At a glance, the pandemic picture in the United States may seem remarkably stable. The average number of new confirmed coronavirus cases per day has hardly budged for weeks, hovering between 95,000 and 115,000 a day each day in June. A closer look shows that as public testing sites run by state and local governments […]
Video The British prime minister vowed to fight on as he faced calls to step down following recent scandals and the resignation of several government officials.CreditCredit…Justin Tallis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s support eroded quickly on Wednesday, a day after two shattering defections from his cabinet. The resignations kept coming, […]
EAST LONDON, South Africa — Before he passed out amid the crush of bodies, Simbongile Mtsweni gasped for air as a gas that felt like fire crept into his nose and lungs. “When I came to,” he said, “I was on the second floor and started vomiting when I realized I was lying next to […]
LONDON — Rishi Sunak, who resigned on Tuesday as Britain’s chancellor of the Exchequer, has been arguably the most prominent figure in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s cabinet, seen for a time as Mr. Johnson’s most likely successor. Mr. Sunak had a swift rise from his first election to Parliament in 2015. In February 2020, when […]
DONETSK REGION, Ukraine — Between the cracks of mortar fire and the metallic bangs of Russian self-detonating mines, Yurii, a Ukrainian Army medic, readied an intravenous line for the soldier sprawled on the stretcher below him. The soldier looked to be in his mid-20s. His face was smeared with dirt and fear. “Do you remember […]
JERUSALEM — The bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian American journalist shot in the occupied West Bank in May, was most likely fired from Israeli military lines but was too damaged to say for sure, the State Department said on Monday. A State Department statement released after American officials observed Israeli ballistic tests […]
On his first day in office, President Biden recommitted the United States to the Paris climate agreement, noting in his inaugural address that “a cry for survival comes from the planet itself. A cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear.” He promised an intense focus on the climate crisis at home, […]
A few weeks ago, I asked Adam Liptak — The Times’s Supreme Court correspondent — to preview the major cases that would make up the end of the court’s term. Adam was prophetic, correctly forecasting every big ruling. Today, he returns to the newsletter, answering my questions about the behind-the-scenes atmosphere at the court. David: […]
Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine during her match against Germany’s Jule Niemeier.Credit…Adrian Dennis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WIMBLEDON, England — Lesia Tsurenko’s Wimbledon campaign ended Friday during a match in which her head was someplace else. Tsurenko, a 33-year-old tennis veteran from Kyiv, had been watching the news from home all week and seeing that Russians […]
About a half-hour before his lunch break one June morning, Travis Mudry was operating an excavator and digging through permafrost in the Klondike gold fields of the Yukon in Canada. He was scratching at a frozen wall of earth. Suddenly, a big chunk popped out. Along with it was a body of a baby woolly […]
