":"G.O.P. Voters Back QAnon Conspiracy Promoter for U.S. Senate","abstract":"Jo Rae Perkins won her primary campaign in Oregon as the QAnon conspiracy theory has continued to gain momentum in Republican circles.","byline":"By Mike Baker","pub_date":"2020-05-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/oregon-senate-perkins-qanon.html"} {"headline":"In Michigan Visit, Trump Forgoes Criticism and Talks About the Economy and the Flood","abstract":"Touring a Ford plant, he donned a mask but then took it off because he “didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it.”","byline":"By Annie Karni","pub_date":"2020-05-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/politics/trump-michigan-visit.html"} {"headline":"Mass Firing on Zoom Is Latest Sign of Weight Watchers Unrest","abstract":"The company, which has broadened its focus to wellness and is now known as WW, let go of a large number of workers during simultaneous video conferences.","byline":"By Julie Creswell","pub_date":"2020-05-22","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/business/weight-watchers-firings-zoom.html"} {"headline":"China, Faced With Challenges, Mounts Show of Strength at Congress Session","abstract":"Beijing broke with precedent in abandoning an annual growth target for 2020, a sign of the difficulties of restarting its economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.","byline":"By Keith Bradsher and Chris Buckley","pub_date":"2020-05-22","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/business/economy/coronavirus-china-economy.html"} {"headline":"Rock-Bottom Interest Rates May Be Here to Stay","abstract":"Once the labor market begins to recover, the Federal Reserve’s experience in the pre-pandemic, record-long economic expansion is likely to influence when its raises rates.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-05-22","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/business/economy/fed-interest-rates-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Detroit Police Arrest Man in Connection With Nursing Home Assault","abstract":"Both the 20-year-old man who was arrested and the 75-year-old victim were patients of the facility, the police said.","byline":"By Derrick Bryson Taylor","pub_date":"2020-05-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/us/detroit-nursing-home-beating.html"} {"headline":"Top U.S. Officials Threaten Action on China Over Hong Kong Security Law","abstract":"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the White House economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, signaled the Trump administration would punish China.","byline":"By Michael Crowley, Edward Wong and Ana Swanson","pub_date":"2020-05-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/world/asia/trump-pompeo-china-hong-kong.html"} {"headline":"Is It Time to Stop Clapping for Health Care Workers? An Organizer Thinks So","abstract":"“To maintain the positive impact that it’s had so far, it’s best to stop at its peak,” said Annemarie Plas, who started #ClapForOurCarers.","byline":"By Derrick Bryson Taylor","pub_date":"2020-05-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/world/europe/uk-clap-for-carers-nhs-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Uncertain Results in Study of Convalescent Serum for Covid-19","abstract":"Do antibodies from patients who have recovered actually help those struggling with the disease?","byline":"By Gina Kolata","pub_date":"2020-05-23","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/health/coronarvirus-convalescent-serum.html"} {"headline":"Hertz, Car Rental Pioneer, Files for Bankruptcy Protection","abstract":"The company, which had amassed a large debt, has been devastated by the sharp drop in travel during the pandemic.","byline":"By Niraj Chokshi","pub_date":"2020-05-23","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/business/hertz-bankruptcy-coronavirus-car-rental.html"} {"headline":"Why Is the SAT Falling Out of Favor?","abstract":"The University of California will no longer use SAT and ACT scores in admissions decisions. Critics say the tests put less wealthy students at a disadvantage.","byline":"By Shawn Hubler","pub_date":"2020-05-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/us/SAT-ACT-abolish-debate-california.html"} {"headline":"‘I Am Just Hong Kong’: A City’s Fate in China’s Hands","abstract":"This hybrid of East and West may have reached the limits of its middle ground.","byline":"By Hannah Beech","pub_date":"2020-05-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/world/asia/hong-kong-china.html"} {"headline":"Afghan Sides Agree to Rare Cease-Fire During Eid al-Fitr","abstract":"President Ashraf Ghani welcomed the Taliban’s announcement of a three-day cessation of violence after months of intensifying attacks.","byline":"By Mujib Mashal","pub_date":"2020-05-24","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-cease-fire-eid.html"} {"headline":"Pay Cuts Become a Tool for Some Companies to Avoid Layoffs","abstract":"“Shared sacrifice” in the white-collar ranks aims to avoid the cost of staffing up again. With no end to the crisis in sight, it is a leap of faith.","byline":"By Nelson D. Schwartz","pub_date":"2020-05-24","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/business/economy/coronavirus-pay-cuts.html"} {"headline":"The Week in Business: The End of the Office as We Know It","abstract":"The economy is reopening, but office buildings remain empty — and may stay that way, permanently.","byline":"By Charlotte Cowles","pub_date":"2020-05-24","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/business/the-week-in-business-coronavirus-work-office-jobless.html"} {"headline":"Boris Johnson Backs Top Aide Accused of Flouting Lockdown Rules","abstract":"Despite the appearance of a double standard, the British leader defended Dominic Cummings’s travel, even as the aide was falling ill.","byline":"By Mark Landler and Stephen Castle","pub_date":"2020-05-24","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/world/europe/uk-cummings-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Sal Capozucca, Rock Drummer with a Real Estate Gig, Dies at 65","abstract":"He had a day job as a broker specializing in townhouses, but his heart belonged with his rock ’n’ roll drum set and his local band. He died of Covid-19.","byline":"By Penelope Green","pub_date":"2020-05-24","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/nyregion/sal-capozucca-dead-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Americans Ponder Losses Past and Present on a Subdued Memorial Day","abstract":"At beaches, seaside arcades and other attractions, many people hoped to turn the page from the past few months. Still, moving past the pandemic is a long way off.","byline":"By Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Audra D. S. Burch","pub_date":"2020-05-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/us/memorial-day-coronavirus-beaches.html"} {"headline":"Which Party Would Benefit Most From Voting by Mail? It’s Complicated","abstract":"Conventional wisdom has been that Democrats are more likely to benefit from voting by mail. But that’s not what research has shown.","byline":"By Michael Wines","pub_date":"2020-05-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/us/vote-by-mail-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"UConn Student Went on Rampage, Killing 2 Before Fleeing, Police Say","abstract":"Authorities are seeking Peter Manfredonia, 23, who was last seen in the Poconos of Pennsylvania.","byline":"By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Andrea Salcedo","pub_date":"2020-05-25","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/nyregion/UConn-murder-poconos.html"} {"headline":"‘This Is Not the Hunger Games’: National Testing Strategy Draws Concerns","abstract":"The Trump administration’s report to Congress sees states taking responsibility for coronavirus testing with federal guidance.","byline":"By Apoorva Mandavilli and Catie Edmondson","pub_date":"2020-05-25","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/health/coronavirus-testing-trump.html"} {"headline":"New Zealand Earthquake Interrupts Jacinda Ardern’s TV Interview","abstract":"When the rattling from the magnitude-5.8 quake stopped, New Zealand’s prime minister continued the interview, seeming unruffled.","byline":"By Damien Cave","pub_date":"2020-05-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/world/asia/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-earthquake.html"} {"headline":"Campaigning in a Crisis: Obama, McCain and the 2008 Meltdown","abstract":"Barack Obama and John McCain were rocked by a national emergency during the 2008 campaign, and their responses decided the race, aides say. There are lessons for Joseph R. Biden Jr. and President Trump.","byline":"By Adam Nagourney","pub_date":"2020-05-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/politics/obama-mccain-biden-trump-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Could All Those ‘Quarantinis’ Lead to Drinking Problems?","abstract":"Addiction specialists said it was possible for people who are drinking heavily and consistently during the coronavirus pandemic to develop a problem they did not have before.","byline":"By Maria Cramer","pub_date":"2020-05-26","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/health/coronavirus-alcohol-addiction.html"} {"headline":"Long Island Is on the Verge of Reopening","abstract":"A restart would leave New York City as the only region in the state to remain on “pause.”","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-26","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/nyregion/coronavirus-ny-live-updates.html"} {"headline":"Republicans Sue Pelosi to Block House Proxy Voting During Pandemic","abstract":"The suit filed by Representative Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, opens a new front in Republicans’ push to throw suspicion on Democratic efforts to make it easier to vote amid the outbreak.","byline":"By Nicholas Fandos and Michael S. Schmidt","pub_date":"2020-05-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/politics/house-lawsuit-proxy-voting-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Biden Calls Trump a ‘Fool’ for Not Wearing Mask in Coronavirus Crisis","abstract":"Joseph Biden, in his first in-person interview since the virus curtailed his campaign, suggested the president was being “falsely masculine’’ by refusing to wear a mask.","byline":"By Sydney Ember","pub_date":"2020-05-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/politics/joe-biden-facemasks-trump-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Space Out and Explore the Universe Without Leaving Home","abstract":"If NASA’s new 2020 missions have inspired an interest in science and celestial objects, these apps and sites can open a whole new batch of worlds.","byline":"By J. D. Biersdorfer","pub_date":"2020-05-27","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/technology/personaltech/techtip-nasa-apps.html"} {"headline":"A €750 Billion Virus Recovery Plan Thrusts Europe Into a New Frontier","abstract":"Adopting the proposal would make history for the bloc, vesting authority in Brussels in ways that more closely resembled a central government.","byline":"By Matina Stevis-Gridneff","pub_date":"2020-05-27","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/world/europe/coronavirus-europe-bailout.html"} {"headline":"Reopening Optimism Helps Wall Street","abstract":"The latest on stock market and business news during the coronavirus outbreak.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-27","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/business/stock-market-today-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"I Was Miserable for Weeks. Then I Found Out I Could Donate My Plasma.","abstract":"Testing positive for Covid-19 antibodies let me feel useful during a time when it is hard not to feel powerless.","byline":"By Eliza Shapiro","pub_date":"2020-05-27","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/nyregion/coronavirus-antibodies-plasma-donation.html"} {"headline":"Boris Johnson Defends ‘Toxic’ Aide Again. Why Protect a Political Burden?","abstract":"The aide, Dominic Cummings, has the ideas and organizational skills that the British prime minister himself knows he lacks and badly needs.","byline":"By Mark Landler and Stephen Castle","pub_date":"2020-05-27","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/world/europe/boris-johnson-cummings-cooper.html"} {"headline":"‘It’s Too Late’: In Sprawling Indonesia, Coronavirus Surges","abstract":"A random sampling of thousands found that one in 10 had antibodies for the coronavirus, an alarming glimpse at what could be runaway transmission.","byline":"By Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono","pub_date":"2020-05-28","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/world/asia/indonesia-coronavirus-surge.html"} {"headline":"N.Y. City Council Pushes Plan for Outdoor Dining","abstract":"As the lockdown continues, a Council bill would make the city carve out space where restaurants could serve people outside.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-28","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-news.html"} {"headline":"Facebook and Its Secret Policies","abstract":"Facebook should be making its policy choices in fair and transparent ways. But is it?","byline":"By Shira Ovide","pub_date":"2020-05-28","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/technology/facebook-polarization.html"} {"headline":"Does a Crisis Spur Political Unity? Not This Pandemic","abstract":"Insults, accusations and shaming characterize the current political environment even as leaders must come together at some point.","byline":"By Carl Hulse","pub_date":"2020-05-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/coronavirus-political-unity-crisis.html"} {"headline":"U.S. to Penalize Work at Iranian Facilities in Latest Blow to Nuclear Accord","abstract":"International workers will no longer be able to keep a watchful eye on the nuclear programs, risking a layer of security that had sought to ensure Iran could not secretly violate a 2015 deal with world powers.","byline":"By Lara Jakes","pub_date":"2020-05-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/politics/us-iran-nuclear-facilities-accord.html"} {"headline":"‘The Pain Is Too Intense’: Biden Challenges White Americans","abstract":"In his first formal remarks on the death of a black Minneapolis man, Joseph Biden spoke in stark terms about the everyday indignities African-Americans still suffer.","byline":"By Jonathan Martin and Katie Glueck","pub_date":"2020-05-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/politics/joe-biden-george-floyd.html"} {"headline":"CNN Crew Is Arrested on Live Television While Covering Minneapolis Protests","abstract":"Officers arrested a correspondent, Omar Jimenez, as he and a camera crew were reporting on the protests over the death of George Floyd.","byline":"By Michael M. Grynbaum and Marc Santora","pub_date":"2020-05-29","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/business/media/cnn-reporter-arrested-omar-jimenez.html"} {"headline":"John E. Randall, Ichthyologist Extraordinaire, Dies at 95","abstract":"He swam the world’s oceans, identified hundreds of new fish species and named 834 of them.","byline":"By John Schwartz","pub_date":"2020-05-29","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/science/john-e-randall-dead.html"} {"headline":"How to Use All Your California Produce","abstract":"Friday: Some expert advice from Los Angeles. Also: More reopening updates.","byline":"By Jill Cowan and Tejal Rao","pub_date":"2020-05-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/california-local-produce-recipes.html"} {"headline":"Inside an Extraordinary G.O.P. Event: ‘Pressing Flesh and Kissing Babies’ Again","abstract":"At the South Carolina event, attended by Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, there were few masks and no social distancing — and that was the point.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-05-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/politics/south-carolina-coronavirus-republicans.html"} {"headline":"Why Derek Chauvin Was Charged With Third-Degree Murder","abstract":"A document by prosecutors details how Mr. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, interacted with George Floyd before his death. Third-degree murder does not require an intent to kill.","byline":"By Sarah Mervosh and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs","pub_date":"2020-05-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/derek-chauvin-criminal-complaint.html"} {"headline":"Sam Johnson, Congressman and Former P.O.W., Is Dead at 89","abstract":"A much-decorated pilot held by the North Vietnamese for years, he would later criticize his fellow Republican Donald Trump for disparaging John McCain.","byline":"By John Schwartz","pub_date":"2020-05-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/us/politics/sam-johnson-dead.html"} {"headline":"SpaceX Launch: Highlights From NASA Astronauts’ Trip to Orbit","abstract":"Look back at the day when a NASA crew headed to the space station from the United States for the first time since the space shuttles were retired in 2011.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-30","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/science/spacex-launch-nasa.html"} {"headline":"Trump Threatens White House Protesters With ‘Vicious Dogs’ and ‘Ominous Weapons’","abstract":"The president, before traveling to Florida to watch a rocket launch, also said that his base “loves the black people.” Hours later, intense protests erupted near the White House for a second night.","byline":"By Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-05-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/us/politics/trump-threatens-protesters-dogs-weapons.html"} {"headline":"Trump Postpones June G7 Summit","abstract":"The German chancellor had announced earlier Saturday that she would not travel to the U.S. for the G7. Businesses are starting up again, but workers commuting by public transportation face dilemmas.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/world/coronavirus-news-update.html"} {"headline":"Two Lawyers Arrested in Molotov Cocktail Attack on Police in Brooklyn","abstract":"A Princeton graduate and a human rights lawyer were both charged in an attack that left a police car dashboard charred. No one was injured.","byline":"By William K. Rashbaum and Andrea Salcedo","pub_date":"2020-05-31","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/nyregion/nyc-protests-lawyer-molotov-cocktail.html"} {"headline":"Corporate Voices Get Behind ‘Black Lives Matter’ Cause","abstract":"Major companies are often wary of conflict, especially in a polarized time. But some are now taking a stand on racial injustice and police violence.","byline":"By Tiffany Hsu","pub_date":"2020-05-31","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/business/media/companies-marketing-black-lives-matter-george-floyd.html"} {"headline":"Protests Near White House Spiral Out of Control Again","abstract":"Washington’s mayor imposed a curfew and activated the National Guard, but the demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd turned into a repeat of the previous night.","byline":"By Shawn McCreesh","pub_date":"2020-05-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/us/politics/washington-dc-george-floyd-protests.html"} {"headline":"Hear 13 Birds Flourishing in a Newly Quiet New York","abstract":"When the pandemic collided with the spring migration, the sounds of the city changed overnight.","byline":"By Antonio de Luca, Dave Taft and Umi Syam","pub_date":"2020-05-31","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/31/nyregion/coronavirus-birding-nyc.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Sends Two Million Doses of Hydroxychloroquine to Brazil","abstract":"The two countries are studying whether the drug is safe and effective for the prevention and early treatment of Covid-19. Nicaragua has become a place of midnight burials.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-05-31","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/world/coronavirus-news.html"} {"headline":"As Virus Toll Preoccupies U.S., Rivals Test Limits of American Power","abstract":"The coronavirus may have changed almost everything, but it didn’t change this: Global competition spins ahead — and in many ways has accelerated.","byline":"By David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt and Edward Wong","pub_date":"2020-06-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/coronavirus-global-competition-russia-china-iran-north-korea.html"} {"headline":"Tear Gas Clears Path for Trump to Visit Church","abstract":"Police officers used flash grenades to disperse a crowd so the president could visit for a photo opportunity. And in New York, protesters and looters defied a curfew.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-06-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/floyd-protests-live.html"} {"headline":"How You Should Read Coronavirus Studies, or Any Science Paper","abstract":"Published scientific research, like any piece of writing, is a peculiar literary genre.","byline":"By Carl Zimmer","pub_date":"2020-06-01","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/article/how-to-read-a-science-study-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus to Shave Trillions From the Economy Over 10 Years","abstract":"The Congressional Budget Office projects a nearly $16 trillion hit to the gross domestic product over the next decade, $7.9 trillion after adjusting for inflation.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-06-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/coronavirus-economy.html"} {"headline":"After Reality Star’s Death, Japan Vows to Rip the Mask Off Online Hate","abstract":"While many in the country abhor the kind of harassment Hana Kimura endured before her apparent suicide, some warn that cracking down on it could also chill rising internet activism.","byline":"By Ben Dooley and Hikari Hida","pub_date":"2020-06-01","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/business/hana-kimura-terrace-house.html"} {"headline":"Patricia Reed Scott, Who Cast New York as Hollywood East, Dies at 86","abstract":"Working for two mayors, she re-established the city as the prime East Coast outpost for movie and TV production, clearing out traffic more than once.","byline":"By Sam Roberts","pub_date":"2020-06-02","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/nyregion/patricia-reed-scott-who-cast-new-york-as-hollywood-east-dies-at-86.html"} {"headline":"After Peaceful Protests, Looters Strike at Macy’s and Across Midtown","abstract":"The mayhem in the central business district — long an emblem of New York’s stature — was a new blow to a city already weakened by the virus outbreak.","byline":"By Christina Goldbaum, Liam Stack and Alex Traub","pub_date":"2020-06-02","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/nyregion/nyc-looting-protests.html"} {"headline":"A Spa’s Journey From Family Recipes to Whole Foods to ‘Survival Mode’","abstract":"Iwi Fresh in Atlanta has survived with some creative thinking by its owner, Yolanda Owens.","byline":"By Kerry Hannon","pub_date":"2020-06-02","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/business/small-business-covid-pandemic-iwi-fresh-atlanta.html"} {"headline":"At Drive-In Disco, It ‘Feels Like Saturday Again,’ Even Without a Dance Floor","abstract":"To stop the spread of the coronavirus, nightclubs are still shuttered as Europe emerges from a lockdown. But one German club has found another way to host a party. Honk if you’re having a good time.","byline":"By Patrick Kingsley and Laetitia Vancon","pub_date":"2020-06-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/world/europe/europe-germany-coronavirus-reopening.html"} {"headline":"Photos and Videos From the California Protests","abstract":"Protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis swept across the state, prompting at least two countywide curfews in parts of Northern and Southern California.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-06-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/article/california-george-floyd-protests.html"} {"headline":"Pope Francis Calls Unrest in U.S. ‘Disturbing’","abstract":"The pope was the latest leader to speak out about social unrest in the United States after the death of George Floyd. Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and Barack Obama have also commented.","byline":"By Elisabetta Povoledo and Christine Hauser","pub_date":"2020-06-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/protests-pope-francis-obama-justin-trudeau-george-bush.html"} {"headline":"In Los Angeles, the Ghosts of Rodney King and Watts Rise Again","abstract":"Los Angeles has been one of America’s reference points for racial unrest. This time protesters are bringing their anger to the people they say need to hear it most: the white and wealthy.","byline":"By Tim Arango","pub_date":"2020-06-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/rodney-king-george-floyd-los-angeles.html"} {"headline":"E.R. Visits Drop Sharply During Pandemic","abstract":"People even with heart problems are avoiding emergency rooms because they are worried about possible coronavirus infection, according to a C.D.C. report.","byline":"By Reed Abelson","pub_date":"2020-06-03","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/health/hospitals-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Steve King Sinks in Iowa","abstract":"Protesters went back to the streets and, oh, elections took place: This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-06-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/politics/protests-trump-biden.html"} {"headline":"Venice Glimpses a Future With Fewer Tourists, and Likes What It Sees","abstract":"Can a city whose history and culture drew tens of millions of visitors a year reinvent itself? The coronavirus may give it a chance to try.","byline":"By Jason Horowitz","pub_date":"2020-06-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/world/europe/coronavirus-venice-tourists.html"} {"headline":"Barr Defends Trump’s Response to Protesters Outside White House","abstract":"Attorney General William P. Barr pushed back against criticism of President Trump’s decision to forcibly clear protesters for his visit to a historic church.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-06-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007175256/barr-defends-trumps-response-to-protesters-outside-white-house.html"} {"headline":"A Would-Be Netanyahu Nemesis Snipes From the Sidelines","abstract":"A settler himself, Avigdor Liberman taunts Israel’s prime minister for talking endlessly about annexing West Bank territory, giving opponents time to mobilize.","byline":"By David M. Halbfinger","pub_date":"2020-06-04","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/world/middleeast/israel-liberman-netanyahu-annexation-west-bank.html"} {"headline":"Trump Administration Sets Demographic Requirements for Coronavirus Reports","abstract":"Responding to mounting pressure for data on the pandemic’s impact on communities of color, the administration is asking states to include race and ethnicity with test results.","byline":"By Noah Weiland and Apoorva Mandavilli","pub_date":"2020-06-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/us/politics/coronavirus-infection-demographics.html"} {"headline":"George Floyd Updates: 10th Night of Protest Follows Somber Memorial","abstract":"Thousands of demonstrators poured into streets across the nation, marching over the Brooklyn Bridge and gathering outside City Hall in Seattle.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-06-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/us/george-floyd-video-funeral.html"} {"headline":"Another Man Who Said ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Died in Custody. An Autopsy Calls It Homicide.","abstract":"Manuel Ellis of Tacoma, Wash., died in part as a result of how he was restrained, according to the medical examiner, who concluded that his death was a homicide.","byline":"By Mike Baker","pub_date":"2020-06-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/manuel-ellis-tacoma-police-homicide.html"} {"headline":"‘The World is on Fire:’ Artists Respond to the Protests","abstract":"As thousands of protesters took to the streets over the past week, artists, both amateur and professional, created a vast collection of drawings, paintings and illustrations in support of the protests and the Black Lives Matter movement.","byline":"By Antonio de Luca and Jaspal Riyait","pub_date":"2020-06-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/george-floyd-protests-artists.html"} {"headline":"Louis Sheldon, Anti-Gay Minister With Political Clout, Dies at 85","abstract":"The founder of the Traditional Values Coalition, he railed against what he called the “homosexual agenda,” gaining the ear of national politicians.","byline":"By Neil Genzlinger","pub_date":"2020-06-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/politics/louis-sheldon-anti-gay-dead.html"} {"headline":"Cities Ask if It’s Time to Defund Police and ‘Reimagine’ Public Safety","abstract":"In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, some cities are asking if the police are being asked to do jobs they were never intended to do. Budgets are being re-evaluated.","byline":"By Farah Stockman and John Eligon","pub_date":"2020-06-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/defund-police-floyd-protests.html"} {"headline":"Discussing Race and America’s Protests From Abroad","abstract":"What can be learned as the outrage over the killing of George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis goes global?","byline":"By Damien Cave and Isabella Kwai","pub_date":"2020-06-05","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/world/australia/race-protests-discussion.html"} {"headline":"The David McAtee Shooting: Did Aggressive Policing Lead to a Fatal Outcome?","abstract":"The Times analyzed videos of the shooting by the police and National Guardsmen of David McAtee in Louisville, Ky., on June 1 to show how the episode unfolded — and how questionable policing tactics played a role.","byline":"By Malachy Browne, Shane O'Neill, Drew Jordan and Cora Engelbrecht","pub_date":"2020-06-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007175316/the-david-mcatee-shooting-did-aggressive-policing-lead-to-a-fatal-outcome.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Diplomats Struggle to Defend Democracy Abroad Amid Crises at Home","abstract":"Police violence and President Trump’s threats to use the military against protesters have undercut American criticism of autocrats and called into question the country’s moral authority.","byline":"By Lara Jakes and Edward Wong","pub_date":"2020-06-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/politics/protests-diplomats-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Libyan Commander Backed by Russia Says He’s Ready for Talks to End War","abstract":"Khalifa Hifter saw the collapse this week of his 14-month campaign to capture Tripoli from a government backed by the U.N. and Turkey.","byline":"By Declan Walsh","pub_date":"2020-06-06","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/world/middleeast/libya-hifter.html"} {"headline":"How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts","abstract":"Half a decade after a spate of officer-involved deaths inspired widespread protest, many police unions are digging in to defend members.","byline":"By Noam Scheiber, Farah Stockman and J. David Goodman","pub_date":"2020-06-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapolis-kroll.html"} {"headline":"Protests Swell in U.S. and Beyond as George Floyd Is Mourned Near His Birthplace","abstract":"Demonstrators massed around the world, and even small towns with Klan histories became sites of protest. The Minneapolis mayor was shouted down by protesters.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-06-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/protests-today-police-george-floyd.html"} {"headline":"Young Protesters Say Voting Isn’t Enough. Will They Do It Anyway?","abstract":"“Don’t boo — vote,” has been Barack Obama’s mantra. Now, Democrats want to adapt it: Protest, then vote.","byline":"By Matt Flegenheimer","pub_date":"2020-06-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/politics/protests-voting.html"} {"headline":"Tropical Storm Cristobal Makes Landfall in Louisiana, Weakening to a Depression","abstract":"Meteorologists expect heavy rain to continue through Tuesday.","byline":"By Sandra E. Garcia","pub_date":"2020-06-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/cristobal-storm.html"} {"headline":"China and India Move to Defuse Tensions After Clashes in the Himalayas","abstract":"The confrontations between troops along their shared border led to injuries and the most serious tensions between the two Asian powers in years.","byline":"By Steven Lee Myers","pub_date":"2020-06-07","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/world/asia/china-india-border-himalayas.html"} {"headline":"Despite Big Promises, U.S. Has Delivered Limited Aid in Global Virus Response","abstract":"The State Department and U.S.A.I.D. have spent a fraction of the humanitarian assistance that Congress approved in March to help curb the coronavirus.","byline":"By Lara Jakes","pub_date":"2020-06-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/politics/coronavirus-humanitarian-aid-united-states.html"} {"headline":"Birthday for Breonna: A Campaign to Mourn and Honor","abstract":"On Friday, when Breonna Taylor would have turned 27, demonstrators focused attention on her case.","byline":"By Alisha Haridasani Gupta","pub_date":"2020-06-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/birthday-breonna-taylor-black-lives-matter.html"} {"headline":"‘Pandemic Within a Pandemic’: Coronavirus and Police Brutality Roil Black Communities","abstract":"The current civil unrest is deeply connected to the racial disparities exposed by the coronavirus crisis. “I’m just as likely to die from a cop as I am from Covid,” one organizer said.","byline":"By Sheryl Gay Stolberg","pub_date":"2020-06-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/politics/blacks-coronavirus-police-brutality.html"} {"headline":"Man Who Drove Into Protesters Said He Was a K.K.K. Leader, Prosecutors Say","abstract":"Harry H. Rogers drove into a group of demonstrators near Richmond, Va., on Sunday, the authorities said. The county prosecutor called him “an admitted leader of the Ku Klux Klan.”","byline":"By Jacey Fortin","pub_date":"2020-06-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/virginia-kkk-leader-harry-rogers.html"} {"headline":"How to Reduce Credit Card Fraud","abstract":"There’s been an explosion in online credit card fraud. Here’s how you can protect yourself.","byline":"By Shira Ovide","pub_date":"2020-06-08","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/technology/how-to-reduce-credit-card-fraud.html"} {"headline":"Furious Backlash in Brazil After Ministry Withholds Coronavirus Data","abstract":"President Jair Bolsonaro’s government stopped disclosing comprehensive data on coronavirus cases and deaths as cases continue to soar.","byline":"By Ernesto Londoño","pub_date":"2020-06-08","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/world/americas/brazil-coronavirus-statistics.html"} {"headline":"A Black Man Is Killed by a Trooper. His Family Wants Answers.","abstract":"Maurice Gordon, 28, was shot by a white officer after a traffic stop on the Garden State Parkway, two days before the death of George Floyd.","byline":"By Tracey Tully","pub_date":"2020-06-08","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/nyregion/maurice-gordon-nj-killed.html"} {"headline":"‘A Uniquely American Moment’ in California","abstract":"Monday: Marqueece Harris-Dawson, a Los Angeles councilman, talks about why protests haven’t died down.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-06-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/los-angeles-george-floyd-protests.html"} {"headline":"‘The Future Is Blue, Not Purple’: Is This the Year Georgia Flips?","abstract":"With both Senate seats in play and President Trump up for re-election in November, Georgia Democrats are telling anyone who will listen: This time, it’s real.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-06-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/us/politics/georgia-primary-election-senate-race-jon-ossoff.html"} {"headline":"In Retreat, Wall Street Pulls Back From Rally","abstract":"The latest on stock market and business news during the coronavirus outbreak.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-06-09","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/business/stock-market-today-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"What It Looks Like Inside an Amazon Warehouse Now","abstract":"Amazon, which has been under fire on worker safety, invited us into one facility to show its response.","byline":"By Karen Weise and Ruth Fremson","pub_date":"2020-06-09","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/technology/amazon-workplace-warehouse-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Statue of Leopold II Is Removed in Antwerp","abstract":"The statue of Leopold II, a Belgian king who brutalized Congo, was vandalized by recent protests against racism in Belgium and has now been removed.","byline":"By Reuters","pub_date":"2020-06-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007182994/leopold-statue-removed-antwerp.html"} {"headline":"After Protests, Politicians Reconsider Police Budgets and Discipline","abstract":"Elected officials are exploring changes ranging from defunding police departments to requiring more accountability.","byline":"By Dionne Searcey, John Eligon and Farah Stockman","pub_date":"2020-06-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/unrest-defund-police.html"} {"headline":"Inside the Newly Spotless Subway: ‘I’ve Never Seen It Like This’","abstract":"The experience of taking the subway in New York City transformed during the pandemic. Even as riders trickle back, their commutes may have a distinctly different feel.","byline":"By Christina Goldbaum","pub_date":"2020-06-10","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/nyregion/mta-subway-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Just Eat Takeaway to Acquire Grubhub for $7.3 Billion","abstract":"The Dutch food delivery company beat out Uber to buy Grubhub, whose chief executive will oversee operations in North America.","byline":"By Kate Conger, Adam Satariano and Michael J. de la Merced","pub_date":"2020-06-10","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/technology/uber-grubhub-just-eat.html"} {"headline":"Fed Leaves Rates Unchanged and Projects Years of High Unemployment","abstract":"Federal Reserve officials indicated they expected the economic recovery from the pandemic-induced recession to be a slow one, with rates near zero for years.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek and Alan Rappeport","pub_date":"2020-06-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/business/economy/federal-reserve-rates-unemployment.html"} {"headline":"PG&E Appoints a New Board as It Eyes Its Bankruptcy Exit","abstract":"The governor of California required the troubled utility to replace its directors as a condition for taking part in a new wildfire liability fund.","byline":"By Ivan Penn","pub_date":"2020-06-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/business/energy-environment/pge-new-board-gavin-newsom.html"} {"headline":"I.M.F. Approves Critical Loan for Ukraine","abstract":"President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine won an endorsement for his anti-corruption policies with the approval of a $5 billion lending program from the International Monetary Fund.","byline":"By Andrew E. Kramer","pub_date":"2020-06-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/world/europe/imf-ukraine-loan.html"} {"headline":"Europe Resurfaces to Find Odd Mix of the Familiar and the Alien","abstract":"A Times photojournalist and correspondent spent two weeks driving through Europe as it edged out of lockdown. Here is what they saw in six countries.","byline":"By Laetitia Vancon and Patrick Kingsley","pub_date":"2020-06-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/world/europe/coronavirus-reopening.html"} {"headline":"Snapchat Expands Deals With N.F.L., Disney and Others","abstract":"The multiyear pacts, which also included the N.B.A., NBCUniversal and ViacomCBS, will supply the platform with more short-form original and unscripted shows.","byline":"By Brooks Barnes","pub_date":"2020-06-11","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/business/media/snapchat-nfl-disney-viacomcbs.html"} {"headline":"Solicitor General Noel Francisco Expected to Step Down","abstract":"Mr. Francisco has represented the Trump administration before the Supreme Court, including in controversial cases like the travel ban against predominantly Muslim countries.","byline":"By Katie Benner","pub_date":"2020-06-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/politics/justice-department-francisco.html"} {"headline":"Amazon Set to Face Antitrust Charges in European Union","abstract":"The European Commission plans to bring charges that Amazon abused its dominance in e-commerce.","byline":"By Adam Satariano","pub_date":"2020-06-11","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/technology/amazon-antitrust-european-union.html"} {"headline":"With Jobless Benefits Set to Lapse, Congress Is at Odds Over an Extension","abstract":"While some lawmakers want to continue substantial aid for millions of unemployed workers, others are concerned that the money is holding back a recovery that depends on employees returning to work.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane and Jim Tankersley","pub_date":"2020-06-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/politics/unemployment-benefits-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Starbucks Will Allow Employees to Wear Black Lives Matter Apparel","abstract":"In announcing the reversal, the coffee chain also said it would make 250,000 Black Lives Matter shirts for baristas who wanted them.","byline":"By Heather Murphy","pub_date":"2020-06-12","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/business/starbucks-blm-ban-reversed.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today","abstract":"The fallout from the virus will linger in developing countries long after the pandemic is over.","byline":"By Jonathan Wolfe and Lara Takenaga","pub_date":"2020-06-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/coronavirus-today.html"} {"headline":"PG&E Gives Wildfire Victims More Stock in Bankruptcy Plan","abstract":"The company is increasing the number of shares it will give homeowners and businesses that lost properties during fires caused by its equipment.","byline":"By Ivan Penn","pub_date":"2020-06-12","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/business/energy-environment/pge-wildfire-victims-stock.html"} {"headline":"Pentagon Denies Spying on Americans Protesting Police Killings","abstract":"The Defense Department’s top intelligence official said that he had not been ordered to conduct surveillance on citizens, and that he supported their right to demonstrate peacefully.","byline":"By Eric Schmitt","pub_date":"2020-06-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/pentagon-spying-protests.html"} {"headline":"Trump Administration Moves to Solidify Restrictive Immigration Policies","abstract":"The administration proposed a rule this week that would raise the standard of proof for migrants hoping to obtain asylum and is expected to propose additional visa restrictions.","byline":"By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-06-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-immigration-policies.html"} {"headline":"So You Want to Learn About Juneteenth?","abstract":"On June 19, 1865, enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas, were told they were free. Now, 155 years later, people in cities and towns across the U.S. continue to mark the occasion with celebrations.","byline":"By Derrick Bryson Taylor","pub_date":"2020-06-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/article/juneteenth-day-celebration.html"} {"headline":"Cory Booker on Newark Pride, Black Lives Matter and ‘This Distraught Present’","abstract":"The senator discussed police mistreatment of black Americans in a Q. and A. with The Times. “You can’t be comfortable with this,” he said. “And it’s our comfort with it that has allowed it to fester.”","byline":"By Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-06-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/us/politics/cory-booker-racism-black-lives-matter.html"} {"headline":"Health Care Advocates Push Back Against Trump’s Erasure of Transgender Rights","abstract":"A new rule narrows the legal definition of sex discrimination in the Affordable Care Act. Major health care providers actively oppose it.","byline":"By Sheila Kaplan","pub_date":"2020-06-13","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/health/trump-health-care-transgender-rights.html"} {"headline":"Trump Moves Tulsa Rally Date ‘Out of Respect’ for Juneteenth","abstract":"The campaign rally, his first since the lockdowns forced by the coronavirus pandemic, had been scheduled for June 19, or Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery. The president announced he would delay it by a day.","byline":"By Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-06-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/politics/trump-tulsa-rally-juneteenth.html"} {"headline":"Beijing Shuts Down Seafood Market After Dozens Test Positive for Coronavirus","abstract":"Nearly all of the 53 people had worked or shopped at the market, which is said to supply 90 percent of the Chinese capital’s fruit and vegetables.","byline":"By Vivian Wang and Elaine Yu","pub_date":"2020-06-13","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/world/asia/beijing-market-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Tasers: Are These Police Tools Effective and Are They Dangerous?","abstract":"The fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta has put a spotlight on a number of officer tactics, including the use of stun guns.","byline":"By Christopher Mele and Johnny Diaz","pub_date":"2020-06-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/article/police-tasers.html"} {"headline":"Thousands March for Black Transgender Lives","abstract":"Thousands of demonstrators gathered around the Brooklyn Museum to bring attention to high rates of police violence against black transgender women.","byline":"By Storyful","pub_date":"2020-06-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007191144/black-trans-lives-matter-march-brooklyn.html"} {"headline":"Trading Sportsbooks for Brokerages, Bored Bettors Wager on Stocks","abstract":"When Russian table tennis or Korean baseball won’t scratch the itch, some are trying their hand at trading equities. It’s enough to move the market, analysts say.","byline":"By Matt Phillips","pub_date":"2020-06-14","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/business/sports-gamblers-stocks-virus.html"} {"headline":"The Woman Who Took Down a Confederate Flag on What Came Next","abstract":"Bree Newsome Bass was arrested after climbing a flagpole at the South Carolina State Capitol. Now, she sees more people moved to act for similar reasons.","byline":"By Tariro Mzezewa","pub_date":"2020-06-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/us/politics/bree-newsome-bass-confederate-flag.html"} {"headline":"G.O.P. Congressman Is Ousted From Right After Officiating at Same-Sex Wedding","abstract":"Representative Denver Riggleman of Virginia, who was endorsed by President Trump, lost his re-election bid in an unusual drive-through convention to a self-described “biblical conservative.”","byline":"By Catie Edmondson","pub_date":"2020-06-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/us/politics/denver-riggleman-virginia-primary-bob-good.html"} {"headline":"Air Service Was Deeply Cut, but Not to Places Like Lake Placid","abstract":"About 170 small airports around the country get federal subsidies, and far fewer of their flights were disrupted in the pandemic.","byline":"By Amy Zipkin","pub_date":"2020-06-15","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/business/airlines-small-airports-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Atlanta Mayor Announces Police Reforms With a Series of Executive Orders","abstract":"Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced on Monday a series of police reforms for the Atlanta Police Department after the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-06-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007193119/atlanta-mayor-announces-police-reforms-with-a-series-of-executive-orders.html"} {"headline":"Arrested for Waving Rainbow Flag, a Gay Egyptian Takes Her Life","abstract":"Charged with “inciting debauchery,” Sarah Hegazi was jailed and tortured.","byline":"By Declan Walsh","pub_date":"2020-06-15","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/world/middleeast/egypt-gay-suicide-sarah-hegazi.html"} {"headline":"With New Policies, Cities Seek a ‘Seismic Shift’ in Policing","abstract":"The district attorney for Atlanta has said he will decide by midweek on whether to file criminal charges in the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-06-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/rayshard-brooks-george-floyd-video.html"} {"headline":"California Attorney General Pushes Series of Recommended Measures for Police","abstract":"The attorney general of California, Xavier Becerra, also said he was sending investigators to Palmdale, Calif., to look into the death of Robert Fuller, a young black man found hanged from a tree near City Hall.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-06-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007192925/california-attorney-general-pushes-series-of-recommended-measures-for-police.html"} {"headline":"​North Korea’s Wrecking of Liaison Office a ‘Death Knell’ for Ties With the South","abstract":"The destruction of the office was a message aimed at President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, who had brokered failed talks between the North and the Trump administration. But it was also a message for Washington.","byline":"By Choe Sang-Hun","pub_date":"2020-06-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/world/asia/north-korea-explosion-liaison-office.html"} {"headline":"Schools Shut in Beijing as Coronavirus Flares","abstract":"The Chinese capital announced that it would step up its emergency footing in an effort to stamp out an outbreak of infections.","byline":"By Chris Buckley","pub_date":"2020-06-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/world/asia/Beijing-coronavirus-flareup.html"} {"headline":"Cup Foods, a Minneapolis Corner Store Forever Tied to the Death of George Floyd","abstract":"The corner market, the site of demonstrations and memorials, reopened on Monday. It has been a fixture in the neighborhood for more than three decades.","byline":"By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Jack Healy","pub_date":"2020-06-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/cup-foods-minneapolis-george-floyd.html"} {"headline":"Tracking the Next Purge","abstract":"Democrats have a new tool to identify voters who have been removed from the rolls.","byline":"By Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-06-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/us/politics/democrats-voter-tracking.html"} {"headline":"Retail Sales Rebounded in May, but the Road Back Is Long","abstract":"The recovery is tentative, and it remains to be seen how the pandemic will change consumer behavior and the shopping experience over the long term.","byline":"By Michael Corkery and Sapna Maheshwari","pub_date":"2020-06-16","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/business/may-retail-sales.html"} {"headline":"‘It Felt Like Warfare’: Protesters Say the Police Attacked Them","abstract":"During a hearing, demonstrators recounted harrowing experiences with the New York police during protests over George Floyd’s death.","byline":"By Alan Feuer","pub_date":"2020-06-17","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/nyregion/nypd-leticia-james-hearing-protests.html"} {"headline":"President of Honduras Hospitalized for Coronavirus","abstract":"Juan Orlando Hernández, who said his wife and two aides were also infected, joined a small crop of world leaders who have caught the virus that has reached into halls of power around the globe.","byline":"By Frances Robles and Kirk Semple","pub_date":"2020-06-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/world/americas/honduras-president-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Mexico, India, Ireland and Norway Win Seats on U.N. Security Council","abstract":"Canada lost, again, in a three-way race for two of the vacant seats on the 15-member council, the most powerful U.N. body.","byline":"By Rick Gladstone","pub_date":"2020-06-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/world/americas/un-security-council-elections.html"} {"headline":"Small Businesses Get Easier Path to Relief-Loan Forgiveness","abstract":"Companies operating under shutdown orders and other restrictions will be eligible even if they do not rehire all of their workers.","byline":"By Stacy Cowley","pub_date":"2020-06-17","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/business/ppp-small-business-loan-rules.html"} {"headline":"Justice Dept. Defends Dropping Flynn Case and Again Asks Judge to Dismiss It","abstract":"Prosecutors rejected a scathing brief that portrayed their reversal in the case as a “gross prosecutorial abuse.”","byline":"By Charlie Savage and Adam Goldman","pub_date":"2020-06-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/politics/justice-department-michael-flynn.html"} {"headline":"How the Trump Campaign’s Plans for a Triumphant Rally Went Awry","abstract":"Instead of offering President Trump a glide path back into the campaign season, Saturday’s rally in Tulsa has become yet another flash point for a candidate who has repeatedly displayed insensitivity about race.","byline":"By Annie Karni, Maggie Haberman and Reid J. Epstein","pub_date":"2020-06-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/us/politics/trump-rally-tulsa-juneteenth.html"} {"headline":"China Lashes Out at U.S.’s Action Against Mass Incarcerations","abstract":"A new law aimed at punishing Chinese officials involved in mass internments of Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjiang came as John Bolton accused President Trump of supporting Beijing’s crackdown.","byline":"By Steven Lee Myers","pub_date":"2020-06-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/world/asia/china-trump-pompeo-xinjiang-uighurs-bolton.html"} {"headline":"Trump Campaign Pushing for Four Debates With Biden","abstract":"The Trump team wants one more debate than is typically held in the general election, and argued that they should start earlier because the coronavirus may prompt an increase in early voting.","byline":"By Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-06-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/us/politics/trump-presidential-debates-2020.html"} {"headline":"Supporters of DACA Rally Amid Supreme Court Ruling","abstract":"People demonstrated outside the Supreme Court, which on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration could not immediately end the program that protects 700,000 young immigrants from deportation.","byline":"By Reuters","pub_date":"2020-06-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007198455/daca-supporters-rally-supreme-court-ruling.html"} {"headline":"New York City Will Enter Next Phase of Reopening on Monday, Mayor Says","abstract":"As many as 300,000 workers are expected to get back to work as outdoor dining, in-store shopping and office work resume.","byline":"By Michael Gold","pub_date":"2020-06-18","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/nyregion/phase-2-reopening-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Malala Yousafzai Graduates From Oxford University","abstract":"“Currently unemployed,” said the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate. But for now, it’s time for some rest and Netflix.","byline":"By Elian Peltier","pub_date":"2020-06-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/world/europe/malala-oxford-graduation.html"} {"headline":"New Woe for a Jittery N.Y.C.: Illegal Fireworks Going Off All Night","abstract":"The city received 1,737 fireworks complaints in the first half of June, 80 times as many as it got in the same period last year.","byline":"By Corey Kilgannon and Juliana Kim","pub_date":"2020-06-19","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/nyregion/fireworks-every-night-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Twitter Labels Trump Tweet About ‘Racist Baby’ as Manipulated Media","abstract":"It was the first time that Twitter had used that tag on one of the president’s messages.","byline":"By Kate Conger","pub_date":"2020-06-19","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/technology/trump-tweet-baby-manipulated.html"} {"headline":"We’re Fighting Over Masks Now?","abstract":"A clash has arisen over the use of face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, and C.E.O.s are taking stands in different ways.