Here’s what you need to know: ImageThe Trevi Fountain in Rome, normally packed with people day and night, is nearly empty save for the those passing by with groceries.Credit…Nadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times Nations confront the possibility that reopening may be harder than locking down. Experts across Europe had warned that closing…
Here’s what you need to know: ImagePresident Donald Trump speaking at a Fox News event at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday.Credit…Evan Vucci/Associated Press Trump acknowledged that the virus has proved more lethal than he had expected. President Trump predicted on Sunday night that the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the country may reach…
Charlie Baker, the Republican governor of Massachusetts, broke down while speaking about the death of his best friend’s mother. Mark Meadows, President Trump’s chief of staff, has been crying frequently in meetings with White House staff, while Andrew M. Cuomo, the Democratic governor of New York, has teared up on more than one occasion during…
It had the makings of an adventure straight from Disney’s “Swiss Family Robinson” — being on an uninhabited island and living off the land. But for one Alabama man, the adventure — on a former island attraction at Walt Disney World in Florida — was short-lived and ended in an arrest. The man, Richard J.…
Whether it’s an online date (and in the era of COVID-19, many people don’t have an alternative) or a real date, men often lie shamelessly. We have compiled a true rating of the most popular topics of male lies. “I have not yet recovered after breaking up, we have been dating for two years” Bingo!…
With school closed and graduation canceled, the principal of a high school in suburban Dallas set out on April 17 with his wife, a bag of Snickers bars and a mission: visiting each of the 612 seniors at their homes. Virdie Montgomery, the principal of Wylie High School in Wylie, Texas, said he thought it…
BEIRUT, Lebanon — When the disruptive threat of the coronavirus first came for Beirut, I was, appropriately enough, in a local bar. When a friend and I set out for a drink at a neighborhood standby one Saturday night early in March, the virus had yet to leach from the headlines into daily life, Lebanon’s…
The coronavirus has killed so many people in Iran that the country has resorted to mass burials, but in neighboring Iraq, the body count is fewer than 100. The Dominican Republic has reported nearly 7,600 cases of the virus. Just across the border, Haiti has recorded about 85. In Indonesia, thousands are believed to have…
People with low or no visual imagery are more likely to work in scientific and mathematical industries than creative sectors, according to new research. Aphantasia, the term describing a person’s inability to visualise in the mind, has been shown to be more common in scientific and technical industries. The opposite phenomenon of particularly vivid mental…