Here’s what you need to know: ImageThe New York Stock Exchange this month.Credit…Sasha Maslov for The New York Times With major sports shut down, gamblers turn to stocks — and appear to be moving markets. Millions of small-time investors have opened trading accounts in recent months, a flood of new buyers unlike anything the market…
Not long after researchers completed their work with mice, guinea pigs, ferrets and monkeys, Human Subject 8, an art director for a software company in Missouri, received an injection. Four days later, her sister, a schoolteacher, became Subject 14. Together, the sisters make up about 5 percent of the first ever clinical trial of a…
Here’s what you need to know: ImagePolice officers outside the closed Xinfadi market in Beijing on Saturday.Credit…Roman Pilipey/EPA, via Shutterstock China reports its highest number of new infections in two months. China on Sunday reported 57 new confirmed infections, its highest single-day tally in two months, renewing fears that the country’s grip on the pandemic…
Health advocates representing American hospitals, medical groups, insurers and civil rights associations condemned the Trump administration on Saturday for rolling back protections for transgender patients, and for doing so amid a global pandemic. The new rule, long sought by conservatives and the religious right, narrows the legal definition of sex discrimination in the Affordable Care…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageGravediggers at the Vila Formosa Cemetery in São Paulo burying victims of Covid-19 on Thursday.Credit…Victor Moriyama for The New York Times Outbreaks in Brazil and India hit landmark new levels. Brazil’s coronavirus outbreak passed a grim landmark on Saturday, recording the second-highest death toll in the world after the…
Over four days in mid-March, Cindy Hansen, an 11th grade English teacher at Timpanogos High School in Orem, Utah, had to go fully virtual, and took her class of some 30 students reading “The Great Gatsby” online. Ms. Hansen had no experience with virtual courses and, like teachers around the country, had to experiment. She…
Since the killing of George Floyd, which set off protests three weeks ago, many families have had tough conversations about race — some with relatives expressing dissimilar perspectives. Nicki Vleisides and her father, Pondo Vleisides, have long known they held opposing views. Recently, on a five-hour drive for a weekend trip, Mr. Vleisides, a 60-year-old…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageThe U.S. Military Academy graduation ceremony last year in West Point, N.Y.Credit…David Dee Delgado/Getty Images West Point cadets, isolated for two weeks ahead of Trump’s speech, will graduate with masks and without family. The graduating cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point have lived in quarantine…
If you’re feeling conflicted about how to celebrate Pride this year, you’re hardly alone. Three months after the coronavirus pandemic turned the world on its head, America has been rocked by coast-to-coast protests inspired by George Floyd, whose death has led millions to cry out for an end to police brutality — and an end…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday finalized a regulation that will erase protections for transgender patients against discrimination by doctors, hospitals and health insurance companies, a move announced on the four-year anniversary of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando and in the middle of Pride Month. The rule, which does not differ…