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-06-19","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/business/dealbook/face-masks-reopening.html"} {"headline":"In This Coronavirus Wave, China Tries Something New: Restraint","abstract":"The city of Beijing has tested 1.1 million people in less than a week and has halted many flights, but has not imposed the citywide lockdowns used in provincial outbreaks.","byline":"By Keith Bradsher and Chris Buckley","pub_date":"2020-06-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/world/asia/coronavirus-china-beijing.html"} {"headline":"Family of Black Man Found Hanging Says Death Was by Suicide","abstract":"Malcolm Harsch was one of two black men whose bodies were found hanging from trees in California cities in recent weeks.","byline":"By Jenny Gross","pub_date":"2020-06-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/malcolm-harsch-death-victorville.html"} {"headline":"Judge Rejects Trump Request for Order Blocking Bolton’s Memoir","abstract":"But the judge also sharply criticized the former national security adviser, suggesting his $2 million book advance may be in jeopardy.","byline":"By Charlie Savage","pub_date":"2020-06-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/politics/john-bolton-book-ruling.html"} {"headline":"Russians Eat Burgers in Gloves. Should Everyone?","abstract":"Status-conscious fast-food joints across Eastern Europe have offered their diners disposable gloves for years. The idea may find a wider audience in the pandemic era.","byline":"By Anton Troianovski","pub_date":"2020-06-20","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/world/europe/burgers-surgical-gloves-russia.html"} {"headline":"Waiting for Trump: Hats, Flags, Little Fear of the Virus","abstract":"Supporters waiting to attend President Trump’s return to the campaign trail displayed their loyalty to him, though there were empty seats as the program started.","byline":"By Katie Glueck and Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-06-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/politics/waiting-for-trump-hats-flags-little-fear-of-the-virus.html"} {"headline":"Read the Newly Released Mueller Report With Fewer Redactions","abstract":"New details from the Justice Department’s inquiry into Russian influence over the 2016 election released on Friday underscored President Trump’s keen interest in weaponizing information stolen by the Russians and funneled to WikiLeaks for use against his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-06-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/20/us/mueller-report-june-2020-release.html"} {"headline":"The Pandemic’s Mental Toll: More Ripple Than Tsunami","abstract":"Some health officials have forecast a steep rise in new mental health disorders. But the impact isn’t likely to last.","byline":"By Benedict Carey","pub_date":"2020-06-21","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/health/coronavirus-mental-health-anxiety.html"} {"headline":"Behind Joe Biden’s Evolution on L.G.B.T.Q. Rights","abstract":"Mr. Biden’s support for same-sex marriage in 2012 was a reversal for him and a watershed moment in his shift — and the nation’s — on L.G.B.T.Q. issues.","byline":"By Adam Nagourney and Thomas Kaplan","pub_date":"2020-06-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/us/politics/biden-gay-rights-lgbt.html"} {"headline":"8 Hospitals in 15 Hours: A Pregnant Woman’s Crisis in the Pandemic","abstract":"Her baby was coming, and her complications were growing more dangerous. But nowhere would take her — an increasingly common story as India’s health care system buckles under pressure.","byline":"By Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj","pub_date":"2020-06-21","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/world/asia/coronavirus-india-hospitals-pregnant.html"} {"headline":"A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975. We Found Them.","abstract":"A snippet of the documentary “Rosedale: The Way It Is” has ricocheted across the internet, upending for another generation New York City’s narrative as a bastion of tolerance.","byline":"By Sarah Maslin Nir","pub_date":"2020-06-21","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/nyregion/racist-video-rosedale-queens.html"} {"headline":"Shooting in Seattle Raises Worries; Video Catches Calif. Sign Vandals","abstract":"Prison guards in Minnesota say only whites were allowed to guard Derek Chauvin, the officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck, when he was first taken to jail.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-06-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/us/black-lives-matter-protests.html"} {"headline":"Eating Thai Fruit Demands Serious Effort but Delivers Sublime Reward","abstract":"Many delicious species in Thailand, “the Great Power nation of fruit,” require laborious peeling and careful chewing. Then there’s the sticky fingers and occasional disappointment.","byline":"By Hannah Beech and Amanda Mustard","pub_date":"2020-06-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/world/asia/bangkok-thailand-fruit-durian.html"} {"headline":"Under Coronavirus Lockdown, a Philippine Priest Hits the Streets","abstract":"The Rev. Eduardo Vasquez has visited Manila’s slums to minister to the poor, and distribute food and face masks. “It is not enough to rely on faith alone,” he said.","byline":"By Jes Aznar and Mike Ives","pub_date":"2020-06-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/world/asia/coronavirus-philippines-priest.html"} {"headline":"Family of Rayshard Brooks Holds a Public Viewing in Atlanta","abstract":"Rayshard Brooks, the black man who was fatally shot by an Atlanta police officer on June 12, was mourned at Ebenezer Baptist Church.","byline":"By Reuters","pub_date":"2020-06-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007204718/rayshard-brooks-public-viewing.html"} {"headline":"Booker and McGrath Intensify Advertising Blitz in Kentucky","abstract":"As the Democratic primary between Amy McGrath and Charles Booker gets tighter, Mr. Booker has closed the gap in ad spending as both make a final push before Tuesday’s voting.","byline":"By Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-06-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/politics/charles-booker-amy-mcgrath-kentucky-advertising.html"} {"headline":"Will a New Progressive Star Emerge on Tuesday?","abstract":"Democrats will be closely watching two primary races as a test of progressive energy.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-06-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/politics/Jamaal-Bowman-Charles-Booker.html"} {"headline":"Atlanta Mourns Rayshard Brooks in a Sanctuary Imbued With Civil Rights History","abstract":"Mr. Brooks, 27, was fatally shot by the police. A pastor said he had fallen victim to a system that did not offer “a real shot at redemption.”","byline":"By Rick Rojas","pub_date":"2020-06-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/us/rayshard-brooks-funeral.html"} {"headline":"Powerful Earthquake Jolts Southern Mexico and Kills at Least 6","abstract":"The 7.5-magnitude quake, centered on the Pacific Coast in the state of Oaxaca, damaged some structures and caused buildings to sway in Mexico City, hundreds of miles from the epicenter.","byline":"By Kirk Semple","pub_date":"2020-06-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/world/mexico-earthquake.html"} {"headline":"Roger Stone Sentencing Was Politicized, Prosecutor Plans to Testify","abstract":"The prosecutor’s supervisor said that the case was being treated differently because of the defendant’s relationship with the president, according to planned testimony.","byline":"By Nicholas Fandos, Charlie Savage and Katie Benner","pub_date":"2020-06-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/us/politics/roger-stone-sentencing-politicized.html"} {"headline":"How Joe Biden Is Catching Up to the Trump Money ‘Juggernaut’","abstract":"In May, Mr. Biden passed President Trump in fund-raising for the first time. A surge in donations has helped cut into the president’s financial advantage.","byline":"By Shane Goldmacher","pub_date":"2020-06-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/us/politics/biden-trump-2020-fundraising.html"} {"headline":"Muslim Woman Was Forced to Remove Hijab for Booking Photo After Arrest, Advocacy Group Says","abstract":"More than 100,000 people have signed a petition criticizing the treatment of Alaa Massri, 18, at a correctional center in Miami.","byline":"By Azi Paybarah","pub_date":"2020-06-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/Muslim-woman-hijab-Columbus-ponce-statue.html"} {"headline":"Biden Takes Dominant Lead as Voters Reject Trump on Virus and Race","abstract":"A New York Times/Siena College poll finds that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is ahead of the president by 14 points, leading among women and nonwhite voters and cutting into his support with white voters.","byline":"By Alexander Burns, Jonathan Martin and Matt Stevens","pub_date":"2020-06-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/us/politics/trump-biden-poll-nyt-upshot-siena-college.html"} {"headline":"Georgia Primary Election Results: Seventh Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-06-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/09/us/elections/results-georgia-house-district-7-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s False Attacks on Voting by Mail Stir Broad Concern","abstract":"The president’s assertions about widespread fraud have little or no basis in fact but are resonating with his supporters and give him the option of raising doubts about the legitimacy of the outcome.","byline":"By Maggie Haberman, Nick Corasaniti and Linda Qiu","pub_date":"2020-06-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/us/politics/trump-vote-by-mail.html"} {"headline":"Kosovo President Is Indicted for War Crimes for Role in War With Serbia","abstract":"President Hashim Thaci, who was scheduled to visit the White House on Saturday, faces 10 counts of war crimes brought by prosecutors at a special court in the Netherlands.","byline":"By Patrick Kingsley and Gerry Mullany","pub_date":"2020-06-24","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/world/europe/hashim-thaci-kosovo-war-crimes.html"} {"headline":"Georgia Primary Election Results: 13th Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-06-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/09/us/elections/results-georgia-house-district-13-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"$1.4 Billion in Stimulus Funds Sent to Dead People, Watchdog Finds","abstract":"A Government Accountability Office report said the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service failed to consult death records, resulting in improper payments.","byline":"By Alan Rappeport","pub_date":"2020-06-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/politics/coronavirus-stimulus-dead-people.html"} {"headline":"Is It Safe to Go Back to the Dentist?","abstract":"Dentists are donning head-to-toe protective equipment, switching to laser instruments and taking other steps to reassure patients that it’s safe to get back in the chair.","byline":"By Maria Cramer","pub_date":"2020-06-25","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/health/dentist-coronavirus-safe.html"} {"headline":"For Those Getting Married, a Searchable Domestic Violence Database","abstract":"A Chinese city is rolling out the database to allow people to check if their partners have a history of abuse. Domestic violence has been exacerbated by lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic.","byline":"By Sui-Lee Wee","pub_date":"2020-06-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/world/asia/china-domestic-violence-database-marriage.html"} {"headline":"Trump Family Will Ask Second Court to Stop Publication of Tell-All Book","abstract":"A Queens County, N.Y., judge said his court lacked jurisdiction in the case.","byline":"By Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer","pub_date":"2020-06-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/politics/lawsuit-mary-trump-book.html"} {"headline":"In Norway, Gymgoers Avoid Infections as Virus Recedes","abstract":"In an unusual experiment, researchers found no coronavirus infections among thousands of people allowed to return to their gyms.","byline":"By Gina Kolata","pub_date":"2020-06-25","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/health/coronavirus-gyms-fitness.html"} {"headline":"Facebook Adds Labels for Some Posts as Advertisers Pull Back","abstract":"Posts about voting will direct viewers to accurate information, and violations from important political figures will be marked “newsworthy.”","byline":"By Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel","pub_date":"2020-06-26","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/technology/facebook-labels-advertisers.html"} {"headline":"YouTube Personality Jenna Marbles Apologizes for Blackface Video","abstract":"Jenna Mourey said she was ending her channel, which has more than 20 million subscribers, because of videos from 2011 of her impersonating Nicki Minaj and rapping lyrics about Asians.","byline":"By Christine Hauser and Taylor Lorenz","pub_date":"2020-06-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/jenna-marbles-leaves-youtube.html"} {"headline":"Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says","abstract":"The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment.","byline":"By Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Michael Schwirtz","pub_date":"2020-06-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html"} {"headline":"Many Latinos Couldn’t Stay Home. Now Virus Cases Are Soaring in Their Communities.","abstract":"Rates of coronavirus infection among Latinos have risen rapidly across the United States.","byline":"By Shawn Hubler, Thomas Fuller, Anjali Singhvi and Juliette Love","pub_date":"2020-06-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/corona-virus-latinos.html"} {"headline":"Kanye West and Gap Strike 10-Year Deal for ‘Yeezy Gap’ Apparel Line","abstract":"The struggling mall brand plans to introduce Yeezy Gap in stores and online in the first half of 2021.","byline":"By Sapna Maheshwari","pub_date":"2020-06-26","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/business/kanye-west-yeezy-gap.html"} {"headline":"After Asking Americans to Sacrifice in Shutdown, Leaders Failed to Control Virus","abstract":"As Covid-19 cases surge, it is clear many governors underestimated the coronavirus and rushed to reopen before their states were ready.","byline":"By Sabrina Tavernise, Frances Robles and Louis Keene","pub_date":"2020-06-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/us/after-asking-americans-to-sacrifice-in-shutdown-leaders-failed-to-control-virus.html"} {"headline":"Houston Moves to ‘Severe’ Covid Warning. Will Enough People Listen?","abstract":"In Texas’ most populous county, officials are again urging people to stay home, saying this flood of cases will be worse than the last one.","byline":"By Manny Fernandez and David Montgomery","pub_date":"2020-06-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/us/coronavirus-houston-texas.html"} {"headline":"About 38% of U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Linked to Nursing Homes","abstract":"The virus has devastated residents and staff members in more than 23,000 long-term care facilities across the country.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-06-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-nursing-homes.html"} {"headline":"Princeton Will Remove Woodrow Wilson’s Name From School","abstract":"University trustees concluded that Wilson’s “racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college,” Princeton’s president said on Saturday.","byline":"By Bryan Pietsch","pub_date":"2020-06-27","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/nyregion/princeton-university-woodrow-wilson.html"} {"headline":"Trump Issues Executive Order Targeting Vandalism Against Monuments","abstract":"The order also threatens to withhold funding from local governments that fail to protect their own statues from vandals.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear","pub_date":"2020-06-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/trump-monuments-executive-order.html"} {"headline":"1 Dead After Man Shoots Into Crowd at Breonna Taylor Protest Site","abstract":"Video footage showed a man firing more than a dozen shots at a park in Louisville, Ky., where demonstrators were protesting Ms. Taylor’s shooting death by the police in March.","byline":"By Austin Ramzy and Lucy Tompkins","pub_date":"2020-06-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/shooting-breonna-taylor-protest-louisville.html"} {"headline":"The Week in Business: Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned","abstract":"Coronavirus cases are spiking in states that reopened quickly, threatening the country’s economic recovery.","byline":"By Charlotte Cowles","pub_date":"2020-06-28","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/business/the-week-in-business-coronavirus-states-economy.html"} {"headline":"The Global Death Toll Now Tops 500,000","abstract":"Vice President Mike Pence asserts that increased testing explains a surge in cases, but experts and evidence say otherwise. Houston’s top official has self-quarantined.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-06-28","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/world/coronavirus-updates.html"} {"headline":"Trump Retweets Racist Video Showing Supporter Yelling ‘White Power’","abstract":"The president later deleted the tweet, which once again showed his willingness to use social media to amplify some of the most hateful commentary of some of his followers, even at a moment of unrest.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear","pub_date":"2020-06-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/politics/trump-white-power-video-racism.html"} {"headline":"With Flights Banned, Son Sails Solo Across Atlantic to Reach Father, 90","abstract":"An Argentine man stuck in Portugal because of the virus travels for 85 days the only way he could: in a small boat.","byline":"By Daniel Politi","pub_date":"2020-06-28","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/world/americas/coronavirus-argentina-sailor.html"} {"headline":"Former Police Officer Pleads Guilty in Golden State Killer Cases","abstract":"During a hearing inside a ballroom at Sacramento State University, Joseph James DeAngelo pleaded guilty to a series of murders that began in the 1970s.","byline":"By Reuters","pub_date":"2020-06-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007215786/golden-state-killer-pleads-guilty.html"} {"headline":"Three Words. 70 Cases. The Tragic History of ‘I Can’t Breathe.’","abstract":"The deaths of Eric Garner in New York and George Floyd in Minnesota created national outrage over the use of deadly police restraints. There were many others you didn’t hear about.","byline":"By Mike Baker, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Manny Fernandez and Michael LaForgia","pub_date":"2020-06-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/28/us/i-cant-breathe-police-arrest.html"} {"headline":"Pelosi on Trump and Russia: ‘This Is as Bad as it Gets’","abstract":"Russian meddling (in Afghanistan) and a racist retweet. This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-06-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/politics/trump-pelosi-russia-racist-tweet.html"} {"headline":"These Are the Heartbreaking Belongings That Covid Victims Left Behind","abstract":"When virus patients died, New York hospitals were faced with a sensitive problem: What to do with thousands of personal items?","byline":"By Andrea Salcedo and Christopher Gregory","pub_date":"2020-06-29","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/nyregion/coronavirus-hospitals-patients-belongings.html"} {"headline":"Texas Prosecutor Resigns Over Facebook Post About Nazi Germany","abstract":"The post, shared last week by Kaylynn Williford, was criticized for appearing to equate protesters against racism and police brutality with Nazis who “tore down statues.”","byline":"By Jacey Fortin","pub_date":"2020-06-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/kaylynn-williford-harris-county-prosecutor-resign.html"} {"headline":"Oklahoma U.S. Senate Primary Election Results","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-06-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/30/us/elections/results-oklahoma-senate-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"Live Analysis: June 30 Election Results","abstract":"Follow live coverage and analysis from Times reporters.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-06-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/30/us/elections/live-analysis-colorado-oklahoma-utah-primaries.html"} {"headline":"Scientists Say New Strain of Swine Flu Virus Is Spreading to Humans in China","abstract":"A new study warns that the strain of H1N1, common on China’s pig farms since 2016, should be “urgently” controlled to avoid another pandemic.","byline":"By Mike Ives","pub_date":"2020-06-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/world/asia/h1n1-swine-flu-virus-china-pig.html"} {"headline":"Mnuchin and Powell Offer Mixed Views of Economic Recovery","abstract":"The Treasury secretary and the Fed chair discussed their approaches to rescuing the economy on Tuesday during a House Financial Services Committee hearing.","byline":"By Alan Rappeport and Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-06-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/mnuchin-powell-congress-economic-recovery.html"} {"headline":"‘I Can’t Focus on Abortion Access if My People Are Dying’","abstract":"Some Gen Z and millennial women said they viewed abortion rights as important but less urgent than other social justice causes. Others said racial disparities in reproductive health must be a focus.","byline":"By Emma Goldberg","pub_date":"2020-06-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/abortion-supreme-court-gen-z.html"} {"headline":"In Wisconsin, Every Ruling on Voting Counts","abstract":"Two critical court decisions gave both parties hope in a state where election margins are often razor thin.","byline":"By Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-07-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/politics/wisconsin-voter-purge.html"} {"headline":"Senate Approves Extending Small-Business Program","abstract":"The Senate granted five additional weeks for the remaining money left in the program to be spent.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-07-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/us/politics/ppp-extension.html"} {"headline":"The Fed Sets Out Many Reasons to Worry About the Economy","abstract":"Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s June meeting show that officials remained seriously concerned, even as states reopened.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-07-01","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/business/economy/federal-reserve-minutes.html"} {"headline":"New York City Will Not Resume Indoor Dining, Says Mayor","abstract":"Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City will not allow indoor dining next week as scheduled because of growing coronavirus outbreaks in other large states.","byline":"By Reuters","pub_date":"2020-07-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007219209/new-york-city-indoor-dining-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Hong Kong’s New Weapon Against Protesters: A Purple Warning Flag","abstract":"The police have long used color-coded banners to warn demonstrators, but the wording on the new flag was a stark reminder of the drastic changes.","byline":"By Gerry Mullany","pub_date":"2020-07-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/world/asia/hong-kong-purple-flag.html"} {"headline":"How the Fight Against AIDS Can Inform the Fight Against Covid-19","abstract":"Dr. Anthony S. Fauci grappled with another health crisis decades ago. What he told Retro Report about the effort against AIDS could apply to the battle against the coronavirus.","byline":"By Clyde Haberman","pub_date":"2020-07-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/us/coronavirus-fauci-aids-hiv.html"} {"headline":"Mysterious Explosion and Fire Damage Iranian Nuclear Enrichment Facility","abstract":"Iran released a photograph showing evidence of what appeared to be a major explosion at the site. Early evidence suggests it was most likely an act of sabotage.","byline":"By David E. Sanger, William J. Broad, Ronen Bergman and Farnaz Fassihi","pub_date":"2020-07-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/us/politics/iran-explosion-nuclear-centrifuges.html"} {"headline":"A Massachusetts City Decides to Recognize Polyamorous Relationships","abstract":"The city of Somerville has broadened the definition of domestic partnership to include relationships between three or more adults, expanding access to health care.","byline":"By Ellen Barry","pub_date":"2020-07-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/somerville-polyamorous-domestic-partnership.html"} {"headline":"Australia Thought the Virus Was Under Control. It Found a Vulnerable Spot.","abstract":"The authorities have locked down 300,000 people in areas around Melbourne heavily populated by immigrants, reinforcing the coronavirus’s outsized impact on disadvantaged communities.","byline":"By Livia Albeck-Ripka","pub_date":"2020-07-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/world/australia/melbourne-coronavirus-outbreak.html"} {"headline":"Buried in N.J.’s Budget Cuts: a Break for a Billionaire","abstract":"A stopgap budget with $4 billion in cuts also includes an opening for private development in state parks, like a long-desired expansion of a golf course into Liberty State Park.","byline":"By Tracey Tully","pub_date":"2020-07-02","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/nyregion/liberty-state-park-nj-golf.html"} {"headline":"‘Free Again’: New Yorkers, Virus in Mind, Head Back to Their Beaches","abstract":"Shorelines are finally open for swimming, but outbreaks across the country have given officials pause about the city’s wider reopening.","byline":"By Corey Kilgannon","pub_date":"2020-07-03","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/nyregion/beaches-open-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Macron Replaces France’s Prime Minister in Bid to Reinvigorate His Government","abstract":"President Emmanuel Macron is reshaping his cabinet, starting with the removal of his popular prime minister, in a bid to give his government a fresh start in the last stretch of his term.","byline":"By Adam Nossiter and Aurelien Breeden","pub_date":"2020-07-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/world/europe/france-prime-minister-resign.html"} {"headline":"How a Covid-19 Contact Tracer Spends Her Sundays","abstract":"Kimberly Jocelyn is at her computer on the weekends, but she forces herself to take breaks for fresh air and video calls with friends.","byline":"By Tammy La Gorce","pub_date":"2020-07-03","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/nyregion/coronavirus-contact-tracer-nyc.html"} {"headline":"For Maine Lobstermen, a Perfect Storm Threatens the Summer Season","abstract":"The state’s lobster industry, already struggling before the virus, could be crippled as tourism dries up, leaving boatloads of crustaceans and no one to eat them.","byline":"By Thomas Gibbons-Neff","pub_date":"2020-07-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/maine-lobster-summer-virus.html"} {"headline":"Why Are Fireworks Going Off Every Night in California?","abstract":"It’s unclear if the problem is worse this year but complaints are on the rise in parts of California.","byline":"By Marie Tae McDermott and Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-07-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/fireworks-every-night-ca.html"} {"headline":"DNA Inherited From Neanderthals May Increase Risk of Covid-19","abstract":"The stretch of six genes seems to increase the risk of severe illness from the coronavirus.","byline":"By Carl Zimmer","pub_date":"2020-07-04","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/health/coronavirus-neanderthals.html"} {"headline":"New Trump Appointee Puts Global Internet Freedom at Risk, Critics Say","abstract":"A battle involving Michael Pack and a U.S.-funded tech group revolves around software from Falun Gong, the secretive, anti-Beijing spiritual movement with pro-Trump elements.","byline":"By Pranshu Verma and Edward Wong","pub_date":"2020-07-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/us/politics/michael-pack-china-internet.html"} {"headline":"3 Officers Fired Over Photos Taken Near Elijah McClain Memorial","abstract":"The Aurora, Colo., police chief said the officers mocked the death of Mr. McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist who died several days after officers put him in a chokehold last summer.","byline":"By Maria Cramer","pub_date":"2020-07-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/us/Elijah-McClain-aurora-police-officers.html"} {"headline":"With Beijing’s Military Nearby, U.S. Sends 2 Aircraft Carriers to South China Sea","abstract":"The deployment of an American aircraft carrier and its strike force is often used as a signal to deter adversaries. Deploying two at once is recognized as a significant show of force.","byline":"By Lara Jakes","pub_date":"2020-07-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/us/politics/south-china-sea-aircraft-carrier.html"} {"headline":"Attacks in Somalia Leave at Least 5 Dead","abstract":"Devastating assaults, occurring almost daily and often in the capital, Mogadishu, have put a strain on the country’s fragile government.","byline":"By Abdi Latif Dahir","pub_date":"2020-07-04","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/world/africa/somalia-bombing-mogadishu.html"} {"headline":"Hong Kong, Changed Overnight, Navigates Its New Reality","abstract":"In a city where China has made some ideas suddenly dangerous, people are trying to figure out where the boundaries lie, and how their lives have changed.","byline":"By Vivian Wang, Elaine Yu and Tiffany May","pub_date":"2020-07-05","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/world/asia/hong-kong-security-law.html"} {"headline":"Croatian Prime Minister’s Gamble on Early Elections Pays Off.","abstract":"Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic ran a risky campaign based on his government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. It paid off, with his party’s best showing in more than a decade.","byline":"By Joe Orovic and Patrick Kingsley","pub_date":"2020-07-05","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/world/europe/croatia-election-plenkovic-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"How You Get Your Berries: Migrant Workers Who Fear Virus, but Toil On","abstract":"Many laborers in New Jersey follow the ripening of crops up the East Coast. Each influx of new workers brings the risk of a fresh outbreak.","byline":"By Tracey Tully","pub_date":"2020-07-05","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/nyregion/nj-migrant-workers-covid-19.html"} {"headline":"Seattle Protester Dies After Being Struck by Car","abstract":"Summer Taylor, 24, died Saturday night, a hospital spokeswoman said, and a second protester was in serious condition. The driver was in custody, the authorities said.","byline":"By Allyson Waller","pub_date":"2020-07-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/us/summer-taylor-seattle.html"} {"headline":"The Week in Business: Shut It Back Down","abstract":"The latest jobs report looked optimistic — but the numbers are from before the new spike in cases.","byline":"By Charlotte Cowles","pub_date":"2020-07-05","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/business/the-week-in-business-coronavirus-shutdowns-jobs.html"} {"headline":"Simon & Schuster Advances Publication Date of Trump Tell-All","abstract":"The release of “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” by Mary Trump, is now scheduled for July 14.","byline":"By Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-07-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/politics/mary-trump-book.html"} {"headline":"Our Cash-Free Future Is Getting Closer","abstract":"The pandemic is propelling a shift toward a cashless society in ways that no other single event has. Experts say that’s not necessarily a good thing.","byline":"By Liz Alderman","pub_date":"2020-07-06","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/business/cashless-transactions.html"} {"headline":"N.Y.C. Reopening: Dog Runs and Manicures, but Still No Indoor Dining","abstract":"The city took its narrowest reopening step yet as it welcomed the return of personal-care services and outdoor recreation spaces.","byline":"By Michael Gold","pub_date":"2020-07-06","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/nyregion/nyc-phase-3-reopening-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Trump Vowed to ‘Drain the Swamp,’ but Lobbyists Are Helping Run His Campaign","abstract":"Lobbyists like David Urban, whose connections start at the very top, are thriving as they help the president’s re-election effort while aiding corporate clients.","byline":"By Kenneth P. Vogel, Michael LaForgia and Hailey Fuchs","pub_date":"2020-07-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/politics/trump-lobbyists-swamp-campaign.html"} {"headline":"New York Primary Election Results: 19th Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-07-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-new-york-house-district-19-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"Jaime Harrison and Amy McGrath Rake In Cash in Democratic Senate Bids","abstract":"Mr. Harrison raised nearly $14 million as he tries to unseat Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, and Ms. McGrath, who is challenging Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, brought in $17.4 million.","byline":"By Thomas Kaplan and Rebecca R. Ruiz","pub_date":"2020-07-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/politics/democrats-senate-fundraising.html"} {"headline":"Facebook Fails to Appease Organizers of Ad Boycott","abstract":"Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s top executives, engaged in “spin” during a meeting over hate speech, civil rights groups said.","byline":"By Mike Isaac and Tiffany Hsu","pub_date":"2020-07-07","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/technology/facebook-ad-boycott-civil-rights.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Briefing: The Dire State of Testing","abstract":"Scenes from the early days of the pandemic are being replayed, as Americans wait for hours in snaking lines to get a test.","byline":"By Lara Takenaga and Jonathan Wolfe","pub_date":"2020-07-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/coronavirus-briefing-the-dire-state-of-testing.html"} {"headline":"2 People Charged With Hate Crime After Black Lives Matter Mural Is Vandalized","abstract":"If convicted, the two residents of Martinez, Calif., could face up to a year in jail, prosecutors say.","byline":"By Azi Paybarah","pub_date":"2020-07-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/white-couple-arrested-black-lives-matter-mural.html"} {"headline":"London Police Stop Star Athletes, Setting Off Racial Profiling Debate","abstract":"Bianca Williams, a European gold medalist, accused the officers of targeting her and her partner, a fellow sprinter, because they are Black and drive an expensive car.","byline":"By Marc Santora","pub_date":"2020-07-07","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/world/europe/uk-police-bianca-williams-racial-profiling.html"} {"headline":"Pandemic Plunges Puerto Rico Into Yet Another Dire Emergency","abstract":"The island has had to weather a hurricane, a political crisis and earthquakes, but those crises did not lead to the widespread unemployment caused by the response to the coronavirus pandemic.","byline":"By Alejandra Rosa and Frances Robles","pub_date":"2020-07-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/coronavirus-puerto-rico-economy-unemployment.html"} {"headline":"Accusations of Serial Rape Push Egypt Toward a Reckoning","abstract":"In a country where women are often blamed when they are sexually assaulted, the arrest of an Egyptian student has raised hopes for changing attitudes.","byline":"By Declan Walsh","pub_date":"2020-07-08","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/world/middleeast/egypt-metoo-rape-assault.html"} {"headline":"Macron’s New Cabinet Stirs Ire of French Feminists","abstract":"The new interior minister and head of national police has been accused of rape in the past, and the justice minister is a celebrity lawyer known for insensitive remarks.","byline":"By Adam Nossiter","pub_date":"2020-07-08","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/world/europe/macron-cabinet-feminists-Darmanin.html"} {"headline":"Trump Signals a Brewing Battle Over School Reopenings","abstract":"Trump and public health experts diverge on another front: This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-07-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/politics/trump-school-reopenings.html"} {"headline":"Drivers Are Hitting Protesters as Memes of Car Attacks Spread","abstract":"In recent days, one person was killed in Seattle and two people were injured in Bloomington, Ind. Dozens of similar incidents have occurred across the United States.","byline":"By Neil MacFarquhar","pub_date":"2020-07-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/us/bloomington-car-attack-protesters.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Chinese Officials Over Mass Detention of Muslims","abstract":"The measure, over human rights abuses against mainly the Uighur ethnic group, is likely to ratchet up tensions between Washington and Beijing.","byline":"By Pranshu Verma and Edward Wong","pub_date":"2020-07-09","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/world/asia/trump-china-sanctions-uighurs.html"} {"headline":"Stocks That Could Thrive in a Post-Pandemic World","abstract":"Life will return to ‘normal,’ but not entirely. Here are some suggestions for investing in a changed world.","byline":"By Conrad de Aenlle","pub_date":"2020-07-09","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/business/stocks-after-coronavirus-investors.html"} {"headline":"Exclusive — Venture Fund for Women Raises More Than Expected","abstract":"Rethink Impact invests solely in tech start-ups founded by women, which accounted for just 4 percent of all venture deals in the first quarter.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-07-09","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/business/dealbook/venture-capital-women.html"} {"headline":"Technology stocks rally, leading Nasdaq to a record.","abstract":"Technology stocks led Wall Street higher on Wednesday, but trading was unsteady as investors considered the spreading coronavirus outbreak and new friction between the United States and China.","byline":"By Kevin Granville and Mohammed Hadi","pub_date":"2020-07-09","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/business/technology-stocks-rally-leading-nasdaq-to-a-record.html"} {"headline":"Republican Senators in Arizona and Georgia Have a Problem: The Base","abstract":"This November, the uneasy relationship between the most right-wing voters in the Republican Party and the statewide lawmakers who rely on their votes will burst into the open.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-07-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/politics/kelly-loeffler-georgia-senate-arizona.html"} {"headline":"Wall Street Journal Staff Members Push for Big Changes in News Coverage","abstract":"A letter from a group of Journal reporters and editors calls for “more muscular reporting about race and social inequities,” as well as skepticism toward business and government leaders.","byline":"By Marc Tracy and Ben Smith","pub_date":"2020-07-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/business/media/wall-street-journal-staff.html"} {"headline":"Official in Seoul Reads Note From South Korean Mayor","abstract":"Officials in Seoul read a note from the mayor, Park Won-soon, who was found dead just days after a secretary told the police that he had sexually harassed her.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-07-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007233462/seoul-officials-read-mayor-note.html"} {"headline":"In Singapore, an Orderly Election and a (Somewhat) Surprising Result","abstract":"The People’s Action Party, which has never been out of power, won yet again, but by a narrower margin than usual. The opposition had sought to deny it “a blank check.”","byline":"By Hannah Beech","pub_date":"2020-07-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/world/asia/singapore-election-results.html"} {"headline":"What the Bronx ‘Bible Belt’ Election Results Tell Us","abstract":"Will older, socially conservative voters care so much about culture-war issues in the midst of a pandemic?","byline":"By Ginia Bellafante","pub_date":"2020-07-10","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/nyregion/Ritchie-Torres-Ruben-Diaz-nyc-election.html"} {"headline":"Bolivia President, Jeanine Añez, Tests Positive for Coronavirus","abstract":"Ms. Añez is the second Latin America leader this week, after President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, to disclose an infection, a sign the region is at the epicenter of the global outbreak.","byline":"By María Silvia Trigo and Anatoly Kurmanaev","pub_date":"2020-07-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/world/americas/bolivia-president-jeanine-anez-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"In Rare Public Comments, Mueller Defends Prosecution of Roger Stone","abstract":"Breaking his silence, the former special counsel rebutted President Trump’s attacks on the Russia investigation and said Mr. Stone had been prosecuted “because he committed federal crimes.”","byline":"By Peter Baker","pub_date":"2020-07-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/us/politics/mueller-roger-stone-oped.html"} {"headline":"Valentina Sampaio Is the First Transgender Model for Sports Illustrated","abstract":"The Brazilian model, who is in the magazine’s swimsuit issue, was also the first transgender woman to work for Victoria’s Secret and grace the cover of Vogue magazine.","byline":"By Derrick Bryson Taylor","pub_date":"2020-07-11","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/business/media/valentina-sampaio-transgender-sports-illustrated.html"} {"headline":"In Commuting Stone’s Sentence, Trump Goes Where Nixon Would Not","abstract":"Senator Mitt Romney called the commutation an act of “unprecedented, historic corruption.” Attorney General William P. Barr privately argued against clemency for the president’s friend.","byline":"By Peter Baker","pub_date":"2020-07-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/us/politics/trump-roger-stone-nixon.html"} {"headline":"Fact-Checking Biden on the Coronavirus and His Own Record","abstract":"The presumptive Democratic nominee has assailed President Trump’s pandemic response and sought to shore up his left flank.","byline":"By Linda Qiu","pub_date":"2020-07-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/us/politics/fact-checking-biden-on-the-coronavirus-and-his-own-record.html"} {"headline":"At a Time of Financial Stress, 401(k) Fees Matter More Than Ever","abstract":"These expenses always eat away at savings balances, but as the pandemic drags on, savers should be especially aware of how to keep them down.","byline":"By John F. Wasik","pub_date":"2020-07-11","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/business/401k-advice.html"} {"headline":"Pittsburgh Seemed Like a Virus Success Story. Now Cases Are Surging.","abstract":"Pittsburgh, a sister city to Wuhan, China, saw only modest cases for months. In the last two weeks, cases are suddenly soaring.","byline":"By Campbell Robertson and Sarah Mervosh","pub_date":"2020-07-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/us/coronavirus-pittsburgh-pennsylvania.html"} {"headline":"Graham to Call Mueller to Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee","abstract":"The announcement is the latest effort by Senate Republicans to press forward with an election-year bid to discredit the Trump-Russia investigation.","byline":"By Catie Edmondson","pub_date":"2020-07-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/us/politics/mueller-testify-senate-graham.html"} {"headline":"Ja’Ron Smith’s Balancing Act: A Black Republican Navigates the Trump White House","abstract":"As a congressional staff member, Mr. Smith once wore a hoodie in a demonstration on Capitol Hill protesting the death of Trayvon Martin. Now President Trump calls him “my star.”","byline":"By Katie Rogers","pub_date":"2020-07-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/us/politics/jaron-smith-trump-white-house.html"} {"headline":"2 Police Officers Are Shot and Killed in McAllen, Texas","abstract":"The officers were responding to a domestic disturbance call when a man opened fire on them, the authorities said. That man later took his own life.","byline":"By Allyson Waller","pub_date":"2020-07-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/us/police-shooting-mcallen-tx.html"} {"headline":"Outspoken Chinese Professor Is Said to Be Released From Detention","abstract":"Xu Zhangrun, a law professor in Beijing known for criticizing the Communist Party, was allowed to go home after being detained a week ago, people familiar with him said.","byline":"By Chris Buckley","pub_date":"2020-07-12","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/world/asia/xu-zhangrun-china-xi.html"} {"headline":"YouTube’s Factory Workers Are Angry","abstract":"There’s a power imbalance between the internet companies and those who make the posts and videos.","byline":"By Shira Ovide","pub_date":"2020-07-13","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/technology/youtube-economy.html"} {"headline":"Why Rich New Yorkers Are Causing Big Problems for the Census","abstract":"If residents who fled the virus for second homes aren’t counted, the city could lose out on crucial federal money — and congressional seats.","byline":"By Dana Rubinstein","pub_date":"2020-07-13","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/nyregion/census-nyc-midtown-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"17 States Sue to Block Student Visa Rules","abstract":"A legal battle between universities and the Trump administration over foreign students and online learning escalated on Monday, ahead of a critical federal court hearing.","byline":"By Anemona Hartocollis","pub_date":"2020-07-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/f1-student-visas-trump.html"} {"headline":"Zindzi Mandela, Activist in South Africa and Ambassador, Dies at 59","abstract":"She was ambassador to Denmark after years as a voice against apartheid (sometimes in poetry) alongside her parents, Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.","byline":"By Lynsey Chutel","pub_date":"2020-07-13","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/world/africa/zindzi-mandela-dies.html"} {"headline":"After Tight Race for Polish President, Andrzej Duda Wins 2nd Term","abstract":"The close fight revealed deep divisions, but Mr. Duda’s victory cleared the path for Poland’s government to continue with a nationalist agenda that critics fear is undermining democratic institutions.","byline":"By Monika Pronczuk and Marc Santora","pub_date":"2020-07-13","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/world/europe/poland-president-elections-Andrzej-Duda.html"} {"headline":"Alabama Votes for Tommy Tuberville, and Democrats Name a Challenger in Maine","abstract":"A former college football coach defeated Jeff Sessions in a Republican runoff in Alabama, and Sara Gideon will challenge Susan Collins for the Senate in Maine. Key races also took place in Texas.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-07-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/elections/primary-runoff-alabama-maine-texas.html"} {"headline":"Massachusetts Sues Uber and Lyft Over the Status of Drivers","abstract":"A lawsuit by the state’s attorney general adds to pressure on the companies to consider their drivers full employees.","byline":"By Kate Conger and Daisuke Wakabayashi","pub_date":"2020-07-14","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/technology/massachusetts-sues-uber-lyft.html"} {"headline":"‘These Are the Most Critical Investments,’ Biden Says of Climate Plan","abstract":"Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. unveiled his $2 trillion climate plan for reducing fossil fuel use across the U.S. and creating jobs.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-07-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007237955/biden-speech-climate-economy.html"} {"headline":"Navy Warship Is Still Ablaze, and Now Tilting to One Side","abstract":"The U.S.S. Bonhomme Richard in San Diego is listing because of water from the fire hoses, tugboats and helicopters fighting the inferno, which has destroyed the ship’s forward mast.","byline":"By John Ismay and Richard A. Oppel Jr","pub_date":"2020-07-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/naval-ship-fire-san-diego.html"} {"headline":"Roger Stone Denies Withholding ‘the Goods’ on Trump in Exchange for Clemency","abstract":"Speaking out days after the president commuted his 40-month sentence for obstructing a congressional investigation, Mr. Stone said that “I would not lie against my friend of 40 years.”","byline":"By Peter Baker","pub_date":"2020-07-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/politics/roger-stone-interview-trump.html"} {"headline":"Comet NEOWISE: How to See It in Night Skies","abstract":"Enjoy it while you can. The frozen ball of ice won’t return to the inner solar system for 6,800 years.","byline":"By Adam Mann","pub_date":"2020-07-15","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/article/neowise-comet.html"} {"headline":"States Sue Education Dept. Over Relief for Cheated Students","abstract":"The lawsuit, filed by the attorneys general for 22 states and the District of Columbia, says the department broke federal law and imposed standards that are impossible for defrauded students to meet.","byline":"By Stacy Cowley","pub_date":"2020-07-15","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/business/student-loans-education-department-betsy-devos.html"} {"headline":"Covid-19 Risk Doesn’t Depend (Much) on Blood Type, New Studies Find","abstract":"New studies show that people with Type A blood are not at greater risk of getting sick, as previous studies had suggested.","byline":"By Carl Zimmer","pub_date":"2020-07-15","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/science/coronavirus-blood-type.html"} {"headline":"Governor of Oklahoma Says He Tested Positive for Coronavirus","abstract":"Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma announced during a virtual news conference that he was the first governor to test positive for the coronavirus.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-07-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007240308/oklahoma-governor-positive-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Weighs Sweeping Travel Ban on Chinese Communist Party Members","abstract":"The presidential order under consideration would be based on the same statute in the Immigration and Nationality Act used in a 2017 travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries.","byline":"By Paul Mozur and Edward Wong","pub_date":"2020-07-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/us/politics/china-travel-ban.html"} {"headline":"NASA Delays James Webb Telescope Launch Date, Again","abstract":"The universe will have to wait a little longer.","byline":"By Dennis Overbye","pub_date":"2020-07-16","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/science/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-delay.html"} {"headline":"Police Officers Found Guilty in Acid Attack. But Doubts Remain.","abstract":"The target of the 2017 attack, a corruption investigator in Indonesia who lost most of his sight, and supporters say officials have shown little interest in finding who was really behind it.","byline":"By Dera Menra Sijabat and Richard C. Paddock","pub_date":"2020-07-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/world/asia/indonesia-investigator-acid-attack.html"} {"headline":"Reopen Schools? Here’s What You Had to Say","abstract":"Parents, teachers and students shared fears and frustrations.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-07-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/us/politics/reopening-schools-teachers-students.html"} {"headline":"How Our Reporter Fought ‘Doomscrolling’","abstract":"It’s easy to get lost in all of the horrifying news online.","byline":"By Shira Ovide","pub_date":"2020-07-16","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/technology/coronavirus-doomscrolling.html"} {"headline":"Protests Continue Daily in Louisville. Here’s a Look at 45 Days of Marches.","abstract":"Kentucky’s largest city has seen weeks of demonstrators demanding justice in the case of Breonna Taylor, who was killed by the police in her home there.","byline":"By K.K. Rebecca Lai","pub_date":"2020-07-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/16/us/black-lives-matter-protests-louisville-breonna-taylor.html"} {"headline":"Pentagon Sidesteps Trump to Ban the Confederate Flag","abstract":"The defense secretary lists the types of flags that are allowed to appear on bases worldwide. That flag does not fit.","byline":"By Helene Cooper","pub_date":"2020-07-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/politics/pentagon-trump-confederate-symbols.html"} {"headline":"Police Have Too Much Access to People’s Data, German Court Rules","abstract":"The Constitutional Court said that the current laws did not do enough to protect personal privacy in the digital realm.","byline":"By Melissa Eddy","pub_date":"2020-07-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/world/europe/germany-privacy-data.html"} {"headline":"For Owners of Century-Old Businesses, Shutting Down Brings a Special Pain","abstract":"A department store, a barbecue restaurant, a hotel — all had survived some of the biggest trials in history. Their owners are mourning the loss of a legacy.","byline":"By Amy Haimerl","pub_date":"2020-07-17","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/business/100-year-old-small-business-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"While Virus Surges, Georgia Governor Sues Atlanta Mayor to Block Mask Rules","abstract":"Gov. Brian Kemp filed a lawsuit against Keisha Lance Bottoms, the mayor of Atlanta, to block the city’s mask requirement.","byline":"By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Campbell Robertson","pub_date":"2020-07-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/brian-kemp-georgia-keisha-lance-bottoms-atlanta.html"} {"headline":"Trump Steps Up His Assault on Biden With Scattershot Attacks, Many False","abstract":"As he searches for a way to turn around his struggling candidacy, President Trump has intensified a tear-down operation aimed at Joe Biden with a dizzying barrage of attacks.","byline":"By Katie Glueck, Adam Nagourney and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-07-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/trump-biden-2020-election.html"} {"headline":"Who Were the Freedom Riders?","abstract":"Representative John Lewis was among the 13 original Freedom Riders, who encountered violence and resistance as they rode buses across the South, challenging the nation’s segregation laws.","byline":"By Derrick Bryson Taylor","pub_date":"2020-07-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/politics/freedom-riders-john-lewis-work.html"} {"headline":"How PG&E Is Racing to Improve Safety as Fire Season Approaches","abstract":"The utility, which recently emerged from bankruptcy, is upgrading power lines, trimming trees and making other changes to prevent another big fire.","byline":"By Ivan Penn and Jim Wilson","pub_date":"2020-07-18","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/business/energy-environment/pge-wildfire-california-summer.html"} {"headline":"Long Waits for U.K. Hospital Treatment as N.H.S. Fights Coronavirus","abstract":"With routine operations in England curtailed, some patients have experienced a significant deterioration.","byline":"By Ceylan Yeginsu","pub_date":"2020-07-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/world/europe/nhs-waiting-times-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Trump Administration Aims to Block New Funding for Coronavirus Testing and Tracing","abstract":"The resistance to a funding proposal drafted by Senate Republicans has angered several members of the president’s party on Capitol Hill. The F.D.A. has issued emergency approval for pooled testing, a method that allows for much faster tracking of new infections.