Follow our live updates of coronavirus cases and deaths globally. NEW DELHI — India hit a milestone on Friday morning that it had made great sacrifices to avoid: recording more than one million coronavirus infections. The virus has been gnawing its way across this country of 1.3 billion people and gaining speed, fueled by high…
As a pediatric oncology nurse practitioner at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rachel Glincher is used to bearing witness to heartache and healing. But that didn’t make it any easier when Michael Harris broke her heart in 2018. Ms. Glincher, 31, met Mr. Harris, 34, a strategic marketing director at Pfizer, on the dating app…
Michael Braun, 37, is a national advance lead for the presidential campaign of Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee. In political parlance, he is known as an “advance man,” working with other members of Mr. Biden’s staff as well as Secret Service agents to scout locations and prepare campaign…
Rosie de Queljoe and Harrison Herzog had barely started dating when his mother took Ms. de Queljoe, in 2012, to a place in the Finger Lakes region of New York and told her that she should consider it as place for her wedding. “‘Even if you don’t marry my son,’” said Michaleen Herzog, who is…
Yuchen Feng and Theodore Russell Sumers noticed each other in 2012 when he arranged an indoor rock-climbing outing when each was a summer intern at Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund in Westport, Conn. “I was very into rock climbing,” said Mr. Sumers, 30, who goes by Ted, and is pursuing a doctorate at Princeton in…
Reverberations from the Black Lives Matter protests of recent weeks have reached some unlikely frontiers, including the rarefied realm of fine jewelry ateliers. Suddenly, Black designers in the field have found themselves with elevated profiles, part of the wave of attention recently directed toward supporting Black-owned businesses. The New York Times asked three designers who…
Fine jewelry always has been seen as a bit beyond the ebb and flow of the fashion cycle, the kind of pieces whose precious gems and metals generate sales despite social, economic or political upheaval. During the coronavirus crisis, the category has held onto that reputation for resilience, but with a difference or two, courtesy…
This article is part of a series exploring how the Americans With Disabilities Act has shaped modern life for people with disabilities. Listen to This Article Audio Recording by Audm To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. To get to her job as the…
Herman James worked out of a barbershop on Manhattan’s Upper West Side until the city temporarily closed all nonessential businesses in March. Looking for a way to stay busy and help New Yorkers take “a step closer to normalcy,” as he put it, Mr. James started cutting hair in Central Park in mid-May. “I put…
The health benefits of maintaining routine childhood vaccination programmes in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic far outweigh the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission that might be associated with clinic visits, according to a modelling study published in The Lancet Global Health journal. For every additional COVID-19 death that might be associated with additional exposure to the…