AUCKLAND, New Zealand — When New Zealand, for the first time in months, reported a case of community spread of the coronavirus on Aug. 17, residents sprang into action. They stripped supermarket shelves of pasta and toilet paper, dug masks out of drawers and fled to vacation homes in the mountains or at the beach.…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s decision not to block a Texas law sharply curtailing abortions abruptly vaulted the issue to the forefront of American politics on Thursday, reshaping the dynamics of elections in California this month, in Virginia in November and in midterms next year that will determine control of Congress and statehouses. Republicans hailed…
At the height of the pandemic, doctors and nurses made furious efforts to protect themselves with gowns and masks and scrambled to save the lives of the severely ill Covid-19 patients with ventilators. But these efforts, among other life saving measures, had a side effect: drug-resistant infections have increased in hospitals. The development, reported on…
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There was a moment, starting on Jan. 20, 2021, as the 23-year-old poet Amanda Gorman stood on the steps of the Capitol in her sunny yellow coat, reading her work “The Hill We Climb” at President Biden’s inauguration, when the viewing country seemed to go into a collective swoon. The wooing and offers rained down…
“You can’t donate food to many people because they don’t have the power to cook,” she said, as she finished cleaning out the walk-in fridge at Compère Lapin. She’d found someone who wanted the produce, but milk and fresh pasta were headed for the trash. James Doucette, the general manager of Meals From The Heart…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Perhaps you’ve heard there’s a new Sally Rooney novel coming? This summer, advance copies of “Beautiful World, Where Are You” have graced the Twitter feeds and Instagram Stories of the literary internet — humble-brags that the readers…
Two powerful congressional committees investigating the controversial federal approval of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, demanded extensive information and documents from the Food and Drug Administration in a letter released on Thursday, making it clear that the committees’ leaders are troubled by unusual actions the agency took in the course of evaluating and approving the drug.…
Instead, good wine was something personal, cultural and historic, produced by people with the deepest respect and understanding of their land and vineyards. She once quoted to me Hubert de Montille, an influential vigneron in the Côte de Beaune, with whom she worked. “He said, ‘My vineyards were here before I was born, they will…
Some of my favorite recipes in the world were developed by cooks who refused to waste stale bread — or roti, or sangak — repurposing tough, old crusts into unexpectedly delicious meals. In Tuscany, cooks ripped up hulking, dried-out country bread and soaked the pieces in water, then squeezed out the extra liquid and tossed…