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-07-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/world/coronavirus-news.html"} {"headline":"Officer Who Pressed His Knee on George Floyd’s Neck Drew Scrutiny Long Before","abstract":"In more than 19 years on the Minneapolis police force, Mr. Chauvin had a reputation as a rigid workaholic with few friends. He sometimes made other officers uncomfortable.","byline":"By Kim Barker and Serge F. Kovaleski","pub_date":"2020-07-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/derek-chauvin-george-floyd.html"} {"headline":"Special Interests Mobilize to Get Piece of Next Virus Relief Package","abstract":"Congress is about to start negotiating in earnest over another round of stimulus, and a frenzy of lobbying is already underway.","byline":"By Eric Lipton","pub_date":"2020-07-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/politics/coronavirus-relief-lobbyists-special-interests.html"} {"headline":"Top State Dept. Officials Enabled Misconduct by Pompeo, Whistle-Blower Said","abstract":"A newly public copy of the whistle-blower’s complaint says that top officials who were protecting the secretary of state blocked the whistle-blower from addressing the issue internally.","byline":"By Edward Wong","pub_date":"2020-07-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/politics/pompeo-whistleblower.html"} {"headline":"3 Dead After Glacier Tour Bus Rolls Over in Canadian Rockies","abstract":"The vehicle, with 27 people on board, was specially designed to carry visitors onto one of North America’s largest glaciers, in Jasper National Park in Alberta.","byline":"By Ian Austen","pub_date":"2020-07-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/world/canada/bus-crash-glacier-jasper-alberta.html"} {"headline":"Vulnerable Border Community Battles Virus on ‘A Straight Up Trajectory’","abstract":"In the Rio Grande Valley, poverty and chronic illness are aggravating the coronavirus outbreak. Ambulances stack up outside emergency rooms, where patients wait for beds.","byline":"By Caitlin Dickerson and Lynsey Addario","pub_date":"2020-07-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/coronavirus-texas-rio-grande-valley.html"} {"headline":"Death of John Lewis Fuels Movement to Rename Edmund Pettus Bridge","abstract":"The bridge became a flash point on March 7, 1965, as protesters, led by Mr. Lewis and other civil rights leaders, were stopped and beaten by state troopers as they marched to Alabama’s capital.","byline":"By Allyson Waller","pub_date":"2020-07-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/politics/edmund-pettus-bridge-renamed-john-lewis.html"} {"headline":"Delta says passengers who don’t wear masks face a health screening.","abstract":"Delta Air Lines said it would require passengers unable to wear face masks because of health conditions to undergo a medical clearance at the airport before boarding — or the passengers should “reconsider travel” altogether.","byline":"By Geneva Abdul and Niraj Chokshi","pub_date":"2020-07-20","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/business/delta-says-passengers-who-dont-wear-masks-face-a-health-screening.html"} {"headline":"Ohio Primary Election Results: 13th Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-07-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/elections/results-ohio-house-district-13-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"Republicans, Still at Odds Over Aid Package, Eye $1 Trillion Opening Offer","abstract":"Congressional Republicans and the White House are still debating a number of central issues as lawmakers look to unveil their proposal.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane, Jim Tankersley and Nicholas Fandos","pub_date":"2020-07-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/us/politics/congress-coronavirus-aid-package.html"} {"headline":"At Least 60 Migrants Killed in Turkish Boat Disaster","abstract":"Rescuers continue to pull the bodies of victims from Lake Van, in eastern Turkey, more than three weeks after the fishing boat carrying them sank.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-07-20","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/world/middleeast/migrants-killed-turkey-van-boat.html"} {"headline":"‘If It’s Here, It’s Here’: America’s Retirees Confront the Virus in Florida","abstract":"As cases spike across Florida, the virus appears to have caught up with the residents of the Villages.","byline":"By Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura","pub_date":"2020-07-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/us/coronavirus-florida-elderly.html"} {"headline":"Angela Merkel Guides the E.U. to a Deal, However Imperfect","abstract":"With her long experience as German chancellor, she shapes a necessary compromise on virus aid for the battered European south. But it’s consensus at a cost.","byline":"By Steven Erlanger and Matina Stevis-Gridneff","pub_date":"2020-07-21","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/world/europe/european-union-coronavirus-aid.html"} {"headline":"65 Million Tourists, Gone From N.Y.C.","abstract":"The city is mired in an economic crisis, and the return of visitors looks distant. That's devastating news for these three tourist destinations.","byline":"By Amanda Rosa","pub_date":"2020-07-21","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/visit-nyc-tourism.html"} {"headline":"Americans Hunker Down, Threatening the Self-Storage Industry","abstract":"What once seemed like one of the few recession-proof parts of commercial real estate looks as vulnerable as many other businesses.","byline":"By Tom Acitelli","pub_date":"2020-07-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/business/storage-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Banned Chinese Companies Deny Allegations They Abused Uighurs","abstract":"Several firms that were blacklisted by the U.S. Commerce Department said they had found no evidence of forced labor or other abuses.","byline":"By Ana Swanson","pub_date":"2020-07-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/business/china-us-trade-banned.html"} {"headline":"Shelton Clears Senate Committee, Moving Closer to Fed Board","abstract":"President Trump’s two Federal Reserve nominees, including the hot-button pick Judy Shelton, will proceed to a vote in the full Senate.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-07-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/business/economy/shelton-federal-reserve-trump-senate.html"} {"headline":"Spike in U.S. Cases Far Outpaces Testing Expansion","abstract":"The governors of Indiana, Minnesota and Ohio all issued orders requiring residents of their states to wear masks. Being reinfected by the virus is highly unlikely, experts say.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-07-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html"} {"headline":"Vampire Bats Self-Isolate, Too","abstract":"When these mammals are ill, they have fewer interactions with family and friends, a new study suggests. “It’s like us,” said one researcher.","byline":"By David Waldstein","pub_date":"2020-07-22","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/science/vampire-bats-viruses.html"} {"headline":"In Electric Car Market, It’s Tesla and a Jumbled Field of Also-Rans","abstract":"Most traditional carmakers are struggling to produce and market electric vehicles even as Tesla sells hundreds of thousands of its luxury models.","byline":"By Neal E. Boudette","pub_date":"2020-07-22","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/business/tesla-electric-car-audi-polestar.html"} {"headline":"Hearst Employees Say Magazine Boss Led Toxic Culture","abstract":"At Cosmopolitan staff meetings, workers complain of discrimination and tokenism. Former employees say the Hearst Magazines president, Troy Young, made sexually offensive remarks.","byline":"By Katie Robertson and Ben Smith","pub_date":"2020-07-22","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/business/media/hearst-harassment-troy-young.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Hospitalizations for the Coronavirus Near April Peak","abstract":"The rising hospitalizations reflect the scale of serious illnesses: Nearly as many people are in hospitals now as there were when New York was at its worst.","byline":"By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Sarah Mervosh","pub_date":"2020-07-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/us/coronavirus-hospitalizations-near-peak.html"} {"headline":"Elon Musk Delivers a Big Surprise","abstract":"An unexpected profit pushed Tesla’s turbocharged shares even higher. Will the electric-car maker join the S&P 500 soon?","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-07-23","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/business/dealbook/elon-musk-tesla-profit.html"} {"headline":"Why Some Mosquitoes Prefer Humans","abstract":"A few species find us irresistible; the rest are unimpressed. A three-year-long experiment offers an explanation for the difference in taste.","byline":"By Angela Chen","pub_date":"2020-07-23","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/science/mosquitoes-genetics-africa.html"} {"headline":"Federal Agents Envelop Portland Protest, and City’s Mayor, in Tear Gas","abstract":"Mayor Ted Wheeler denounced federal agents for an “egregious overreaction,” and official reviews were started in Washington, D.C.","byline":"By Mike Baker","pub_date":"2020-07-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/portland-protest-tear-gas-mayor.html"} {"headline":"Ronald L. Graham, Who Unlocked the Magic of Numbers, Dies at 84","abstract":"He was pre-eminent in the field of discrete mathematics, coming up with “some really pretty cool stuff.” (He was also a world-class juggler.)","byline":"By Kenneth Chang","pub_date":"2020-07-23","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/science/ronald-l-graham-who-unlocked-the-magic-of-numbers-dies-at-84.html"} {"headline":"Bloomberg’s Gun Control Group Pours $15 Million Into Races in 8 States","abstract":"The group, Everytown for Gun Safety, hopes to help Democrats flip three Senate seats, win control of state legislatures and lift Joe Biden to victory in Florida.","byline":"By Reid J. Epstein","pub_date":"2020-07-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/bloomberg-guns.html"} {"headline":"At Wall Street Journal, News Staff and Opinion Side Clash","abstract":"A heated dispute between the newsroom and the opinion section of one of the country’s most respected news organizations has spilled into public view.","byline":"By Edmund Lee","pub_date":"2020-07-24","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/business/media/wall-street-journal-news-opinion-clash-letter.html"} {"headline":"Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Fund-Raising for Trump Draws Scrutiny","abstract":"Ms. Guilfoyle has raised money from donors and has made inroads with some who have rejected calls from others. Yet Trump supporters inside and outside the campaign say the operation she’s built hasn’t lived up to expectations.","byline":"By Kenneth P. Vogel and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-07-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/us/politics/kimberly-guilfoyles-trump-fundraising.html"} {"headline":"After Early Success, Israel’s Netanyahu Faces Fury for Flubbing Virus Fight","abstract":"With infections spiking again, young Israelis are protesting what they see as chaotic handling of the health and economic crisis.","byline":"By Isabel Kershner","pub_date":"2020-07-24","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/world/middleeast/israel-virus-protests-netanyahu.html"} {"headline":"A.O.C. Unleashes a Viral Condemnation of Sexism in Congress","abstract":"After a Republican lawmaker referred to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez using a sexist vulgarity, she took to the House floor to denounce the abuse faced by women in Congress and across the nation.","byline":"By Luke Broadwater and Catie Edmondson","pub_date":"2020-07-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sexism-congress.html"} {"headline":"Pelosi Rejects Short-Term Extension of Unemployment Benefits, Again","abstract":"Pushing for broader aid, Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, again rejected the prospect of passing of a short-term extension of the $600-a-week unemployment benefits on Friday.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-07-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007256158/pelosi-rejects-unemployment-extension.html"} {"headline":"Why the ‘Super Weird’ Moons of Mars Fascinate Scientists","abstract":"What’s the big deal about little Phobos and tinier Deimos?","byline":"By Robin George Andrews","pub_date":"2020-07-25","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/science/mars-moons-phobos-deimos.html"} {"headline":"Misogynistic Lawyer Who Killed Judge’s Son Had List of Possible Targets","abstract":"The list was found after the lawyer killed himself and had more than a dozen names, including three other judges and two doctors.","byline":"By William K. Rashbaum","pub_date":"2020-07-25","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/nyregion/roy-den-hollander-esther-salas-list.html"} {"headline":"North Korea Declares Emergency After Suspected Covid-19 Case","abstract":"The country locked down a city near its border with South Korea. It was the first time North Korea has admitted that it might have a coronavirus case.","byline":"By Choe Sang-Hun","pub_date":"2020-07-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/world/asia/north-korea-coronavirus-kim-jong-un.html"} {"headline":"Tailors Know New Yorkers’ Pandemic Secret: ‘Everybody Got Fat!’","abstract":"Tailors across New York City are expanding waistlines and moving buttons to accommodate the “Quarantine 15.”","byline":"By Sarah Maslin Nir","pub_date":"2020-07-25","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/nyregion/coronavirus-tailors-cleaners-weight-gain.html"} {"headline":"The F.B.I. Pledged to Keep a Source Anonymous. Trump Allies Aided His Unmasking.","abstract":"After a Russia expert who had collected research on Donald Trump for a disputed dossier agreed to tell the F.B.I. what he knew about it, law enforcement officials declassified a road map to identifying him.","byline":"By Adam Goldman and Charlie Savage","pub_date":"2020-07-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/us/politics/igor-danchenko-steele-dossier.html"} {"headline":"Upsides for Some Remote Workers; Lost Pay and Security for Others","abstract":"Working from home creates economic winners and losers. It can benefit highly skilled employees but depress others’ wages and make it hard to organize.","byline":"By Noam Scheiber","pub_date":"2020-07-26","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/business/economy/labor-remote-work-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Fighting False News in Ukraine, Facebook Fact Checkers Tread a Blurry Line","abstract":"Facebook hired a Ukrainian group battling Russian disinformation to flag misleading posts. But critics say the fact checkers’ work veers into activism.","byline":"By Anton Troianovski","pub_date":"2020-07-26","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/world/europe/ukraine-facebook-fake-news.html"} {"headline":"Quarantine Order Blindsides Britons Returning From Spain","abstract":"Britain’s sudden decision to make travelers from Spain self-isolate for 14 days caught many vacationers by surprise — including the transportation secretary.","byline":"By Stephen Castle and Raphael Minder","pub_date":"2020-07-26","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/world/europe/Spain-quarantine-UK-travel.html"} {"headline":"‘You Do the Right Things, and Still You Get It’","abstract":"A Texas family tried to ward off the virus. But as cases in the state soared and debates about masks and distancing raged, there was only so much they could control.","byline":"By Sheri Fink","pub_date":"2020-07-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/us/coronavirus-family-houston-masks.html"} {"headline":"Inside the Violent and Misogynistic World of Roy Den Hollander","abstract":"He was known for his hatred of women and his frivolous lawsuits. Then he killed the son of a New Jersey federal judge before taking his own life, officials said.","byline":"By Nicole Hong, Mihir Zaveri and William K. Rashbaum","pub_date":"2020-07-26","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/nyregion/roy-den-hollander-judge.html"} {"headline":"Coming of Age on Mars","abstract":"In a new book, planetary scientist Sarah Stewart Johnson recalls how the Red Planet drew her to become a scientist.","byline":"By Dennis Overbye","pub_date":"2020-07-27","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/science/mars-sarah-stewart-johnson.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today","abstract":"Two late-stage vaccine trials could produce results by November.","byline":"By Jonathan Wolfe and Lara Takenaga","pub_date":"2020-07-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/us/coronavirus-today.html"} {"headline":"Penn Museum to Relocate Skull Collection of Enslaved People","abstract":"The Philadelphia museum, which reopens on July 28, plans to relocate parts of the collection to storage from a private classroom.","byline":"By Johnny Diaz","pub_date":"2020-07-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/us/Penn-museum-slavery-skulls-Morton-cranial.html"} {"headline":"The German economy shows signs of rebounding.","abstract":"Germany is bouncing back quickly from the pandemic, according to a survey of businesses that is a reliable weather vane of the direction of Europe’s largest economy. But economists cautioned that a return to normal is still a long way off.","byline":"By Jack Ewing","pub_date":"2020-07-27","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/business/the-german-economy-shows-signs-of-rebounding.html"} {"headline":"We’ll Be Wearing Masks for a While. Why Not Make Them Nice?","abstract":"Motorized air purifiers and heated sanitizers. Breathable fabrics and chic prints. With face coverings here to stay, consumers are starting to demand more than cheap throwaways.","byline":"By Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno","pub_date":"2020-07-27","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/business/fashion-masks-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Chainsmokers Concert in Hamptons Is Under Fire Over Social Distancing","abstract":"The state’s health commissioner opened an inquiry after video footage of the concert showed crowds of people standing close together.","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-07-28","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/nyregion/hamptons-chainsmokers-concert-social-distancing.html"} {"headline":"Tech’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Moment","abstract":"The bosses of four tech giants are preparing to defend themselves at a congressional hearing against claims of anti-competitive behavior.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-07-28","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/business/dealbook/tech-ceos-congress.html"} {"headline":"San Francisco Fire Engulfs Nearly Entire City Block","abstract":"Dozens of workers were displaced and one firefighter was injured after a five-alarm fire consumed six buildings in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco.","byline":"By Storyful","pub_date":"2020-07-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007260854/san-francisco-fire.html"} {"headline":"After Quitting Deadspin in Protest, They’re Starting a New Site","abstract":"The journalists who took part in a staff rebellion last year are starting Defector Media, a company with a podcast and a website dedicated to sports and culture.","byline":"By Marc Tracy","pub_date":"2020-07-28","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/business/media/deadspin-staffers-start-defector.html"} {"headline":"U.S. lawmakers deliberate over another aid package.","abstract":"Lawmakers are continuing negotiations over a coronavirus relief package. The Republicans’ $1 trillion opening bid will have to be reconciled with Democrats, who were pushing a much larger recovery package that would extend $600 per week in extra unemployment aid through the end of the year. The Republican plan would reduce the benefit to $200.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane and Jim Tankersley","pub_date":"2020-07-28","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/business/us-lawmakers-deliberate-over-another-aid-package.html"} {"headline":"Getting to Mars Is Easy. It’s the Stopping That Can Kill You.","abstract":"The United States has an unparalleled record of success on the red planet’s surface, but NASA’s engineers aren’t resting on their laurels.","byline":"By Kenneth Chang","pub_date":"2020-07-29","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/science/nasa-mars-perseverance-rover.html"} {"headline":"Atlanta Mourns John Lewis and Ponders Carrying On With ‘Good Trouble’","abstract":"The congressman and civil rights leader preached in support of nonviolent resistance, a message that some say must live on in his absence.","byline":"By Rick Rojas and Richard Fausset","pub_date":"2020-07-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/us/john-lewis-atlanta-memorial.html"} {"headline":"Old Vaccines May Stop the Coronavirus, Study Hints. Scientists Are Skeptical.","abstract":"Certain vaccines may provide broad protection against infections. But new research doesn’t prove these vaccines can turn back the coronavirus, experts said.","byline":"By Roni Caryn Rabin","pub_date":"2020-07-29","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/health/coronavirus-vaccines.html"} {"headline":"Fed meeting could provide fresh clues on how policymakers see the economy.","abstract":"Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday will conclude a two-day policy meeting that is likely to yield little action — rates are already at near-zero and are almost certain to stay there for an extended period — but could provide a fresh read on how policymakers are thinking about the economic outlook, and hints about their plans for the future.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-07-29","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/business/fed-meeting-could-provide-fresh-clues-on-how-policymakers-see-the-economy.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today","abstract":"Some teachers’ unions are threatening to strike if districts don’t take sufficient precautions.","byline":"By Jonathan Wolfe and Lara Takenaga","pub_date":"2020-07-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/us/coronavirus-today.html"} {"headline":"‘This Is a New Phase’: Europe Shifts Tactics to Limit Tech’s Power","abstract":"The region’s lawmakers and regulators are taking direct aim at Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple in a series of proposed laws.","byline":"By Adam Satariano","pub_date":"2020-07-30","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/technology/europe-new-phase-tech-amazon-apple-facebook-google.html"} {"headline":"House Panel Finds Arizona Congressman Violated 11 Ethics Rules","abstract":"The House ethics committee ordered Representative David Schweikert, Republican of Arizona, to pay a $50,000 fine and face a reprimand by the House.","byline":"By Michael Levenson","pub_date":"2020-07-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/david-schweikert-ethics-rules-violations.html"} {"headline":"Poacher Who Killed Gorilla Rafiki Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison in Uganda","abstract":"The man had confessed to killing Rafiki, a rare silverback gorilla who was the leader of the famed Nkuringo gorilla troop, popular with tourists.","byline":"By Elian Peltier","pub_date":"2020-07-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/world/europe/poacher-gorilla-rafiki-silverback-uganda-prison.html"} {"headline":"Louie Gohmert’s Coronavirus Case Reveals a Dangerous Reality in Congress","abstract":"Congress, which is tasked with shepherding the nation through the pandemic, itself lacks consistent procedures for protecting its members and its work force.","byline":"By Nicholas Fandos and Catie Edmondson","pub_date":"2020-07-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/politics/gohmert-coronavirus-congress.html"} {"headline":"Read the Full Transcript of Obama’s Eulogy for John Lewis","abstract":"Mr. Obama praised Mr. Lewis, saying “he as much as anyone in our history brought this country a little bit closer to our highest ideals.”","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-07-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/obama-eulogy-john-lewis-full-transcript.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s Coronavirus Testing Chief Concedes a Lag in Test Results","abstract":"With the reopening plans of schools and businesses hinging on rapid test results, the Trump administration’s testing czar says a two- to three-day turnaround “is not possible.”","byline":"By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Katherine J. Wu","pub_date":"2020-07-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-testing.html"} {"headline":"Does Trump Want to Save His Economy?","abstract":"The president is showing little urgency or strategy as the economic recovery stalls ahead of the November election.","byline":"By Jim Tankersley","pub_date":"2020-07-31","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/business/coronavirus-trump-economy.html"} {"headline":"William English, Who Helped Build the Computer Mouse, Dies at 91","abstract":"He was one of the computing pioneers who “showed what a computer interface could — and should — look like,” a colleague said.","byline":"By Cade Metz","pub_date":"2020-07-31","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/technology/william-english-who-helped-build-the-computer-mouse-dies-at-91.html"} {"headline":"More Than Just a Tweet: Trump’s Campaign to Undercut Democracy","abstract":"Floating the idea of delaying the election was the latest step in the president’s running effort to discredit the election, risking long-term damage to public trust in the system.","byline":"By Peter Baker","pub_date":"2020-07-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/us/politics/trump-tweet-democracy.html"} {"headline":"Wear Your Mask. Please. No, Not on Your Chin.","abstract":"More than 30 states have enacted mask requirements to guard against the coronavirus. But local authorities have had a difficult time enforcing them.","byline":"By Frances Robles","pub_date":"2020-07-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/us/coronavirus-masks-enforcement-key-west.html"} {"headline":"Like Old Hollywood Movies, Video Games Get a Polish for New Audiences","abstract":"Game publishers are digging through their vaults to remake or remaster popular titles in a bid to kindle players’ nostalgia.","byline":"By Imad Khan","pub_date":"2020-08-01","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/business/video-game-remake-remaster-nostalgia.html"} {"headline":"Law to Reduce Crack Cocaine Sentences Leaves Some Imprisoned","abstract":"Critics say the First Step Act is being applied too arbitrarily by judges who are taking a hard line when it comes to revisiting nonviolent drug sentences.","byline":"By Hailey Fuchs","pub_date":"2020-08-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/us/politics/law-to-reduce-crack-cocaine-sentences-leaves-some-imprisoned.html"} {"headline":"ByteDance Said to Offer to Sell TikTok’s U.S. Operations","abstract":"The Trump administration has said the video app poses security concerns because of its Chinese ownership.","byline":"By Raymond Zhong and Steve Lohr","pub_date":"2020-08-01","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/technology/tiktok-sale-trump-ban.html"} {"headline":"Indian Billionaires Bet Big on Head Start in Coronavirus Vaccine Race","abstract":"The world’s largest vaccine producer, the Serum Institute, announced a plan to make hundreds of millions of doses of an unproven inoculation. It’s a gamble with a huge upside. And huge risks.","byline":"By Jeffrey Gettleman","pub_date":"2020-08-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/world/asia/coronavirus-vaccine-india.html"} {"headline":"Ethiopian Workers Are Forced to Return Home, Some With Coronavirus","abstract":"Stigmatized, out of work and facing dangers, migrant laborers are returning by the thousands — and may be fueling a growing outbreak in Ethiopia.","byline":"By Simon Marks","pub_date":"2020-08-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/world/africa/ethiopian-migrant-workers-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Israeli Court Rebukes Prime Minister’s Son Over Harassing Protest Leaders","abstract":"Yair Netanyahu tweeted the addresses and phone numbers of three men who led protests against his father’s administration. All three said they later received death threats.","byline":"By Adam Rasgon","pub_date":"2020-08-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/world/middleeast/israel-Netanyahus-son-tweets.html"} {"headline":"‘Clean Up This Mess’: The Chinese Thinkers Behind Xi’s Hard Line","abstract":"Chinese academics have been honing the Communist Party’s authoritarian response in Hong Kong, rejecting the liberal ideas of their youth.","byline":"By Chris Buckley","pub_date":"2020-08-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/world/asia/china-hong-kong-national-security-law.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Identifies Some of the Mysterious Seeds Mailed From China","abstract":"The 14 varieties identified include common ones, such as hibiscus, morning glory and lavender. Still, experts warned recipients not to plant them.","byline":"By Allyson Waller","pub_date":"2020-08-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/us/Seed-packets-China-USA.html"} {"headline":"Microsoft Says It’ll Continue Pursuit of TikTok","abstract":"The announcement came after the company consulted with President Trump, who has threatened to ban the app and expressed national security concerns about it in recent weeks.","byline":"By Mike Isaac, Ana Swanson and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-08-02","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/business/economy/trump-tiktok-china-national-security.html"} {"headline":"Guyana Swears In New Leader, Resolving Struggle Over Oil Wealth","abstract":"Mohamed Irfaan Ali will manage the flow of billions in new oil revenues, which are reshaping the small South American country and heightened a standoff after elections in March.","byline":"By Nafeeza Yahya-Sakur and Anatoly Kurmanaev","pub_date":"2020-08-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/world/americas/guyana-president-ali-oil.html"} {"headline":"‘The Biggest Monster’ Is Spreading. And It’s Not the Coronavirus.","abstract":"Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.","byline":"By Apoorva Mandavilli","pub_date":"2020-08-03","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/health/coronavirus-tuberculosis-aids-malaria.html"} {"headline":"In Showdown Between China and the West, HSBC Gets Caught in the Middle","abstract":"Global businesses are increasingly being asked to pick political and legal sides in the confrontation between the world’s two biggest economies.","byline":"By Alexandra Stevenson","pub_date":"2020-08-03","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/business/hsbc-china-hong-kong-united-states.html"} {"headline":"Fauci Supports Birx’s Coronavirus Assessment After Trump Criticizes Her","abstract":"Counting for the 2020 census will end on Sept. 30, a month earlier than previously announced, the Census Bureau said. Some U.S. schools have begun to reopen, with fraught results.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-08-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html"} {"headline":"How to Ace an Online Job Interview","abstract":"A handful of classic techniques and some tips unique to the work-from-home era can help you land that next job.","byline":"By Julie Weed","pub_date":"2020-08-03","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/business/online-job-interview-tips.html"} {"headline":"Abductions, Censorship and Layoffs: Pakistani Critics Are Under Siege","abstract":"Recent abductions of a journalist and an activist have underscored Pakistan’s worsening rights conditions as the country’s security forces pressure the news media and human rights groups.","byline":"By Maria Abi-Habib","pub_date":"2020-08-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/world/asia/pakistan-media-abductions.html"} {"headline":"How Hot Is Too Hot?","abstract":"The human body can survive at surprisingly high temperatures, so long as you’re prepared to sweat.","byline":"By Randall Munroe","pub_date":"2020-08-04","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/science/randall-munroe-xkcd-temperature.html"} {"headline":"How the Tropical Storm Is Affecting New York","abstract":"The storm could bring two to four inches of rain across the region, with coastal flooding and strong wind likely throughout Tuesday. ","byline":"By Troy Closson","pub_date":"2020-08-04","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/nyregion/isaias-tropical-storm-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Some caterers are finding creative ways to keep their businesses afloat.","abstract":"Caterers say they are taking a financial beating, with some expecting their business to be down between 80 and 90 percent this year. But many feel better situated than those in the restaurant business. Instead of paying often expensive rent in desirable locations like most restaurants, caterers typically pay less for large kitchens that can be off the beaten track.","byline":"By Julie Creswell","pub_date":"2020-08-04","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/business/some-caterers-are-finding-creative-ways-to-keep-their-businesses-afloat.html"} {"headline":"L.A. Mansion Party That Defied Pandemic Ban Ends in Deadly Shooting","abstract":"Five people were injured, one of whom later died, at a large gathering in violation of coronavirus restrictions at a multimillion-dollar hillside home near Beverly Hills.","byline":"By Megan Specia","pub_date":"2020-08-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/us/la-mansion-party-shooting.html"} {"headline":"Distilleries rushed into the hand sanitizer market. Now some are trying to get out.","abstract":"More than 800 craft distillers across the United States leapt into action to help in the first wave of the pandemic by producing hand sanitizer, urged on by federal agencies. But with demand for sanitizer fluctuating, distillers have faced unforeseen costs and excess supplies that they could not get rid of.","byline":"By Kellen Browning","pub_date":"2020-08-04","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/business/distilleries-rushed-into-the-hand-sanitizer-market-now-some-are-trying-to-get-out.html"} {"headline":"Doing Away With Convention","abstract":"Do we really need the spectacle of the traditional political conventions? We’re about to find out.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-08-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/politics/biden-convention-delaware.html"} {"headline":"Digital Revenue Exceeds Print for 1st Time for New York Times Company","abstract":"The pandemic squeezed advertising for the web as well as print, but subscription growth was the best ever for a quarter.","byline":"By Marc Tracy","pub_date":"2020-08-05","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/business/media/nyt-earnings-q2.html"} {"headline":"A Jazz Drummer’s Fight to Keep His Own Heart Beating","abstract":"Milford Graves devoted himself to studying the rhythms of the heart. It turns out he was creating a technique to treat himself.","byline":"By Corey Kilgannon","pub_date":"2020-08-05","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/nyregion/milford-graves-drummer.html"} {"headline":"State Dept. Traces Russian Disinformation Links","abstract":"A new government report avoids direct discussion of American election interference by Moscow, despite lawmakers’ call for more information.","byline":"By Julian E. Barnes","pub_date":"2020-08-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/politics/state-department-russian-disinformation.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today","abstract":"News on school reopenings — and closings — from New York, Chicago, Kenya and beyond.","byline":"By Lara Takenaga and Jonathan Wolfe","pub_date":"2020-08-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/coronavirus-today.html"} {"headline":"White House and Congress Remain Far From Any Stimulus Deal","abstract":"White House officials and Democratic leaders continued to dig in on crucial points of any potential deal, jeopardizing additional relief for small businesses and laid-off workers.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane and Jim Tankersley","pub_date":"2020-08-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/politics/congress-coronavirus-stimulus.html"} {"headline":"Gannett and Tribune newspaper chains see subscriber growth amid plunging advertising.","abstract":"Gannett and Tribune Publishing, two of the last remaining publicly traded newspaper chains, both reported impressive subscription growth alongside plummeting advertising sales during the second quarter of this year, which was dominated by the coronavirus pandemic.","byline":"By Marc Tracy","pub_date":"2020-08-06","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/business/gannett-and-tribune-newspaper-chains-see-subscriber-growth-amid-plunging-advertising.html"} {"headline":"A majority of travelers are not willing to get on planes, a new survey shows.","abstract":"More than half of Americans who flew in the past year are not ready to do so again, according to a new survey, underscoring the difficulty airlines face in convincing people it is safe for them to get back on planes.","byline":"By Niraj Chokshi","pub_date":"2020-08-06","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/business/a-majority-of-travelers-are-not-willing-to-get-on-planes-a-new-survey-shows.html"} {"headline":"Idled by the pandemic, workers in Britain try new careers.","abstract":"The economic collapse caused by the coronavirus has put millions of economic futures in doubt. More than nine million people have been furloughed in Britain, or 29 percent of the country’s work force, and 2.8 million have filed unemployment claims.","byline":"By Geneva Abdul","pub_date":"2020-08-06","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/business/idled-by-the-pandemic-workers-in-britain-try-new-careers.html"} {"headline":"As French President Visits Beirut, Lebanese Ask Where Their Leaders Are","abstract":"It was a day of funerals and fury in Beirut as residents cleared the rubble from their streets and homes, and vented anger at their government.","byline":"By Ben Hubbard","pub_date":"2020-08-06","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/middleeast/beirut-explosion.html"} {"headline":"Pompeo Warned Russia Against Bounties on U.S. Troops in Afghanistan","abstract":"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is said to have sternly discussed payouts and red lines in a telephone call with Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister.","byline":"By Edward Wong and Eric Schmitt","pub_date":"2020-08-07","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/world/asia/pompeo-russia-afghanistan-bounties.html"} {"headline":"After Taking a Pandemic Hit, Billboard Ad Companies See Signs of Hope","abstract":"The virus pummeled sales of ads on outdoor and transit displays, and a second wave could hamper a recovery. But executives believe the worst may be over for their business.","byline":"By Tiffany Hsu","pub_date":"2020-08-07","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/business/media/billboard-advertising-pandemic.html"} {"headline":"Did He Kill Neighbor to Become ‘TikTok Famous,’ or Was It Self-Defense?","abstract":"Zachary Latham says he was defending himself when he fatally stabbed William Durham. Mr. Durham’s family says he had another reason.","byline":"By Ed Shanahan","pub_date":"2020-08-07","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/nyregion/tiktok-manslaughter-new-jersey.html"} {"headline":"Power Outages Hit Manhattan and Queens as Utilities Face Storm Damage","abstract":"About 180,000 customers lost electricity in an outage that Con Edison said was caused by issues with its “transmission system.”","byline":"By Michael Gold","pub_date":"2020-08-07","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/nyregion/queens-manhattan-west-side-power-outage-coned.html"} {"headline":"Arson Suspected in Denver Fire That Killed 5 From Senegal","abstract":"Three adults and two children from the same family died in the early-morning house fire in Denver, the authorities said.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor and Azi Paybarah","pub_date":"2020-08-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/us/Senegal-family-Colorado-fire-deaths.html"} {"headline":"Frances Allen, Who Helped Hardware Understand Software, Dies at 88","abstract":"One of the few women in the computer industry in its early days, she paved the way for the efficient, lightning-fast apps of today.","byline":"By Cade Metz","pub_date":"2020-08-08","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/technology/frances-allen-dead.html"} {"headline":"How Kristi Noem, Mt. Rushmore and Trump Fueled Speculation About Pence’s Job","abstract":"After Ms. Noem, the South Dakota governor, flew to Washington on Air Force One, rumors about her ambitions ensued. She made a second trip to smooth things over with Mike Pence.","byline":"By Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-08-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/us/politics/kristi-noem-pence-trump.html"} {"headline":"Rave Under the Kosciuszko Bridge: Are Illicit Parties Endangering N.Y.C.?","abstract":"Videos and photos posted on social media of a number of parties show few guests abiding by social-distancing guidelines.","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-08-08","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/nyregion/nyc-illegal-parties.html"} {"headline":"Dolphins Have Hidden Fingers. So Do Seals. These Sea Creatures Did Not.","abstract":"A recent analysis of the flippers of living and extinct marine animals shows the enduring power of “baby mittens.”","byline":"By Cara Giaimo","pub_date":"2020-08-08","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/science/dolphins-fingers-ichthyosaurs.html"} {"headline":"Away From Gridlock in Washington, Trump Puts on a Show for His Club","abstract":"The president held what was billed as a news conference. But there was almost no news, he again said the virus would disappear and his audience seemed at times less the nation than his golf club members.","byline":"By Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-08-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/politics/trump-news-conference-bedminster.html"} {"headline":"After Falwell Stumbles, His Hometown Sees a Leader in Need of Redemption","abstract":"Jerry Falwell Jr. has courted controversy repeatedly, but a provocative Instagram post led to him stepping aside as Liberty University’s president.","byline":"By Aishvarya Kavi and Rick Rojas","pub_date":"2020-08-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/jerry-falwell-liberty-university.html"} {"headline":"At Least 1 Dead and 20 Wounded in Washington, D.C., Shooting","abstract":"An off-duty police officer was in critical condition after multiple people opened fire on what appeared to be a block party, the police said.","byline":"By Bryan Pietsch","pub_date":"2020-08-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/washington-dc-shooting.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s Orders on Coronavirus Relief Create Confusion","abstract":"Businesses and the unemployed faced uncertainty as administration officials defended the president’s directives and Democrats criticized them.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane, Alan Rappeport and Luke Broadwater","pub_date":"2020-08-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/politics/trump-stimulus-bill-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"The Wallets of Wall Street Are With Joe Biden, if Not the Hearts","abstract":"Through donations, finance executives played a critical role in helping Joe Biden turn his campaign around. They’ve mostly grown to like him, if not love him.","byline":"By Kate Kelly, Shane Goldmacher and Thomas Kaplan","pub_date":"2020-08-09","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/business/joe-biden-wall-street.html"} {"headline":"8 Dead After Attack in a Wildlife Reserve in Niger","abstract":"French humanitarian workers, their Nigerien driver and a guide were killed, according to the authorities. The group was visiting an area known for its West African giraffes.","byline":"By Ruth Maclean","pub_date":"2020-08-09","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/world/africa/niger-giraffe-reserve-attack.html"} {"headline":"Trump Led From Briefing Room After a Shooting Outside the White House","abstract":"The Secret Service stopped President Trump in the middle of a coronavirus briefing and escorted him to the Oval Office. He returned several minutes later, and said there had been a shooting nearby.","byline":"By Annie Karni","pub_date":"2020-08-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/us/trump-white-house-shooting.html"} {"headline":"Delta Air Lines Bought an Oil Refinery. It Didn’t Go as Planned.","abstract":"Delta’s foray into oil refining illustrates some of the reasons the business was in trouble even before the pandemic.","byline":"By Clifford Krauss and Niraj Chokshi","pub_date":"2020-08-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/business/energy-environment/delta-oil-refinery-jet-fuel.html"} {"headline":"A Push to Return U.K.’s ‘Motor City’ to Its Cycling Roots","abstract":"Coventry can be forbidding for cyclists. But before it became Britain’s Detroit, the city was famed for making bicycles.","byline":"By Stephen Castle","pub_date":"2020-08-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/world/europe/uk-coventry-cycling.html"} {"headline":"Trump Abruptly Walks Out of Virus Briefing","abstract":"During Monday’s virus briefing, President Trump abruptly left the news conference and was escorted out by the Secret Service.","byline":"By Reuters","pub_date":"2020-08-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007282420/trump-walks-out-virus-briefing.html"} {"headline":"To Withhold or Not: Trump’s Order Gives Employers a New Dilemma","abstract":"Businesses are grappling with difficult legal and logistical questions about how to respond to the president’s payroll-tax holiday order.","byline":"By Alan Rappeport and Gillian Friedman","pub_date":"2020-08-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/business/economy/trump-payroll-tax-holiday.html"} {"headline":"A Few Facts About Kamala Harris","abstract":"Now that Joe Biden has selected Kamala Harris to be his running mate, here are some facts you should know about the first Black woman to be nominated for national office.","byline":"By Alexander Burns","pub_date":"2020-08-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/11/us/politics/facts-about-kamala-harris.html"} {"headline":"Perseid Meteor Shower: Watch It Peak in Night Skies","abstract":"Meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you’re lucky you might be able to catch a glimpse.","byline":"By Nicholas St. Fleur","pub_date":"2020-08-11","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/science/perseid-meteor-shower.html"} {"headline":"Michigan Primary Election Results: 13th Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-08-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/04/us/elections/results-michigan-house-district-13-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"A New Clash Over Mail Voting: The Cost of the Postage","abstract":"Senator Chuck Schumer assailed the Postal Service for what he said was an effort to triple the cost to states of sending out mail-in ballots. The service said it was just a suggestion to use first-class mail.","byline":"By Luke Broadwater and Hailey Fuchs","pub_date":"2020-08-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/politics/post-office-mail-in-voting.html"} {"headline":"Missouri Primary Election Results: Fifth Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-08-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/04/us/elections/results-missouri-house-district-5-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"A QAnon supporter is (almost definitely) heading to Congress.","abstract":"Conspiracy theorists won a major victory on Tuesday as Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican supporter of the convoluted pro-Trump movement QAnon, triumphed in her House primary runoff election in Georgia, all but ensuring that she will represent a deep-red district in Congress.","byline":"By Matthew Rosenberg, Astead W. Herndon and Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-08-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/politics/a-qanon-supporter-is-almost-definitely-heading-to-congress.html"} {"headline":"What the Harris Pick Means","abstract":"Can a cautious V.P. choice jolt a campaign? Biden’s going to see. This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Matt Stevens","pub_date":"2020-08-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/politics/democrats-2020.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today","abstract":"One Georgia district might foretell the chaos of the coming semester.","byline":"By Lara Takenaga and Jonathan Wolfe","pub_date":"2020-08-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/coronavirus-today.html"} {"headline":"Ilhan Omar Wins House Primary in Minnesota","abstract":"Ms. Omar, a member of the “Squad” of progressive women of color elected to the House two years ago, topped a well-funded challenger in a victory for the left.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-08-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/politics/ilhan-omar-minnesota-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"Advisers Consider Whether Trump Can Cut Taxes Without Congress","abstract":"Trump’s lawyers and economic advisers have studied how far they could stretch executive authority to set tax policy, though the legality of any cuts is dubious.","byline":"By Alan Rappeport","pub_date":"2020-08-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/politics/trump-tax-cuts.html"} {"headline":"He Is 16 and His Mother Died of Covid-19. What Happens To Him Now?","abstract":"Children who lost their parents in the pandemic are fighting to hold on to what is left of their families.","byline":"By Nikita Stewart and Gabriela Bhaskar","pub_date":"2020-08-13","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/nyregion/coronavius-ny-parents-dead.html"} {"headline":"The Democratic contenders pledge a path forward out of crises.","abstract":"WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Kamala Harris made their debut as running mates in a high school gymnasium on Wednesday, pledging to lead the country out of the coronavirus crisis.","byline":"By Katie Glueck and Thomas Kaplan","pub_date":"2020-08-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/us/politics/the-democratic-contenders-pledge-a-path-forward-out-of-crises.html"} {"headline":"Daimler to Settle U.S. Emissions Charges for $2.2 Billion","abstract":"The agreement is a small fraction of the sum that Volkswagen paid after admitting to emissions cheating in 2015.","byline":"By Jack Ewing","pub_date":"2020-08-13","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/business/daimler-emissions-settlement-us.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s Labor Chief Accused of Intervening in Oracle Pay Bias Case","abstract":"A Labor Department lawyer asserts that she faced reprisal after saying Secretary Eugene Scalia was set to settle a suit for a sum she found too low.","byline":"By Noam Scheiber, David McCabe and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-08-13","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/business/economy/oracle-settlement-scalia.html"} {"headline":"Norwegian Taxis, Wirelessly Charging While They Wait for a Fare","abstract":"Electric Jaguars in Oslo, using tech from a former NASA architect, will soon be able to recharge on special pads embedded under the road.","byline":"By Jamie Lincoln Kitman","pub_date":"2020-08-13","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/business/jaguar-i-pace-oslo-taxis-charging.html"} {"headline":"Expecting at the National Zoo: Washington Hopes to Gain a Baby Panda","abstract":"Mei Xiang, a 22-year-old giant panda, has “tissue consistent with fetal development” and could deliver in a few days, according to the zoo.","byline":"By Aimee Ortiz","pub_date":"2020-08-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/national-zoo-panda-pregnant.html"} {"headline":"Senators Criticize Guantánamo Prison Coronavirus Plan","abstract":"After a report from the Pentagon, Democrats questioned whether there was enough capacity to help either detainees or their guards if an outbreak occurs.","byline":"By Carol Rosenberg","pub_date":"2020-08-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/politics/senators-criticize-guantanamo-prison-coronavirus-plan.html"} {"headline":"Debunking 3 Viral Falsehoods About Kamala Harris","abstract":"False and misleading information about Ms. Harris has surged in the days since she joined the Biden ticket.","byline":"By Davey Alba","pub_date":"2020-08-14","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/technology/kamala-harris-disinformation.html"} {"headline":"In Diplomatic Doubleheader, U.S. Seizes Iranian Fuel From Ships Headed to Venezuela","abstract":"The high-seas handover blocked two diplomatic adversaries from evading American economic sanctions. Iran denied it was its fuel.","byline":"By Lara Jakes and Eric Schmitt","pub_date":"2020-08-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/world/middleeast/trump-iran-venezuela-fuel-tankers.html"} {"headline":"Polish Cleric Retires in Face of Cover-Up Accusations. It’s Not Enough, Critics Say.","abstract":"Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Archbishop Slawoj Leszek Glodz of Poland, a move seen as a subtle rebuke. But far more is needed to address the abuse of children by priests, advocates say.","byline":"By Elisabetta Povoledo and Anatol Magdziarz","pub_date":"2020-08-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/world/europe/pope-francis-abuse-gdansk.html"} {"headline":"Under Siege in Belarus, Lukashenko Turns to Putin","abstract":"The shift toward Russia comes at a time of crisis for President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, who has frequently played Moscow off against the West.","byline":"By Andrew Higgins and Ivan Nechepurenko","pub_date":"2020-08-15","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/world/europe/belarus-russia-Lukashenko-Putin.html"} {"headline":"An expected guilty plea in the review of the Russia inquiry pleases Trump.","abstract":"A former F.B.I. lawyer intends to plead guilty after he was charged with falsifying a document as part of a deal with prosecutors conducting their own criminal inquiry of the Russia investigation, according to his lawyer and court documents made public on Friday.","byline":"By Adam Goldman","pub_date":"2020-08-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/elections/an-expected-guilty-plea-in-the-review-of-the-russia-inquiry-pleases-trump.html"} {"headline":"Trump Ads Attack Biden Through Deceptive Editing and Hyperbole","abstract":"We reviewed all of the Trump campaign’s television ads since June. Two-thirds contained clearly misleading claims or videos.","byline":"By Linda Qiu","pub_date":"2020-08-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/politics/trump-campaign-ads-biden.html"} {"headline":"Trump Campaign Makes Huge Digital Ad Buy During Democratic Convention","abstract":"The Trump campaign is trying to make sure that Mr. Trump’s message will be almost impossible to miss even during the Democrats’ biggest week.","byline":"By Nick Corasaniti and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-08-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/politics/trump-campaign-ads-dnc.html"} {"headline":"Japanese Politicians Mark War Anniversary at Contentious Shrine","abstract":"Shinjiro Koizumi, a rising political star, was one of four cabinet ministers who went to Yasukuni Shrine, which has strong links to Japan’s imperial past.","byline":"By Motoko Rich","pub_date":"2020-08-15","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/world/asia/japan-yasukuni-shrine.html"} {"headline":"Pelosi to Recall House for Postal Service Vote as Democrats Press for DeJoy to Testify","abstract":"The House will cut short its summer recess to consider legislation that would counter changes at the Postal Service that critics say undermine casting ballots by mail.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane and Catie Edmondson","pub_date":"2020-08-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/us/politics/coronavirus-postal-service-stimulus-bill.html"} {"headline":"Protesters and Police Clash in Chicago as Virus Spreads","abstract":"Police officers pepper sprayed demonstrators in Chicago on Saturday, where city leaders are facing both escalating unrest and a rising number of coronavirus cases.","byline":"By Storyful","pub_date":"2020-08-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007291625/chicago-protests.html"} {"headline":"It’s Convention Time: 2-Minute Speeches, No Pomp, a Forlorn Milwaukee","abstract":"The Democratic convention starts Monday. But none of the leading participants will be in Milwaukee, the host city. Hotels there were closed and the bars of America’s most beer-loving city were eerily barren.