This briefing has ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: ImageA drive-through test site in Dallas on Wednesday. Texas was one of at least five states to set a new single-day record for new cases.Credit…Nitashia Johnson for The New York Times The U.S. sets another daily record for new cases,…
What was once Paris Men’s Fashion Week is now everyone’s fashion week. Good! It is also fully a digital fashion week — so you’re invited to the proverbial front row seat on your phone or computer. Here, let us show you things! Each video will go live in its show time. Be patient! Études Live…
Naya Rivera, 33, who starred in six seasons of Fox’s “Glee” as the sharp-witted cheerleader Santana Lopez, was missing on Wednesday night as a search team scoured Lake Piru in California, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said that it was searching for a “possible drowning victim” in the lake. The…
Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device:Via Apple Podcasts | Via Spotify | Via Stitcher At the end of January, long before the world understood that seemingly healthy people could spread the coronavirus, a doctor in Germany tried to sound the alarm. Today, we look at why that warning was unwelcome. On…
Federal health officials are already trying to decide who will get the first doses of any effective coronavirus vaccines, which could be on the market this winter but could require many additional months to become widely available to Americans. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an advisory committee of outside health experts in…
The 10-year-old girl was afraid that her American Girl dolls — buried in the bedroom closet — would come alive and attack her. As the girl pointed her iPad at the scary closet door in a remote therapy session, her therapist, Daniela Owen, was able to coach her in real-time to conquer the fear of…
All over the world, in high-income and low-income countries, in communities large and small, urban and rural, air pollution is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Researchers working in 21 countries tracked levels of PM 2.5, particles of soot small enough to enter the lungs and pass into the bloodstream. The average level…
You know 190-proof Everclear by reputation. The bartender’s equivalent of jet fuel, this high-octane neutral grain spirit is more than twice the strength of standard vodka, and is illegal in 11 states. It’s been mythologized by generations of fraternity parties and celebrated in song, Art Alexakis, the frontman of the 1990s post-grunge band Everclear, once…
I like people. I sort of like cooking. Historically, this has all added up to an interest in entertaining that would not be called passionate but could certainly pass for healthy. When people start talking about what we miss, what we want to “add back” when everything returns to “normal,” I think to myself: movies,…
I’m sitting with my hands clasped in a prayer. My eyes flutter between open and close. A scarf draped over my head refuses to stay put. A fire crackles gleefully in front of me. It’s my wedding day. To a clay pot. From here on, it’s me and Mr. Pot. Mr. Pot and I. He’s…