In the end, the most surprising aspect of President Donald J. Trump’s decision to finally, months after his own advisers recommended it, bow to medical wisdom and wear a face mask was not that he did it at all — even in his alternate reality, where we are winning against the virus, that was probably…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImagePresident Trump at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Saturday.Credit…Erin Scott for The New York Times Trump wears a mask on a visit to a military medical center. President Trump on Saturday wore a mask in public for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, after…
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For so many reasons, right now is the perfect time to start a soothing and gratifying craft project. It’s even better when you can use what you have, like the very newspaper you are holding. People have been making rolled paper beads for many years using wallpaper scraps, magazine pages and newspaper. The templates here…
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As school districts across the United States consider whether and how to restart in-person classes, their challenge is complicated by a pair of fundamental uncertainties: No nation has tried to send children back to school with the virus raging at levels like America’s, and the scientific research about transmission in classrooms is limited. The World…
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Since Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News on Monday that the United States was considering banning TikTok over national security concerns, a sentiment echoed by President Donald Trump in an interview on Tuesday, TikTok users have been scrambling. Some have engaged in open revolt, retaliating by posting negative reviews of President Trump’s 2020…
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Dumebi Adigwe, a rising sophomore studying mathematics at Harvard University, has no idea where she is going to live. This week, Harvard announced it would allow only up to 40 percent of its nearly 6,800 undergraduates on campus in the fall, the vast majority of them freshmen, and that all classes would be held online.…
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In a typical year, a good way for a company to handle an announcement it hoped to bury is to schedule it before a nice long holiday weekend. This is one way to interpret the last week of June online, when several internet giants took decisive action against mostly far-right communities and users, many of…
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When Lina Baez-Rosario moved to the United States as a young girl, she missed her home in the Dominican Republic. Her parents made sure to cook with familiar flavors, to keep memories alive. As an adult, the 42-year-old special education kindergarten teacher, who lives in the Inwood area of Manhattan, found those same tastes through…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageMedical staff at Houston Methodist Hospital’s Covid-19 I.C.U. turning a patient into a prone position on Sunday.Credit…Erin Schaff/The New York Times The world sets a record for new virus cases, as daily infections in the U.S. also reach a new high. The coronavirus pandemic has again reached a new…
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Black, Hispanic and Latino pregnant women in Philadelphia are five times as likely as their white counterparts to have been exposed to the coronavirus, according to data collected from nearly 1,300 women between April and June. The findings, which have not been published in a scientific journal, were based on tests for coronavirus antibodies, which…
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