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon and Reid J. Epstein","pub_date":"2020-08-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/us/politics/democrats-convention-milwaukee-biden.html"} {"headline":"Scientists See Signs of Lasting Virus Immunity, Even After Mild Infections","abstract":"School districts across the U.S. are weighing the possibility of outdoor classes. New Zealand postponed its election amid a growing outbreak.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-08-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html"} {"headline":"Protests Grow in Thailand, Where Speaking Out Can Be Perilous","abstract":"Demonstrators are demanding change in a country with a long history of suppressing dissent. Some protesters are even defying the taboo against criticizing the monarchy.","byline":"By Hannah Beech","pub_date":"2020-08-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/world/asia/thailand-protests-democracy-monarchy.html"} {"headline":"New Zealand’s Prime Minister Delays Election as Virus Cases Spread","abstract":"On Monday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand announced that the September election would be delayed by four weeks as new virus cases spread across Auckland.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-08-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000007292203/new-zealand-delayed-election.html"} {"headline":"A College’s ‘Free Speech Areas’ Face Supreme Court Review","abstract":"The justices will consider whether a student’s First Amendment lawsuit may proceed after a college in Georgia abandoned its restrictions.","byline":"By Adam Liptak","pub_date":"2020-08-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/us/supreme-court-college-free-speech.html"} {"headline":"A Crackdown in Belarus Backfires. Here’s What Videos Show.","abstract":"Protests took a decisive turn last week after videos of security officers brutally repressing demonstrators were widely shared.","byline":"By Christiaan Triebert, Cora Engelbrecht, Oleg Matsnev and A.J. Chavar","pub_date":"2020-08-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/world/europe/belarus-crackdown-protests-minsk.html"} {"headline":"Full D.N.C. Recap: Bernie Sanders, Michelle Obama and More","abstract":"Bernie Sanders and Michelle Obama headlined the first night of the Democratic National Convention. Watch the video and read our reporters’ real-time analysis.","byline":"By","pub_date":"2020-08-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/17/us/politics/democratic-national-convention-live-stream-analysis.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s Attacks on TikTok and WeChat Could Further Fracture the Internet","abstract":"The president’s restrictions on Chinese tech may be part of an eye-for-an-eye logic called reciprocity. The price could be a global patchwork of online fiefs.","byline":"By Ana Swanson, Paul Mozur and Raymond Zhong","pub_date":"2020-08-17","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/technology/trump-tiktok-wechat-ban.html"} {"headline":"Minnesota Primary Election Results: Fifth Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-08-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/11/us/elections/results-minnesota-house-district-5-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"As D.N.C. Unfolds, Trump Reprises Grimmest Language of 2016 Campaign","abstract":"Speaking in the border city of Yuma, Ariz., President Trump boasted about his own efforts to sharply limit immigration during his time in office.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear","pub_date":"2020-08-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/trump-immigration-arizona.html"} {"headline":"Minnesota Primary Election Results: Seventh Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-08-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/11/us/elections/results-minnesota-house-district-7-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"Notre Dame Moves Classes Online Amid Covid-19 Outbreak","abstract":"Former President Bill Clinton accused President Trump of downplaying the coronavirus crisis. Australia signed a deal for a potential coronavirus vaccine. The Philippines has largely reopened for business.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-08-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/world/coronavirus-covid.html"} {"headline":"Connecticut Primary Election Results: First Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-08-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/11/us/elections/results-connecticut-house-district-1-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"Big Tech’s Domination of Business Reaches New Heights","abstract":"As the economy contracts and many companies struggle to survive, the biggest tech companies are amassing wealth and influence in ways unseen in decades.","byline":"By Peter Eavis and Steve Lohr","pub_date":"2020-08-19","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/technology/big-tech-business-domination.html"} {"headline":"Flashback/Flash-Forward","abstract":"Hillary Clinton’s D.N.C. appearance tonight is a reminder of how the party has changed since 2016.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-08-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/flashback-flash-forward.html"} {"headline":"Trump and Miss Moscow: Report Examines Possible Compromises in Russia Trips","abstract":"The Senate committee report says that President Trump may have had a relationship with a Russian beauty pageant winner. But investigators say they “did not establish” that Russia had compromising information on Mr. Trump.","byline":"By Michael S. Schmidt","pub_date":"2020-08-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/trump-russia-senate-intelligence.html"} {"headline":"Behavioral Contagion Could Spread the Benefits of a Carbon Tax","abstract":"It’s not too late to fight climate change with a long-overdue policy that would have surprisingly broad impact, an economist says.","byline":"By Robert H. Frank","pub_date":"2020-08-19","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/business/behavioral-contagion-carbon-tax.html"} {"headline":"Facebook Removes 790 QAnon Groups to Fight Conspiracy Theory","abstract":"The social network also said it was restricting another 1,950 groups, 440 pages on Facebook and more than 10,000 accounts on Instagram related to the conspiracy group.","byline":"By Sheera Frenkel","pub_date":"2020-08-19","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/technology/facebook-qanon-groups-takedown.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today","abstract":"Flu shots are key to warding off a ‘twindemic' — a resurgence of the coronavirus paired with a severe flu season.","byline":"By Jonathan Wolfe","pub_date":"2020-08-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/20coronavirus-today.html"} {"headline":"Hundreds of Police Killings in India, but No Mass Protests","abstract":"Despite evidence of widespread police brutality, no significant grass-roots movement has arisen. For many Indians, day-to-day crime is the more pressing issue.","byline":"By Jeffrey Gettleman and Sameer Yasir","pub_date":"2020-08-20","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/world/asia/india-police-brutality.html"} {"headline":"Top G.O.P. national security officials call Trump ‘unfit to lead’ and back Biden.","abstract":"Four years after 50 of the nation’s most senior Republican national security officials warned that Donald J. Trump “would be the most reckless president in American history,” they are back with a new letter, declaring his presidency worse than they had imagined and urging voters to support Joseph R. Biden Jr.","byline":"By David E. Sanger","pub_date":"2020-08-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/elections/top-gop-national-security-officials-call-trump-unfit-to-lead-and-back-biden.html"} {"headline":"Election concerns persist despite Louis DeJoy’s move to halt postal changes.","abstract":"Louis DeJoy’s move to halt changes that were viewed as a threat to mail-in voting did little to quell the outcry over his leadership as postmaster general, with lawmakers calling on Wednesday for his removal and one top Democrat demanding more answers about the secretive process that led to a major Trump donor running the Postal Service.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane, Hailey Fuchs, Kenneth P. Vogel and Jessica Silver-Greenberg","pub_date":"2020-08-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/elections/election-concerns-persist-despite-louis-dejoys-move-to-halt-postal-changes.html"} {"headline":"Democrats Nominate Harris for Vice President, as Obama Lashes Trump","abstract":"Senator Kamala Harris became the first woman of color on a major party ticket, while former President Barack Obama condemned President Trump by name and issued a grim warning about the durability of American democracy.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon and Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-08-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/democratic-national-convention-recap.html"} {"headline":"National Enquirer Chief David Pecker Loses Top Job in Company Merger","abstract":"As the longtime media executive moves to an adviser role, American Media, the parent of The National Enquirer, has been renamed A360Media as part of a planned merger with a logistics company.","byline":"By Ben Smith","pub_date":"2020-08-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/business/media/david-pecker-ami-ceo.html"} {"headline":"‘Together We Work, Together We Rise,’ Booker Says","abstract":"Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey spoke to the Democratic National Convention about the importance of supporting working Americans.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-08-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000007299801/cory-booker-speaks-dnc.html"} {"headline":"Trump says he is ‘the only thing standing between the American dream and total anarchy.’","abstract":"President Trump, who decried what he called “American carnage” during his inaugural address in 2017, on Friday called the Democratic convention the “darkest and angriest and gloomiest” in the country’s history in remarks to a conservative group in Arlington, Va.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear","pub_date":"2020-08-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/us/elections/trump-says-he-is-the-only-thing-standing-between-the-american-dream-and-total-anarchy.html"} {"headline":"Here’s What to Watch as the Postmaster General Testifies Before Congress","abstract":"Louis DeJoy’s appearance before the Senate Homeland Security Committee marks his first congressional testimony since he suspended cost-cutting measures at the Postal Service.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane, Hailey Fuchs and Nicholas Fandos","pub_date":"2020-08-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/louis-dejoy-testimony-postal-service.html"} {"headline":"DeJoy Tells Senators Election Mail Will Be Delivered ‘Fully and on Time’","abstract":"The postmaster general, under fire for recent changes that have slowed mail delivery, defended his approach and asked Congress to help free the Postal Service from costly retirement obligations.","byline":"By Nicholas Fandos and Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-08-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/us/politics/dejoy-postal-service-senate-hearing.html"} {"headline":"How can the G.O.P. top the D.N.C.?","abstract":"The Biden granddaughters were lovely. Shorter speeches were effective. The travelogue roll call made for strangely good TV.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon and Annie Karni","pub_date":"2020-08-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/us/elections/how-can-the-gop-top-the-dnc.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Limits California’s Efforts to Fight Fires With Prison Labor","abstract":"Early releases of prisoners to protect them from the virus have depleted the ranks of an inmate firefighting program that some say should be abolished anyway.","byline":"By Thomas Fuller","pub_date":"2020-08-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/us/california-wildfires-prisoners.html"} {"headline":"Is the ‘Convention Bounce’ a Thing of the Past?","abstract":"After the Democratic primary campaign came to an abrupt halt in late March as the coronavirus swept through the nation, the Democrats and Republicans have looked to the conventions as their candidates’ biggest stage.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-08-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/us/politics/joe-biden-dnc-convention.html"} {"headline":"‘A Bit Surreal’: The Lonely Plight of the Great Barrier Reef","abstract":"The tourism operators who depend on the natural wonder, already contending with climate change, have been walloped by the pandemic. The absence of visitors is bad for them — and the reef.","byline":"By Livia Albeck-Ripka and Natalie Grono","pub_date":"2020-08-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/world/australia/great-barrier-reef-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"As Politicians Clashed, Bolivia’s Pandemic Death Rate Soared","abstract":"Bolivia was mired in political turmoil when the pandemic hit. The response was chaotic. And the surge in deaths that followed was among the worst in the world, according to an analysis by The New York Times.","byline":"By María Silvia Trigo, Anatoly Kurmanaev and Allison McCann","pub_date":"2020-08-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/world/americas/virus-bolivia.html"} {"headline":"Electric Vehicle Makers Find a Back Door to Wall Street","abstract":"Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, are helping them and other fledgling companies raise money and gain coveted stock listings.","byline":"By Neal E. Boudette and Kate Kelly","pub_date":"2020-08-23","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/business/electric-cars-spac-wall-street.html"} {"headline":"Shouting Turns to Violence in Portland as Dueling Protests Converge","abstract":"Paintballs and pepper spray filled the air during a confrontation in Oregon between a pro-police rally and Black Lives Matter supporters.","byline":"By Will Wright","pub_date":"2020-08-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/us/portland-protests.html"} {"headline":"Canada’s Conservatives Pick a Leader to Rival Scandal-Scarred Trudeau","abstract":"The party, which has struggled to respond to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s liberal platform and personal popularity, hopes the new leader, Erin O’Toole, can change that.","byline":"By Ian Austen","pub_date":"2020-08-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/world/canada/canada-conservatives-trudeau-leader.html"} {"headline":"Twitter Flags Trump Tweet for Dissuading Voting","abstract":"The social media service hid the president’s post about ballot drop boxes, saying it violated Twitter’s election integrity rules.","byline":"By Kate Conger","pub_date":"2020-08-23","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/technology/twitter-trump-tweet-warning.html"} {"headline":"New Conditions on Alaskan Mine Could Delay Vast Project That Donald Trump Jr. Opposes","abstract":"The Army Corps of Engineers will impose new mitigation conditions on the developers of the proposed Pebble Mine, potentially pushing approval past the election.","byline":"By Coral Davenport and Henry Fountain","pub_date":"2020-08-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/us/politics/pebble-mine.html"} {"headline":"Radical Break From Tradition: Trump Stages Part of His Convention From the White House","abstract":"But President Trump’s convention speech and those of Melania Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are only the latest examples of how Mr. Trump has further blurred the lines between the government and his campaign.","byline":"By Peter Baker","pub_date":"2020-08-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/us/politics/trump-nomination-white-house.html"} {"headline":"Why Trump’s Approval Ratings on the Economy Remain Durable","abstract":"Despite the recession, polling data and interviews with voters and political analysts suggest that a confluence of factors is raising the president’s standing on the economy issue.","byline":"By Jim Tankersley","pub_date":"2020-08-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/us/politics/trump-economy.html"} {"headline":"Biden and Harris will be tested regularly for the coronavirus.","abstract":"Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Kamala Harris will be tested regularly for the coronavirus as Election Day approaches, the Biden campaign said on Monday, a day after a senior Biden official said Mr. Biden had not yet been tested.","byline":"By Thomas Kaplan and Katie Glueck","pub_date":"2020-08-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/us/elections/biden-and-harris-will-be-tested-regularly-for-the-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"He Helped Fellow Immigrants See the World. Now His Business Is Sinking.","abstract":"Small, minority-owned travel agencies in New York, already pummeled by internet websites, are facing further devastation because of the pandemic.","byline":"By Daniel E. Slotnik","pub_date":"2020-08-24","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/nyregion/travel-agents-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Nominating Trump, Republicans Rewrite His Record","abstract":"President Trump and his party engaged in sweeping revisionism about his management of the coronavirus, his record on race relations and much else. And they painted a dystopian picture of what the nation would look like if Joseph R. Biden Jr. were president.","byline":"By Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns and Annie Karni","pub_date":"2020-08-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/us/politics/republican-convention-recap.html"} {"headline":"The Impeachment Battle Rematch That Wasn’t","abstract":"Six months after President Trump’s Senate trial, what was once seen as the battle of a generation has essentially vanished from the political landscape, all but unmentioned at either party’s convention.","byline":"By Peter Baker","pub_date":"2020-08-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/us/politics/trump-impeachment-convention.html"} {"headline":"C.D.C. Now Says People Without Covid-19 Symptoms Do Not Need Testing","abstract":"The revision prompted confusion and alarm from experts, who called the move “potentially dangerous.”","byline":"By Katherine J. Wu","pub_date":"2020-08-25","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/health/covid-19-testing-cdc.html"} {"headline":"Pompeo’s speech tonight is a break with diplomatic tradition that suggests his own political ambitions.","abstract":"Mike Pompeo is betting that he has more to gain, politically, than he will lose by breaking with diplomatic tradition on Tuesday night to become the first sitting secretary of state in at least 75 years to address a national party convention.","byline":"By Lara Jakes","pub_date":"2020-08-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/us/elections/pompeos-speech-tonight-is-a-break-with-diplomatic-tradition-that-suggests-his-own-political-ambitions.html"} {"headline":"Full Transcript: Nikki Haley’s R.N.C. Speech","abstract":"The former ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of South Carolina warned about socialism in America.","byline":"By Jennifer Medina","pub_date":"2020-08-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/us/politics/nikki-haley-rnc-speech.html"} {"headline":"Immigration Agency Averts Work Force Furloughs, but Deep Cuts Loom","abstract":"Plunging revenue from immigration fees nearly forced U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to furlough more than two-thirds of its work force. Now cuts will come from its operations.","byline":"By Zolan Kanno-Youngs","pub_date":"2020-08-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/us/politics/immigration-furloughs.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Troops Injured in Syria After Collision With Russian Vehicles","abstract":"The altercation is the latest clash between Russian and American ground patrols in northeastern Syria after the United States withdrew from much of that area last fall.","byline":"By Eric Schmitt","pub_date":"2020-08-26","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/world/middleeast/pentagon-russia-syria.html"} {"headline":"Live: Hawaii Primary Election Results 2020","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-08-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/08/us/elections/results-hawaii-primary-elections.html"} {"headline":"Trump Pardons Jon Ponder, a Convicted Bank Robber","abstract":"The pardon appears to be an attempt to draw voters’ attention to criminal justice, a subject that the president has promoted as a signature initiative of his time in office.","byline":"By Pranshu Verma and Stephanie Saul","pub_date":"2020-08-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/us/politics/trump-jon-ponder-pardon.html"} {"headline":"Republican women in Arizona could play a pivotal role in an unusual battleground.","abstract":"Led by a firebrand loyalist, the state party has lurched to the right under President Trump. That has turned off some Republicans, and Arizona suddenly appears in play for Democrats.","byline":"By Elaina Plott","pub_date":"2020-08-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/elections/republican-women-in-arizona-could-play-a-pivotal-role-in-an-unusual-battleground.html"} {"headline":"In Britain, an Idea to Reduce Racial Inequality Gains Momentum","abstract":"The government could revive an idea to make it mandatory for large companies to report their pay gaps by ethnicity.","byline":"By Eshe Nelson","pub_date":"2020-08-26","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/business/britain-pay-gaps-racial-inequality.html"} {"headline":"In Trump’s Gilded Beltway, Rudy Giuliani Finds a Potent Reward: Relevance","abstract":"No one has seized the chance for a second act under President Trump with more gusto than Mr. Giuliani, whose epic career of ups and downs, feuds and outrages, has made him in some ways the quintessential creature of Trump’s Washington.","byline":"By Mark Leibovich","pub_date":"2020-08-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/politics/trump-washington-giuliani.html"} {"headline":"Some of the immigrants Trump naturalized on Tuesday didn’t know they were being broadcast.","abstract":"In one of the most striking moments of the second night of the Republican convention on Tuesday — both for its content and for its blatant disregard for the traditional separation between governing and politicking — President Trump held a naturalization ceremony for five immigrants.","byline":"By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Michael D. Shear","pub_date":"2020-08-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/elections/some-of-the-immigrants-trump-naturalized-on-tuesday-didnt-know-they-were-being-broadcast.html"} {"headline":"After months of unemployment, back at work but not feeling secure.","abstract":"Kris Fusco is finally back at work. That doesn’t mean her coronavirus worries are behind her.","byline":"By Ben Casselman","pub_date":"2020-08-27","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/business/after-months-of-unemployment-back-at-work-but-not-feeling-secure.html"} {"headline":"The Billionaire Behind Hudson Yards Thinks New York Is Too Expensive","abstract":"Stephen Ross, a friend of President Trump, talks about politics, philanthropy and his pet peeve: wastefulness.","byline":"By David Gelles","pub_date":"2020-08-27","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/business/stephen-ross-related-corner-office-trump.html"} {"headline":"Bush’s ethics lawyer calls for an investigation of Pompeo’s R.N.C. speech.","abstract":"Two law professors, including one who served as President George W. Bush’s ethics adviser, have filed a complaint to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel accusing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of violating federal laws by addressing the Republican National Convention while on a diplomatic trip overseas.","byline":"By Lara Jakes","pub_date":"2020-08-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/elections/bushs-ethics-lawyer-calls-for-an-investigation-of-pompeos-rnc-speech.html"} {"headline":"When Retirement Comes Too Early","abstract":"Workplaces have grown steadily less friendly to older employees, and the pandemic has pushed more of these workers from the labor market.","byline":"By Paula Span","pub_date":"2020-08-28","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/health/coronavirus-retirement-recession.html"} {"headline":"Symone Sanders makes the case for Biden on Ziwe’s Instagram show.","abstract":"Last Monday, on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, the comedian Ziwe tweeted at the Democratic Party and asked it to be a guest on her Instagram Live show.","byline":"By Sandra E. Garcia","pub_date":"2020-08-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/us/elections/symone-sanders-makes-the-case-for-biden-on-ziwes-instagram-show.html"} {"headline":"Movies Are Returning to Theaters. Will Audiences Follow?","abstract":"Big-budget films are being released for the first time since March, but the willingness of people to sit inside a closed room with strangers for several hours is still uncertain.","byline":"By Brooks Barnes","pub_date":"2020-08-28","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/business/media/coronavirus-movie-theaters-new-mutants.html"} {"headline":"Here are 3 key moments from the final night of the Republican convention.","abstract":"In addition to President Trump’s lengthy speech from the South Lawn of the White House, the last night of the Republican National Convention featured relentless attacks on Joseph R. Biden Jr. and an appearance from a prominent member of the Republican establishment: Senator Mitch McConnell, the House majority leader. New York Times reporters Jennifer Medina and Sydney Ember discussed their big takeaways from the final night. Here are excerpts from their conversation:","byline":"By Jennifer Medina and Sydney Ember","pub_date":"2020-08-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/us/elections/here-are-3-key-moments-from-the-final-night-of-the-republican-convention.html"} {"headline":"At their convention, Republicans mounted an all-out assault against a familiar enemy: New York City.","abstract":"For the first half of the final night of the Republican National Convention, you could be forgiven for thinking the Democratic presidential nominee was New York City itself.","byline":"By Reid J. Epstein","pub_date":"2020-08-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/us/elections/at-their-convention-republicans-mounted-an-all-out-assault-against-a-familiar-enemy-new-york-city.html"} {"headline":"Compare Pages From an Uncensored Book on Investigating Terrorism","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-08-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/29/us/black-banners-400-405-side-by-side.html"} {"headline":"TikTok Deal Is Complicated by New Rules From China Over Tech Exports","abstract":"In an 11th-hour twist, Beijing raised a potential hurdle for a sale of TikTok, further roiling the race to buy the Chinese-owned app.","byline":"By Paul Mozur, Raymond Zhong and David McCabe","pub_date":"2020-08-29","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/technology/china-tiktok-export-controls.html"} {"headline":"C.I.A. Uncensors Memoir of F.B.I. Agent Who Protested Torture of Terrorists","abstract":"Nine years after the C.I.A. blacked out parts of Ali Soufan’s book, the agency has finally allowed a more complete version of his story to be published.","byline":"By Charlie Savage and Carol Rosenberg","pub_date":"2020-08-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/us/politics/ali-soufan-memoir-cia-torture.html"} {"headline":"Rival Themes Emerge as Race Enters Final Weeks: Covid vs. Law and Order","abstract":"The national political conventions over the last two weeks set the battle lines for the election’s remaining weeks. Joe Biden is focusing on President Trump’s virus management, while the president is hammering a law-and-order message.","byline":"By Katie Glueck, Annie Karni and Alexander Burns","pub_date":"2020-08-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/us/politics/joe-biden-trump-conventions.html"} {"headline":"‘That Same Feeling’: Painful Memories in Kenosha Come Rushing Back","abstract":"The auto plant closed in 1988, turning the Wisconsin city upside down. Now it’s facing an even deeper existential crisis.","byline":"By Julie Bosman","pub_date":"2020-08-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/us/kenosha-wisconsin.html"} {"headline":"Trump Embraces Fringe Theories on Protests and the Coronavirus","abstract":"In a Twitter barrage, the president advanced conspiracy theories claiming that protests are an organized coup and that the virus death toll is inflated. He also reposted a call to imprison New York’s governor.","byline":"By Peter Baker","pub_date":"2020-08-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/politics/trump-protests-violence-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"The Week in Business: Where Are the $300 Checks?","abstract":"New jobless claims have plateaued above 1 million, and the $300 unemployment aid checks are stuck in the system.","byline":"By Charlotte Cowles","pub_date":"2020-08-30","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/business/the-week-in-business-where-are-300-checks.html"} {"headline":"Prosecutors Get Ballistics Report in Breonna Taylor Shooting","abstract":"The Kentucky attorney general called the report a “critical piece” of the case, but he did not say what light it sheds on the fatal police shooting of a 26-year-old Black woman in her home.","byline":"By Melina Delkic and Lucy Tompkins","pub_date":"2020-08-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/breonna-taylor-shooting-ballistics.html"} {"headline":"Jeanette Carlson, Fighter Against Apartheid, Dies at 91","abstract":"She was deported from South Africa in 1971 for her activity and vowed never to return. “It was disgusting to live in that kind of environment,” she said.","byline":"By Katharine Q. Seelye","pub_date":"2020-08-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/world/africa/jeanette-carlson-dead.html"} {"headline":"Snapped Poles, Shredded Roofs: A Long Road to Recovery After Laura","abstract":"Hurricane Laura ravaged southwestern Louisiana, leaving weary residents to assess the toll and map a way forward. Some communities may be four weeks away from even getting power back.","byline":"By Rick Rojas","pub_date":"2020-08-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/hurricane-laura-damage.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s Tariffs? Coronavirus? China’s Exports Are Surging Anyway","abstract":"Chinese companies account for a greater share of goods sold abroad, showing their tremendous strength despite mounting challenges.","byline":"By Keith Bradsher","pub_date":"2020-08-31","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/business/trumps-tariffs-coronavirus-china-exports.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Coronavirus Rates Are Rising Fast Among Children","abstract":"Young children seem to catch and transmit the virus less, but rising numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths show they are increasingly affected.","byline":"By Lauren Leatherby and Lisa Waananen Jones","pub_date":"2020-08-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/31/us/coronavirus-cases-children.html"} {"headline":"Theaters are testing whether Americans are ready to return to the movies.","abstract":"Theater executives are betting that a Covid-19 vaccine will arrive and that studios will soon return to their decades-old system of releasing movies. “There is significant pent-up demand” for the theater experience, one executive said.","byline":"By Brooks Barnes","pub_date":"2020-08-31","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/business/theaters-are-testing-whether-americans-are-ready-to-return-to-the-movies.html"} {"headline":"Street Violence Hangs Over the Campaign","abstract":"Killings in Oregon and Wisconsin reverberate in the 2020 race: This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-08-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/us/politics/portland-2020-race.html"} {"headline":"Eye on Beirut, Senegal Port Rushes to Truck Away Tons of Ammonium Nitrate","abstract":"After nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate caused a devastating explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, the West African nation of Senegal discovered the same amount sitting in its port in Dakar.","byline":"By Ruth Maclean","pub_date":"2020-08-31","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/africa/ammonium-nitrate-port-dakar.html"} {"headline":"How to Read the Air Quality Index","abstract":"Here’s what you need to know about reading daily pollution levels.","byline":"By Marie Tae McDermott","pub_date":"2020-09-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/us/ca-air-quality-index.html"} {"headline":"Massachusetts Primary Elections: What to Watch For","abstract":"Senator Edward J. Markey is facing off against Joseph P. Kennedy III, while the powerful Representative Richard E. Neal is confronting a challenge from the young mayor Alex Morse.","byline":"By Jonathan Martin","pub_date":"2020-09-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/us/politics/massachusetts-elections-markey-kennedy-neal-morse.html"} {"headline":"Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputies Fatally Shoot a Black Man They Say Had a Gun","abstract":"The man, who was identified as Dijon Kizzee, 29, had been stopped while riding a bicycle, the Sheriff’s Department said.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor and Azi Paybarah","pub_date":"2020-09-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/us/la-police-shooting.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s conspiracy theory claims have floated around online for months.","abstract":"In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday night, President Trump spread multiple baseless conspiracy theories about the protests that have erupted across the nation.","byline":"By Davey Alba and Ben Decker","pub_date":"2020-09-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/us/elections/trumps-conspiracy-theory-claims-have-floated-around-online-for-months.html"} {"headline":"1 Million Primary Ballots Were Mailed Late, Postal Service Watchdog Says","abstract":"The findings underscore deep concerns about whether the agency will be able to process what is expected to be a significant increase in mail-in votes for the presidential election.","byline":"By Luke Broadwater","pub_date":"2020-09-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/us/politics/postal-service-late-ballots.html"} {"headline":"Florida Primary Election Results: 14th Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-09-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/18/us/elections/results-florida-house-district-14-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"Florida Primary Election Results: 20th Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-09-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/18/us/elections/results-florida-house-district-20-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"A Popular Times Square Hotel Closes, and 200 Workers Lose Their Jobs","abstract":"Not even a location a block away from the “crossroads of the world” could save the Hilton Times Square from the pandemic.","byline":"By Patrick McGeehan","pub_date":"2020-09-02","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/02/nyregion/hilton-times-square-hotel-closing.html"} {"headline":"Alaska Primary Election Results: At-Large Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-09-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/18/us/elections/results-alaska-house-district-at-large-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"Florida Primary Election Results: 10th Congressional District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-09-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/18/us/elections/results-florida-house-district-10-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"Pinterest reins in advertising related to political terms.","abstract":"Pinterest said on Thursday that it was taking further steps to clamp down on political misinformation on its site.","byline":"By Mike Isaac","pub_date":"2020-09-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/elections/pinterest-reins-in-advertising-related-to-political-terms.html"} {"headline":"How Trump Is Using Westchester to Stir Up Suburban Fears","abstract":"In an appeal to racism among white voters, the president says that Democrats tried to ruin Westchester County, N.Y., through fair housing policies.","byline":"By Ed Shanahan","pub_date":"2020-09-03","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/nyregion/trump-westchester-housing.html"} {"headline":"Biden, in Kenosha, Makes Case for Healing and Unity, Not Division","abstract":"Two days after President Trump traveled to Wisconsin to focus attention on violence and disorder, Joe Biden sought to strike a drastically different tone, repudiating the president’s divisive approach to matters of racial injustice.","byline":"By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Katie Glueck","pub_date":"2020-09-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/politics/joe-biden-kenosha.html"} {"headline":"One Man’s Plea to His City Council: Rename Boneless Wings","abstract":"“Nothing about boneless chicken wings actually comes from the wing of a chicken,” he told the Lincoln, Neb., council. “We’ve been living a lie for far too long.”","byline":"By Alan Yuhas","pub_date":"2020-09-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/us/boneless-wings-lincoln-nebraska.html"} {"headline":"Up Is Down in This Fun Physics Experiment","abstract":"The liquid levitates, and a boat floats along its bottom side.","byline":"By Kenneth Chang","pub_date":"2020-09-03","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/science/floating-upside-down-liquid.html"} {"headline":"Images of California’s History That Endure","abstract":"Friday: A look at the Golden State’s past, and present, in Dorothea Lange’s images of California workers.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-09-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/us/california-immigrant-worker-photos-dorothea-lange.html"} {"headline":"Jake Auchincloss Wins Massachusetts Primary for Joe Kennedy’s House Seat","abstract":"Mr. Auchincloss, a city councilor, won the highly fragmented House race with just 23 percent of the vote, as nine candidates split the electorate.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-09-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/us/politics/massachusetts-primary-auchincloss.html"} {"headline":"What We Know About the Death of the Suspect in the Portland Shooting","abstract":"The suspect, Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, was killed by law enforcement agents just five days after the deadly shooting of a right-wing protester.","byline":"By Megan Specia","pub_date":"2020-09-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/us/michael-forest-reinoehl-portland.html"} {"headline":"How Layshia Clarendon, Athlete and Activist, Spends Sundays","abstract":"The New York Liberty guard has worked all summer in Florida as part of the W.N.B.A.’s experiment isolating in a bubble.","byline":"By Alexandra E. Petri","pub_date":"2020-09-04","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/nyregion/coronavirus-Layshia-Clarendon-wnba.html"} {"headline":"Pandemic Drives Millions From Latin America’s Universities","abstract":"They were the first in their families to make it to college. But how do you study when you can’t afford to eat?","byline":"By Julie Turkewitz","pub_date":"2020-09-04","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/world/americas/latin-america-education.html"} {"headline":"John Kelly, at Center of Report on Trump Disparaging U.S. Soldiers, Keeps Silent","abstract":"The former chief of staff’s public reticence has frustrated groups that are hoping that he will publicly endorse Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee.","byline":"By Annie Karni","pub_date":"2020-09-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/us/politics/kelly-trump.html"} {"headline":"‘Agricultural Jihad’: A Hungry Lebanon Returns to Family Farms to Feed Itself","abstract":"With a tanking economy, and imported food costs soaring, leaders are urging the Lebanese to wage a campaign of self-sufficiency. “I never thought I’d do this in my life, but I have to survive.”","byline":"By Vivian Yee","pub_date":"2020-09-05","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/world/middleeast/lebanon-economic-crisis-farming.html"} {"headline":"Justice Dept. Charges 2 With Trying to Support Hamas","abstract":"The men, both American citizens, were taken into custody on Thursday evening in Minneapolis. They say they are members of a far-right group called the Boogaloo Bois.","byline":"By Katie Benner","pub_date":"2020-09-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/us/politics/justice-department-boogaloo.html"} {"headline":"Ex-F.B.I. Agent in Russia Inquiry Says Trump Is a National Security Threat","abstract":"Peter Strzok, who was fired for sending anti-Trump texts, played a central role in both the Hillary Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations.","byline":"By Adam Goldman","pub_date":"2020-09-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/politics/peter-strzok-book.html"} {"headline":"How the Circle Drive-In ‘Found Its Niche’ in the Pandemic","abstract":"With a flea market, graduations and even a livestreamed country music concert, a Pennsylvania Drive-in became a safe gathering place.","byline":"By James Barron and Michelle V. Agins","pub_date":"2020-09-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/how-the-circle-drive-in-found-its-niche-in-the-pandemic.html"} {"headline":"DeJoy Pressured Workers to Donate to G.O.P. Candidates, Former Employees Say","abstract":"Former employees at New Breed Logistics say they were expected to donate to candidates whom their executive, Louis DeJoy, was supporting, and would be rewarded through yearly bonuses.","byline":"By Catie Edmondson, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Luke Broadwater","pub_date":"2020-09-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/politics/dejoy-political-donations.html"} {"headline":"Democrats Belatedly Launch Operation to Share Information on Voters","abstract":"Democrats have been far behind Republicans on compiling and sharing information that can be used by campaigns, state parties and super PACs.","byline":"By Reid J. Epstein","pub_date":"2020-09-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/politics/Presidential-election-voting-Democrats.html"} {"headline":"Drones, Hooks and Blood: Secrets of the Shark Fishermen of Long Island","abstract":"‘I don’t want to encourage other people to do this.’","byline":"By Jordan Salama","pub_date":"2020-09-06","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/nyregion/shark-catchers-long-island.html"} {"headline":"In Final Stretch, Biden Defends Lead Against Trump’s Onslaught","abstract":"The president is attempting to overtake his Democratic challenger with a strategy of racial polarization in heavily white Midwestern states, even as Democrats make inroads in the Republican-leaning South and West.","byline":"By Alexander Burns, Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-09-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/politics/trump-biden-2020.html"} {"headline":"Gerald Shur, Architect of Witness Protection Program, Dies at 86","abstract":"As a young Justice Department lawyer investigating the mob, he realized that more witnesses might talk if they weren’t afraid of being killed.","byline":"By Neil Genzlinger","pub_date":"2020-09-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/gerald-shur-dead.html"} {"headline":"Duterte Pardons U.S. Marine Who Killed Transgender Woman","abstract":"The Philippine president made the move, which riled nationalist and gay rights groups, in the interest of maintaining an “independent foreign policy.”","byline":"By Jason Gutierrez","pub_date":"2020-09-07","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/world/asia/duterte-pardon-marine-transgender.html"} {"headline":"Chess (Yes, Chess) Is Now a Streaming Obsession","abstract":"Viewers are flocking to games during the pandemic, entranced by a charismatic grandmaster and his lightning-fast play.","byline":"By Kellen Browning","pub_date":"2020-09-07","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/technology/chess-new-streaming-obsession-twitch.html"} {"headline":"How Trump’s Billion-Dollar Campaign Lost Its Cash Advantage","abstract":"Five months ago, President Trump’s re-election campaign had a huge financial edge over Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s. The Times conducted an extensive review of how the Trump team spent lavishly to show how that advantage evaporated.","byline":"By Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-09-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/us/politics/trump-election-campaign-fundraising.html"} {"headline":"Wildfires Blaze Across California","abstract":"Fire crews faced wildfires from near the Mexico border to the Sierra Nevada that burned thousands of acres and spread thick smoke throughout the state.","byline":"By The Associated Press, Reuters and Storyful","pub_date":"2020-09-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007328239/california-wildfires.html"} {"headline":"Looking to Buy a Used Car in the Pandemic? So Is Everyone Else","abstract":"Eager to avoid public transit and Uber, and to save money, buyers are emptying dealerships.","byline":"By Neal E. Boudette","pub_date":"2020-09-07","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/business/used-cars-pandemic.html"} {"headline":"Trump: ‘Whatever It Takes. We Have to Win’","abstract":"President Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he was willing to use his own money to fund his re-election campaign.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-09-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000007329950/trump-presidential-campaign-funding.html"} {"headline":"Rochester Police Chief Resigns in Aftermath of Daniel Prude’s Death","abstract":"The police chief and the deputy chief resigned Tuesday. Mr. Prude, a Black man, suffocated after he was placed in a hood by police officers and pinned to the ground.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-09-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007330362/rochester-police-chief-resigns-video.html"} {"headline":"Kamala Harris Visits Wisconsin","abstract":"Harris and Pence come to Wisconsin bearing two very different messages, while Biden and Trump accuse each other of politicizing the virus.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-09-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/us/politics/harris-pence-wisconsin.html"} {"headline":"Here’s the business news to watch in the week ahead.","abstract":"🗣 In a relatively quiet, holiday-shortened week, companies reporting quarterly earnings include Lululemon and Slack today; American Eagle Outfitters on Wednesday; Chewy, Oracle and Peloton on Thursday; and Kroger on Friday.","byline":"By Jason Karaian","pub_date":"2020-09-08","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/business/heres-the-business-news-to-watch-in-the-week-ahead.html"} {"headline":"The Trump campaign’s lavish spending eroded its head start, a Times analysis shows.","abstract":"Money was supposed to have been one of the great advantages of incumbency for President Trump, much as it was for President Barack Obama in 2012 and George W. Bush in 2004. After getting outspent in 2016, Mr. Trump filed for re-election on the day of his inauguration — earlier than any other modern president — betting that the head start would deliver him a decisive financial advantage this year.","byline":"By Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-09-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/us/elections/the-trump-campaigns-lavish-spending-eroded-its-head-start-a-times-analysis-shows.html"} {"headline":"The N.R.A.’s new candidate grades show a continuing decline in support.","abstract":"The National Rifle Association continues to lose ground in Congress, with the last remnants of its Democratic support vanishing and its still-high Republican support eroding slightly, according to a New York Times analysis of the candidate grades and endorsements it released last week.","byline":"By Maggie Astor","pub_date":"2020-09-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/elections/the-nras-new-candidate-grades-show-a-continuing-decline-in-support.html"} {"headline":"No, Facebook Does Not Reflect Reality","abstract":"Despite what Mark Zuckerberg says, Facebook shapes our world.","byline":"By Shira Ovide","pub_date":"2020-09-09","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/technology/facebook-mark-zuckerberg.html"} {"headline":"The Justice Dept. intervened to help Trump in a lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll.","abstract":"In a highly unusual legal maneuver, the Justice Department moved on Tuesday to replace President Trump’s private lawyers and defend him against a defamation lawsuit brought in state court by the author E. Jean Carroll, who has accused him of raping her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.","byline":"By Alan Feuer","pub_date":"2020-09-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/elections/the-justice-dept-intervened-to-help-trump-in-a-lawsuit-brought-by-e-jean-carroll.html"} {"headline":"7 People Die in West Coast Wildfires","abstract":"Strong winds were likely to continue to propel the extraordinary number of fires burning in California, Oregon and Washington.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-09-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/fires-oregon-california-live-updates.html"} {"headline":"Central Park Birder Turns Clash Into Graphic Novel About Racism","abstract":"The impressionistic novel from Christian Cooper features a Black teenager who looks at birds through binoculars and instead sees the faces of Black people who have been killed by the police.","byline":"By Sarah Maslin Nir","pub_date":"2020-09-09","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/nyregion/christian-cooper-amy-comic-graphic-novel.html"} {"headline":"Ethiopian Region Holds Local Elections in Defiance of Prime Minister","abstract":"The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed postponed elections this year because of the coronavirus, but the restive northern region of Tigray went ahead and held a vote anyway, escalating tensions.","byline":"By Simon Marks and Abdi Latif Dahir","pub_date":"2020-09-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/world/africa/ethiopia-tigray-elections-abiy-crisis.html"} {"headline":"Four Houston Police Officers Are Fired Over Fatal Shooting","abstract":"Nicolas Chavez, 27, was killed by the police in southeast Houston in April, during a confrontation that was partly recorded by a bystander’s cellphone.","byline":"By Aimee Ortiz and Alan Yuhas","pub_date":"2020-09-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/nicholas-chavez-houston-police.html"} {"headline":"Afghan Peace Talks Begin This Week. Here’s What to Know.","abstract":"The Afghan government and the Taliban are to meet on Saturday to open negotiations about power sharing after years of relentless war. The differences on major issues are vast.","byline":"By Mujib Mashal","pub_date":"2020-09-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/world/asia/afghanistan-peace-talks-taliban.html"} {"headline":"What to Know About the Wildfires","abstract":"Thursday: Taking a step back to answer questions.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-09-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/california-wildfires.html"} {"headline":"The racial justice movement is motivating young Latinos to vote, a poll finds.","abstract":"Protests against racial injustice and the widespread impact of the coronavirus are helping to drive young Latinos to vote this year, according to a new national survey of Latino voters between the ages 18 and 34.","byline":"By Jennifer Medina","pub_date":"2020-09-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/elections/the-racial-justice-movement-is-motivating-young-latinos-to-vote-a-poll-finds.html"} {"headline":"Rapes of Woman and 5-Year-Old Fuel Outrage in Pakistan","abstract":"The girl’s burned body was found two days later. The woman was dragged from her car. The two cases have focused the country’s attention on its handling of sexual abuse.","byline":"By Salman Masood and Mike Ives","pub_date":"2020-09-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/world/asia/pakistan-rape-5-year-old-lahore-karachi.html"} {"headline":"2 Young Girls Killed and Former V.P. Missing in Paraguay Guerrilla Conflict","abstract":"A military operation targeting a small insurgent group has led to accusations of a government cover-up in the deaths of two young girls from Argentina.","byline":"By Daniel Politi and Ernesto Londoño","pub_date":"2020-09-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/world/americas/paraguay-military-girls.html"} {"headline":"Family Members, Politicians Pay Tribute to 9/11 Victims","abstract":"Politicians gathered at the Sept. 11 memorial in Lower Manhattan to remember a national crisis on the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-09-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007336141/nyc-911-anniversary.html"} {"headline":"The Other Way Covid Will Kill: Hunger","abstract":"Worldwide, the population facing life-threatening levels of food insecurity is expected to double, to more than a quarter of a billion people.","byline":"By Peter S. Goodman, Abdi Latif Dahir and Karan Deep Singh","pub_date":"2020-09-11","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/business/covid-hunger-food-insecurity.html"} {"headline":"Ex-Felons in Florida Must Pay Fines Before Voting, Appeals Court Rules","abstract":"In a reversal, a court said Floridians who had completed sentences for felonies must pay fines and fees before voting. The State Constitution was amended in 2018 to restore their rights.","byline":"By Patricia Mazzei","pub_date":"2020-09-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/us/florida-felon-voting-rights.html"} {"headline":"Dozens Missing Amid Wildfires as States Look to Weather for Relief","abstract":"President Trump will visit California on Monday to be briefed about blazes that have burned more than three million acres. Tens of thousands of people have evacuated in Oregon.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-09-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/us/wildfires-live-updates.html"} {"headline":"Films Hit Festivals Trying to Create Buzz Without a Crowd","abstract":"The pandemic has upended the circuit, meaning smaller movies face an even greater challenge in attracting deep-pocketed distributors.","byline":"By Nicole Sperling","pub_date":"2020-09-12","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/business/media/concrete-cowboy-toronto-film-festival.html"} {"headline":"Afghanistan Peace Talks Open in Qatar, Seeking End to Decades of War","abstract":"The Afghan government and the Taliban are finally coming to the table, after repeated delays. But the violence continues, and the challenges are vast.","byline":"By Mujib Mashal","pub_date":"2020-09-12","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban.html"} {"headline":"Now It’s Not Safe at Home Either. Wildfires Bring Ashen Air Into the House.","abstract":"Our reporter, a San Francisco resident, describes family life amid a pandemic and a natural disaster.","byline":"By Matt Richtel","pub_date":"2020-09-12","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/health/fires-air-california.html"} {"headline":"Families of Hong Kong Activists Arrested at Sea Plead for Access to Lawyers","abstract":"A dozen activists are being held after trying to flee to Taiwan, detentions that echo fears of judicial tactics by mainland China that set off last year’s mass protests in Hong Kong.","byline":"By Austin Ramzy and Elaine Yu","pub_date":"2020-09-12","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/world/asia/hong-kong-activists-china.html"} {"headline":"In Visiting a Charred California, Trump Confronts a Scientific Reality He Denies","abstract":"A president who has mocked climate change and pushed policies that accelerate it is set to be briefed on the scorched earth and ash-filled skies that experts say are the predictable result.