Coronavirus Live Updates: Xi Urges Tougher Response to the Crisis

Here are the highlights: ImageMedical workers transferring a patient into the newly completed Huoshenshan temporary field hospital in Wuhan, China, on Tuesday.Credit…Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua, via Associated Press Xi Jinping signals a more assertive response. China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has signaled a more assertive strategy for dealing with the coronavirus epidemic after days of seeming to retreat…

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Wedding Insurance 101

After a year and a half of careful wedding planning, Sally Niebuhr was ready to watch her oldest daughter, Kiki LaCroix, walk down the aisle at a winery in Sonoma, Calif., last October. But Mother Nature had other plans. When the Kincade fire struck the area just a few days before the wedding was scheduled…

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Carla Gugino Has Range, From ‘Spy Kids’ to Experimental Theater

Carla Gugino’s résumé is rather idiosyncratic. The film and television side is packed with comic-book adaptations (“Watchmen”), horror (“The Haunting of Hill House”), thrillers (“Karen Sisco”) and sci-fi (“Wayward Pines”). The theater side lists plays by the likes of Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill and Athol Fugard. Who else straddles such a wide range? We’ll wait.…

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The Joy of Cooking Naked

LUTZ, Fla. — Karyn McMullen is tired of being asked how she cooks bacon without any clothes on. It’s one of those jokes people can’t help but make about nudists, and to Ms. McMullen, who has been cooking naked for more than two decades, it shows how misunderstood nudism is. Many people think only about…

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