LONDON — When he was a boy, Oscar Murillo told his best friend he was moving to London, but his buddy refused to take him seriously: Their tight-knit community in southwestern Colombia was the sort of place families stayed for generations, where almost everybody worked at the candy factory that dominated the town’s economy. The […]
A more likely scenario if humans do not significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, he added, would be a world in which some places disappear below sea level, many others become too hot for humans to comfortably inhabit, and hazards like heat waves, droughts and storms become more common. Some also note that climate change data […]
Tiffany Jackson comforting her son Adrian James, 2, who had Covid-19, in October at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis.Credit…Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters Health officials may be bracing for the Omicron variant to sweep through the country, but the Delta variant remains the more imminent threat as it continues to drive an increase in […]
In its early years, the semiconductor industry did not have many customers. Few businesses in the 1950s could make use of the expensive new devices that allowed computers to function. But one organization could: the federal government. The first shipment from Fairchild Semiconductor — the company that helped create Silicon Valley — was for the […]
BRUSSELS — Ukraine presents NATO with a dilemma many years in the making — one the alliance, itself, helped create. In 2008, NATO — an American-led alliance explicitly created to counter the Soviet Union — promised membership to two former Soviet republics, Ukraine and Georgia, but without specifying when or how. Russia saw the offer […]
LONDON — For a week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain has denied damaging claims that his staff broke lockdown rules by holding a party last Christmas when such festivities were banned under government-imposed coronavirus restrictions. Late Tuesday, the government’s story appeared to weaken when a video surfaced of senior staff members joking about just […]
The United States surgeon general on Tuesday warned that young people are facing “devastating” mental health effects as a result of the challenges experienced by their generation, including the coronavirus pandemic. The message came as part of a rare public advisory from the nation’s top physician, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, in a 53-page report noting […]
The death toll from a volcanic eruption last weekend on the Indonesian island of Java rose to 34, officials announced on Tuesday, as rescuers tried to dig out survivors buried under volcanic ash. Abdul Muhari of Indonesia’s National Board for Disaster Management, known by its initials B.N.P.B., said 17 people were still missing after Mount […]
Video transcript Back transcript New York City Institutes Vaccine Mandate for All Private Employers Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York said a sweeping coronavirus vaccine mandate would go into effect for all private employers on Dec. 27 to curb the spread of the Omicron variant. Mr. de Blasio said the measure would apply to […]
When a court in Myanmar on Monday sentenced Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in custody, it closed a chapter on an era of weak and compromised democracy in a Southeast Asian nation long ruled by a military fist. But already, a new democratic movement has emerged — younger, more progressive, more confrontational […]