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear and Coral Davenport","pub_date":"2020-09-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/politics/california-fires-trump-climate-change.html"} {"headline":"Shinzo Abe Vowed Japan Would Help Women ‘Shine.’ They’re Still Waiting.","abstract":"Female workers remain largely shut out of management jobs, and many take part-time work because of overwhelming family responsibilities, despite policies that Mr. Abe said would elevate their standing in society.","byline":"By Motoko Rich and Hisako Ueno","pub_date":"2020-09-13","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/world/asia/japan-women-abe.html"} {"headline":"At U.S.A.I.D., Juggling Political Priorities and Pandemic Response","abstract":"Aggressive oversight of the aid agency by political appointees at the White House and the State Department has delayed humanitarian aid when the world needs it most.","byline":"By Lara Jakes and Pranshu Verma","pub_date":"2020-09-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/politics/usaid-coronavirus-trump.html"} {"headline":"After Fire Razes Squalid Greek Camp, Homeless Migrants Fear What’s Next","abstract":"The camp, already a bleak emblem of Europe’s migrant policy, was locked down after a coronavirus outbreak, prompting some asylum seekers to set fires that left thousands homeless.","byline":"By Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Mauricio Lima","pub_date":"2020-09-13","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/world/europe/camp-fire-greece-migrants.html"} {"headline":"Georgia Sheriff’s Deputy Is Fired Over Beating of Black Man","abstract":"The Clayton County Sheriff’s Office said the deputy was terminated for “excessive use of force” after a video showing him pinning and punching Roderick Walker, 26, was circulated widely on social media.","byline":"By Allyson Waller and Aimee Ortiz","pub_date":"2020-09-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/Roderick-Walker-Georgia-police.html"} {"headline":"Missions to Venus: Highlights From History, and When We May Go Back","abstract":"Much visited in an earlier era of space exploration, the planet has been overlooked in recent decades.","byline":"By Shannon Stirone","pub_date":"2020-09-14","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/science/venus-spacecraft-life.html"} {"headline":"‘It’s the Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen,’ Oregon Resident Says","abstract":"Wildfires continued to burn over the weekend, leaving dire conditions for California and Oregon.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-09-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007339397/california-oregon-fires.html"} {"headline":"As Trump visits a scorched California, he’ll confront a scientific reality he denies.","abstract":"A president who has mocked climate change and pushed policies that accelerate it is set to be briefed on the scorched earth and ash-filled skies that experts say are the predictable result.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear and Coral Davenport","pub_date":"2020-09-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/elections/as-trump-visits-a-scorched-california-hell-confront-a-scientific-reality-he-denies.html"} {"headline":"TikTok Was a Wasted Opportunity","abstract":"The TikTok battle was a chance to debate big questions about technology and government. We missed it.","byline":"By Shira Ovide","pub_date":"2020-09-14","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/technology/tiktok-oracle.html"} {"headline":"A White House Ceremony Will Celebrate a Diplomatic Win and Campaign Gift","abstract":"The leaders of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have a stake in President Trump’s re-election and helped him become a peacemaker.","byline":"By Michael Crowley and David M. Halbfinger","pub_date":"2020-09-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/trump-middle-east-accords.html"} {"headline":"Companies are using intermediaries to find labs to test their workers.","abstract":"Businesses are trying to recover during the pandemic while ensuring the safety of their workers and customers, but two obstacles are slowing their progress: access to coronavirus testing and long delays in receiving results.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-09-15","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/business/companies-are-using-intermediaries-to-find-labs-to-test-their-workers.html"} {"headline":"The Search for Life on Venus Could Start With This Private Company","abstract":"Rocket Lab may be able to send a small spacecraft to probe the clouds of Venus long before NASA or other space agencies are able to do so.","byline":"By Jonathan O'Callaghan","pub_date":"2020-09-15","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/science/venus-life-rocketlab.html"} {"headline":"Biden travels to Florida as the state and Latino voters take center stage.","abstract":"Joseph R. Biden Jr. is making his first trip to Florida of the general election on Tuesday as he seeks to rally Latino voters in the crucial battleground state.","byline":"By Shane Goldmacher","pub_date":"2020-09-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/elections/biden-travels-to-florida-as-the-state-and-latino-voters-take-center-stage.html"} {"headline":"Inside a Nursing Home Devoted to Treating Those With Covid-19","abstract":"In a New Mexico long-term care facility, residents rely on care providers for medical care and moments of connection.","byline":"By Isadora Kosofsky","pub_date":"2020-09-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/inside-a-nursing-home-devoted-to-treating-those-with-covid-19.html"} {"headline":"Two Are Accused of Hacking U.S. Websites With Pro-Iran Messages","abstract":"The cyberattacks were in retaliation for the death of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani of Iran in a U.S. military airstrike in January, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.","byline":"By Marie Fazio","pub_date":"2020-09-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/government-websites-hacked-suleimani.html"} {"headline":"Blazes on West Coast Scorch Habitats for Endangered Species","abstract":"The fast-moving fires have wiped out critical populations of endangered species and incinerated native habitats that may take years to recover.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-09-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/fires-oregon-california-washington.html"} {"headline":"Miami Herald Editor Apologizes for ‘Racist and Anti-Semitic’ Insert","abstract":"Libre, a Spanish-language supplement included in El Nuevo Herald, a sibling to The Miami Herald, published a column comparing Black Lives Matter activists to “Nazi thugs.”","byline":"By Marc Tracy","pub_date":"2020-09-16","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/business/media/miami-herald-editor-apologizes-for-racist-and-anti-semitic-insert-el-nuevo.html"} {"headline":"Melania Trump Statue Returns in Slovenia. (This One Is Harder to Burn.)","abstract":"The wooden original, erected last year near the first lady’s hometown, was set on fire in July. The replacement, made from bronze, is intended to last a bit longer, the commissioning artist said.","byline":"By Elian Peltier","pub_date":"2020-09-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/world/europe/melania-trump-sculpture-slovenia.html"} {"headline":"Pelosi Presses for a Virus Aid Bill","abstract":"“We have to stay here until we have a bill”: This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-09-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/pelosi-stimulus-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"So You Moved During the Pandemic. Now How Do You Vote?","abstract":"Whether you’re staying at a second home, a college dorm, your parents’ house or just moving around, here’s where and how you can vote.","byline":"By Bryan Pietsch","pub_date":"2020-09-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/how-to-vote-moved.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Prosecutors’ Bid to ‘Bury’ Evidence Draws Judge’s Wrath","abstract":"In an unusual opinion, a federal judge criticized the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan for its handling of a high-stakes Iranian sanctions case.","byline":"By Benjamin Weiser","pub_date":"2020-09-17","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/nyregion/manhattan-us-attorney-evidence-bury.html"} {"headline":"Taking Stock After a Historic Month of Fire","abstract":"Thursday: The August Complex, California’s largest fire ever, started burning a month ago.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-09-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/us/wildfires-california-oregon.html"} {"headline":"Olivia Troye and other former Trump administration officials back Biden, saying it is time to put ‘country over party.’","abstract":"Olivia Troye, a former top homeland security aide to Vice President Mike Pence, endorsed former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday and accused President Trump of weak leadership and of drastically mismanaging the response to the coronavirus crisis.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear","pub_date":"2020-09-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/us/elections/republicans-former-trump-officials-biden.html"} {"headline":"Moderna and Pfizer Reveal Secret Blueprints for Coronavirus Vaccine Trials","abstract":"The companies hope to earn the trust of the public and of scientists who have clamored for details of the studies.","byline":"By Denise Grady and Katie Thomas","pub_date":"2020-09-17","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/health/covid-moderna-vaccine.html"} {"headline":"Richard Uihlein, a top G.O.P. megadonor, gave another $10 million in August.","abstract":"Richard Uihlein, a conservative packaging supplies magnate, plunged another $10 million into the 2020 election in August, donating to the Club for Growth just as the group began spending on the presidential campaign.","byline":"By Rachel Shorey, Shane Goldmacher and Rebecca R. Ruiz","pub_date":"2020-09-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/us/elections/richard-uihlein-a-top-gop-megadonor-gave-another-10-million-in-august.html"} {"headline":"How N.Y.C.’s Plan to Open Schools Fell Apart","abstract":"Mayor Bill de Blasio canceled the start of in-person classes for the country’s largest school system just three days before they were set to begin, sowing even more confusing among parents and educators.","byline":"By Eliza Shapiro","pub_date":"2020-09-18","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/17/nyregion/nyc-schools-opening.html"} {"headline":"Emails Detail Effort to Silence C.D.C. and Question Its Science","abstract":"Emails from a former top Trump health official and his science adviser show how the two refused to accept Centers for Disease Control and Prevention science and sought to silence the agency.","byline":"By Noah Weiland","pub_date":"2020-09-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/politics/trump-cdc-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Cyclone Batters Greek Islands as It Makes Landfall","abstract":"Ianos, a rare hurricane-strength Mediterranean storm, slammed into Greece’s western islands, bringing lashing rain and gales.","byline":"By Megan Specia","pub_date":"2020-09-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/world/europe/greece-medicane-ianos-cassilda.html"} {"headline":"How to Ship a Vaccine at –80°C, and Other Obstacles in the Covid Fight","abstract":"Developing an effective vaccine is the first step. Then comes the question of how to deliver hundreds of millions of doses that may need to be kept at arctic temperatures.","byline":"By David Gelles","pub_date":"2020-09-18","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/business/coronavirus-covid-vaccine-cold-frozen-logistics.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Sending More Troops to Syria to Counter the Russians","abstract":"The deployment of armored vehicles, advance radar and more fighter jets comes in response to a Russian convoy ramming an U.S. ground patrol, injuring seven soldiers.","byline":"By Eric Schmitt","pub_date":"2020-09-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/politics/us-troops-syria-russia.html"} {"headline":"Wait or nominate? Many voters support doing what is best for their party, but for some, the court fight looms large.","abstract":"In interviews with more than a dozen voters in battleground states on Friday night and Saturday morning, The Times found that Democratic and Republican voters were largely racing to partisan corners regarding how they think President Trump and Senate Republicans should proceed in filling the Supreme Court seat held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.","byline":"By Matt Stevens, Jonathan Martin and Jon Hurdle","pub_date":"2020-09-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/us/politics/wait-or-nominate-many-voters-support-doing-what-is-best-for-their-party-but-for-some-the-court-fight-looms-large.html"} {"headline":"McConnell Vows Vote on Ginsburg Replacement as Her Death Upends the 2020 Race","abstract":"Democrats warn Republicans to follow the precedent they set in 2016, when they refused to consider President Barack Obama’s choice for the court on the grounds that it was an election year.","byline":"By Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-09-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/politics/mitch-mcconnell-supreme-court-ruth-bader-ginsburg.html"} {"headline":"Mount Wilson Observatory Survives a Trial by Fire","abstract":"The birthplace of modern cosmology “has been declared safe” from the wildfires that have ravaged the surrounding area in Southern California.","byline":"By Dennis Overbye","pub_date":"2020-09-19","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/science/wilson-observatory-bobcat-wildfires.html"} {"headline":"Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Photos of Her Rise to the Supreme Court","abstract":"Pictures capture moments in her legal career, from law school professor to associate justice on the high court.","byline":"By Judith Levitt","pub_date":"2020-09-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/us/politics/rbg-photos.html"} {"headline":"AstraZeneca Releases Blueprints for Virus Vaccine Trial Amid Safety Scrutiny","abstract":"A surge of infections in the Southwest and the Midwest is partly driving an uptick in cases nationally. The eight remaining members of the Supreme Court are expected to hear arguments next month via telephone.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-09-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/world/covid-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"The Pros and Cons of Swimming With a Hammerhead","abstract":"A new study suggests that the ocean’s strangest-looking headgear is difficult to tote around.","byline":"By Cara Giaimo","pub_date":"2020-09-20","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/science/hammerhead-sharks-cephalofoil.html"} {"headline":"Outside the Supreme Court, Mourners Honor Ginsburg’s Legacy","abstract":"People of all ages flocked on Saturday to the building in Washington, leaving flowers, posters and messages scrawled in chalk.","byline":"By Aishvarya Kavi","pub_date":"2020-09-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/us/supreme-court-ginsburg-legacy.html"} {"headline":"A TV Drama on China’s Fight With Covid-19 Draws Ire Over Its Depiction of Women","abstract":"A scene from a state-sponsored show extolled men who volunteered but played down women’s contributions. Internet users are calling for the show to be pulled from the air.","byline":"By Vivian Wang","pub_date":"2020-09-20","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/world/asia/china-tv-women-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"‘As I Turned Around, I Saw the Woman in the Colorful Jacket’","abstract":"A trip to a museum gift shop, a memorable day on Putnam Avenue and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-09-20","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/nyregion/metropolitan-diary.html"} {"headline":"Banks Suspected Illegal Activity, but Processed Big Transactions Anyway","abstract":"A leak of thousands of “suspicious activity reports” that banks filed with regulators shows the widespread nature of illicit money flows.","byline":"By Noam Scheiber and Emily Flitter","pub_date":"2020-09-20","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/business/fincen-banks-suspicious-activity-reports-buzzfeed.html"} {"headline":"Justice Dept. Threatens to Withhold Federal Funds From N.Y., Seattle and Portland","abstract":"Attorney General William P. Barr criticized the cities for their responses to protests against police brutality. Democrats called it an effort to help President Trump’s re-election campaign.","byline":"By Katie Benner","pub_date":"2020-09-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/us/politics/trump-new-york-seattle-portland.html"} {"headline":"If the Supreme Court Ends Obamacare, Here’s What It Would Mean","abstract":"The Affordable Care Act touches the lives of most Americans, and its abolition could have a significant effect on many millions more people than those who get their health coverage through it.","byline":"By Reed Abelson and Abby Goodnough","pub_date":"2020-09-21","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/article/supreme-court-obamacare-case.html"} {"headline":"U.S. and European Oil Giants Go Different Ways on Climate Change","abstract":"While BP and other European companies invest billions in renewable energy, Exxon and Chevron are committed to fossil fuels and betting on moonshots.","byline":"By Clifford Krauss","pub_date":"2020-09-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/business/energy-environment/oil-climate-change-us-europe.html"} {"headline":"Trump and Democrats brace for a showdown over the Supreme Court.","abstract":"President Trump and his adversaries mobilized on Sunday for an epic campaign-season showdown over the future of the Supreme Court, even as the nation prepared to honor the life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an outdoor viewing to be held according to pandemic-era guidelines.","byline":"By Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-09-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/us/elections/trump-and-democrats-brace-for-a-showdown-over-the-supreme-court.html"} {"headline":"Nebraska Bar Owner Who Was Charged in Killing of Black Man Dies by Suicide","abstract":"Jacob Gardner, who was indicted in the killing of James Scurlock during a May protest in Omaha, had been expected to turn himself in to the authorities, his lawyer said.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor and Azi Paybarah","pub_date":"2020-09-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/us/jacob-gardner-suicide.html"} {"headline":"It’s National Voter Registration Day, and more than 61.4 million absentee ballots have already been requested or sent out.","abstract":"With six weeks until Election Day, more than 61.4 million absentee ballots have already been requested by or sent to voters in 28 states and the District of Columbia for the general election, a New York Times analysis found.","byline":"By Michael Gold","pub_date":"2020-09-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/its-national-voter-registration-day-and-more-than-61-4-million-absentee-ballots-have-already-been-requested-or-sent-out.html"} {"headline":"Ricin Suspect Threatened to Kill Trump Over Re-election Campaign, Prosecutors Say","abstract":"The woman was found with a loaded gun and knife when she was arrested on Sunday while trying to enter the United States from Canada.","byline":"By Michael S. Schmidt","pub_date":"2020-09-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/ricin-trump.html"} {"headline":"Bringing the Ocean’s Midnight Zone Into the Light","abstract":"The Monterey Bay Aquarium has learned how to raise the deepest sea life to the surface and keep it alive for display.","byline":"By Annie Roth","pub_date":"2020-09-22","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/science/monterey-bay-aquarium-midnight-zone.html"} {"headline":"Justice Dept. Case Against Google Is Said to Focus on Search Dominance","abstract":"The decision to narrow the case to search could set off separate lawsuits from states over Google’s power in other business segments.","byline":"By Cecilia Kang, Katie Benner, Steve Lohr and Daisuke Wakabayashi","pub_date":"2020-09-22","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/technology/justice-dept-case-google-search-dominance.html"} {"headline":"British Give U.S. Evidence Against ISIS ‘Beatles,’ Clearing Way for Trial","abstract":"The men were half of a cell of Britons who held Westerners hostage in Syria, some of whom were beheaded for propaganda videos.","byline":"By Charlie Savage","pub_date":"2020-09-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/isis-beatles.html"} {"headline":"Argentina Spied on Families of Lost Submarine Crew, Officials Say","abstract":"The families had grown angry at the former government for delaying the search operation and giving them what turned out to be false hope. Now, the new government says spies tracked the families.","byline":"By Daniel Politi","pub_date":"2020-09-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/world/americas/argentina-missing-submarine.html"} {"headline":"Harry and Meghan Encourage Americans to Vote","abstract":"The couple did not endorse any candidates, but Meghan called the election “the most important election of our lifetime.”","byline":"By Daniel Victor","pub_date":"2020-09-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/harry-meghan-royals-voting.html"} {"headline":"In Secret Ceremony, Embattled Belarus Strongman Is Sworn In as President","abstract":"Despite weeks of mass demonstrations against his re-election, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko declared victory over protesters as he began a sixth term.","byline":"By Ivan Nechepurenko","pub_date":"2020-09-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/world/europe/lukashenko-inauguration-belarus.html"} {"headline":"With Nothing Else Working, Trump Races to Make a New Supreme Court Justice the Issue","abstract":"Even as he presses ahead, some Republicans wonder whether it would be better to hold a confirmation vote before the election or start hearings but leave the final vote until afterward.","byline":"By Peter Baker","pub_date":"2020-09-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/trump-supreme-court.html"} {"headline":"In the Epicenter of Mexico’s Epicenter, Feeling Like a ‘Trapped Animal’","abstract":"For the vast majority of people in one teeming neighborhood of Mexico City, risking illness or death has simply become the price of survival.","byline":"By Azam Ahmed and Daniel Berehulak","pub_date":"2020-09-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/world/americas/mexico-coronavirus-covid-iztapalapa.html"} {"headline":"The Truth About ‘The Truth About’ Memes","abstract":"Videos and viral images claiming to tell “the truth about” Black victims of police shootings are years old. This week, they are circulating about Breonna Taylor.","byline":"By Kevin Roose","pub_date":"2020-09-24","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/technology/truth-about-breonna-taylor-meme.html"} {"headline":"Since 2015: 48 Black Women Killed by the Police. And Only 2 Charges.","abstract":"For many, the grand jury announcement in Breonna Taylor’s case was more of the same, underscoring the need for systemic change.","byline":"By Alisha Haridasani Gupta","pub_date":"2020-09-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/us/breonna-taylor-grand-jury-black-women.html"} {"headline":"Job Rebound Is ‘Losing Steam’ as Crisis Passes Six-Month Mark","abstract":"New filings for unemployment benefits rose last week, signaling continued layoffs even before autumn chills outdoor business.","byline":"By Ben Casselman","pub_date":"2020-09-24","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/business/economy/unemployment-claims.html"} {"headline":"Trump ‘Will Accept the Results of a Free and Fair Election,’ Says White House","abstract":"Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, downplayed President Trump’s previous refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he were to lose the November election.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-09-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007359383/trump-transfer-of-power-mcenany.html"} {"headline":"Mary Trump Sues President and Family, Claiming Fraud of Millions","abstract":"Two months after she claimed in a tell-all book that her family cheated her out of her inheritance, Ms. Trump made similar allegations in a civil suit in Manhattan.","byline":"By Alan Feuer","pub_date":"2020-09-24","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/nyregion/mary-trump-suing-trump-family.html"} {"headline":"A Hopeful Forecast: More Accurate Long-Term Weather Predictions","abstract":"Improving technology could make it possible to better anticipate weather conditions weeks in advance, especially in the tropics.","byline":"By Sarah Witman","pub_date":"2020-09-25","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/science/weather-predictions-forecasts.html"} {"headline":"Outdoor Dining in N.Y.C. Will Become Permanent, Even in Winter","abstract":"The program has become a vital lifeline and allowed more than 10,000 restaurants and bars to take over sidewalks, streets and other public spaces.","byline":"By Winnie Hu and Amanda Rosa","pub_date":"2020-09-25","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/nyregion/nyc-outdoor-dining-restaurants.html"} {"headline":"Ginsburg’s Personal Trainer Honors Her With Push-Ups at Memorial","abstract":"During Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s memorial, her personal trainer, Bryant Johnson, honored her by doing three push-ups before her coffin.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-09-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007361324/ginsburg-personal-trainer-does-push-ups-at-memorial.html"} {"headline":"Matt Lieberman faces calls to quit Georgia Senate race as Obama endorses Warnock.","abstract":"Democrats aren’t being very subtle about their feelings toward Matt Lieberman, a Democratic candidate for one of Georgia’s two Senate seats on the ballot in November.","byline":"By Reid J. Epstein","pub_date":"2020-09-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/us/georgia-senate-matt-lieberman-warnock.html"} {"headline":"Kim Jong-un Offers South Korea Rare Apology for Killing of Official","abstract":"“I am deeply sorry that an unexpected and unfortunate thing has happened in our territorial waters,” the North Korean leader said in a message, according to officials in the South.","byline":"By Choe Sang-Hun","pub_date":"2020-09-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/world/asia/korea-kim-jong-un-apology-killing-defector.html"} {"headline":"Pandemic Will ‘Take Our Women 10 Years Back’ in the Workplace","abstract":"Improvements in gender equality in the workplace may be another casualty of the coronavirus, as women find their place in the work force more at risk.","byline":"By Amanda Taub","pub_date":"2020-09-26","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/world/covid-women-childcare-equality.html"} {"headline":"Minneapolis officials said they would defund the police. Some now regret that pledge.","abstract":"Over three months ago, a majority of the Minneapolis City Council pledged to defund the city’s Police Department, making a powerful statement that reverberated across the country. It shook up Capitol Hill and the presidential race, shocked residents, delighted activists and changed the trajectory of efforts to overhaul the police during a crucial window of tumult and political opportunity.","byline":"By Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-09-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/politics/minneapolis-officials-said-they-would-defund-the-police-some-now-regret-that-pledge.html"} {"headline":"Full Transcript: Read Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Remarks","abstract":"President Trump announced on Saturday that he would nominate Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-09-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/politics/full-transcript-amy-coney-barrett.html"} {"headline":"November’s election could hinge on the voting process itself.","abstract":"Many Americans watch fireworks displays on Independence Day, eat turkey on Thanksgiving and, on Election Day, head to a school gymnasium, library or senior center to cast a ballot for their favorite presidential candidate.","byline":"By Dionne Searcey","pub_date":"2020-09-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/politics/novembers-election-could-hinge-on-the-voting-process-itself.html"} {"headline":"What Is the Future of Black Appalachia?","abstract":"We spoke to the curators of a cultural center in rural Virginia who have redoubled their efforts to help shape the future of Black Appalachia.","byline":"By Oliver Whang","pub_date":"2020-09-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/us/black-appalachia-ron-jill-carson.html"} {"headline":"Cream of Wheat to Drop Black Chef From Packaging, Company Says","abstract":"The hot cereal joins Aunt Jemima, Eskimo Pie and other products that have shifted brand names and images amid calls for racial justice.","byline":"By Marie Fazio","pub_date":"2020-09-27","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/business/cream-of-wheat-man.html"} {"headline":"TikTok Wins Reprieve From U.S. Ban","abstract":"A federal judge’s preliminary injunction means the app stores can continue offering the video app for downloads for now.","byline":"By Mike Isaac and David McCabe","pub_date":"2020-09-27","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/technology/tiktok-ban-ruling-app.html"} {"headline":"Ransomware Attacks Take On New Urgency Ahead of Vote","abstract":"Attacks against small towns, big cities and the contractors who run their voting systems have federal officials fearing that hackers will try to sow chaos around the election.","byline":"By Nicole Perlroth and David E. Sanger","pub_date":"2020-09-27","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/technology/2020-election-security-threats.html"} {"headline":"How Could Voter Suppression Affect the Presidential Election? Look at Georgia","abstract":"A video series examining the vulnerabilities of our voting system and how they will impact the 2020 election. The first episode looks at unequal access to the voting in Georgia.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-09-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/us/elections/voting-rights-georgia.html"} {"headline":"How to Keep the Coronavirus at Bay Indoors","abstract":"Tips for dodging the virus as Americans retreat from colder weather: Open the windows, buy an air filter — and forget the UV lights.","byline":"By Apoorva Mandavilli","pub_date":"2020-09-27","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/health/coronavirus-transmission-indoors.html"} {"headline":"China’s Economy Comes Roaring Back, Led by Wealthy Consumers","abstract":"Big crowds at places like the Beijing auto show are a sign of good news, but China needs its less affluent to spend more before its growth engine can return to full speed.","byline":"By Keith Bradsher","pub_date":"2020-09-28","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/business/china-consumers-beijing-auto-show.html"} {"headline":"How ‘Save the Children’ Is Keeping QAnon Alive","abstract":"Appropriating anti-trafficking narratives is helping the pro-Trump conspiracy theory fuel its community’s hunger for vengeance.","byline":"By Kevin Roose","pub_date":"2020-09-28","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/technology/save-the-children-qanon.html"} {"headline":"Don’t expect the debate moderator Chris Wallace to fact-check on Tuesday.","abstract":"President Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr. will not be the only ones in the spotlight at their first debate on Tuesday night. Chris Wallace, the Fox News anchor who is moderating, will face intense scrutiny on how he handles the evening, particularly given Mr. Trump’s tendency to hurl false and baseless claims at his opponents.","byline":"By Michael M. Grynbaum","pub_date":"2020-09-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/us/dont-expect-the-debate-moderator-chris-wallace-to-fact-check-on-tuesday.html"} {"headline":"Maryland Man Sentenced to a Year in Jail for Violating Ban on Large Parties","abstract":"Shawn Marshall Myers was arrested in March, after prosecutors said he threw two parties of 50 or more people at his home in defiance of the state’s ban on gatherings of more than 10 people.","byline":"By Concepción de León","pub_date":"2020-09-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/us/maryland-coronavirus-parties-jail.html"} {"headline":"A Theory About Conspiracy Theories","abstract":"In a new study, psychologists tried to get a handle on the personality types that might be prone to outlandish beliefs.","byline":"By Benedict Carey","pub_date":"2020-09-28","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/health/psychology-conspiracy-theories.html"} {"headline":"‘Testing Hell’: Gift of Devices to Nursing Homes Brings New Problems","abstract":"The federal government sent free rapid-test machines to 14,000 facilities. But they have come with unexpected costs, cumbersome reporting rules and questions about accuracy.","byline":"By Andrew Jacobs","pub_date":"2020-09-29","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/health/covid-nursing-homes-testing.html"} {"headline":"House Unveils New Stimulus Package as Pelosi and Mnuchin Resume Talks","abstract":"The moves appeared to be the most concrete action toward more economic aid since negotiations stalled nearly two months ago, but the sides remain far apart on price and short on time.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-09-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/us/politics/stimulus-bill-pelosi-mnuchin.html"} {"headline":"Chris Christie helped run Trump’s debate prep. He’ll also be a debate pundit for ABC.","abstract":"Former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey helped lead President Trump’s preparations for Tuesday’s debate, advising the president in the Oval Office and appearing at a White House news conference over the weekend.","byline":"By Michael M. Grynbaum","pub_date":"2020-09-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/chris-christie-helped-run-trumps-debate-prep-hell-also-be-a-debate-pundit-for-abc.html"} {"headline":"Pandemic Imperils Promotions for Women in Academia","abstract":"Even as faculty members are given more time to meet a deadline for tenure, many say they are getting less work done because of child care needs.","byline":"By Noam Scheiber","pub_date":"2020-09-29","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/business/economy/pandemic-women-tenure.html"} {"headline":"Here’s what the polls say about issues likely to be raised in tonight’s debate.","abstract":"Pre-debate polls show that most voters favor keeping abortion legal and give President Trump poor grades on handling the coronavirus, but give him higher marks for the economy.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-09-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/heres-what-the-polls-say-about-issues-likely-to-be-raised-in-tonights-debate.html"} {"headline":"‘My Party Is Me,’ Biden Says When Questioned on Health Care","abstract":"Joseph R. Biden Jr. said that he, not others in the Democratic Party, represented the Democrats’ stance on health care.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-09-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000007368636/biden-healthcare-debate-video-clip.html"} {"headline":"Trump Goes After Hunter Biden","abstract":"In an impassioned exchange during the debate, President Trump attacked Hunter Biden over business dealings and substance abuse, while Joseph R. Biden Jr. emotionally defended his son.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-09-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000007368652/biden-trump-sons-debate-video-clip.html"} {"headline":"Documentary Casts Doubt on Official Finding in 1994 Ferry Disaster","abstract":"After the Estonia sank in a storm off Finland, investigators said that a bow door had been bashed in by heavy seas. But a new series has raised disturbing fresh details.","byline":"By Thomas Erdbrink","pub_date":"2020-09-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/estonia-ferry-disaster-documentary.html"} {"headline":"Erroneous Absentee Ballots in N.Y.C.: Here’s What We Know","abstract":"The Board of Elections executive director blamed a printing company for the problem, concentrated in Brooklyn, that included mismatched names.","byline":"By Troy Closson","pub_date":"2020-09-30","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/nyregion/absentee-ballots-nyc.html"} {"headline":"All Eyes Are on Pfizer as Trump Pushes for Vaccine by October","abstract":"Despite slim chances that its vaccine will be ready by October, Pfizer has big incentives to hint that it might be.","byline":"By Katie Thomas","pub_date":"2020-09-30","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/health/pfizer-covid-vaccine.html"} {"headline":"She Was Resting With Her Sons. Then a Shot Was Fired.","abstract":"Bertha Arriaga heard a noise and went to the window of her Queens home, where a stray bullet killed her. An arrest was made on Saturday.","byline":"By Ashley Southall and Edgar Sandoval","pub_date":"2020-10-01","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/nyregion/nyc-shootings-murders-crime.html"} {"headline":"Facing Grim Polls, Trump Leans Into Playing the Victim","abstract":"Be it congressional Democrats, the news media, the standards enforcers at Twitter or, now, the debate commission, President Trump has repeatedly blamed others for problems and self-inflicted wounds.","byline":"By Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-10-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/us/politics/trump-polls-victim.html"} {"headline":"Take It or Leave It","abstract":"Palantir’s C.E.O. defended the founders’ tight control over the company, citing defense of its corporate mission.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-10-01","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/business/dealbook/palantir-direct-listing.html"} {"headline":"A far-right group that trades in political violence has gotten a boost from Trump.","abstract":"During this week’s presidential debate, President Trump said an extremist organization should “stand back and stand by.” Some saw it as an endorsement of a group known for street brawls.","byline":"By Neil MacFarquhar, Alan Feuer, Mike Baker and Sheera Frenkel","pub_date":"2020-10-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/us/elections/a-far-right-group-that-trades-in-political-violence-has-gotten-a-boost-from-trump.html"} {"headline":"On China’s National Day, Hong Kong Police Quash Protests","abstract":"One year ago, an important political anniversary in China was met with chaotic demonstrations in Hong Kong. This year, police quickly silenced expressions of dissent.","byline":"By Austin Ramzy, Elaine Yu and Tiffany May","pub_date":"2020-10-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-china.html"} {"headline":"Trump Tests Positive for the Coronavirus","abstract":"The president’s result came after he spent months playing down the severity of the outbreak that has killed more than 207,000 in the United States and hours after insisting that “the end of the pandemic is in sight.”","byline":"By Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-10-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/politics/trump-covid.html"} {"headline":"‘You don’t have to do it’: What Trump has said about the virus and masks.","abstract":"President Trump, who insisted when the coronavirus first emerged that it would not be a threat in the United States, also spent months playing down the effectiveness of masks, initially refused to be photographed with one on and this week at the presidential debate mocked his opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., for consistently wearing one.","byline":"By Daniel Victor, Lew Serviss and Azi Paybarah","pub_date":"2020-10-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/elections/you-dont-have-to-do-it-what-trump-has-said-about-the-virus-and-masks.html"} {"headline":"17 Republicans decline to condemn QAnon as the House votes to reject its conspiracy theories.","abstract":"Seventeen House Republicans voted Friday against a bipartisan resolution condemning QAnon, the viral pro-Trump movement, and rejecting its baseless conspiracy theories, days after a Democratic congressman said he was receiving death threats from followers of the group.","byline":"By Catie Edmondson","pub_date":"2020-10-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/elections/17-republicans-decline-to-condemn-qanon-as-the-house-votes-to-reject-its-conspiracy-theories.html"} {"headline":"TV news networks quickly began live coverage of the president’s infection.","abstract":"Television news networks leapt into breaking news mode early Friday morning, rousing anchors and correspondents from their beds as the nation began to absorb the news about President Trump and the first lady.","byline":"By Michael M. Grynbaum","pub_date":"2020-10-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/elections/tv-news-networks-quickly-began-live-coverage-of-the-presidents-infection.html"} {"headline":"","abstract":"Positive tests inch up in New York City as Cuomo calls for fines for lax enforcement.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-10-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/world/02virus-briefing-deblasio.html"} {"headline":"Battling Wildfire and Pandemic, Ukraine Faces a New Foe: Landmines","abstract":"The blaze is setting off mines and other ordnance littering the war zone in eastern Ukraine, hampering already dangerous firefighting and evacuation efforts.","byline":"By Maria Varenikova","pub_date":"2020-10-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/world/europe/ukraine-wildfires-landmines.html"} {"headline":"Obama offers prayers for Trump, while the president’s campaign insults Obama in a fund-raising letter.","abstract":"Former President Barack Obama and Senator Kamala Harris of California offered their prayers for President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, on Friday evening, colliding with the timing of an emailed fund-raising appeal from the Trump campaign.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-10-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/us/elections/obama-offers-prayers-for-trump-while-the-presidents-campaign-insults-obama-in-a-fund-raising-letter.html"} {"headline":"Contact Tracing, Key to Reining In the Virus, Falls Flat in the West","abstract":"Tracing is seen as a vital tool to avoid lockdowns and open economies, but that requires a robust system, widespread rapid testing and public trust. All are lacking in the West.","byline":"By Benjamin Mueller","pub_date":"2020-10-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/world/europe/covid-contract-tracing.html"} {"headline":"What to Know About Sean Conley, the White House Physician","abstract":"Dr. Conley, who was appointed as President Trump’s physician in 2018, is a doctor of osteopathic medicine.","byline":"By Allyson Waller and Christina Morales","pub_date":"2020-10-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/us/sean-conley-trump-doctor.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s Covid Treatments Are Aimed at Preventing Severe Illness","abstract":"Outside experts pointed to the therapies as signs that the president’s health may not be as good as his doctors said. His age, weight and gender put him at high risk.","byline":"By Gina Kolata and Apoorva Mandavilli","pub_date":"2020-10-03","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/health/Covid-trump-treatments.html"} {"headline":"Mike Pompeo cuts visits to South Korea and Mongolia from his Asia trip.","abstract":"As President Trump remains hospitalized with Covid-19, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will cut short a trip to Asia this week, canceling stops in South Korea and Mongolia but continuing with a visit to Japan.","byline":"By Austin Ramzy","pub_date":"2020-10-04","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/world/mike-pompeo-cuts-visits-to-south-korea-and-mongolia-from-his-asia-trip.html"} {"headline":"Trump Waves to Supporters Outside Walter Reed Hospital","abstract":"President Trump, who has been hospitalized since Friday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, drove by and waved to supporters outside the facility. In a new video, he said he had “learned a lot about Covid.”","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-10-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007377439/trump-drive-by-wave-supporters-hospital.html"} {"headline":"The presidential race enters a new period of uncertainty with Trump sidelined indefinitely.","abstract":"With President Trump sidelined indefinitely less than a month before the election, the race has entered a new period of uncertainty.","byline":"By Michael Levenson","pub_date":"2020-10-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/us/elections/the-presidential-race-enters-a-new-period-of-uncertainty-with-trump-sidelined-indefinitely.html"} {"headline":"1 Dead and 2 Are Injured as Seaplane Slams Into Pier in Queens","abstract":"The plane, “traveling rather fast along the water, skipped twice and hit the pier,” the New York fire commissioner said.","byline":"By Concepción de León","pub_date":"2020-10-04","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/nyregion/queens-plane-crash.html"} {"headline":"New York to ‘Rewind’ Re-Opening in Hard-Hit Neighborhoods","abstract":"Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York announced plans to close nonessential businesses, schools and day care centers in nine neighborhoods where the coronavirus testing positivity rates have been higher than 3 percent in the past 7 days.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-10-04","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000007377201/de-blasio-coronavirus-neighborhood-closures.html"} {"headline":"Behind the Coal Industry’s Trump-Era Lobbying War","abstract":"Here are excerpts from a collection of documents that detail the failed effort by the Trump administration to save the largest coal-burning power plant in the West.","byline":"By Eric Lipton","pub_date":"2020-10-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/politics/coal-trump-industry-lobbying.html"} {"headline":"Nearly One-Third of Covid-19 Patients in Study Had Altered Mental State","abstract":"The hospitalized patients showed signs of deteriorating neurological function, ranging from confusion to coma-like unresponsiveness, new research indicates.","byline":"By Pam Belluck","pub_date":"2020-10-05","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/health/Covid-patients-mental-state.html"} {"headline":"PAC Led by Postal Official Pours $20 Million Into Rescuing Tillis","abstract":"American Crossroads is wading deeper into Republicans’ fight to keep the Senate with North Carolina ads, renewing partisanship questions at the Postal Service, where a PAC leader has a powerful post.","byline":"By Catie Edmondson and Luke Broadwater","pub_date":"2020-10-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/politics/super-pac-tillis-postal-service.html"} {"headline":"White House Blocks New Coronavirus Vaccine Guidelines","abstract":"The F.D.A. proposed stricter guidelines for emergency approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but the White House chief of staff objected to provisions that would push approval past Election Day.","byline":"By Sharon LaFraniere and Noah Weiland","pub_date":"2020-10-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/politics/coronavirus-vaccine-guidelines.html"} {"headline":"N.Y.C. Closes Some Schools … Again","abstract":"Just days after reopening, schools and day care centers are set to close in nine New York City hot spots in Brooklyn and Queens.","byline":"By Amelia Nierenberg and Adam Pasick","pub_date":"2020-10-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/nyc-schools-close-briefing.html"} {"headline":"Robert K. Ruskin, Who Targeted New York Corruption, Dies at 93","abstract":"As investigation commissioner under Mayor Lindsay in the early 1970s, he went after police officers, building inspectors, parking ticket fixers and peep-show operators.","byline":"By Sam Roberts","pub_date":"2020-10-06","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/nyregion/robert-k-ruskin-who-targeted-new-york-corruption-dies-at-93.html"} {"headline":"A CNN poll taken after the debate finds Biden leading Trump by 16 points nationally.","abstract":"A CNN poll conducted after the presidential debate, and mostly after President Trump announced he had the coronavirus, found Joe Biden with a 16-point national lead.","byline":"By Matt Stevens","pub_date":"2020-10-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/us/elections/cnn-poll-biden-trump.html"} {"headline":"No, the Coronavirus Is Not Like the Flu","abstract":"Experts have said repeatedly that the coronavirus poses a far more serious threat than influenza viruses.","byline":"By Katherine J. Wu","pub_date":"2020-10-06","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/technology/trump-flu-comments.html"} {"headline":"Texas Police Officer Charged With Murder in Fatal Shooting of Black Man","abstract":"Officer Shaun Lucas was arrested by the Texas Rangers, which said his actions were “not objectionably reasonable.”","byline":"By Bryan Pietsch","pub_date":"2020-10-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/us/texas-officer-charged-murder.html"} {"headline":"Trump Removes Mask Despite Coronavirus Infection","abstract":"After President Trump arrived at the White House from the hospital on Monday, he climbed stairs to a balcony and took off his mask.","byline":"By Reuters; Anna Moneymaker For The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-10-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007379496/trump-removes-face-mask-white-house.html"} {"headline":"Laurie Santos Says Self-Care Doesn’t Have to Be Selfish","abstract":"The expert in positive psychology has a few simple ideas for sustaining mental well-being as Covid-19 continues.","byline":"By Hope Reese","pub_date":"2020-10-07","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/health/laurie-santos-covid-happiness.html"} {"headline":"Mike Pence Brought Conservatives Home. What if They Don’t Need Him Anymore?","abstract":"Evangelical Christians were drawn to the vice president because he shared their values. But Trump’s style has made defiance of political norms, not a Pence specialty, seem appealing.","byline":"By Jeremy W. Peters","pub_date":"2020-10-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/us/politics/mike-pence-debate.html"} {"headline":"Fed Officials Warned of Slowdown Without Stimulus","abstract":"In notes from their September meeting, Federal Reserve officials said optimism about a strong rebound hinged on government help.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-10-07","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/business/economy/federal-reserve-slowdown-stimulus.html"} {"headline":"How to Watch the Vice-Presidential Debate","abstract":"The debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Kamala Harris will take place on Wednesday night from 9 to 10:30 p.m. Eastern.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-10-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/us/politics/time-debate-stream.html"} {"headline":"As Harris prepares to take the debate stage, Asian-Americans flood Twitter with stories of their ‘sheroes.’","abstract":"The hashtag #AAPISheRose was trending on Twitter on Wednesday, as Asian-Americans shared stories of their family members and prominent women who have paved the way for what they see as a historic moment: Senator Kamala Harris, a Black and Indian-American vice-presidential candidate, taking the debate stage.","byline":"By Priya Arora","pub_date":"2020-10-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/us/politics/as-harris-prepares-to-take-the-debate-stage-asian-americans-flood-twitter-with-stories-of-their-sheroes.html"} {"headline":"How cuts to Sweden’s social welfare state led to a wave of death in nursing homes.","abstract":"Among the nearly 6,000 people whose deaths have been linked to the coronavirus in Sweden, 2,694, or 46 percent, had been among those living in nursing homes.","byline":"By Peter S. Goodman and Erik Augustin Palm","pub_date":"2020-10-08","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/business/how-cuts-to-swedens-social-welfare-state-led-to-a-wave-of-death-in-nursing-homes.html"} {"headline":"Jobless claims in the U.S. remain well above pre-pandemic levels.","abstract":"Applications for jobless benefits in the United States remained high last week, even as the collapse of stimulus talks in Washington raised fears of a new wave of layoffs.","byline":"By Ben Casselman","pub_date":"2020-10-08","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/world/jobless-claims-in-the-us-remain-well-above-pre-pandemic-levels.html"} {"headline":"A fly sat atop Mike Pence’s head for two minutes during the V.P. debate.","abstract":"President Trump’s handling of the country was the elephant in the room during Wednesday’s vice-presidential debate, but it was a fly, taking a brief break from flying, that couldn’t be ignored by viewers watching the event from home.","byline":"By Reid J. Epstein","pub_date":"2020-10-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/us/politics/the-fly-pence-head.html"} {"headline":"In the Path of Six Major Storms Since June, Louisiana Braces for Delta","abstract":"“Like a boxer going in the ring a few weeks after getting pounded,” Louisiana prepares for another walloping storm.","byline":"By Chelsea Brasted, Richard Fausset and John Schwartz","pub_date":"2020-10-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/us/hurricane-delta-gulf-coast.html"} {"headline":"Britain is said to be weighing the tightening of restrictions in hard-hit parts of the country.","abstract":"The British government is considering a tiered system that would tighten restrictions on pubs and restaurants in the areas of England with the highest rates of infection, according to the BBC and other media outlets.","byline":"By Anna Schaverien","pub_date":"2020-10-08","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/world/britain-is-said-to-be-weighing-the-tightening-of-restrictions-in-hard-hit-parts-of-the-country.html"} {"headline":"Second Debate Canceled as Biden Condemns Trump for ‘Reckless’ Conduct","abstract":"President Trump has refused to participate in a virtual event, so next week’s debate is off. Instead, there may be dueling town halls on the same night, as the president ramps up plans for resuming his rallies.","byline":"By Michael M. Grynbaum and Shane Goldmacher","pub_date":"2020-10-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/politics/biden-nevada-debate.html"} {"headline":"The day after the V.P. debate, the campaign’s focus moved to Arizona.","abstract":"PEORIA, Ariz. — Vice President Mike Pence, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Kamala Harris all touched down in Arizona on Thursday to rally supporters, a sign of the increasingly pivotal nature of a historically Republican state that is now up for grabs.","byline":"By Jonathan Martin and Sydney Ember","pub_date":"2020-10-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/elections/the-day-after-the-vp-debate-the-campaigns-focus-moved-to-arizona.html"} {"headline":"Trump Raises Stimulus Offer to $1.8 Trillion Days After Halting Negotiations","abstract":"After ending stimulus talks via Twitter on Tuesday, the president reversed course, proposing a plan his own party may reject, and giving Democrats fresh leverage to dictate the terms of a deal.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane and Alan Rappeport","pub_date":"2020-10-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/politics/trump-covid-stimulus-pelosi-republicans.html"} {"headline":"John Ratcliffe Pledged to Stay Apolitical. Then He Began Serving Trump’s Political Agenda.","abstract":"The director of national intelligence is said to be planning more disclosures of intelligence that undermines the Russia investigation.","byline":"By Julian E. Barnes and Adam Goldman","pub_date":"2020-10-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/politics/john-ratcliffe-intelligence.html"} {"headline":"Trump Told Supporters to ‘Watch’ Voting. His Staff Is More Than Watching.","abstract":"The campaign’s focus on Election Day operations has intensified, with aggressive plans for poll monitoring and other tactics that Democrats say are efforts at vote suppression.","byline":"By Danny Hakim and Stephanie Saul","pub_date":"2020-10-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/politics/trump-campaign-poll-watch.html"} {"headline":"A Famed Horror Director Mines Japan’s Real-Life Atrocities","abstract":"Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest movie, which recently won him the award for best director at the Venice Film Festival, is a thriller animated by the ghosts of Japan’s ghastly wartime experiments.","byline":"By Ben Dooley","pub_date":"2020-10-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/world/asia/kiyoshi-kurosawa-wife-of-a-spy.html"} {"headline":"The Swamp That Trump Built","abstract":"A businessman-president transplanted favor-seeking in Washington to his family’s hotels and resorts — and earned millions as a gatekeeper to his own administration.","byline":"By Nicholas Confessore, Karen Yourish, Steve Eder, Ben Protess, Maggie Haberman, Grace Ashford, Michael LaForgia, Kenneth P. Vogel, Michael Rothfeld and Larry Buchanan","pub_date":"2020-10-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/10/us/trump-properties-swamp.html"} {"headline":"7 Key Findings About Trump’s Reinvented Swamp","abstract":"The president built a system of favor-seeking at his hotels and resorts that is unrivaled in modern American politics.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-10-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/us/trump-hotels-resorts-takeaways.html"} {"headline":"Former Philadelphia Officer Charged With Murder in 2017 Shooting","abstract":"Eric Ruch Jr.’s killing of Dennis Plowden, an unarmed Black man, after a high-speed chase was unjustified, a grand jury found.","byline":"By Allyson Waller and Bryan Pietsch","pub_date":"2020-10-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/eric-ruch-murder-charges.html"} {"headline":"Trump Claims in Interview That He Is ‘Medication Free’","abstract":"The president said on Fox that he went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last Friday because he “didn’t feel strong,” but he denied that he had experienced any trouble breathing.","byline":"By Annie Karni","pub_date":"2020-10-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/politics/trump-doctor-interview-virus-fox-news.html"} {"headline":"QAnon Is Thriving in Germany. The Extreme Right Is Delighted.","abstract":"As the U.S. conspiracy theory goes global, it has found fertile ground in the putsch fantasies and anti-Semitic tropes long popular on Germany’s far-right fringe. Counterterrorism officials worry.","byline":"By Katrin Bennhold","pub_date":"2020-10-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/world/europe/qanon-is-thriving-in-germany-the-extreme-right-is-delighted.html"} {"headline":"C.E.O.s Rediscover the Family Dinner Table","abstract":"Remote work during the coronavirus pandemic has given executives with children a taste of a different way to live.","byline":"By Jenny Gross","pub_date":"2020-10-11","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/business/family-dinner-returns.html"} {"headline":"‘I Feel Like I Have Dementia’: Brain Fog Plagues Covid Survivors","abstract":"The condition is affecting thousands of patients, impeding their ability to work and function in daily life.","byline":"By Pam Belluck","pub_date":"2020-10-11","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/health/covid-survivors.html"} {"headline":"Can Trump Squeeze More From His White Base in Pennsylvania and Beyond?","abstract":"With President Trump trailing Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Pennsylvania in nearly every poll, his last refuge and perhaps best hope is to maximize the turnout of working-class white voters.","byline":"By Shane Goldmacher","pub_date":"2020-10-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/us/politics/trump-white-base-pennsylvania.html"} {"headline":"Trump’s Campaign Talk of Troop Withdrawals Doesn’t Match Military Reality","abstract":"President Trump has brought home few American combat troops over all even as his pressure campaign against Iran risks a new Middle East conflict.","byline":"By Michael Crowley","pub_date":"2020-10-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/us/politics/trump-troop-withdrawals-war.html"} {"headline":"In Former Taliban Stronghold, Defiant Women Hit the Gym","abstract":"A women’s health club in Kandahar challenges conservative Afghan traditions that vilify exercise for women. Many work out secretly.","byline":"By David Zucchino and Fatima Faizi","pub_date":"2020-10-12","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/world/asia/afghanistan-women-gym-kandahar.html"} {"headline":"Nigerians Demand End to Police Squad Known for Brutalizing the Young","abstract":"The government said it would bow to the demands of Nigerians protesting police abuses, but skeptical protesters vowed to keep the pressure on.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-10-12","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/world/africa/nigeria-protests-police-sars.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Auction Theorists Win the 2020 Nobel in Economics","abstract":"Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson were honored for work that has pushed auctions into new and useful territory.","byline":"By Jeanna Smialek","pub_date":"2020-10-12","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/business/nobel-economics-paul-milgrom-robert-wilson.html"} {"headline":"You Can’t Escape Uber’s Lobbying","abstract":"Just being a customer now makes people a target for inescapable corporate advocacy.","byline":"By Shira Ovide","pub_date":"2020-10-12","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/technology/you-cant-escape-ubers-lobbying.html"} {"headline":"Early Voting Brings Long Lines in Georgia","abstract":"Hundreds of people lined up early Monday morning in Georgia to vote in the presidential election. Some voters said on Twitter there were 90-minute delays as multiple machines had to be rebooted.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-10-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000007390992/georgia-early-voting-lines-2020-election.html"} {"headline":"Turkish Defector Says He Was Ordered to Kill Politician in Austria","abstract":"The testimony by the man, who claimed to be an intelligence agent, offers insight into President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s pursuit of foes and undermines the conviction of a U.S. Consulate employee in Istanbul.","byline":"By Katrin Bennhold and Carlotta Gall","pub_date":"2020-10-13","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/world/europe/turkey-austria-erdogan-assassin.html"} {"headline":"Jewelry Ad Featuring Interfaith Couple Sparks Outrage in India","abstract":"The jeweler withdrew its forty-three second advertisement after Hindu nationalists accused the company of promoting “love jihad” on social media.","byline":"By Geneva Abdul","pub_date":"2020-10-13","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/world/asia/india-ad-love-jihad-tanishq.html"} {"headline":"Leading Slovak Extremist Sentenced to 4 Years in Jail Over Use of Neo-Nazi Symbol","abstract":"Marian Kotleba, the head of a neo-fascist political party, was convicted of spreading an ideology aimed at suppressing democratic rights and freedoms.","byline":"By Miroslava German Sirotnikova","pub_date":"2020-10-13","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/world/europe/slovkia-marian-kotleba-conviction.html"} {"headline":"The California G.O.P. admits it placed misleading ballot boxes around the state.","abstract":"Government officials say the receptacles are illegal and could lead to voter fraud, but the party says it will continue the practice.","byline":"By Glenn Thrush and Jennifer Medina","pub_date":"2020-10-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/us/elections/the-california-gop-admits-it-placed-misleading-ballot-boxes-around-the-state.html"} {"headline":"Women at the Peace Table Yields Better Results. Why Is It Still So Rare?","abstract":"Female peace builders and female-led organizations are often the ones running toward the problem while everyone else is running away, says the author Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini.","byline":"By Alexandra E. Petri","pub_date":"2020-10-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/us/women-peace-process-afghanistan-sanam-naraghi-anderlini-.html"} {"headline":"A Utah Man Meets a Cougar. Chasing and Swearing Ensue.","abstract":"Kyle Burgess, 26, encountered an adult mountain lion while trying to take a video of her cubs. For nearly six minutes, he retreated backward on a hiking trail, keeping his eyes and his phone trained on the cat.","byline":"By Christine Hauser","pub_date":"2020-10-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/kyle-burgess-cougar-utah.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Attorney Moves In on Brooklyn D.A.’s Territory, Citing Crime Surge","abstract":"Federal prosecutors will take more lower-level gun cases, in an initiative that thrusts the borough into the national debate about law enforcement.","byline":"By Nicole Hong","pub_date":"2020-10-14","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/nyregion/nyc-federal-prosecutors-gun-violence.html"} {"headline":"Scientists Synthesize Jawbones From Pig Fat","abstract":"The bones are among the hardest to replace in the body. A trial of the new technique in humans is about to begin.","byline":"By Gina Kolata","pub_date":"2020-10-14","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/health/jawbone-stem-cells-pigs.html"} {"headline":"How to Deal With a Crisis of Misinformation","abstract":"False news is on the rise. We can fight the spread with a simple exercise: Slow down and be skeptical.","byline":"By Brian X. Chen","pub_date":"2020-10-14","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/technology/personaltech/how-to-deal-with-a-crisis-of-misinformation.html"} {"headline":"What else can be said about independence?","abstract":"One of the recurring questions Judge Barrett fielded on Tuesday concerned her judicial independence and whether she would recuse herself in any election law cases related to the man who nominated her: President Trump.","byline":"By Zach Montague","pub_date":"2020-10-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/what-else-can-be-said-about-independence.html"} {"headline":"Reporting Live From Quarantine U.","abstract":"Faced with soaring coronavirus caseloads, some universities told students to “stay put” for 14 days. College journalists report from their quarantined campuses.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-10-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/us/coronavirus-college-quarantines.html"} {"headline":"Major Retailers in Britain Say No to Glitter for Christmas","abstract":"Morrisons, John Lewis and Waitrose said they would not be using glitter in their holiday products this year. Does that really help the environment?","byline":"By Jacey Fortin","pub_date":"2020-10-15","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/business/glitter-ban-christmas.html"} {"headline":"Bob Shanks, Influential TV Executive, Dies at 88","abstract":"He helped create “Good Morning America” and “20/20” and had a role in the early careers of the Smothers Brothers, Barbra Streisand and many others.","byline":"By Neil Genzlinger","pub_date":"2020-10-15","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/business/media/bob-shanks-dead.html"} {"headline":"Graham’s Star Turn as Confirmation M.C. Is Marred by Missteps","abstract":"Facing a tough re-election fight, Senator Lindsey Graham has tried to leverage his role as the ringmaster of confirmation ceremonies. His stream-of-consciousness dialogue has gotten him into trouble.","byline":"By Catie Edmondson","pub_date":"2020-10-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/us/politics/lindsey-graham-barrett-confirmation.html"} {"headline":"5 Professors Sue Rutgers, Saying It Shortchanges Women on Pay","abstract":"The five women say they are paid tens of thousands of dollars less than men with similar qualifications. The university says it is “committed to pay equity.”","byline":"By Jillian Kramer","pub_date":"2020-10-15","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/nyregion/rutgers-equal-pay-lawsuit.html"} {"headline":"Pfizer Says It Won’t Seek Vaccine Authorization Before Mid-November","abstract":"Friday’s announcement represents a shift in tone for the company and its leader, who has repeatedly emphasized the month of October in interviews and public appearances.","byline":"By Katie Thomas and Noah Weiland","pub_date":"2020-10-16","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/health/covid-vaccine-pfizer.html"} {"headline":"This School Was Built for Idealists. It Could Use Some Rich Alumni.","abstract":"For the past century, the New School produced iconoclastic thinkers. Now it is finding that idealism is very expensive.","byline":"By Ginia Bellafante","pub_date":"2020-10-16","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/nyregion/new-school-nyc-endowment-layoffs.html"} {"headline":"A Lincoln Project ad frames a choice: a president who demeans women or one who respects them.","abstract":"President Trump’s rude and demeaning comments to and about women are no secret. Just last week, he called Senator Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, a “monster.” A new ad from the Lincoln Project urges voters to consider what it would be like to have a different kind of president — a man, it suggests, who actually respects women.","byline":"By Sydney Ember","pub_date":"2020-10-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/us/politics/lincoln-project-ad-trump-biden.html"} {"headline":"The Beirut Blast Shattered Her Masterpieces. Now, the Rebuilding Starts.","abstract":"Over three decades as Lebanon’s premier stained-glass artist, Maya Husseini advanced a fragile medium in a country prone to violent shocks. Then came the big one.","byline":"By Ben Hubbard","pub_date":"2020-10-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/world/middleeast/beirut-stained-glass-explosion.html"} {"headline":"After Susan Collins again says she won’t back Judge Barrett, Trump lashes out.","abstract":"President Trump lashed out at the Republican senator Susan Collins of Maine on Friday for not supporting the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, adding that given their previous policy disagreements, winning her over was “not worth the work!”","byline":"By Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-10-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/us/elections/after-susan-collins-again-says-she-wont-back-judge-barrett-trump-lashes-out.html"} {"headline":"Ernst Struggles in Iowa as Republicans Battle to Hold Senate Amid Trump’s Woes","abstract":"Senator Joni Ernst, the first woman to represent Iowa in Congress, is facing the same headwinds plaguing President Trump, who is lagging in the state in part because of deep disadvantage among women.","byline":"By Luke Broadwater","pub_date":"2020-10-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/us/politics/joni-ernst-iowa-republican-senate.html"} {"headline":"Ed Benguiat, a Master of Typography, Is Dead at 92","abstract":"A noted graphic designer, he was an expert in typefaces, developing many himself and “fixing” others. His work adorns this newspaper.","byline":"By Neil Genzlinger","pub_date":"2020-10-17","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/business/media/ed-benguiat-dead.html"} {"headline":"Federal Appeals Courts Emerge as Crucial for Trump in Voting Cases","abstract":"Federal district courts have tended to rule for Democrats in litigation over how to run the election, but appeals courts, well stocked with the president’s nominees, are blocking them.","byline":"By Jim Rutenberg and Rebecca R. Ruiz","pub_date":"2020-10-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/us/politics/federal-appeals-courts-trump-voting.html"} {"headline":"Bill Offering L.G.B.T. Protections in Italy Spurs Rallies on Both Sides","abstract":"Supporters frame the measure as a long-overdue means to provide basic human rights. Opponents depict it as an overreaching step that would suppress opinion.","byline":"By Emma Bubola","pub_date":"2020-10-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/world/europe/italy-lgbt-hate-crimes.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Schedules First Execution of a Woman in Nearly 70 Years","abstract":"Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, was convicted of killing a pregnant woman and attempting to pass the baby off as her own.","byline":"By Marie Fazio","pub_date":"2020-10-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/17/us/lisa-montgomery-execution.html"} {"headline":"‘It’s insane’: This is what happened when schools reopened in a virus-hit community.","abstract":"In mid-September, parents of students at Corner Canyon High School, in an affluent suburb of Salt Lake City, received a text urging them to beg the school board to keep classrooms open.","byline":"By Kate Taylor","pub_date":"2020-10-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/world/its-insane-this-is-what-happened-when-schools-reopened-in-a-virus-hit-community.html"} {"headline":"Man Arrested After Threatening Wichita Mayor Over Face Masks, Police Say","abstract":"Text messages from the man contained a “very descriptive plan of execution,” including locating the mayor, hanging him and turning him into fertilizer, Mayor Brandon Whipple said.","byline":"By Christina Morales and Michael Levenson","pub_date":"2020-10-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/us/wichita-mayor-masks-threat.html"} {"headline":"This U.S. Election Could Be the Most Secure Yet. Here’s Why.","abstract":"With early voting underway, states are working to reassure voters that their ballots will be counted as cast. Our video shows how states’ responses to Russian hacking and the coronavirus crisis have helped make the election more secure than ever.","byline":"By Kassie Bracken, Alexandra Eaton, Aaron Byrd, Brian Dawson, Ben Laffin, Caroline Kim and Kevin Oliver","pub_date":"2020-10-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000007248981/voting-machines-security.html"} {"headline":"After Fleeing Poland, an Antiracism Activist Finds Refuge in Norway","abstract":"A decision to grant asylum on political grounds highlights growing concerns over democratic backsliding in Poland.","byline":"By Elian Peltier, Monika Pronczuk and Henrik Pryser Libell","pub_date":"2020-10-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/world/europe/norway-poland-asylum.html"} {"headline":"Colorado Wildfire Grows Into Largest in State History","abstract":"Left vulnerable by dry conditions, more than 430,000 acres have burned so far in what has been one of the worst years ever for wildfires in the state.","byline":"By Charlie Brennan and Rick Rojas","pub_date":"2020-10-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/us/colorado-wildfires-cameron-peak.html"} {"headline":"Latest Clash Between China and Taiwan: A Fistfight in Fiji","abstract":"Two mainland diplomats attended an event, uninvited, and took offense at symbols of Taiwan — including a flag on a cake. A scuffle ensued.","byline":"By Javier C. Hernández","pub_date":"2020-10-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/world/asia/china-taiwan-fiji-fight.html"} {"headline":"After Teacher’s Decapitation, France Unleashes a Broad Crackdown on ‘the Enemy Within’","abstract":"With dozens of raids against Muslim individuals and groups accused of radicalism, the fury of the response had France’s right wing speaking in terms of warfare.","byline":"By Adam Nossiter","pub_date":"2020-10-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/world/europe/france-raids-teacher-beheading.html"} {"headline":"Evo Morales Is Out. His Socialist Project Lives On.","abstract":"Exit polls in Bolivia’s presidential election show a clear victory for Luis Arce, Evo Morales’s chosen successor, who vowed to carry on his vision. Official results are not in yet.","byline":"By Julie Turkewitz","pub_date":"2020-10-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/world/americas/morales-arce-bolivia-election.html"} {"headline":"Wildfires Grow in Colorado","abstract":"Evacuations were ordered in Colorado as crews battled new blazes from the Cameron Peak and the CalWood Fire.","byline":"By Storyful and Reuters","pub_date":"2020-10-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000007402697/colorado-wildfire.html"} {"headline":"Trump campaigns in Arizona, which was hit hard by the virus.","abstract":"President Trump traveled to Arizona on Monday for rallies in Prescott and Tucson. Here’s a snapshot of how the state has been doing on two of the biggest issues of the day: the coronavirus and the economy.","byline":"By Michael Cooper","pub_date":"2020-10-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/us/elections/trump-campaigns-in-arizona-which-was-hit-hard-by-the-virus.html"} {"headline":"The Power of Latino Voters","abstract":"Tuesday: “Let’s get rid of the notion of the sleeping giant.” Also: An update on California’s vaccine planning.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-10-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/latino-voters-california.html"} {"headline":"The Big Role That Big Donors Still Play, Quietly, for Joe Biden","abstract":"The Biden campaign has trumpeted its success with small donations, but in the last six months it has raised almost $200 million from donors who gave at least $100,000. As sums have grown, transparency has diminished.","byline":"By Shane Goldmacher","pub_date":"2020-10-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/politics/joe-biden-donors.html"} {"headline":"Facing a Deluge of Misinformation, Colorado Takes the Offensive Against It","abstract":"The state will combat false information on social media and even buy Google ads against it. But few states are following suit.","byline":"By Nick Corasaniti and Davey Alba","pub_date":"2020-10-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/politics/election-colorado-misinformation.html"} {"headline":"Supreme Court Tie Gives Pennsylvania More Time to Tally Some Votes","abstract":"A 4-to-4 tie let stand a ruling from Pennsylvania’s highest court that had extended the deadline for counting some mailed ballots by three days, citing the pandemic and postal delays.","byline":"By Adam Liptak","pub_date":"2020-10-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/us/supreme-court-pennsylvania-voting.html"} {"headline":"A federal court says Tennessee can’t require first-time voters to appear in person at the polls.","abstract":"A federal court exempted first-time voters in Tennessee from having to appear in person at the polls if they registered online or by mail.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor","pub_date":"2020-10-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/elections/a-federal-court-says-tennessee-cant-require-first-time-voters-to-appear-in-person-at-the-polls.html"} {"headline":"False Political News in Spanish Pits Latino Voters Against Black Lives Matter","abstract":"On family WhatsApp groups and in Spanish-language media, misinformation paints 2020 as a zero-sum game.","byline":"By Patricia Mazzei and Jennifer Medina","pub_date":"2020-10-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/politics/spanish-election-2020-disinformation.html"} {"headline":"Senate Bill Would Outlaw Bank Discrimination for the First Time","abstract":"Democrats unveiled a proposal to close a loophole in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 after a New York Times report on obstacles faced by customers.","byline":"By Emily Flitter","pub_date":"2020-10-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/business/democrats-bill-banking-discrimination.html"} {"headline":"A Dozen Protesters in Nigeria Reported Killed by Security Forces","abstract":"Nigerians are stunned after police and soldiers opened fire on protesters against police brutality. The largely peaceful demonstrations have grown into a challenge for the government.","byline":"By Shola Lawal and Monica Mark","pub_date":"2020-10-21","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/world/africa/nigeria-shooting-protesters-SARS-Lekki.html"} {"headline":"Trump casts doubt on stimulus deal with Democrats.","abstract":"Ms. Pelosi said she remained upbeat about the prospects for a compromise, but allowed for the possibility that it would wait until after the election.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane and Alan Rappeport","pub_date":"2020-10-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/business/stimulus-talks.html"} {"headline":"Nigerians Protest Police Brutality","abstract":"Tens of thousands of Nigerians across the country have been protesting for weeks against police brutality. Several people were shot during demonstrations in Lagos Tuesday night.","byline":"By Reuters","pub_date":"2020-10-21","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000007407503/nigeria-police-brutality-sars-protests.html"} {"headline":"These Winged Dinosaurs Hurtled Through the Trees Like Haywire Hang Gliders","abstract":"To call it flying would be generous.","byline":"By Sabrina Imbler","pub_date":"2020-10-22","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/science/jurassic-dinosaur-yi-qi-flight.html"} {"headline":"Trump Promised Seniors Drug Discount Cards. They May Be Illegal.","abstract":"A proposal announced by President Trump last month was to send older Americans $200 discount cards to offset prescription costs. It’s not going to happen before the election, and maybe not ever.","byline":"By Margot Sanger-Katz and Noah Weiland","pub_date":"2020-10-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/trump-prescription-drugs.html"} {"headline":"Manafort Prosecution Barred by Double Jeopardy Rule, N.Y. Appeals Court Says","abstract":"The Manhattan district attorney has tried to ensure Paul Manafort would still face prison time if President Trump pardoned him.","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-10-22","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/nyregion/paul-manafort-double-jeopardy.html"} {"headline":"Trump Campaign Draws Rebuke for Surveilling Philadelphia Voters","abstract":"President Trump’s campaign has been videotaping voters at ballot drop boxes, a tactic that could amount to illegal voter intimidation, Pennsylvania’s attorney general says.","byline":"By Danny Hakim and Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-10-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/trump-campaign-voter-surveillance.html"} {"headline":"Russia Poses Greater Election Threat Than Iran, Many U.S. Officials Say","abstract":"Russia’s hackers appeared to be preparing to sow chaos amid any uncertainty around election results, officials said.","byline":"By Julian E. Barnes, Nicole Perlroth and David E. Sanger","pub_date":"2020-10-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/russia-election-interference-hacks.html"} {"headline":"Voting in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Wear a Mask and Bring Your Own Pen","abstract":"A new C.D.C. report cites lessons learned from Delaware’s primary and suggests that voters could use some instruction in the right way to wear a mask.","byline":"By Denise Grady","pub_date":"2020-10-23","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/health/Covid-voting-safety.html"} {"headline":"A Francophile’s Unexpected Love Affair With Canadian Wine","abstract":"Our Montreal-based Canada correspondent, Dan Bilefsky, was seduced by British Columbia’s picturesque wine region. There was just one problem: Finding the wine back home.","byline":"By Dan Bilefsky","pub_date":"2020-10-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/world/canada/canadian-wine-british-columbia.html"} {"headline":"5 Policy Issues Where Trump and Biden Diverged at Final Debate","abstract":"The debate on Thursday night had long stretches of illuminating policy discussion on climate change, health care, the coronavirus, immigration and criminal and racial justice.","byline":"By Glenn Thrush and Matt Stevens","pub_date":"2020-10-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/us/politics/trump-biden-health-care-immigration.html"} {"headline":"A Common Retort After Insensitive Remarks by Elected Leaders: Resign","abstract":"Officials have long atoned for their racist and inappropriate comments. But unlike years past, when apologies might have been enough, they have also been asked to step down.","byline":"By Audra D. S. Burch","pub_date":"2020-10-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/us/mayor-resigns-race-criticism.html"} {"headline":"For Biden and Trump, Stark Contrasts on Alternative Energy","abstract":"Joe Biden said solar and wind energy would provide an economic boost, while President Trump questioned their efficiency and called relying on them “a pipe dream.”","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-10-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000007410735/biden-trump-energy-windmills-debate.html"} {"headline":"The White Issue: Has Anna Wintour’s Diversity Push Come Too Late?","abstract":"Vogue’s September issue celebrated Black culture and contributors. But some employees say the magazine’s powerful editor fostered a workplace that sidelined women of color.","byline":"By Edmund Lee","pub_date":"2020-10-24","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/business/media/anna-wintour-vogue-race.html"} {"headline":"Murder Hornet Nest, First in U.S., Is Removed in Washington State","abstract":"Officials vacuumed the nest in Blaine, Wash., on Saturday before the voracious Asian giant hornets could multiply and lay waste to bees.","byline":"By Michael Levenson","pub_date":"2020-10-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/us/-murder-hornet-nest-washington.html"} {"headline":"Biden, an Amtrak Evangelist, Could Be a Lifeline for a Rail Agency in Crisis","abstract":"Amtrak has reduced service and is poised to cut thousands of jobs. Rail supporters argue that, win or lose, the Democratic presidential candidate could shift the debate over the agency’s future.","byline":"By Pranshu Verma","pub_date":"2020-10-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/biden-amtrak-covid.html"} {"headline":"While Her Father Rails Against ‘Idiot’ Scientists, Ivanka Trump Talks Ice Cream","abstract":"The first daughter is trying to woo the white suburban female voters who have become her father’s demographic kryptonite.","byline":"By Mark Leibovich","pub_date":"2020-10-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/politics/ivanka-trump.html"} {"headline":"As Lawlessness Roils Nigeria, Police Chief Vows to Take Back Streets","abstract":"As protests against police brutality have subsided after a violent crackdown, they have been followed by a wave of looting and vandalism that the police have vowed to end.","byline":"By Shola Lawal","pub_date":"2020-10-24","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/world/africa/Nigeria-protests.html"} {"headline":"After making a comeback during the pandemic, pro sports face a tough second act.","abstract":"In mid-March, as the pandemic forced extensive lockdowns throughout the United States, professional sports came to a halt, with the very real possibility that no champions would be crowned in basketball, hockey or baseball.","byline":"By Tyler Kepner, Matthew Futterman and Marc Stein","pub_date":"2020-10-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/world/after-making-a-comeback-during-the-pandemic-pro-sports-face-a-tough-second-act.html"} {"headline":"Infection of Pence Aides Raises New Questions About Trump’s Virus Response","abstract":"From the beginning, the president has turned mask wearing and other preventive measures into a loyalty test. He and his aides have taken the same approach inside the White House.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear, Annie Karni, Maggie Haberman and Sheryl Gay Stolberg","pub_date":"2020-10-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/us/politics/pence-trump-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"In Miami-Dade County, Younger Cuban Voters Offer Opening for Trump","abstract":"Newer Cuban immigrants who previously had little engagement in American politics have started to identify as Trump Republicans. It could give the president a boost in a critical swing state.","byline":"By Patricia Mazzei","pub_date":"2020-10-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/us/miami-cuban-trump-biden.html"} {"headline":"‘An End to the Chapter of Dictatorship’: Chileans Vote to Draft a New Constitution","abstract":"Voters overwhelmingly approved a bid to scrap the charter inherited from Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, a move that could set a new course for the country.","byline":"By Pascale Bonnefoy","pub_date":"2020-10-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/world/americas/chile-constitution-plebiscite.html"} {"headline":"New Spirits Rise in Old, Repurposed Churches","abstract":"For years, attendance rates have dropped and congregations have closed nationwide. But many reused religious spaces are still sanctuaries.","byline":"By Amelia Nierenberg and Tristan Spinski","pub_date":"2020-10-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/us/abandoned-churches-covid.html"} {"headline":"New Yorkers Face Long Lines as Early Voting Opens","abstract":"Early voting began on Saturday in New York and tens of thousands of voters waited hours to cast their ballots with lines stretching for blocks outside polling sites.","byline":"By Reuters","pub_date":"2020-10-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000007415639/new-york-early-voting.html"} {"headline":"What Alex Padilla Wants California Voters to Know","abstract":"Monday: The secretary of state talks about voting in person. Also: Fires and wind cause dangerous conditions in Northern California.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-10-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/us/california-early-voting-totals.html"} {"headline":"Ant Challenged Beijing and Prospered. Now It Toes the Line.","abstract":"The tech giant, which is preparing for a mega I.P.O., has transformed personal finance in China. Regulators have taken notice.","byline":"By Raymond Zhong and Cao Li","pub_date":"2020-10-26","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/technology/ant-group-ipo-china.html"} {"headline":"A Crush of Early Voters Makes for Long Waits in N.Y.C.","abstract":"For the first time ever, New Yorkers cast their ballots early for a presidential election, sometimes standing in line for five hours.","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-10-26","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/early-voting-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Why Dunkin’ Is Worth Nearly $9 Billion","abstract":"The restaurant chain is a pandemic success story.","byline":"By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni","pub_date":"2020-10-26","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/business/dealbook/dunkin-inspire-deal.html"} {"headline":"Keith Raniere, Leader of Nxivm Sex Cult, Is Sentenced to 120 Years in Prison","abstract":"In the courtroom, more than a dozen victims gave wrenching testimony about how he manipulated and sexually abused them.","byline":"By Nicole Hong and Sean Piccoli","pub_date":"2020-10-27","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/nyregion/nxivm-cult-keith-raniere-sentenced.html"} {"headline":"Jon Stewart Returns to Spotlight With a Series for Apple TV+","abstract":"On his new program, the former “Daily Show” host will “explore topics that are currently part of the national conversation and his advocacy work,” Apple said.","byline":"By John Koblin","pub_date":"2020-10-27","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/business/media/jon-stewart-apple-tv.html"} {"headline":"Biden, Invoking F.D.R., Tries to Siphon Off Trump Voters in Georgia","abstract":"In the rural hills of Georgia, a state he is seeking to win, Joseph R. Biden Jr. called for “healing” and “restoration,” and a commitment to a common purpose to meet the challenges of the coronavirus.","byline":"By Jonathan Martin and Katie Glueck","pub_date":"2020-10-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/us/politics/joe-biden-georgia-polls.html"} {"headline":"What Counts as Race Discrimination? A Suit Against JPMorgan Is a Test","abstract":"A former employee accuses JPMorgan Chase of failing to stop what she said was racially driven bullying. The bank says race had nothing to do with it.","byline":"By Emily Flitter","pub_date":"2020-10-27","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/business/race-discrimination-lawsuit-jpmorgan.html"} {"headline":"Blast at Pakistani Religious School Kills at Least 8","abstract":"No group claimed immediate responsibility for the bombing, which took place while classes were happening at a madrasa in the suburbs of Peshawar, Pakistan.","byline":"By Salman Masood","pub_date":"2020-10-27","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/world/asia/pakistan-school-bombing.html"} {"headline":"Minnesota Polls: Who Different Groups Supported","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-10-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/03/us/elections/exit-polls-minnesota-primary.html"} {"headline":"North Carolina Primary Election Results: First House District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-10-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/03/us/elections/results-north-carolina-house-district-1-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"North Carolina Primary Election Results: Seventh House District","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-10-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/03/us/elections/results-north-carolina-house-district-7-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"Alabama Polls: Who Different Groups Supported","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-10-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/03/us/elections/exit-polls-alabama-primary.html"} {"headline":"Live Results: Utah Presidential Primary 2020","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-10-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/03/us/elections/results-utah-president-democrat-primary-election.html"} {"headline":"F.B.I. Arrests Michigan Men Tied to White Supremacist Group","abstract":"Two members of the Base, a white supremacist and neo-Nazi group, were accused of trying to threaten a host of a podcast that describes itself as “confronting white nationalism.”","byline":"By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs","pub_date":"2020-10-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/fbi-arrests-the-base-michigan.html"} {"headline":"Kavanaugh Fixes Error in Election Opinion After Vermont Complaint","abstract":"Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh made a correction to a concurring opinion after Vermont officials pointed out that he mistakenly said the state had not changed its election rules.","byline":"By Maria Cramer","pub_date":"2020-10-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/politics/kavanaugh-vermont.html"} {"headline":"Lingering Mail Problems Worry Voters in Final Week of Election","abstract":"The Postal Service’s performance has not been as bad as initially feared, but handling of mail ballots has been inconsistent enough that some people are choosing to vote in person.","byline":"By Luke Broadwater and Hailey Fuchs","pub_date":"2020-10-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/politics/post-office-mail-voting-2020-election.html"} {"headline":"A Top Aide to Saddam Hussein Is Reported Dead","abstract":"Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who had eluded capture for 17 years, was Mr. Hussein’s right-hand man in a government that dealt brutally with Iraqi civilians and unleashed catastrophic regional wars.","byline":"By Abdi Latif Dahir and Falih Hassan","pub_date":"2020-10-29","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/world/middleeast/izzat-al-douri-saddam-hussein-iraq.html"} {"headline":"A $265 million feel-good P.R. effort to boost Trump on the coronavirus draws Democrats’ ire.","abstract":"A $265 million Trump administration to “defeat despair” about the coronavirus was planned partly around the politically tinged theme that “helping the president will help the country,” according to documents released by House investigators.","byline":"By Noah Weiland and Sharon LaFraniere","pub_date":"2020-10-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/elections/a-265-million-feel-good-pr-effort-to-boost-trump-on-the-coronavirus-draws-democrats-ire.html"} {"headline":"After a Summer of Racial Reckoning, Race Is on the Ballot","abstract":"The coronavirus and battered economy are focal points in national campaigns. But in many local elections, systemic racism and police reform have emerged as dominant themes.","byline":"By John Eligon and Audra D. S. Burch","pub_date":"2020-10-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/racial-justice-elections.html"} {"headline":"In Pandemic U.K., Brexit Is an Afterthought, as Is Trump","abstract":"British voters who opted in 2016 for leaving the European Union seem ready to move on from the president, who is widely disliked despite his cheerleading for that cause.","byline":"By Mark Landler","pub_date":"2020-10-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/world/europe/pandemic-uk-brexit-trump.html"} {"headline":"How Three Election-Related Falsehoods Spread","abstract":"The lies took off so rapidly on Facebook and Twitter that local election officials could not contain them.","byline":"By Davey Alba, Kellen Browning and Jacob Silver","pub_date":"2020-10-30","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/technology/how-three-election-related-falsehoods-spread.html"} {"headline":"After Jon Ossoff calls him a ‘crook’ during a Georgia Senate debate, David Perdue cancels final one.","abstract":"Senator Perdue of Georgia cancels his final debate with Jon Ossoff after Ossoff calls him a ‘crook.’","byline":"By Glenn Thrush and Neil Vigdor","pub_date":"2020-10-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/elections/after-jon-ossoff-calls-him-a-crook-during-a-georgia-senate-debate-david-perdue-cancels-final-one.html"} {"headline":"Biden leads by 3 points in North Carolina, a Times/Siena College poll found.","abstract":"Joseph R. Biden Jr. holds a small but durable lead over President Trump in North Carolina, where 64 percent of likely voters say they have already cast their ballots, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released on Thursday.","byline":"By Trip Gabriel, Isabella Grullón Paz, Michael D. Shear and Annie Karni","pub_date":"2020-10-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/elections/biden-leads-by-3-points-in-north-carolina-a-times-siena-college-poll-found.html"} {"headline":"Biden and Surrogates Hit Trump on Taxes in Closing Argument","abstract":"“Why should you pay more taxes than Donald Trump?” Joseph R. Biden Jr. asked as he took aim at the president’s taxes and tax policy.","byline":"By Danny Hakim and Susanne Craig","pub_date":"2020-10-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/us/politics/biden-trump-taxes.html"} {"headline":"After Trump accuses doctors of profiteering, medical professionals push back.","abstract":"At a rally in Michigan on Friday, President Trump repeated an extraordinary and unfounded claim that American doctors were profiteering from coronavirus deaths.","byline":"By Jacey Fortin","pub_date":"2020-10-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/us/elections/after-trump-accuses-doctors-of-profiteering-medical-professionals-push-back.html"} {"headline":"Do Dunkin’ and Arby’s Go Together? Private Equity Group Bets $11 Billion They Do","abstract":"Inspire Brands, backed by Roark Capital, is assembling a portfolio of quick-service restaurant chains it thinks will withstand the pandemic.","byline":"By Lauren Hirsch","pub_date":"2020-10-31","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/business/dealbook/dunkin-arbys-private-equity.html"} {"headline":"The ‘Wall’ Is Still Motivating Voters. But This Time Is It Against Trump?","abstract":"Immigration was a defining issue for President Trump in 2016. It’s less dominant in 2020, and it is motivating his critics as well as his supporters.","byline":"By Jennifer Medina","pub_date":"2020-10-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/us/politics/trump-immigration-.html"} {"headline":"Typhoon Goni Leaves Philippines After Only Grazing Manila","abstract":"With sustained winds of up to 135 miles an hour at landfall, the storm barreled across Luzon, the country’s most populous island, but mostly missed the capital. At least 16 people were killed.","byline":"By Jason Gutierrez and Hannah Beech","pub_date":"2020-10-31","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/world/asia/typhoon-goni-live-updates.html"} {"headline":"Poets and Lovers: Do Rimbaud and Verlaine Belong in France’s Panthéon?","abstract":"A petition seeks to honor them, but critics ask if it’s about poetry or sexuality, and whether such rebels would be out of place in an august shrine to national heroes.","byline":"By Antonella Francini","pub_date":"2020-11-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/world/europe/rimbaud-verlaine-france-pantheon.html"} {"headline":"How are Americans catching the virus? Increasingly, they have no idea.","abstract":"When the coronavirus first erupted in Sioux Falls, S.D., in the spring, Mayor Paul TenHaken arrived at work each morning with a clear mission: Stop the outbreak at the pork plant. Hundreds of employees, chopping meat shoulder to shoulder, had gotten sick in what was then the largest virus cluster in the United States.","byline":"By Sarah Mervosh and Lucy Tompkins","pub_date":"2020-11-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/how-are-americans-catching-the-virus-increasingly-they-have-no-idea.html"} {"headline":"When parents lose their jobs, children suffer. But sometimes there’s a consolation.","abstract":"Nearly 22 percent of children in the United States had an unemployed parent in April, the highest rate on record, according to Zachary Parolin, a researcher at Columbia University.","byline":"By Jason DeParle","pub_date":"2020-11-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/us/when-parents-lose-their-jobs-children-suffer-but-sometimes-theres-a-consolation.html"} {"headline":"‘They’re coming after our state,’ McSally warns Arizona Republicans.","abstract":"SUN CITY, Ariz. — Don’t believe the polls. Don’t believe the media. And definitely do not believe the Democrats.","byline":"By Jennifer Medina","pub_date":"2020-11-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/us/elections/theyre-coming-after-our-state-mcsally-warns-arizona-republicans.html"} {"headline":"In Russia’s Idyllic Wine Country, Dark Tales of Dreams Dashed","abstract":"A verdant slice of southern Russia evokes Tuscany and produces surprisingly magical wine. But bureaucratic nightmares and police raids intrude on the aspirations of upstart vintners.","byline":"By Anton Troianovski","pub_date":"2020-11-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/world/europe/russia-wine-black-sea.html"} {"headline":"A Rapid Virus Test Falters in People Without Symptoms, Study Finds","abstract":"A head-to-head comparison of lab and rapid coronavirus tests drew mixed reactions from experts, who raised concerns about accuracy.","byline":"By Katherine J. Wu","pub_date":"2020-11-02","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/health/coronavirus-testing-quidel-sofia.html"} {"headline":"Trump amps up uncertainty and plays down the pandemic as a chaotic campaign races to its conclusion.","abstract":"Worries escalate as a historic campaign races to an uncertain close.","byline":"By Adam Nagourney and Glenn Thrush","pub_date":"2020-11-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/us/politics/trump-amps-up-uncertainty-and-plays-down-the-pandemic-as-a-chaotic-campaign-races-to-its-conclusion.html"} {"headline":"99.7 million Americans have already voted, nearly three-quarters of 2016’s total.","abstract":"99.7 million Americans have already voted, nearly three-quarters of 2016’s total.","byline":"By Glenn Thrush","pub_date":"2020-11-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/us/politics/99-7-million-americans-have-already-voted-nearly-three-quarters-of-2016s-total.html"} {"headline":"In Dash to Finish, Biden and Trump Set Up Showdown in Pennsylvania","abstract":"Both campaigns were intensifying their efforts in a state increasingly critical to victory, as the candidates and their surrogates planned a final blitz to make their closing arguments.","byline":"By Katie Glueck and Annie Karni","pub_date":"2020-11-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/politics/trump-biden-campaign.html"} {"headline":"The need for caffeine was the mother of invention.","abstract":"“I love coffee and I was worried that our standard freeze-dried brew wasn’t going to cut it,” one astronaut said.","byline":"By Mary Robinette Kowal","pub_date":"2020-11-02","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/science/space-station-coffee.html"} {"headline":"Georgia Election Results: 11th Congressional District","abstract":"See full results and maps from the Georgia election.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-11-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-georgia-house-district-11.html"} {"headline":"Iowa Election Results: Third Congressional District","abstract":"See full results and maps from the Iowa election.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-11-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-iowa-house-district-3.html"} {"headline":"Maine Election Results: Second Congressional District","abstract":"See full results and maps from the Maine election.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-11-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-maine-house-district-2.html"} {"headline":"North Dakota Election Results: At-Large Congressional District","abstract":"See full results and maps from the North Dakota election.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-11-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-north-dakota-house-district-at-large.html"} {"headline":"Rhode Island Question 1 Election Results: Change the State Name","abstract":"See full results and maps from the Rhode Island election.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-11-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-rhode-island-question-1-change-the-state-name.html"} {"headline":"Spider Silk Is Stronger Than Steel. It Also Assembles Itself.","abstract":"Scientists are figuring out the chemical triggers that turn the liquid stored in silk glands into a solid that’s tougher than Kevlar.","byline":"By Katherine J. Wu","pub_date":"2020-11-04","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/science/spider-silk-web-self-assembly.html"} {"headline":"As in 2016, polls gave a misleading picture of the race. What happened?","abstract":"As the results rolled in on Tuesday night, a feeing of déjà vu arrived along with them. Pre-election polls, it appeared, had been misleading once again.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-11-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/us/politics/as-in-2016-polls-gave-a-misleading-picture-of-the-race-what-happened.html"} {"headline":"As America Awaits a Winner, Trump Falsely Claims He Prevailed","abstract":"The president made his unfounded claim even though no news organizations declared a winner between him and Joseph R. Biden Jr., and a number of closely contested states still had millions of mail-in ballots to count.","byline":"By Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin","pub_date":"2020-11-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/politics/election-trump-biden-recap.html"} {"headline":"Oil prices rise as traders look beyond uncertain election results.","abstract":"Oil prices rose Wednesday as the results of the U.S. presidential election remained uncertain. Brent crude, the international benchmark, and West Texas Intermediate, the American standard, were up about 3.5 percent.","byline":"By Stanley Reed","pub_date":"2020-11-04","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/business/oil-prices-rise-as-traders-look-beyond-uncertain-election-results.html"} {"headline":"Explore Trump and Biden’s Paths to Victory","abstract":"Select a winner in the states below to see either candidate’s paths to the presidency.","byline":"By Charlie Smart","pub_date":"2020-11-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/04/us/elections/paths-to-victory-biden-trump.html"} {"headline":"In Covid-Wrecked Mexico, One Doctor Tried Humor and Home Visits","abstract":"Gustavo Gutiérrez is a one-man roving medical clinic in Reynosa, developing a rare practice in the turbulent times of the coronavirus. He’s visited scores of patients fearful of the hospital.","byline":"By Azam Ahmed","pub_date":"2020-11-05","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/world/americas/mexico-covid.html"} {"headline":"Watch Full Video: Pennsylvania Official Holds News Conference","abstract":"Kathy Boockvar, Pennsylvania’s secretary of state, held a news conference to provide updates on the state’s general election.","byline":"By Reuters","pub_date":"2020-11-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/elections/100000007438960/kathy-boockvar-pennsylvania-election.html"} {"headline":"A Split Decision for Democrats","abstract":"Weary voters appeared willing to give former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. a chance, but they shied away from putting Democrats in full control of Washington.","byline":"By Carl Hulse","pub_date":"2020-11-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/politics/democrats-biden-senate-split.html"} {"headline":"In a Year of Protest Cries, Now It’s ‘Count Every Vote!’ and ‘Stop the Steal!’","abstract":"Demonstrations have broken out all year long across America, and they have not let up as states tally ballots after Election Day.","byline":"By Simon Romero, Shaila Dewan and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio","pub_date":"2020-11-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/us/election-protests-vote-count.html"} {"headline":"The virus crisis dredges up a single mother’s old regrets and fears.","abstract":"Andrea Luttrell writes about the ways the pandemic has exacerbated her worries as a single mother, which came into sharper focus recently as she tried to juggle helping her 9-year-old son connect virtually to school and coping with the demands of her bosses and colleagues.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-11-05","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/world/the-virus-crisis-dredges-up-a-single-mothers-old-regrets-and-fears.html"} {"headline":"As China’s Propaganda Push Continues, Wuhan Emerges as a Star","abstract":"New television shows have paid tribute to the city where the coronavirus emerged, focusing on residents’ heroism and glossing over official mistakes.","byline":"By Vivian Wang","pub_date":"2020-11-06","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/world/asia/covid-coronavirus-china-wuhan.html"} {"headline":"Al Roker, ‘Today’ Show Anchor, Reveals He Has Cancer","abstract":"Mr. Roker, 66, said he learned of the cancer diagnosis after a routine medical checkup in September.","byline":"By Johnny Diaz","pub_date":"2020-11-06","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/business/media/al-roker-prostate-cancer.html"} {"headline":"The Latest on Kids’ Antibodies","abstract":"A new study might shed light on why children experience the virus differently.","byline":"By Amelia Nierenberg and Adam Pasick","pub_date":"2020-11-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/us/children-antibodies-schools-briefing.html"} {"headline":"Secretaries of State in Spotlight as Trump Ratchets Up Attacks to Sow Doubt","abstract":"While state election centers are broadcast on cable news and have drawn partisan supporters to the sites as thirst for electoral updates intensifies, election administrators have continued to diligently tabulate the votes.","byline":"By Shane Goldmacher, Nick Corasaniti and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs","pub_date":"2020-11-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/us/politics/trump-vote-count.html"} {"headline":"Democracy ‘sometimes requires a little patience,’ Biden says.","abstract":"WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday urged Americans to be patient as votes were counted and said he and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, had “no doubt” that they would ultimately prevail.","byline":"By Thomas Kaplan and Katie Glueck","pub_date":"2020-11-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/us/elections/democracy-sometimes-requires-a-little-patience-biden-says.html"} {"headline":"Joe Biden is elected the 46th president of the United States.","abstract":"WILMINGTON, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. was elected president of the United States on Saturday, defeating President Trump after campaigning on a promise to restore civility and stability to American politics and to expand the government’s role in guiding the country through the surging coronavirus pandemic.","byline":"By Katie Glueck","pub_date":"2020-11-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/politics/joe-biden-is-elected-the-46th-president-of-the-united-states.html"} {"headline":"Biden defeats Trump in Nevada.","abstract":"Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the state of Nevada on Saturday, according to The New York Times, defeating President Trump by two percentage points.","byline":"By Mike Ives, Jennifer Medina and Dave Philipps","pub_date":"2020-11-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/politics/biden-defeats-trump-in-nevada.html"} {"headline":"Tension, Then Some Tears, as TV News Narrates a Moment for History","abstract":"The news networks pledged restraint going into election night. Four days later, anchors waited until a fresh batch of Pennsylvania votes allowed them to project a winner.","byline":"By John Koblin, Michael M. Grynbaum and Tiffany Hsu","pub_date":"2020-11-07","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/business/media/presidential-election-tv-networks-call.html"} {"headline":"Voters Say Black Lives Matter Protests Were Important. They Disagree On Why.","abstract":"About a fifth of all voters said the protests were the single most important factor in their decision at the ballot box, according to a new survey.","byline":"By Sabrina Tavernise and John Eligon","pub_date":"2020-11-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/black-lives-matter-protests.html"} {"headline":"After Warnings It Could Go Off the Rails, the Election Actually Ran Smoothly","abstract":"Amid the logistical challenges of voting in a pandemic, and despite threats of foreign interference, violence and disinformation, the machinery of democracy held up quite well.","byline":"By Reid J. Epstein","pub_date":"2020-11-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/politics/election-voting-challenges.html"} {"headline":"Turkey’s Finance Minister Resigns Amid Pressures of Sliding Economy","abstract":"President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s son-in-law, who is known for his ties to the Trump White House, said he was quitting as Turkey’s lira tumbles and its economy worsens.","byline":"By Carlotta Gall","pub_date":"2020-11-08","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/business/turkey-finance-minister-resigns.html"} {"headline":"There’s no evidence to support claims that election observers were blocked from counting rooms.","abstract":"On Twitter and in interviews, President Trump and his supporters have alleged that his campaign observers were blocked from ballot-counting rooms, hindering their ability to witness and report several instances of what the Trump campaign has baselessly claimed was widespread election fraud that has marred the results.","byline":"By Jim Rutenberg","pub_date":"2020-11-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/politics/theres-no-evidence-to-support-claims-that-election-observers-were-blocked-from-counting-rooms.html"} {"headline":"A Nation Votes for Joe Biden, and a Red State Shrugs","abstract":"Nebraska delivered one electoral vote for Mr. Biden, but the rest of the rural state is deeply red, and mostly accepting of the election results.","byline":"By Dionne Searcey","pub_date":"2020-11-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/us/politics/nebraska-trump-biden.html"} {"headline":"Five Takeaways From President-Elect Biden’s Victory Speech","abstract":"As he addressed the nation from Delaware, Joseph R. Biden Jr. set a tone that was very different from President Trump’s.","byline":"By Adam Nagourney","pub_date":"2020-11-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/us/politics/biden-victory-speech-takeaways.html"} {"headline":"Read Joe Biden’s President-Elect Acceptance Speech: Full Transcript","abstract":"In his victory speech, delivered after days of vote counting and uncertainty, Mr. Biden renewed his promise to be a president for all Americans in a polarized time.","byline":"By Matt Stevens","pub_date":"2020-11-08","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/article/biden-speech-transcript.html"} {"headline":"How a Human Cousin Adapted to a Changing Climate","abstract":"A skull found in a South African cave suggests that the species went through a process of microevolution during a chaotic environmental shift.","byline":"By Nicholas St. Fleur","pub_date":"2020-11-09","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/science/skull-south-africa-climate-change.html"} {"headline":"A ‘Terrifying’ Coronavirus Surge Will Land in Biden’s Lap","abstract":"Total coronavirus cases in the U.S. surpassed 10 million on Sunday. Experts say the virus is spreading out of control and could grow worse before President-elect Biden takes office.","byline":"By Sarah Mervosh, Mitch Smith and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio","pub_date":"2020-11-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/us/biden-covid-19-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Tropical Storm Eta Causes Flooding in South Florida","abstract":"Some areas saw more than 13 inches of rainfall, and there was a storm surge along the coast.","byline":"By Patricia Mazzei and Frances Robles","pub_date":"2020-11-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/tropical-storm-eta-florida.html"} {"headline":"‘Our Country Is Under Threat,’ Biden Says of Virus","abstract":"On Monday, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. gave a coronavirus update where he named a task force to help combat the coronavirus spread, as cases reach all-time highs across the country.","byline":"By Reuters","pub_date":"2020-11-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007445000/biden-coronavirus-briefing.html"} {"headline":"‘We Can Stop a Second Wave,’ N.Y.C. Mayor Says","abstract":"Coronavirus cases in New York are swiftly rising, and Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday that the city was “dangerously close” to a second wave that might mean more restrictions.","byline":"By Office Of The New York City Mayor","pub_date":"2020-11-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007444937/de-blasio-new-york-virus-spike-restrictions.html"} {"headline":"New Type of Test May Better Discern Immunity to the Coronavirus","abstract":"The test detects the response of T cells to the virus — an arm of the immune system that may be just as important as antibodies to preventing reinfection.","byline":"By Apoorva Mandavilli","pub_date":"2020-11-10","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/health/t-cell-test-coronavirus-immunity.html"} {"headline":"The F.D.A. grants emergency authorization of Eli Lilly’s antibody treatment.","abstract":"The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization of a Covid-19 treatment made by the American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly that was given to Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, when he was infected with the coronavirus.","byline":"By Katie Thomas and Noah Weiland","pub_date":"2020-11-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/world/the-fda-grants-emergency-authorization-of-eli-lillys-antibody-treatment.html"} {"headline":"Are These Markets Really Efficient?","abstract":"The pandemic is still raging, but it’s hard to tell from the ecstatic stock market.","byline":"By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni","pub_date":"2020-11-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/business/dealbook/pfizer-vaccine-markets-stocks.html"} {"headline":"The Next Big Question for California Politicians","abstract":"Tuesday: State leaders cheered Senator Kamala Harris’s ascension. Now Gov. Gavin Newsom has to figure out who should replace her.","byline":"By Jill Cowan","pub_date":"2020-11-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/us/kamala-harris-senate-replacement.html"} {"headline":"In Brazil’s Halt of Chinese Vaccine Trial, Critics See Politics","abstract":"The government offered little explanation as to why it had stopped testing a promising coronavirus shot; an institute involved in the trial said a participant’s death was unrelated to the vaccine.","byline":"By Sui-Lee Wee and Ernesto Londoño","pub_date":"2020-11-10","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/world/asia/brazil-china-vaccine-covid19.html"} {"headline":"South Africa Will Lift International Travel Restrictions","abstract":"President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa announced Wednesday that the country will open its borders to all international travelers despite an increasing number of coronavirus cases in some parts of the country.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-11-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000007449921/south-africa-lift-coronavirus-restrictions.html"} {"headline":"Alaskan Don Young Prevails Over Serious Challenge, Easily Winning a 25th Term","abstract":"Alyse Galvin, an independent, fell short in her bid to oust the dean of the House, who found himself vulnerable amid economic woes and President Trump’s troubles in Alaska.","byline":"By Carl Hulse","pub_date":"2020-11-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/us/politics/alaska-don-young-wins.html"} {"headline":"The Surging Coronavirus Finds a Federal Leadership Vacuum","abstract":"The winter wave has been anticipated for months. Now that it’s here, health officials worry once again about strategy and supplies.","byline":"By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Noah Weiland, Sharon LaFraniere and Andrew Jacobs","pub_date":"2020-11-11","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/us/politics/coronavirus-surge-trump.html"} {"headline":"Sisi Promised Egypt Better Health Care. Virus Exposed His True Priority.","abstract":"President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi vowed to put improved health care “at the heart” of his agenda. It hasn’t worked out like that in a country where the military’s needs always come first.","byline":"By Declan Walsh","pub_date":"2020-11-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/world/middleeast/egypt-sisi-coronavirus-healthcare.html"} {"headline":"Tweets from Biden aide show campaign’s frustration with Facebook.","abstract":"The campaign has urged the company to more aggressively police misinformation for more than a year.","byline":"By Cecilia Kang","pub_date":"2020-11-11","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/technology/tweets-from-biden-aide-show-campaigns-frustration-with-facebook.html"} {"headline":"Layoffs at Police Watchdog Agency Prompt Claims of Retaliation","abstract":"The agency said it was restructuring to hire more investigators, but employees said the officials were all critics of the agency’s performance.","byline":"By Ashley Southall","pub_date":"2020-11-12","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/nyregion/nypd-ccrb-firings.html"} {"headline":"Britain’s economy grew by a record, but a contraction looms.","abstract":"Britain’s economy grew 15.5 percent in the third quarter compared with the previous three months, the biggest quarterly expansion since officials started keeping records in 1955, according to the national statistics agency.","byline":"By Eshe Nelson","pub_date":"2020-11-12","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/business/britains-economy-grew-by-a-record-but-a-contraction-looms.html"} {"headline":"Inside the Mystery of a Country Moonshine Bunker","abstract":"Distilleries are trendy in rural New York. But this one was open 88 years ago, during Prohibition.","byline":"By Devorah Lev-Tov","pub_date":"2020-11-12","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/nyregion/catskills-farm-distilleries-prohibition.html"} {"headline":"A Republican senator says Biden should receive daily briefings, and he will ‘step in’ to ensure that occurs.","abstract":"Senator James Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican who sits on a key Senate oversight committee, said on a podcast released on Wednesday that he had no objections to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. receiving presidential daily briefings, and that he would take action himself if that did not begin by the end of the week.","byline":"By Matt Stevens","pub_date":"2020-11-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/us/a-republican-senator-says-biden-should-receive-daily-briefings-and-he-will-step-in-to-ensure-that-occurs.html"} {"headline":"Video of Corpse in Hospital Bathroom Alarms Italy as Covid Spreads","abstract":"The video of a man who died in the bathroom of the emergency room from what may have been Covid has sparked outrage.","byline":"By Emma Bubola","pub_date":"2020-11-12","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/world/europe/italy-coronavirus-bathroom-death.html"} {"headline":"8 Months After Virus Hit, an Ominous Sign: Long Lines for Testing Again","abstract":"As the outbreak surges around the country, the testing delays show the basic public health challenges that the country still faces.","byline":"By Joseph Goldstein, Shawn Hubler and Katherine J. Wu","pub_date":"2020-11-13","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-testing-lines.html"} {"headline":"Small Cracks Emerge in G.O.P. Support for Trump’s Baseless Fraud Claims","abstract":"President Trump retains a powerful hold on his party. But a growing number of Republican elected officials and party leaders have signaled they will indulge his conspiracy theories for only so long.","byline":"By Shane Goldmacher and Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-11-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/us/politics/trump-republican-party-election.html"} {"headline":"911 Call Spurs Fear and Evacuation, but Montreal Police Report No Threat","abstract":"Dozens of officers converged on the offices of Ubisoft, a large video game company, but a shaken neighborhood later breathed a sigh of relief.","byline":"By Dan Bilefsky and Catherine Porter","pub_date":"2020-11-13","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/world/canada/canada-montreal-ubisoft.html"} {"headline":"The Trump administration gave TikTok more time to reach a deal.","abstract":"The Chinese-owned social media app now has until Nov. 27 for a deal that would give American companies more ownership of the service.","byline":"By David McCabe","pub_date":"2020-11-13","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/technology/trump-tiktok.html"} {"headline":"Sports helped shape Biden. But expect a quieter fan in the White House.","abstract":"President Trump has had a long association with sports, starting as a baseball player in his youth, and more recently as an avid golfer with something to say, often incendiary, about athletes and leagues.","byline":"By Jonathan Abrams","pub_date":"2020-11-13","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/us/sports-helped-shape-biden-but-expect-a-quieter-fan-in-the-white-house.html"} {"headline":"Joanna Harcourt-Smith, 74, Dies; Lived a ‘Psychedelic Love Story’","abstract":"For an adventurous globe-trotting time, she was by the side of the LSD guru Timothy Leary, only to be left traumatized by the experience.","byline":"By Katharine Q. Seelye","pub_date":"2020-11-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/14/us/joanna-harcourt-smith-dead.html"} {"headline":"Christopher Krebs Hasn’t Been Fired, Yet","abstract":"Mr. Krebs’s government agency contradicted President Trump’s false claims that the election was rigged. At this point, Mr. Krebs, a former Microsoft executive, still has a job.","byline":"By David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth","pub_date":"2020-11-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/us/politics/christopher-krebs-election-security-trump.html"} {"headline":"Iota, Now a Hurricane, Is Season’s 30th Named Storm","abstract":"A Category One storm, Iota was expected to strengthen into a major hurricane by Monday as it approached the coast of Central America, according to the National Hurricane Center.","byline":"By Allyson Waller","pub_date":"2020-11-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/world/americas/tropical-storm-iota.html"} {"headline":"Democrats Work to Defy History in Georgia Runoffs That Have Favored G.O.P.","abstract":"The special elections were devised by white lawmakers to dilute the power of Black voters. But those involved in earlier contests say demographic change and Democratic energy could allow the party to finally beat the odds.","byline":"By Carl Hulse","pub_date":"2020-11-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/14/us/politics/georgia-runoffs-senate-control.html"} {"headline":"Giuliani adds fuel to discredited theories about voting machines.","abstract":"Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, continued on Saturday his effort to delegitimize votes cast through electronic voting machines, citing several conspiracies connected to the companies that make the machines and the software they run in a post on Twitter.","byline":"By Zach Montague","pub_date":"2020-11-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/14/us/politics/giuliani-adds-fuel-to-discredited-theories-about-voting-machines.html"} {"headline":"A Watchdog Accused Officers of Serious Misconduct. Few Were Punished.","abstract":"An analysis by The New York Times found that the N.Y.P.D. has reduced or rejected recommendations for stiff discipline of officers in about 71 percent of 6,900 serious misconduct charges.","byline":"By Ashley Southall, Ali Watkins and Blacki Migliozzi","pub_date":"2020-11-15","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/nyregion/ccrb-nyc-police-misconduct.html"} {"headline":"Sex-Abuse Claims Against Boy Scouts Now Surpass 82,000","abstract":"The deluge of sex-abuse filings, coming ahead of a bankruptcy deadline, far surpasses the number of claims filed in Catholic Church cases.","byline":"By Mike Baker","pub_date":"2020-11-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/us/boy-scouts-abuse-claims-bankruptcy.html"} {"headline":"The four astronauts are minutes from launching to orbit.","abstract":"Four astronauts — three from NASA, one from JAXA, the Japanese space agency — will be sitting inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, boosted to orbit on top of a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission is known as Crew-1, and the astronauts named their capsule Resilience. They are headed to the International Space Station for a six-month stay.","byline":"By Kenneth Chang","pub_date":"2020-11-15","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/science/the-four-astronauts-are-minutes-from-launching-to-orbit.html"} {"headline":"Peru’s President Steps Down After Just 6 Days, Leaving Country Adrift","abstract":"Manuel Merino took power after Congress pushed out Peru’s popular president. In office less than a week, he faced mounting opposition from protesters.","byline":"By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Mitra Taj","pub_date":"2020-11-15","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/world/americas/peru-president-resigns.html"} {"headline":"Victor Glover will be the first Black crew member on the space station.","abstract":"NASA, which has worked to spotlight the “hidden figures” in its history, but has so far sent only 14 Black Americans to space.","byline":"By Allyson Waller","pub_date":"2020-11-15","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/science/victor-glover-black-astronaut.html"} {"headline":"Trump Is Said to Be Preparing to Withdraw Troops From Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia","abstract":"Facing the end of his time in power, the president is pushing to accelerate withdrawals from counterterrorism conflicts. He campaigned on ending the longstanding wars.","byline":"By Eric Schmitt, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Charlie Savage and Helene Cooper","pub_date":"2020-11-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/politics/trump-troop-withdrawal-afghanistan-somalia-iraq.html"} {"headline":"How are you adapting Thanksgiving this year?","abstract":"We’d like to know how your traditions will change.","byline":"By Jonathan Wolfe","pub_date":"2020-11-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/how-are-you-adapting-thanksgiving-this-year.html"} {"headline":"With 11 Million Cases in the U.S., the Coronavirus Has Gotten Personal for Most People","abstract":"What was once a health crisis that Americans feared has evolved into one virtually everyone has experienced up close. That will affect behavior, but in many different ways.","byline":"By Amy Harmon, Lucy Tompkins, Audra D. S. Burch and Serge F. Kovaleski","pub_date":"2020-11-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/us/coronavirus-us-cases-deaths.html"} {"headline":"Hungary and Poland Threaten E.U. Stimulus Over Rule of Law Links","abstract":"The two illiberal governments, having been enabled by the bloc’s leaders and evaded punishment, now hold a 1.8 trillion euro package hostage.","byline":"By Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Benjamin Novak","pub_date":"2020-11-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/world/europe/eu-stimulus-poland-hungary.html"} {"headline":"Instead of Regaining Momentum, Johnson Is Stalled at Home Again","abstract":"The British prime minister begins 14 days of self-isolation after meeting with a lawmaker who tested positive for the coronavirus just as he tries to shake off bitter fighting within his administration.","byline":"By Mark Landler and Stephen Castle","pub_date":"2020-11-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/world/europe/britain-johnson-covid-self-isolate-cummings.html"} {"headline":"Key takeaways from the hearing, by the numbers.","abstract":"Content moderation came up the most. Republicans asked more questions. And Mark Zuckerberg was on the hook for more answers.","byline":"By Kellen Browning","pub_date":"2020-11-17","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/technology/key-takeaways-from-the-hearing-by-the-numbers.html"} {"headline":"Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, New Data Hint","abstract":"Blood samples from recovered patients suggest a powerful, long-lasting immune response, researchers reported.","byline":"By Apoorva Mandavilli","pub_date":"2020-11-17","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/health/coronavirus-immunity.html"} {"headline":"Don’t Fear the Robots, and Other Lessons From a Study of the Digital Economy","abstract":"A task force assembled by M.I.T. examined how technology has changed, and will change, the work force.","byline":"By Steve Lohr","pub_date":"2020-11-17","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/technology/digital-economy-technology-work-labor.html"} {"headline":"As Fighting Rages in Ethiopia, Aid Groups Plead for Access to Refugees","abstract":"Blocked roads, cut communications, intensifying combat: Aid groups say they stand ready to help people caught in the Ethiopian fighting, if only they could.","byline":"By Simon Marks and Eric Nagourney","pub_date":"2020-11-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/world/africa/ethiopia-tigray-refugees.html"} {"headline":"Giuliani Is Said to Seek $20,000 a Day Payment for Trump Legal Work","abstract":"Last week, the president put the former New York mayor in charge of the court challenges to his loss in the election. Since then they have suffered nothing but setbacks.","byline":"By Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-11-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/politics/giuliani-trump-election-pay.html"} {"headline":"Police Chief Who Backed Charges Against Lawmaker During Protests Is Fired","abstract":"Angela Greene was fired in Portsmouth, Va., on the same day that prosecutors dropped charges against a state senator and others for damaging a Confederate monument in the city.","byline":"By John Ismay","pub_date":"2020-11-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/portsmouth-police-chief-angela-greene.html"} {"headline":"A new outbreak in Australia prompts a six-day lockdown in one state.","abstract":"The state of South Australia will go into lockdown for six days in an effort to contain a growing coronavirus outbreak. The cluster, which has been traced to a traveler quarantining in a hotel, has included 22 cases since Saturday.","byline":"By Yan Zhuang","pub_date":"2020-11-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/world/a-new-outbreak-in-australia-prompts-a-six-day-lockdown-in-one-state.html"} {"headline":"Trump fires a cybersecurity official who called the election ‘the most secure in American history.’","abstract":"President Trump on Tuesday night fired his administration’s most senior cybersecurity official responsible for securing the presidential election, Christopher Krebs, who had systematically disputed Mr. Trump’s false declarations that the presidency was stolen from him through fraudulent ballots and software glitches that changed millions of votes.","byline":"By David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth","pub_date":"2020-11-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/us/politics/trump-fires-a-cybersecurity-official-who-called-the-election-the-most-secure-in-american-history.html"} {"headline":"Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s Campaign Manager, Will Tackle Another Difficult Job","abstract":"She ran the campaign remotely, including conducting late-night meetings from the seat of her Peloton bike. Now she will assume the role of White House deputy chief of staff.","byline":"By Lisa Lerer","pub_date":"2020-11-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/politics/jennifer-omalley-dillon-biden.html"} {"headline":"‘Jetman’ Who Flew Beside a Plane Dies While Training in Dubai","abstract":"Vincent Reffet, a 36-year-old French stuntman, had also broken a record jumping from the world’s tallest building.","byline":"By Isabella Kwai","pub_date":"2020-11-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/world/europe/vincent-reffet-jetman-dead.html"} {"headline":"As the U.S. nears the 200,000 daily case mark, Americans are urged to avoid Thanksgiving travel.","abstract":"The United States has set yet another record: 183,000 new daily cases. ","byline":"By Roni Caryn Rabin, Karen Zraick, Michael D. Shear, Michael Gold and Niraj Chokshi","pub_date":"2020-11-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/world/as-the-us-nears-the-200000-daily-case-mark-americans-are-urged-to-avoid-thanksgiving-travel.html"} {"headline":"President-elect Biden says he has chosen a Treasury secretary.","abstract":"Mr. Biden said he believed his choice would satisfy both the moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic Party.","byline":"By Alan Rappeport","pub_date":"2020-11-19","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/business/biden-treasury-secretary.html"} {"headline":"How Sidney Powell inaccurately cited Venezuela’s elections as evidence of U.S. fraud.","abstract":"Ms. Powell, a lawyer for President Trump, made the comments to promote viral conspiracy theories about vote switching.","byline":"By Linda Qiu","pub_date":"2020-11-19","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/technology/sidney-powell-venezuela.html"} {"headline":"Pot Legalization Hits an Unlikely Snag: ‘Magic’ Mushrooms","abstract":"The addition of psilocybin mushrooms to a bill decriminalizing marijuana possession threw a monkey wrench into New Jersey’s legalization effort.","byline":"By Tracey Tully","pub_date":"2020-11-19","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/nyregion/marijuana-new-jersey.html"} {"headline":"Getting ‘Black Mayonnaise’ Out of One of America’s Dirtiest Waterways","abstract":"A long-awaited dredging of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, a Superfund site, has begun in earnest. It may not be finished for at least a decade.","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-11-19","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/nyregion/gowanus-canal-dredging-redevelopment.html"} {"headline":"Kyle Rittenhouse, Accused of Killing 2 in Kenosha, Freed on $2 Million Bail","abstract":"The 17-year-old was captured on video shooting three people during protests in Kenosha, Wis., over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.","byline":"By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs","pub_date":"2020-11-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/us/kyle-rittenhouse-bail-kenosha.html"} {"headline":"1945: Britain Asks for Whiskey to Ensure ‘Merry, Merry Christmas’","abstract":"For the first peacetime Christmas after World War II, a British newspaper called for whiskey usually exported to America to be kept aside to boost people’s spirits at home.","byline":"By The International Herald Tribune","pub_date":"2020-11-20","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/world/europe/wwii-whiskey-christmas-uk.html"} {"headline":"2 Companies Say Their Vaccines Are 95% Effective. What Does That Mean?","abstract":"You might assume that 95 out of every 100 people vaccinated will be protected from Covid-19. But that’s not how the math works.","byline":"By Carl Zimmer","pub_date":"2020-11-20","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/health/covid-vaccine-95-effective.html"} {"headline":"A senior Defense Department official is infected with the virus, and others were exposed.","abstract":"Anthony J. Tata, a senior Pentagon official, has tested positive for the coronavirus after meeting with a visiting Lithuanian official who also met with the acting American defense secretary and other high-level U.S. military officials.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-11-20","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/world/a-senior-defense-department-official-is-infected-with-the-virus-and-others-were-exposed.html"} {"headline":"Army Agrees to Review Thousands of Unfavorable Discharges for Veterans","abstract":"If approved by a federal judge, the settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit could result in thousands of veterans gaining access to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ full array of benefits.","byline":"By John Ismay","pub_date":"2020-11-20","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/us/army-veterans-discharges-review.html"} {"headline":"How Hispanic Voters Swung Miami Right","abstract":"Many expected that liberal young Hispanic voters would propel a Democratic wave. But Miami, a city where Hispanics hold the levers of power, confounded expectations.","byline":"By Patricia Mazzei","pub_date":"2020-11-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/21/us/miami-hispanic-voters.html"} {"headline":"How One Airline’s Pandemic Hurt Becomes Everyone’s Pain","abstract":"Virgin Atlantic doesn’t act alone to fly passengers. It relies on a constellation of companies employing people around the globe — all of whom are touched by the disappearance of travelers.","byline":"By Eshe Nelson","pub_date":"2020-11-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/21/business/virgin-airlines-covid-19-pandemic.html"} {"headline":"52 Years Later, IBM Apologizes for Firing Transgender Woman","abstract":"Lynn Conway was one of the company’s most promising young computer engineers but after confiding to supervisors that she was transgender, they fired her.","byline":"By Maria Cramer","pub_date":"2020-11-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/21/business/lynn-conway-ibm-transgender.html"} {"headline":"Nelly Kaplan, whose films explored female strength, dies of Covid at 89.","abstract":"Nelly Kaplan, whose witty, satire-tinged French films about female empowerment and revenge made her a distinctive voice in a male-dominated era, died on Nov. 12 in Geneva. She was 89.","byline":"By Neil Genzlinger","pub_date":"2020-11-21","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/21/world/nelly-kaplan-whose-films-explored-female-strength-dies-of-covid-at-89.html"} {"headline":"Inside the ‘Other History’ of Comic Book Superheroes","abstract":"In an interview, John Ridley, the acclaimed screenwriter of “12 Years a Slave,” talks about his new comic book series, nonwhite superheroes and why representation matters.","byline":"By George Gene Gustines","pub_date":"2020-11-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/21/us/john-ridley-comic-book.html"} {"headline":"Guitar Center Files for Bankruptcy","abstract":"The filing by the nation’s largest retailer of musical instruments highlights the growing gap between the strongest and weakest companies in the pandemic.","byline":"By Lauren Hirsch","pub_date":"2020-11-22","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/business/dealbook/guitar-center-files-for-bankruptcy.html"} {"headline":"The Week in Business: This Is Getting Awkward","abstract":"The Trump administration is drawing down pandemic aid, but the economy needs all the help it can get.","byline":"By Charlotte Cowles","pub_date":"2020-11-22","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/business/the-week-in-business-this-is-getting-awkward.html"} {"headline":"New York City Hit a 3% Positive Test Rate. Or Did It?","abstract":"The city and state use different approaches for calculations. That has led to confusion and has a big impact on which restrictions are adopted.","byline":"By Joseph Goldstein and Jesse McKinley","pub_date":"2020-11-22","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/nyregion/Coronavirus-cases-numbers-nyc.html"} {"headline":"The F.D.A. grants emergency authorization of the coronavirus antibody treatment given to Trump.","abstract":"The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization for the experimental antibody treatment given to President Trump shortly after he tested positive for the coronavirus, giving doctors another option to treat patients as cases across the country continue to rise.","byline":"By Katie Thomas and Noah Weiland","pub_date":"2020-11-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/us/the-fda-grants-emergency-authorization-of-the-coronavirus-antibody-treatment-given-to-trump.html"} {"headline":"Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?","abstract":"A.I. developers are committing to end the injustices in how their technology is often made and used.","byline":"By David Berreby","pub_date":"2020-11-22","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/science/artificial-intelligence-robots-racism-police.html"} {"headline":"Biden Has Chosen a Secretary of State","abstract":"The president-elect picks an old ally to lead the State Department: This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-11-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/us/politics/biden-secretary-state-national-security-adviser.html"} {"headline":"Pat Quinn, Who Promoted A.L.S. Ice Bucket Challenge, Dies at 37","abstract":"Mr. Quinn, who learned he had A.L.S. after turning 30, was credited with helping to make the ice-bucket videos a viral sensation that raised $220 million.","byline":"By Concepción de León","pub_date":"2020-11-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/us/pat-quinn-dead.html"} {"headline":"Business Leaders, Citing Damage to Country, Urge Trump to Begin Transition","abstract":"At the urging of New York’s attorney general, business leaders in New York pushed for the Trump administration to begin a transfer of power.","byline":"By Kate Kelly and Danny Hakim","pub_date":"2020-11-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/us/trump-economy-ny.html"} {"headline":"Pandemic Crowds Bring ‘Rivergeddon’ to Montana’s Rivers","abstract":"As urbanites flock to forests and rivers to escape coronavirus threats, trailheads are cramped with parked cars and fishing on the Madison River is like a Disneyland ride.","byline":"By Jim Robbins","pub_date":"2020-11-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/us/pandemic-montana-wilderness-rush.html"} {"headline":"No, Joe Biden did not have a maskless birthday party last week.","abstract":"The video of a crowd singing happy birthday to the president-elect was from 2019.","byline":"By Linda Qiu","pub_date":"2020-11-23","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/technology/biden-birthday-party.html"} {"headline":"Monolith Discovered in Utah Desert","abstract":"A metal monolith, planted firmly in the ground with no clear sign of where it came from or why it was there, was discovered at the base of a barren slot canyon in Utah’s Red Rock Country.","byline":"By Storyful","pub_date":"2020-11-24","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/earth/100000007471987/monolith-utah-desert-discovery.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus in N.Y.: Latest Updates","abstract":"Upper Manhattan and the southern part of Staten Island face stricter restrictions as officials battle a second wave of the outbreak. ","byline":"By Troy Closson","pub_date":"2020-11-24","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Two Darwin Notebooks, Missing for Decades, Were Most Likely Stolen","abstract":"Cambridge University Library, which long thought it had misplaced the cultural treasures, has now made a public appeal for information on their whereabouts. The local police have notified Interpol.","byline":"By Megan Specia","pub_date":"2020-11-24","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/world/europe/darwin-notebooks-stolen-cambridge.html"} {"headline":"Recent Commercial Real Estate Transactions","abstract":"Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York.","byline":"By Isabella Paoletto","pub_date":"2020-11-24","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/business/new-york-commercial-real-estate.html"} {"headline":"Trump Administration Approves Start of Formal Transition to Biden","abstract":"A key official designated President-elect Joe Biden as the apparent winner after Michigan certified his victory there and President Trump lost another court decision in Pennsylvania.","byline":"By Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman, Nick Corasaniti and Jim Rutenberg","pub_date":"2020-11-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/us/politics/trump-transition-biden.html"} {"headline":"The C.D.C. is considering shortening its recommended quarantine period.","abstract":"Federal health officials may shorten the recommended quarantine period for individuals who have been exposed to the coronavirus in an effort to make the guidance more palatable and to improve compliance, a federal official confirmed on Tuesday.","byline":"By Roni Caryn Rabin","pub_date":"2020-11-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/world/the-cdc-is-considering-shortening-its-recommended-quarantine-period.html"} {"headline":"A Poem of Gratitude From Nebraska","abstract":"The New York Times asked poets laureate from across the country what the people in their states had to be thankful for in this difficult year.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-11-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/a-poem-of-gratitude-from-nebraska.html"} {"headline":"Casualties From Banned Cluster Bombs Nearly Doubled in 2019, Mostly in Syria","abstract":"The war in Syria, which began almost a decade ago, makes it the only country where the outlawed bombs have been repeatedly used since 2012.","byline":"By Rick Gladstone","pub_date":"2020-11-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/world/middleeast/cluster-bomb-casualties-syria.html"} {"headline":"Iran Frees British-Australian Scholar in Prisoner Swap","abstract":"Iranian state media said the scholar, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, was released in return for three Iranians. Social media identified the Iranians as men detained in Thailand on bomb plot charges.","byline":"By Farnaz Fassihi","pub_date":"2020-11-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/world/middleeast/iran-prisoner-exchange.html"} {"headline":"A Poem of Gratitude From West Virginia","abstract":"The New York Times asked poets laureate from across the country what the people in their states had to be thankful for in this difficult year.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-11-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/a-poem-of-gratitude-from-west-virginia.html"} {"headline":"Dr. Mary Fowkes, 66, Dies; Helped Science Understand the Pandemic","abstract":"She performed autopsies in New York that found blood clots in vital organs, suggesting how much the virus spreads through the body.","byline":"By Richard Sandomir","pub_date":"2020-11-26","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/health/dr-mary-fowkes-dead.html"} {"headline":"Biden Urges Unity: ‘We’re at War With the Virus, Not With One Another’","abstract":"In an emotional address, he pleaded with Americans to “hang on” and cited the death of his son to say that he understood the loss in the nation.","byline":"By Annie Karni","pub_date":"2020-11-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/politics/biden-address.html"} {"headline":"They Were Worried About Finances. This Is How They Got Help.","abstract":"“I have never seen this much anxiety and fear about money,” one financial counselor said.","byline":"By Kaya Laterman","pub_date":"2020-11-26","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-financial-literacy.html"} {"headline":"New Rule Would Allow U.S. to Use More Methods for Executions","abstract":"The rule, which would permit methods including firing squads and electrocution, comes as the administration rushes to execute five more prisoners before President Trump’s term ends.","byline":"By Hailey Fuchs","pub_date":"2020-11-26","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/politics/executions-firing-squads-electrocution.html"} {"headline":"N.J. Governor Wants Schools Open. Local Officials Have Other Ideas.","abstract":"The tensions point to the difficulty governors across the Northeast have had in persuading districts to reopen — decisions that often require school boards to buck powerful unions.","byline":"By Tracey Tully","pub_date":"2020-11-26","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/nyregion/nj-schools-reopening-remote.html"} {"headline":"Six U.S. Oil Executives Are Convicted of Corruption in Venezuela","abstract":"The so-called Citgo 6, who had been lured to Venezuela three years ago for a business meeting, were immediately sentenced to prison.","byline":"By The Associated Press","pub_date":"2020-11-27","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/world/americas/venezuela-citgo-oil-americans.html"} {"headline":"India’s Economy Shrinks Sharply as Covid-19 Slams Small Businesses","abstract":"The latest data firmly establishes India’s position among the worst-performing major economies, despite government spending meant to blunt the pandemic’s impact.","byline":"By Emily Schmall","pub_date":"2020-11-27","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/business/economy/india-economy-covid-19.html"} {"headline":"Britain Set to Leap Ahead in Approving Vaccines","abstract":"Regulators may approve the troubled AstraZeneca vaccine and the American-made Pfizer shot weeks before the U.S. does so.","byline":"By Benjamin Mueller","pub_date":"2020-11-27","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/world/europe/britain-vaccines-Pfizer-Astra-Zeneca-Oxford.html"} {"headline":"In Their 20s and Saving for Retirement: How It Started, How It’s Going","abstract":"Three savers learned some important lessons early on.","byline":"By Elizabeth Harris","pub_date":"2020-11-27","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/business/millennials-retirement-saving.html"} {"headline":"How Did the North Korean Defector Cross the Border? Loose Screws","abstract":"South Korea said its sensors had malfunctioned, allowing a North Korean to defect undetected, in the military’s most embarrassing border security breach in years.","byline":"By Choe Sang-Hun","pub_date":"2020-11-27","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/world/asia/korea-defector-screws-sensors.html"} {"headline":"How Tony Hsieh Tried to Single-Handedly Transform Downtown Las Vegas","abstract":"Mr. Hsieh, who died at 46, tried to revitalize a corner of the city by attracting other entrepreneurs.","byline":"By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Karen Weise","pub_date":"2020-11-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/tony-hsieh-las-vegas.html"} {"headline":"Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok","abstract":"Mexico is set to shatter another murder record, but that grim reality is nowhere to be seen on the TikTok videos that go viral by showcasing drug cartel culture.","byline":"By Oscar Lopez","pub_date":"2020-11-28","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/world/americas/mexico-drugs-cartel-tiktok.html"} {"headline":"Gunmen Assassinate Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist in Ambush, Provoking New Crisis","abstract":"Iran expressed fury over the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, blaming it on Israel and the United States. His death may complicate President-elect Biden’s intention to restore the Iranian nuclear deal.","byline":"By David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt, Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman","pub_date":"2020-11-28","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-scientist-killed.html"} {"headline":"A video in a hospital courtyard captures an 81-year-old Italian’s serenade to his dying wife.","abstract":"Because of coronavirus restrictions in Italy, thousands of people have not been able to visit loved ones in hospitals, regardless of their ailment.","byline":"By Elisabetta Povoledo","pub_date":"2020-11-28","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/world/a-video-in-a-hospital-courtyard-captures-an-81-year-old-italians-serenade-to-his-dying-wife.html"} {"headline":"Biden Aides’ Ties to Consulting and Investment Firms Pose Ethics Test","abstract":"Some of the president-elect’s choices for top posts have done work for undisclosed corporate clients and aided a fund that invests in government contractors.","byline":"By Eric Lipton and Kenneth P. Vogel","pub_date":"2020-11-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/politics/biden-westexec.html"} {"headline":"The Week in Business: Wall Street Is Thankful","abstract":"Markets hit all-time highs this week, breaking pre-pandemic records and reflecting confidence in Biden’s administration.","byline":"By Charlotte Cowles","pub_date":"2020-11-29","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/the-week-in-business-wall-street-record.html"} {"headline":"Nike and Coca-Cola Lobby Against Xinjiang Forced Labor Bill","abstract":"Business groups and major companies like Apple have been pressing Congress to alter legislation cracking down on imports of goods made with forced labor from persecuted Muslim minorities in China.","byline":"By Ana Swanson","pub_date":"2020-11-29","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/economy/nike-coca-cola-xinjiang-forced-labor-bill.html"} {"headline":"As hiking surges during the coronavirus pandemic, so does the risk of injury.","abstract":"Outdoor activities have become a popular pastime during the coronavirus pandemic as adventure seekers and couch surfers alike take to hiking trails for a bit of a reprieve.","byline":"By Gillian R. Brassil","pub_date":"2020-11-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/us/as-hiking-surges-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-so-does-the-risk-of-injury.html"} {"headline":"Afghan Leader Digs In on Peace Talks Despite Progress, Officials Say","abstract":"President Ashraf Ghani is holding up a tentative agreement on the talks’ framework, some officials say. His aides say no agreement was near.","byline":"By Thomas Gibbons-Neff","pub_date":"2020-11-29","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-peace-talks.html"} {"headline":"One Seat, Competing Pressures as Newsom Considers Senate Pick","abstract":"Alex Padilla, California’s secretary of state, has emerged as the front-runner to succeed Kamala Harris. But Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to be in no rush to make his choice.","byline":"By Shawn Hubler and Alexander Burns","pub_date":"2020-11-29","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/us/California-senate-seat-padilla-newsom.html"} {"headline":"The King of Trump TV Thinks You’re Dumb Enough to Buy It","abstract":"Chris Ruddy, the C.E.O. of Newsmax, has found a business opportunity in feeding Trump supporters the fantasy that the president could still win the election.","byline":"By Ben Smith","pub_date":"2020-11-30","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/media/newsmax-chris-ruddy-trump.html"} {"headline":"4 Officers in France Are Charged Over Beating of a Black Man","abstract":"The violence against Michel Zecler, a 41-year old music producer, caused a national outcry and fueled longstanding accusations of police brutality and racism.","byline":"By Aurelien Breeden","pub_date":"2020-11-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/world/europe/paris-police-beating-charges.html"} {"headline":"Companies Bet Big on Working From Home","abstract":"Salesforce’s approach for Slack is a sign of things to come.","byline":"By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni","pub_date":"2020-11-30","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/business/dealbook/salesforce-slack-work-from-home-deals.html"} {"headline":"New York Shifts Its Thinking and Reopens Elementary Schools","abstract":"Middle and high schools will remain closed for now, said Mayor de Blasio, who signaled changes in managing the system during the pandemic.","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-11-30","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/nyregion/elementary-schools-reopening-covid-nyc.html"} {"headline":"California Governor Blocks Release of Manson Follower Leslie Van Houten","abstract":"Gov. Gavin Newsom reversed a decision by the state parole board granting her release after about 50 years in prison.","byline":"By Neil Vigdor","pub_date":"2020-11-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/us/Charles-manson-Leslie-van-Houten.html"} {"headline":"As uncertainty grows, Congress kick-starts stimulus talks.","abstract":"The country’s economy, like the nation’s politics, is queasily suspended between the Trump and Biden administrations — at a moment when the rampaging pandemic has prompted deep concerns over the strength, timing and even likelihood of a possible recovery next year.","byline":"By Glenn Thrush and Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-12-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/us/politics/as-uncertainty-grows-congress-kick-starts-stimulus-talks.html"} {"headline":"Biden and His Economic Team Urge Quick Action on Stimulus as Risks Mount","abstract":"The president-elect introduced key nominees in Delaware, while lawmakers exchanged new proposals with prospects for a deal still dim.","byline":"By Jim Tankersley, Alan Rappeport, Jeanna Smialek, Emily Cochrane and Luke Broadwater","pub_date":"2020-12-01","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/business/economy/biden-economy-stimulus.html"} {"headline":"Vaccines are coming, but pandemic experts expect a ‘horrible’ winter.","abstract":"With a new administration and coronavirus vaccines on the way, there is hope for the United States, even as it grapples with the appalling milestone of more than one million new coronavirus cases every week. ","byline":"By Donald G. McNeil Jr","pub_date":"2020-12-01","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/world/vaccines-are-coming-but-pandemic-experts-expect-a-horrible-winter.html"} {"headline":"Long-Term-Care Residents and Health Workers Should Get Vaccine First, C.D.C. Panel Says","abstract":"The C.D.C. director will decide by Wednesday whether to accept the recommendation. States aren’t required to follow it, but most are expected to.","byline":"By Abby Goodnough","pub_date":"2020-12-01","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/health/covid-vaccine-distribution-cdc.html"} {"headline":"Officials Say Peace Accord Between Sudan and Israel Is Already at Risk of Unraveling","abstract":"Representatives for Sudan say the East African country will exit the accords brokered by the Trump administration if Congress refuses to give it immunity from future terrorism claims in court.","byline":"By Lara Jakes","pub_date":"2020-12-01","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/us/politics/sudan-israel-trump-peace-accord.html"} {"headline":"In ‘Spider-Man: Miles Morales,’ Harlem Is More Than a Backdrop","abstract":"Evan Narcisse, a writer for the new Spider-Man game for PlayStation 4 and 5, worked to make the hero’s connections to his Afro-Latino neighborhood feel as authentic as possible.","byline":"By Kwame Opam","pub_date":"2020-12-02","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/technology/spider-man-miles-morales.html"} {"headline":"Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow Are Sentenced to Prison Over Hong Kong Protest","abstract":"Activists denounced the prison terms for illegal assembly charges over a 2019 demonstration outside Police Headquarters.","byline":"By Austin Ramzy and Tiffany May","pub_date":"2020-12-02","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/world/asia/joshua-wong-agnes-chow-hong-kong.html"} {"headline":"Supreme Court Weighs Sweep of Its Ruling on Non-Unanimous Jury Verdicts","abstract":"If a decision from April is made retroactive, thousands of inmates in Louisiana, Oregon and Puerto Rico may be entitled to new trials.","byline":"By Adam Liptak","pub_date":"2020-12-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/us/supreme-court-non-unanimous-jury-verdicts.html"} {"headline":"A lawsuit in Georgia claims that nearly 200,000 registered voters were improperly purged.","abstract":"Voter advocacy groups in Georgia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday asking a federal court to compel the state to restore nearly 200,000 names to its voter registration list ahead of the January runoff races for the state’s two Senate seats that will determine the balance of power in Washington. ","byline":"By Eileen Sullivan","pub_date":"2020-12-02","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/us/a-lawsuit-in-georgia-claims-that-nearly-200000-registered-voters-were-improperly-purged.html"} {"headline":"This Japanese Shop Is 1,020 Years Old. It Knows a Bit About Surviving Crises.","abstract":"A mochi seller in Kyoto, and many of Japan’s other centuries-old businesses, have endured by putting tradition and stability over profit and growth.","byline":"By Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno","pub_date":"2020-12-02","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/business/japan-old-companies.html"} {"headline":"A ‘Front-Row Seat’ to the Birth of a Comet","abstract":"Astronomers are watching an object transform into a hyperactive comet that will head toward the inner solar system in the coming decades.","byline":"By Robin George Andrews","pub_date":"2020-12-03","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/science/comet-jupiter-centaur.html"} {"headline":"Suit claiming inaugural committee overpaid a Trump hotel moves forward as Ivanka Trump testifies.","abstract":"Ivanka Trump testified on Tuesday in a closed-door deposition as part of a lawsuit filed in January by the attorney general in the District of Columbia claiming that President Trump’s inaugural committee overpaid the Trump International Hotel in 2017.","byline":"By Eric Lipton","pub_date":"2020-12-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/politics/suit-claiming-inaugural-committee-overpaid-a-trump-hotel-moves-forward-as-ivanka-trump-testifies.html"} {"headline":"How the U.C. Campuses Have Managed Covid-19","abstract":"Thursday: The University of California’s new president, Dr. Michael Drake, discusses testing and sports.","byline":"By Jill Cowan and Shawn Hubler","pub_date":"2020-12-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/uc-covid-plan.html"} {"headline":"Second Wave ‘Is Right Upon Us,’ New York Mayor Warns","abstract":"Mayor Bill de Blasio urged vigilance as New York faced a second wave of cases, but said the city was better equipped to handle them now than in the spring.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-12-03","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007485155/de-blasio-coronavirus-new-york.html"} {"headline":"U.S. Tightens Visa Rules for Chinese Communist Party Members","abstract":"New guidelines mean that China’s 92 million party members will be limited to one-month, single-entry U.S. permits — if the State Department can figure out who they are.","byline":"By Paul Mozur and Raymond Zhong","pub_date":"2020-12-03","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/world/asia/us-visa-china-communist-party.html"} {"headline":"Reopening Schools Before a Children’s Vaccine","abstract":"Experts say we may not need to wait.","byline":"By Amelia Nierenberg and Adam Pasick","pub_date":"2020-12-04","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/us/children-vaccine-teachers-schools-reopen-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Millions of U.S. workers have the skills to earn 70 percent more than they do today.","abstract":"The findings point to the potential of upward mobility for people without a college degree.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-12-04","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/business/millions-of-us-workers-have-the-skills-to-earn-70-percent-more-than-they-do-today.html"} {"headline":"This Unusual Bird Superpower Goes Back to the Dinosaur Extinction","abstract":"Kiwis, ibises and sandpipers share this sensory power with birds that lived millions of years ago.","byline":"By Veronique Greenwood","pub_date":"2020-12-04","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/science/bird-beaks-touch.html"} {"headline":"Trump Orders All American Troops Out of Somalia","abstract":"While the number of forces — about 700 — is small, it is a continuation of President Trump’s efforts to withdraw the United States from what he has described as endless wars.","byline":"By Helene Cooper","pub_date":"2020-12-04","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/world/africa/trump-somalia-troop-withdrawal.html"} {"headline":"A $900 Billion Plan Would Help the Economy, but Not Fix It","abstract":"While a compromise package gaining steam in Congress would provide urgent help to the economy, some people and businesses would be left out in the cold.","byline":"By Jim Tankersley and Ben Casselman","pub_date":"2020-12-04","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/business/economy/congress-stimulus-economy-impact.html"} {"headline":"East Village Fire Damages 128-Year-Old Church","abstract":"The fire tore through a vacant building early Saturday morning and then spread to Middle Collegiate Church on Second Avenue. Four firefighters had minor injuries.","byline":"By Maria Cramer and Edgar Sandoval","pub_date":"2020-12-05","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/nyregion/church-fire-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Judge Orders Government to Fully Reinstate DACA Program","abstract":"Up to 300,000 additional undocumented immigrants could be allowed to apply for protection from deportation under a new court ruling. President Trump had sought to cancel the program.","byline":"By Caitlin Dickerson and Michael D. Shear","pub_date":"2020-12-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/us/daca-reinstated.html"} {"headline":"Venezuela Votes in an Election the Opposition Calls a Charade","abstract":"A victory by the party of President Nicolás Maduro is likely to further weaken Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader who launched a bold but ultimately failed bid backed by the U.S. to take power.","byline":"By Julie Turkewitz","pub_date":"2020-12-05","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/world/americas/venezuela-election.html"} {"headline":"At Rally for Georgia Senators, Trump Focuses on His Own Grievances","abstract":"The president falsely claimed the election was rigged and that he had won. Earlier, he urged Georgia’s governor to call a special legislative session to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the state.","byline":"By Jonathan Martin and Astead W. Herndon","pub_date":"2020-12-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/trump-georgia-runoff.html"} {"headline":"The Rise and Fall of Carl Lentz, the Celebrity Pastor of Hillsong Church","abstract":"A charismatic pastor helped build a megachurch favored by star athletes and entertainers — until some temptations became too much to resist.","byline":"By Ruth Graham","pub_date":"2020-12-05","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/carl-lentz-hillsong-pastor.html"} {"headline":"Biden has selected Xavier Becerra as his nominee for secretary of health and human services.","abstract":"President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has selected Xavier Becerra, a former congressman who is now the Democratic attorney general of California, as his nominee for secretary of health and human services, ending a politically delicate search that brought complaints from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus about a lack of Latinos in the incoming cabinet.","byline":"By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Michael D. Shear","pub_date":"2020-12-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/us/politics/biden-has-selected-xavier-becerra-as-his-nominee-for-secretary-of-health-and-human-services.html"} {"headline":"Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus, Trump says.","abstract":"Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and President Trump’s personal and campaign lawyer, has tested positive for the coronavirus, Mr. Trump announced on Twitter on Sunday.","byline":"By Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-12-06","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/world/rudy-giuliani-covid.html"} {"headline":"China peddles falsehoods to push the idea that the virus came from somewhere else.","abstract":"Facing global anger over their initial mishandling of the outbreak, the Chinese authorities are now trying to rewrite the narrative of the pandemic by pushing theories that the virus originated outside China.","byline":"By Javier C. Hernández","pub_date":"2020-12-06","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/world/china-peddles-falsehoods-to-push-the-idea-that-the-virus-came-from-somewhere-else.html"} {"headline":"After Centuries of Obscurity, Wilmington Is Having a Moment","abstract":"Joe Biden’s hometown, known chiefly for its dull, corporate vibe, has become the center of the political universe. Residents are thrilled.","byline":"By Neil MacFarquhar","pub_date":"2020-12-06","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/us/after-centuries-of-obscurity-wilmington-is-having-a-moment.html"} {"headline":"Jupiter and Saturn Head for Closest Visible Alignment in 800 Years","abstract":"On Dec. 21, Jupiter and Saturn will appear to be no more than a dime’s width apart in the night sky. The last time that could be seen was in 1226.","byline":"By Michael Levenson","pub_date":"2020-12-06","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/science/space/jupiter-saturn-align-christmas-star.html"} {"headline":"In Poland, Protests Over Abortion Ban Could Revolutionize Politics","abstract":"The government’s conservative social policies, closely tied to the Catholic Church, have met with a backlash from women hoping to change a political culture that developed after Communism fell.","byline":"By Amanda Taub","pub_date":"2020-12-07","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/world/europe/poland-abortion-protests.html"} {"headline":"Indoor Dining May Be Banned Again, Threatening Many N.Y.C. Restaurants","abstract":"Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a new restrictions model that could end indoor dining in the city as early as next week.","byline":"By Michael Gold","pub_date":"2020-12-07","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/nyregion/new-york-city-indoor-dining.html"} {"headline":"How the Virus Swept Through a Corner of Queens","abstract":"During the spring, as the first wave of the coronavirus caused havoc, five neighborhoods were the hardest-hit place in the country.","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-12-07","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/nyregion/coronavirus-queens-epicenter.html"} {"headline":"Georgia Recertifies Election Results, Affirming Biden’s Victory","abstract":"The move was the latest blow to President Trump’s attempts to subvert the election results. But battles over the process of voting in Georgia are likely to continue.","byline":"By Richard Fausset and Nick Corasaniti","pub_date":"2020-12-07","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/politics/georgia-recertify-election-results.html"} {"headline":"In Australia’s Deadly Year for Shark Attacks, a Surfer Lives to Tell the Tale","abstract":"After being bitten by a great white in South Australia, the victim managed to paddle ashore and walk nearly 1,000 feet for help. He said the attack “was like being hit by a truck.”","byline":"By Anna Schaverien","pub_date":"2020-12-07","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/world/australia/australia-shark-attack-survivor.html"} {"headline":"Should you buy Airbnb? Hot I.P.O.s are not necessarily a ticket to riches.","abstract":"A dirty secret of initial public offerings is that even the coolest ones may make only a handful of people rich — and it may not be regular people, employees or even fancy pre-I.P.O. investors who get a windfall.","byline":"By Shira Ovide","pub_date":"2020-12-08","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/business/should-you-buy-airbnb-hot-ipos-are-not-necessarily-a-ticket-to-riches.html"} {"headline":"McKinsey Issues a Rare Apology for Its Role in OxyContin Sales","abstract":"The firm faced criticism after a report revealed that consultants had discussed destroying documents related to the opioid business and proposed that a drugmaker pay its distributors rebates for overdoses.","byline":"By Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe","pub_date":"2020-12-08","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/business/mckinsey-opioids-oxycontin.html"} {"headline":"Etsy Was a Twee Culture Punchline. Now It’s a Wall Street Darling.","abstract":"Shares of Etsy, the online marketplace, are up 250 percent this year, a rise fueled by skyrocketing pandemic mask sales and a yearslong push by investors to run its business better.","byline":"By Matt Phillips and Gillian Friedman","pub_date":"2020-12-08","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/business/etsy-masks-wall-street.html"} {"headline":"Here’s why vaccinated people still need to wear a mask.","abstract":"The new Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna seem to be remarkably good at preventing serious illness. But it’s unclear how well they will curb the spread of the coronavirus.","byline":"By Apoorva Mandavilli","pub_date":"2020-12-08","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/world/heres-why-vaccinated-people-still-need-to-wear-a-mask.html"} {"headline":"Airbnb Stock Might Sound Cool …","abstract":"But you probably would do better with an index fund.","byline":"By Shira Ovide","pub_date":"2020-12-08","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/technology/airbnb-doordash-ipo.html"} {"headline":"Canada Approves Vaccine and Could Start Shots Next Week","abstract":"Canada approved the same coronavirus inoculation codeveloped by Pfizer that Britain authorized last week, and that American regulators will consider on Thursday.","byline":"By Ian Austen","pub_date":"2020-12-09","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/world/americas/canada-vaccine-approve.html"} {"headline":"Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine Gets Key Push, but Doubts Swirl","abstract":"The announcement by the United Arab Emirates that it approved a Chinese vaccine was met with silence from China, and raised more questions.","byline":"By Sui-Lee Wee","pub_date":"2020-12-09","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/business/china-coronavirus-vaccine-united-arab-emirates.html"} {"headline":"This Sport Is a ‘Way of Life.’ In a Pandemic, It’s Also High Risk.","abstract":"A number of outbreaks connected to youth ice hockey have led many states in the Northeast to restrict it. Players and their parents are crestfallen.","byline":"By Daniel E. Slotnik","pub_date":"2020-12-09","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/nyregion/youth-hockey-nj-covid.html"} {"headline":"Planned Execution Stirs Debate Over Punishment for Young Offenders","abstract":"Brandon Bernard was 18 when he took part in the grisly murders of two youth ministers. He is scheduled to be put to death on Thursday despite a drive among his supporters for clemency.","byline":"By Hailey Fuchs","pub_date":"2020-12-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/us/politics/brandon-bernard-death-penalty.html"} {"headline":"‘There’s No Place for Them to Go’: I.C.U. Beds Near Capacity Across U.S.","abstract":"More than a third of Americans live in areas where hospitals are running critically short of intensive care beds.","byline":"By Lauren Leatherby, John Keefe, Lucy Tompkins, Charlie Smart and Matthew Conlen","pub_date":"2020-12-09","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/09/us/covid-hospitals-icu-capacity.html"} {"headline":"The Partial Return to School in New York City","abstract":"Elementary schools have reopened, with mandatory weekly testing, but many parents decided not to send their children back.","byline":"By Amanda Rosa","pub_date":"2020-12-10","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/nyregion/schools-reopening-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Barr Plans to Finish Term Despite Wanting to Leave Early","abstract":"The attorney general had weighed whether to step down by the end of the year, potentially avoiding a contentious transition.","byline":"By Michael S. Schmidt","pub_date":"2020-12-10","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/us/politics/barr-not-resigning.html"} {"headline":"Who Wants to Undo Facebook?","abstract":"The F.T.C. and more than 40 states seek to break up the tech giant.","byline":"By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni","pub_date":"2020-12-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/business/dealbook/facebook-undo-lawsuits.html"} {"headline":"Airlines Gear Up to Transport Vaccines That Could Revive Travel","abstract":"Planes are one part of an elaborate supply chain to move billions of doses of vaccines around the world.","byline":"By Niraj Chokshi","pub_date":"2020-12-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/business/airlines-vaccines-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"‘Star Wars,’ ‘Pinocchio’ and More as Disney Leans Sharply Into Streaming","abstract":"A blitz of new projects includes 10 series from the “Star Wars” universe for Disney+, which now has 87 million subscribers. Hulu will also get a major content boost.","byline":"By Brooks Barnes","pub_date":"2020-12-10","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/business/media/disney-star-wars.html"} {"headline":"How to Save Phallic Flowers From Being Inbred to Extinction","abstract":"To preserve corpse flowers and other rare plants, botanic gardens are borrowing studbooks, an approach used by zoos and horse breeders.","byline":"By Samantha Drake","pub_date":"2020-12-11","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/science/corpse-flowers-inbreeding-studbooks.html"} {"headline":"Airbnb’s Stunning I.P.O.","abstract":"The home-rental company’s stock debut briefly left its own chief speechless.","byline":"By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni","pub_date":"2020-12-11","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/business/dealbook/airbnb-ipo-chesky.html"} {"headline":"6 Injured When Driver Rams Into Protest Against ICE in Manhattan","abstract":"The driver, a 52-year-old woman, was charged with reckless endangerment after the police said she hit several people marching in support of immigrant detainees.","byline":"By Daniel E. Slotnik and Juliana Kim","pub_date":"2020-12-11","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/nyregion/protesters-car-manhattan.html"} {"headline":"Manhattan D.A. Intensifies Investigation of Trump","abstract":"Prosecutors have recently interviewed employees of President Trump’s lender and insurance brokerage, in the latest indication that he still faces the potential threat of criminal charges once he leaves office.","byline":"By William K. Rashbaum, Ben Protess and David Enrich","pub_date":"2020-12-11","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/nyregion/trump-taxes-cy-vance.html"} {"headline":"With F.D.A. approval, Pfizer will ship millions of vaccine doses immediately.","abstract":"The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use on Friday, clearing the way for millions of highly vulnerable people to begin receiving the vaccine within days.","byline":"By Katie Thomas, Sharon LaFraniere, Noah Weiland, Abby Goodnough and Maggie Haberman","pub_date":"2020-12-11","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/world/millions-of-pfizer-vaccine-doses-to-be-shipped-immediately-after-fda-approval.html"} {"headline":"Young People Have Less Covid-19 Risk, but in College Towns, Deaths Rose Fast","abstract":"Links between university outbreaks and deaths in the wider community are often indirect and difficult to document, but some health experts say there are clear signs of a connection.","byline":"By Danielle Ivory, Robert Gebeloff and Sarah Mervosh","pub_date":"2020-12-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/us/covid-colleges-nursing-homes.html"} {"headline":"51 Years Later, Coded Message Attributed to Zodiac Killer Has Been Solved, F.B.I. Says","abstract":"The code had long baffled cryptographers, law enforcement agents and armchair sleuths obsessed with the shadowy killer, who was blamed for five murders in the late 1960s.","byline":"By Michael Levenson","pub_date":"2020-12-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/zodiac-killer-code-broken.html"} {"headline":"Treasure Washes Up on Venezuela’s Shore, Bringing Gold and Hope to a Village","abstract":"Venezuela’s economic meltdown had pummeled a proud fishing village. Then jewelry started mysteriously surfacing on its beach, easing the pain of an economic crisis.","byline":"By Anatoly Kurmanaev, Isayen Herrera and Adriana Loureiro Fernandez","pub_date":"2020-12-12","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/world/venezuela-gold-rush-fishing-village.html"} {"headline":"Protests Erupt as South Korea’s Most Notorious Rapist Walks Free","abstract":"Cho Doo-soon served 12 years in prison for raping an 8-year-old girl. His case has led the national legislature to create new rules for sex offenders released from prison.","byline":"By Choe Sang-Hun","pub_date":"2020-12-12","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/world/asia/south-korea-rapist-cho-doo-soon.html"} {"headline":"4 Stabbed and One Shot as Trump Supporters and Opponents Clash","abstract":"Supporters of the president in several cities said they were still convinced that the election was stolen, no matter what the courts say. Some confrontations with counterprotesters turned violent.","byline":"By Hailey Fuchs, Pranshu Verma and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs","pub_date":"2020-12-12","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/us/4-stabbed-and-one-shot-as-trump-supporters-and-opponents-clash.html"} {"headline":"Putin Said to Have Two Identical Offices: One in Moscow, the Other at the Beach","abstract":"The supposed ruse has enabled him to spend time at a government residence on the Black Sea without risking a potential political backlash, a Russian news site reported.","byline":"By Andrew E. Kramer","pub_date":"2020-12-13","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/europe/putin-russia-office-sochi.html"} {"headline":"Police Fatally Shoot Man Who Opened Fire Outside Manhattan Cathedral","abstract":"The shooting on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine took place near a crowd of hundreds, just after a carol service ended.","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri, Ashley Southall, Troy Closson and Liam Stack","pub_date":"2020-12-13","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/nyregion/nyc-shooting-cathedral.html"} {"headline":"Apple TV Was Making a Show About Gawker. Then Tim Cook Found Out.","abstract":"Big tech companies now exert huge influence over what stories get told. The message is clear: Be careful whom you offend.","byline":"By Ben Smith","pub_date":"2020-12-13","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/business/media/apple-gawker-tim-cook.html"} {"headline":"WarnerMedia Chief Has Become a Movie Villain to Some in Hollywood","abstract":"Jason Kilar’s decision to release 2021 movies simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max has angered many in the industry, including some of the star filmmakers his company relies on.","byline":"By Nicole Sperling","pub_date":"2020-12-13","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/business/media/jason-kilar-warnermedia-movies.html"} {"headline":"Rep. Max Rose Launches Exploratory Bid to Run for N.Y.C. Mayor","abstract":"The congressman, who lost his re-election bid last month, is casting himself as a blunt populist who would end New York’s cycle of “broken politics.”","byline":"By Katie Glueck","pub_date":"2020-12-13","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/nyregion/max-rose-mayor.html"} {"headline":"N.Y.C. Restaurants Face Bleak Winter With No Indoor Dining","abstract":"Restaurants already struggling during the pandemic are experiencing another setback. Many increasingly wonder how they will survive.","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri, Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Nate Schweber and Alexandra E. Petri","pub_date":"2020-12-14","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/nyregion/indoor-dining-ending-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Briefing: Vaccinations Begin in the U.S.","abstract":"A moment of hope, as the country passes another tragic milestone.","byline":"By Adam Pasick and Amelia Nierenberg","pub_date":"2020-12-14","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/coronavirus-briefing-vaccinations-begin-in-the-us.html"} {"headline":"U.K. to Ease Rules on Blood Donations by Gay and Bisexual Men","abstract":"The new policy, which will take effect next summer, was described by Britain’s health secretary as a landmark and by an activist as “a fundamental shift toward recognizing people are individuals.”","byline":"By Livia Albeck-Ripka","pub_date":"2020-12-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/world/europe/gay-bisexual-blood-donors-uk.html"} {"headline":"Wall Street Journal Opinion Editor Defends Item on Dr. Jill Biden","abstract":"“There’s nothing like playing the race or gender card to stifle criticism,” Paul A. Gigot said as he accused Democrats of orchestrating a coordinated response to an op-ed piece.","byline":"By Marc Tracy","pub_date":"2020-12-14","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/business/media/dr-jill-biden-wall-street-journal.html"} {"headline":"In Canada, First Vaccines Leave Health Workers in Tears of Relief","abstract":"“We were desperate.” As nursing home employees received the first vaccinations on Monday, memories of the pandemic’s first wave left some overwhelmed with emotion.","byline":"By Catherine Porter","pub_date":"2020-12-14","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/world/canada/canada-virus-vaccine.html"} {"headline":"Court Finds Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity in the Philippines","abstract":"The International Criminal Court has released its latest report on President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs.","byline":"By Jason Gutierrez","pub_date":"2020-12-15","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/world/asia/philippines-duterte-drugs-icc.html"} {"headline":"Nursing Home Fire in Russia Kills 11","abstract":"On Tuesday, a private nursing home in a village outside the capital of Russia’s steel industry, Magnitogorsk, burned down killing 11 residents.","byline":"By Reuters","pub_date":"2020-12-15","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000007504995/russia-fire-retirement-nursing-home.html"} {"headline":"How Full Are Hospital I.C.U.s Near You?","abstract":"See how many Covid-19 patients are being treated, and how many I.C.U. beds remain available, at individual U.S. hospitals.","byline":"By Matthew Conlen, John Keefe, Lauren Leatherby and Charlie Smart","pub_date":"2020-12-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-hospitals-near-you.html"} {"headline":"Drug Makers Are Pulling Back From a Program to Help the Needy","abstract":"Some pharmaceutical companies are scaling back their participation in a federally mandated drug discount program. State attorneys general are demanding that the administration take action.","byline":"By Sheryl Gay Stolberg","pub_date":"2020-12-15","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/us/politics/drug-makers-340b-program.html"} {"headline":"Here’s why Brazil’s Covid-19 vaccine plan is mired in chaos.","abstract":"As countries rushed their preparations to inoculate citizens against the coronavirus, Brazil, with its world-renowned immunization program and a robust pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity, should have been at a significant advantage.","byline":"By Ernesto Londoño, Manuela Andreoni and Letícia Casado","pub_date":"2020-12-15","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/world/heres-why-brazils-covid-19-vaccine-plan-is-mired-in-chaos.html"} {"headline":"A bolder Russia is setting up to be a greater challenge for Biden than Obama.","abstract":"The extensive hack of American government computer systems, almost certainly orchestrated by the Kremlin, underscores the daunting foreign policy challenge that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia poses to the incoming Biden administration.","byline":"By Jennifer Steinhauer and Michael Crowley","pub_date":"2020-12-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/a-bolder-russia-is-setting-up-to-be-a-greater-challenge-for-biden-than-obama.html"} {"headline":"Already struggling with Covid-19, hospitals and nursing homes prepare for a winter storm.","abstract":"Hospitals across the Northeast, already strained by an increase in Covid-19 patients and the first week of vaccine distribution, were preparing Wednesday for a winter storm with the potential to bring accident victims to their doors. ","byline":"By Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio and Lucy Tompkins","pub_date":"2020-12-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/already-struggling-with-covid-19-hospitals-and-nursing-homes-prepare-for-a-winter-storm.html"} {"headline":"Faced With Protests, Pakistan Says Rapists Could Be Chemically Castrated","abstract":"After an official cast blame on a rape survivor, setting off protests, the government has promised swifter justice and chemical castrations.","byline":"By Zia ur-Rehman and Emily Schmall","pub_date":"2020-12-16","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/world/asia/pakistan-rape-prosecutions.html"} {"headline":"Biden Rallies Democrats in Georgia","abstract":"The president-elect chooses some familiar names for his cabinet: This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-12-16","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/us/politics/biden-georgia-senate-races.html"} {"headline":"Are We Ready to Laugh About Covid-19? A British Sitcom Hopes So","abstract":"With ‘Pandemonium,’ the BBC is betting that an audience will find humor in reliving the ordeals of a very awful year.","byline":"By David Segal","pub_date":"2020-12-16","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/business/media/pandemonium-bbc-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"As Singapore Ventures Back Out, Migrant Workers Are Kept In","abstract":"The low-wage workers, almost half of whom have contracted the coronavirus, continue to be mostly confined to dormitories even as the city-state eases restrictions.","byline":"By Jennifer Jett","pub_date":"2020-12-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/world/asia/coronavirus-singapore-migrant-workers.html"} {"headline":"Misinformation peddlers have shifted gears from the election to coronavirus vaccines.","abstract":"Sidney Powell, a lawyer who was part of President Trump’s legal team, spread a conspiracy theory last month about election fraud. For days, she claimed that she would “release the Kraken” by showing voluminous evidence that Mr. Trump had won the election by a landslide.","byline":"By Davey Alba and Sheera Frenkel","pub_date":"2020-12-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/world/misinformation-peddlers-have-shifted-gears-from-the-election-to-coronavirus-vaccines.html"} {"headline":"Big Tech’s Circular Firing Squad","abstract":"Facebook’s slap at Apple shows Silicon Valley is feeling the regulatory heat.","byline":"By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni","pub_date":"2020-12-17","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/business/dealbook/tech-apple-facebook-fight.html"} {"headline":"New England saw more snow and cold temperatures.","abstract":"More snow was expected in Boston","byline":"By Lucy Tompkins, Derrick Bryson Taylor, Maria Jimenez Moya and Alicia Napierkowski","pub_date":"2020-12-17","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/us/new-england-snow.html"} {"headline":"Putin Denies Involvement in Poisoning of Navalny","abstract":"President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia laughed off a question about the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny at a marathon news conference, where he praised his country’s Covid-19 response and President Trump.","byline":"By Anton Troianovski","pub_date":"2020-12-17","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/world/europe/russia-putin-navalny-press-conference.html"} {"headline":"America’s Leaders Begin to Get Vaccinated","abstract":"Pence today, Biden and McConnell soon: This is your morning tip sheet.","byline":"By Giovanni Russonello","pub_date":"2020-12-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/us/politics/politicians-covid-vaccine.html"} {"headline":"Tesla, Profitable at Last, Bulls Its Way Into the S&P 500","abstract":"The electric-car maker will be the biggest addition in the history of the benchmark index. Will that settle down its swings?","byline":"By Matt Phillips","pub_date":"2020-12-18","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/business/tesla-stock-sp-500-index.html"} {"headline":"Catch up: Coinbase files for initial public offering.","abstract":"","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-12-18","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/business/catch-up-coinbase-files-for-initial-public-offering.html"} {"headline":"Masks may soon come with labels saying how well they work.","abstract":"They come in an astonishing variety of colors, designs and materials, but what the 100,000-plus face masks that have hit the market don’t come with is a label that says how well they block infectious particles.","byline":"By Sheila Kaplan","pub_date":"2020-12-18","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/world/masks-may-soon-come-with-labels-saying-how-well-they-work.html"} {"headline":"Justices Put Off Ruling on Trump Plan for Unauthorized Immigrants and Census","abstract":"The Supreme Court said a challenge to efforts to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the tabulations used to allocate House seats was premature.","byline":"By Adam Liptak","pub_date":"2020-12-18","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/us/supreme-court-census.html"} {"headline":"In Last Rush, Trump Grants Mining and Energy Firms Access to Public Lands","abstract":"The outgoing administration is pushing through approval of corporate projects over the opposition of environmental groups and tribal communities.","byline":"By Eric Lipton","pub_date":"2020-12-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/in-last-rush-trump-grants-mining-and-energy-firms-access-to-public-lands.html"} {"headline":"With Trump Fading, Ukraine’s President Looks to a Reset With the U.S.","abstract":"“They roped us in, but I think we behaved with dignity,” Volodymyr Zelensky said of his encounter with American politics.","byline":"By Andrew E. Kramer","pub_date":"2020-12-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/world/europe/trump-zelensky-biden-ukraine.html"} {"headline":"Once a Slogan of Unity, ‘Je Suis Charlie’ Now Divides France","abstract":"After the 2015 terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, “I am Charlie” became a unifying slogan of free speech. Now it fuels divisions in an increasingly polarized country.","byline":"By Norimitsu Onishi and Constant Méheut","pub_date":"2020-12-19","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/world/europe/france-charlie-hebdo-slogan.html"} {"headline":"The Newest Guardians of the Galaxy Are Run by the U.S. Military","abstract":"On the first-anniversary celebration of the newest branch of the U.S. armed forces, Vice President Mike Pence announced that Space Force members would be called Guardians.","byline":"By Christina Morales","pub_date":"2020-12-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/space-force-guardians-mike-pence.html"} {"headline":"Georgia Pastors See Attack on Black Church in Campaign Against Warnock","abstract":"In an open letter, dozens of Black religious leaders criticized Senator Kelly Loeffler for her characterizations of the Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, her Democratic opponent.","byline":"By Rick Rojas","pub_date":"2020-12-19","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/georgia-pastors-see-attack-on-black-church-in-campaign-against-warnock.html"} {"headline":"The Week in Business: We’ve Been Hacked","abstract":"A sophisticated cyberattack breached multiple government agencies and major private companies, and no one noticed for months.","byline":"By Charlotte Cowles","pub_date":"2020-12-20","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/business/the-week-in-business-weve-been-hacked.html"} {"headline":"Countries begin barring travelers from the U.K. over concerns of a new coronavirus variant.","abstract":"Countries across Europe and beyond began closing their borders to travelers from the United Kingdom on Sunday, and the European Union set up a crisis management meeting, a day after Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, ordered a wholesale lockdown on London and surrounding areas, citing concerns of a new fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus.","byline":"By Isabella Kwai, Apoorva Mandavilli and Matina Stevis-Gridneff","pub_date":"2020-12-20","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/world/UK-travelers-barred-over-new-virus-variant.html"} {"headline":"Nepal Falls Into Political Turmoil. China and India Are Watching.","abstract":"The prime minister dissolved the lower house of Parliament, throwing into doubt the political fortunes of the Himalayan country, which has long swung between Beijing and New Delhi.","byline":"By Bhadra Sharma","pub_date":"2020-12-20","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/world/asia/nepal-parliament.html"} {"headline":"As vaccines arrive, the virus continues to ravage the U.S. and Europe.","abstract":"As the coronavirus continues its surge across the United States and Europe, where vaccinations recently began, total infections around the world have now topped 75 million.","byline":"By Bryan Pietsch","pub_date":"2020-12-20","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/world/as-vaccines-arrive-the-virus-continues-to-ravage-the-us-and-europe.html"} {"headline":"Health Care Workers Still Face Daunting Shortages of Masks and Other P.P.E.","abstract":"Frontline medical personnel in hospitals and nursing homes are urging the incoming Biden administration to use the Defense Production Act to increase manufacturing of personal protective equipment.","byline":"By Andrew Jacobs","pub_date":"2020-12-20","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/health/covid-ppe-shortages.html"} {"headline":"Financial Aid Is Restored for Prisoners as Part of the Stimulus Bill","abstract":"Reversing a ban on Pell grants for prisoners, begun in the 1994 crime bill, is just one of several higher-education equity provisions included in the huge funding bill.","byline":"By Erica L. Green","pub_date":"2020-12-21","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/us/politics/stimulus-law-education.html"} {"headline":"A former big tech insider is helping with antitrust cases against the companies.","abstract":"A former tech industry insider is now playing a key role in the wave of antitrust lawsuits against the giant tech companies.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-12-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/business/a-former-big-tech-insider-is-helping-with-antitrust-cases-against-the-companies.html"} {"headline":"For U.K., an Early Taste of Brexit as Borders Are Sealed","abstract":"Battling a new coronavirus variant even as they steel themselves for the looming split with the E.U., Britons are feeling profoundly isolated.","byline":"By Benjamin Mueller and Isabella Kwai","pub_date":"2020-12-21","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/world/europe/brexit-covid-uk.html"} {"headline":"‘Star Trek’ and Dr. Seuss Mash-Up Not Protected, Court Rules","abstract":"The book, titled “Oh, the Places You’ll Boldly Go!”, hewed too closely to the original to be considered a parody under the “fair use” doctrine, a three-judge federal appeals panel declared.","byline":"By Daniel Victor","pub_date":"2020-12-21","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/business/dr-seuss-star-trek-comicmix.html"} {"headline":"Google Denies Antitrust Claims in Early Response to U.S. Lawsuit","abstract":"The company said people use its services because they choose to, not because they lack alternatives.","byline":"By David McCabe","pub_date":"2020-12-21","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/technology/google-antitrust-lawsuit.html"} {"headline":"France begins to allow some travel from the U.K. as the E.U. urges countries to lift bans.","abstract":"Britain and France reopened their border to some travelers on Tuesday and inched closer to a deal that would allow freight trucks to resume moving between the two countries, raising hopes of relief for hundreds of drivers stuck near British ports and for supermarkets warning that they could soon run short of fruit and vegetables.","byline":"By Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Melissa Eddy, Marc Santora, Dan Levin, Aurelien Breeden, Benjamin Mueller and Juliana Kim","pub_date":"2020-12-22","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/world/france-begins-to-allow-some-travel-from-the-uk-as-the-eu-urges-countries-to-lift-bans.html"} {"headline":"The stimulus negotiation shows how Biden can move his agenda forward in Congress.","abstract":"The overdue pandemic aid package represents both a pre-inaugural legislative victory for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and a potential template for congressional deal-making in the coming Biden era.","byline":"By Carl Hulse","pub_date":"2020-12-22","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/the-stimulus-negotiation-shows-how-biden-can-move-his-agenda-forward-in-congress.html"} {"headline":"More Than 70 West Point Cadets Are Accused in Cheating Scandal","abstract":"The U.S. Military Academy faces its biggest academic scandal in nearly 50 years over allegations of cheating on a calculus exam.","byline":"By Ed Shanahan","pub_date":"2020-12-22","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/nyregion/west-point-cheating.html"} {"headline":"Our Digital Lives Drive a Brick-and-Mortar Boom in Data Centers","abstract":"Developers and investors see more opportunities in commercial real estate as businesses and consumers gobble up more data.","byline":"By Martha C. White","pub_date":"2020-12-22","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/data-storage-centers-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"Sloan Kettering Paid $1.5 Million Severance to a Cancer Doctor Forced Out Over Conflicts","abstract":"Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center gave Dr. José Baselga a payout after he resigned under fire in 2018 over his ties to health care companies.","byline":"By Katie Thomas and Charles Ornstein","pub_date":"2020-12-22","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/health/memorial-sloan-kettering-cancer-center-doctor-jose-baselga.html"} {"headline":"How 5 New Yorkers Are Coping with Holidays Alone","abstract":"For many in New York City, their pandemic-imposed loneliness has been even more pronounced during the holiday season.","byline":"By Amr Alfiky","pub_date":"2020-12-23","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/nyregion/new-yorkers-holidays-alone.html"} {"headline":"West Point Cheating Scandal: What to Know","abstract":"More than 70 West Point cadets have been accused of cheating on an exam, the institution's largest academic scandal in decades.","byline":"By Troy Closson","pub_date":"2020-12-23","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/nyregion/west-point-cheating.html"} {"headline":"New Signs of Economic Distress Emerge as Trump Imperils Aid Deal","abstract":"A decline in consumer income and spending poses a further challenge to the recovery as jobless claims remain high and benefits approach a cutoff.","byline":"By Ben Casselman","pub_date":"2020-12-23","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/business/economy/economy-trump-income-spending-unemployment.html"} {"headline":"Trump demands changes to coronavirus relief bill, calling it a ‘disgrace.’","abstract":"President Trump threatened on Tuesday to derail months of bipartisan work in Congress to deliver $900 billion in pandemic relief, demanding checks to Americans that are more than three times larger than those in the bill, which he called a “disgrace.”","byline":"By Luke Broadwater and Alan Rappeport","pub_date":"2020-12-23","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/world/trump-demands-changes-to-coronavirus-relief-bill-calling-it-a-disgrace.html"} {"headline":"Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today","abstract":"Antibody treatments have shown promise, but tens of thousands of doses are sitting unused in hospital refrigerators.","byline":"By Amelia Nierenberg","pub_date":"2020-12-23","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/us/coronavirus-briefing-what-happened-today.html"} {"headline":"Brexit Is Finally Done, but It Already Seems Out of Date","abstract":"The idea of an agile “Global Britain” was an effective sales pitch. But that was before President Trump and other populists began erecting barriers to trade.","byline":"By Mark Landler","pub_date":"2020-12-24","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/world/europe/brexit-deal-boris-johnson.html"} {"headline":"An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn’t Want It.","abstract":"Bryan Fogel’s examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies that can be premier platforms for documentary films.","byline":"By Nicole Sperling","pub_date":"2020-12-24","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/business/media/dissident-jamal-khashoggi-netflix-amazon.html"} {"headline":"Parents of ‘Balloon Boy’ Are Pardoned by Colorado’s Governor","abstract":"Richard and Mayumi Heene were accused of concocting a hoax after their 6-year-old son was feared to have floated away in a balloon in 2009. The boy was found safe at home.","byline":"By Christina Morales","pub_date":"2020-12-24","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/us/colorado-balloon-boy-pardon.html"} {"headline":"How Did Mistletoe Get Into the Treetops?","abstract":"Before someone hung it up in your home, some animal had to get it into the canopies where it thrives to this day.","byline":"By Cara Giaimo","pub_date":"2020-12-24","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/science/mistletoe-trees-evolution.html"} {"headline":"Additional modeling shows the British variant’s high transmissibility.","abstract":"A team of British scientists released a worrying study on Wednesday of the newly discovered coronavirus variant sweeping Britain. They warned that the variant was so contagious that new control measures, such as closing down schools and universities, might be necessary. Dr. Nicholas Davies, the lead author of the study, said that the findings “are pretty convincing that more rapid vaccination is going to be a really important thing for any country that has to deal with this or similar variants.”","byline":"By Carl Zimmer and Benedict Carey","pub_date":"2020-12-24","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/world/additional-modeling-shows-the-british-variants-high-transmissibility.html"} {"headline":"Democrats in Georgia Runoffs Bring in Record Haul","abstract":"The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock and Jon Ossoff each raised more than $100 million, according to campaign filings, signaling Democrats’ optimism heading into the Jan. 5 contests.","byline":"By Rick Rojas","pub_date":"2020-12-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/us/politics/georgia-senate-record-fundraising.html"} {"headline":"Robert Thacker, 102, Dies; Survived Pearl Harbor to Fly in 3 Wars","abstract":"His unarmed bomber was caught in the thick of Japan’s attack. He went on to fly some 80 missions in World War II and to become a record-setting test pilot.","byline":"By Richard Goldstein","pub_date":"2020-12-25","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/us/robert-thacker-dead.html"} {"headline":"With Pandemic Raging, London Homeless Take Shelter in Hotels for a While","abstract":"Many homeless people in London will stay in hotels over the Christmas and New Year holidays, if not longer, through funding from charities and the government.","byline":"By Isabella Kwai","pub_date":"2020-12-25","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/world/europe/homeless-coronavirus-christmas.html"} {"headline":"How a Young Chess Phenom Spends His Sundays","abstract":"Between studying moves with tutors in India and New York, Oliver Boydell has homework (with video game breaks, of course).","byline":"By John Leland","pub_date":"2020-12-25","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/nyregion/Oliver-Boydell-chess-nyc.html"} {"headline":"Minoru Makihara, Who Ran Mitsubishi After It Stumbled, Dies at 90","abstract":"He steered the company, then the world’s largest, through the troubles of a collapsing economy, and dedicated himself to improving relations with the U.S.","byline":"By Ben Dooley","pub_date":"2020-12-25","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/business/minoru-makihara-dead.html"} {"headline":"Early Vaccine Doubters Now Show a Willingness to Roll Up Their Sleeves","abstract":"Polls show that pervasive skepticism is melting, partly because of the high efficacy rates in trials and the images of real people getting the shot.","byline":"By Jan Hoffman","pub_date":"2020-12-26","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/health/covid-vaccine-hesitancy.html"} {"headline":"George Blake, British Spy Who Betrayed the West, Dies at 98","abstract":"He was caught spilling secrets to the Soviets in 1961 and imprisoned. Five years later, he escaped and fled to Moscow, where he was hailed as a hero.","byline":"By Robert D. McFadden","pub_date":"2020-12-26","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/obituaries/george-blake-british-spy-dead.html"} {"headline":"As Virus Resurges in Africa, Doctors Fear the Worst Is Yet to Come","abstract":"The coronavirus killed far fewer people in Africa than in Europe and the Americas, leading to a widespread perception that it was a disease of the West. Now, a tide of new cases on the continent is raising alarms.","byline":"By Sheri Fink","pub_date":"2020-12-26","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/world/africa/africa-coronavirus-pandemic.html"} {"headline":"Sailors Stranded for Months as China Refuses to Let Ships Unload Australian Coal","abstract":"China is vague about why vessels that carried Australian coal to its ports can’t unload their cargo. “We’re all depressed; our mental health is deteriorating,” one sailor said.","byline":"By Yan Zhuang","pub_date":"2020-12-26","section_name":"Business Day","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/business/coal-ships-china-australia.html"} {"headline":"The truck jam at a U.K. port is easing, days after France reopened its border.","abstract":"A huge truck jam at the Port of Dover in England eased further on Saturday, days after France lifted a border blockade imposed over fears of a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus.","byline":"By Isabella Kwai","pub_date":"2020-12-26","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/world/the-truck-jam-at-a-uk-port-is-easing-days-after-france-reopened-its-border.html"} {"headline":"Jobless benefits run out as Trump resists signing the relief bill.","abstract":"Two critical federal unemployment programs expired on Saturday as President Trump resisted signing a sweeping $900 billion aid package into law until lawmakers more than tripled the size of relief checks.","byline":"By Emily Cochrane","pub_date":"2020-12-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/us/jobless-benefits-run-out-as-trump-resists-signing-the-relief-bill.html"} {"headline":"The Treasured Diners and Hidden Haunts That Covid-19 Closed for Good","abstract":"A Pittsburgh hot dog joint, a famous Cambridge dive bar and a vibrant Filipino restaurant in Los Angeles were among the casualties of 2020.","byline":"By Jack Healy","pub_date":"2020-12-27","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/us/covid-restaurants-diners-closed.html"} {"headline":"Battered Turkish Economy Puts a Powerful Erdogan to the Test","abstract":"Turkey’s veteran leader played an aggressive hand abroad, but as the country’s economy plummets, he is feeling ire at home as many Turks struggle to buy food.","byline":"By Carlotta Gall","pub_date":"2020-12-27","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-economy.html"} {"headline":"Did These New York Clinics Ignore Rules on Who Gets Vaccinated First?","abstract":"The state is investigating whether a network of urgent care clinics provided vaccinations to members of the public who were not yet entitled to have the shots.","byline":"By Daniel E. Slotnik","pub_date":"2020-12-27","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/nyregion/ny-clinic-coronavirus-vaccine.html"} {"headline":"Welcoming a New Year at an Ancient Festival in Pakistan","abstract":"Chawmos, a festival of Pakistan’s tiny Kalash community, is a portrait in contrasts: solemn ritual and joyous dancing, gender segregation and public flirtation, togetherness and isolation.","byline":"By Rebecca Conway","pub_date":"2020-12-27","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/world/asia/pakistan-kalash-chawmos.html"} {"headline":"Pope Francis Strips Powerful Vatican Office of Its Financial Assets","abstract":"A financial scandal involving the secretariat of state has given fresh impetus to Francis’ reform agenda.","byline":"By Elisabetta Povoledo","pub_date":"2020-12-28","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/world/europe/pope-francis-vatican-finances.html"} {"headline":"A Quiet Life, a Thunderous Death, and a Nightmare That Shook Nashville","abstract":"DNA tests show that Anthony Warner blew himself up along with a stretch of downtown Nashville on Christmas morning.","byline":"By Rick Rojas, Adam Goldman and Jamie McGee","pub_date":"2020-12-28","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/us/anthony-quinn-warner-dead.html"} {"headline":"Video Shows Black 14-Year-Old Falsely Accused of Theft in a SoHo Hotel","abstract":"A woman falsely accused the teenager of taking her phone in the video, which fueled concerns about racial profiling. It was shared by the teenager’s father, a prominent jazz musician.","byline":"By Mihir Zaveri","pub_date":"2020-12-28","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/nyregion/keyon-harrold-racial-profiling.html"} {"headline":"Don’t Let the Pandemic Stop Your Shots","abstract":"Even as older adults await the coronavirus vaccine, many are skipping the standard ones. That’s not wise, health experts say.","byline":"By Paula Span","pub_date":"2020-12-28","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/health/coronavirus-elderly-vaccines.html"} {"headline":"Black Teenager Falsely Accused of Cellphone Theft in SoHo Hotel","abstract":"A woman can be seen yelling at the 14-year-old in video captured at the Arlo Hotel in New York City on Saturday by his father, the jazz musician Keyon Harrold. Mr. Harrold said her phone was later found in an Uber.","byline":"By The New York Times","pub_date":"2020-12-28","section_name":"New York","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000007522950/woman-accuses-black-teen-soho-phone.html"} {"headline":"U.K. Virus Surge Surpasses Spring Peak as Lockdown Choices Loom","abstract":"Facing record case and hospital numbers and a threatening variant strain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure to shut schools and reimpose national restrictions, measures he once decried.","byline":"By Marc Santora and Anna Schaverien","pub_date":"2020-12-29","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/world/europe/uk-coronavirus.html"} {"headline":"You’re Infected With the Coronavirus. But How Infected?","abstract":"Knowing the amount of virus carried in the body could help doctors predict the course of a patient’s illness.","byline":"By Apoorva Mandavilli","pub_date":"2020-12-29","section_name":"Health","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/health/coronavirus-viral-load.html"} {"headline":"The coronavirus pandemic is “not necessarily the big one,” senior W.H.O. official says.","abstract":"One of the World Health Organization’s senior officials warned on Monday that although the coronavirus pandemic has been “very severe,” it is “not necessarily the big one.”","byline":"By Anna Schaverien","pub_date":"2020-12-29","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/world/who-covid-pandemic-big.html"} {"headline":"Will My Popcorn Explode?","abstract":"The odds that all of your popcorn kernels will pop simultaneously aren’t zero. Maybe think instead of the multiple lotteries you’re more likely to win.","byline":"By Randall Munroe","pub_date":"2020-12-29","section_name":"Science","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/science/randall-munroe-question-popcorn.html"} {"headline":"Arrest of Cameraman in Ethiopia Signals Wider Crackdown","abstract":"The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has stepped up the arrests of journalists since going to war in the country’s northern region of Tigray.","byline":"By Mady Camara and Ruth Maclean","pub_date":"2020-12-29","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/world/africa/Ethiopia-Reuters-journalist.html"} {"headline":"Wounds on Brown Pelicans in California Raise Fears of Animal Cruelty","abstract":"In a little over a year, five birds have been treated by International Bird Rescue with severe slashes on their pouches that the organization believes were intentionally inflicted.","byline":"By Concepción de León","pub_date":"2020-12-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/us/pelicans-slashed-california.html"} {"headline":"California Will Offer Financial Incentives to Reopen School Districts","abstract":"Gov. Gavin Newsom of California unveiled a $2 billion plan on Wednesday aimed at getting elementary school students back in the classroom safely starting in February, creating incentives of at least $450 per student to a phased-in reopening of classrooms for those who want to return.","byline":"By Office Of The California Governor","pub_date":"2020-12-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007527652/newsom-california-coronavirus-school-funding.html"} {"headline":"U.K. Authorizes Covid-19 Vaccine From Oxford and AstraZeneca","abstract":"Health officials hope to soon vaccinate up to two million people per week as the country’s hospitals are overwhelmed by cases of a new, more contagious coronavirus variant.","byline":"By Benjamin Mueller and Rebecca Robbins","pub_date":"2020-12-30","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/world/europe/uk-covid-19-vaccine-oxford-astrazeneca.html"} {"headline":"Hawley Answers Trump’s Call for Election Challenge","abstract":"The Republican senator said he would object to certifying the Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, a move that is unlikely to alter President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory.","byline":"By Catie Edmondson and Michael Crowley","pub_date":"2020-12-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/us/politics/josh-hawley-trump-election-challenge.html"} {"headline":"Nashville Suspect’s Girlfriend Told Police Last Year That He Was Making Bombs","abstract":"Officers visited the home of Anthony Warner after his girlfriend said he was producing explosives in his R.V., according to a police report. They said then that there was no evidence of a crime.","byline":"By Steve Cavendish and Rick Rojas","pub_date":"2020-12-30","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/us/nashville-bomber-anthony-warner.html"} {"headline":"FarmVille Once Took Over Facebook. Now Everything Is FarmVille.","abstract":"The game, a phenomenon a decade ago, is shutting down on Thursday. But its legacy — for better and for worse — carries beyond gaming.","byline":"By Daniel Victor","pub_date":"2020-12-31","section_name":"Technology","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/technology/farmville-zynga-facebook.html"} {"headline":"‘The Other Half of My Soul’: Widows of Covid-19 Bond Over Sudden Loss","abstract":"Men have died of the coronavirus in larger numbers than women, leaving untold thousands of spouses suddenly alone. Some have turned to bereavement groups on Facebook.","byline":"By Julie Bosman","pub_date":"2020-12-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/us/covid-widows-deaths.html"} {"headline":"Some recipe ideas for a New Year’s Eve at home.","abstract":"Make yourself a Grown-Up Granita. For dinner, may we suggest Steak au Poivre. And for New Year’s Day, some green juice might help.","byline":"","pub_date":"2020-12-31","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/new-years-eve-food-traditions.html"} {"headline":"Pope to Skip New Year Services Because of Painful Leg Condition","abstract":"The Vatican said Pope Francis was suffering from sciatica, which has hobbled him in the past. But he will lead the noontime Angelus prayer on New Year’s Day.","byline":"By Elisabetta Povoledo","pub_date":"2020-12-31","section_name":"World","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/europe/pope-francis-new-year.html"} {"headline":"‘No Realistic Path’ for Quick Vote on $2,000 Stimulus Checks, McConnell Says","abstract":"The Senate leader all but ended any chance of increasing direct payments, despite some Republican support for the effort.","byline":"By Catie Edmondson","pub_date":"2020-12-31","section_name":"U.S.","web_url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/us/politics/congress-2000-stimulus-payments.html"}