Here’s what you need to know: Students participating in a math activity in a first-grade class while their remote classmates were projected on a screen at James Monroe Elementary School in Edison, N.J., in November.Credit…Victor J. Blue for The New York Times As the coronavirus pandemic ebbs in the United States and vaccines become available […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Like many New Zealanders before her, Cat Moody chased the broader horizons of life abroad, unsure if she would ever return to a homeland she saw as remote and limiting. But when the pandemic arrived, it “changed the calculus” of what she valued, she said. Suddenly, fresh air, natural splendor and […]

The leadership of Iran, engaged in a long shadow war with Israel on land, air and sea, did not try to conceal the pleasure it took in the most recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Over the 11 days of fighting this month, Tehran praised the damage being done to its enemy, and the state news media and […]

As the threat from the coronavirus pandemic grew in early 2020, so did many governors’ executive powers. Without a federal plan, it fell to the states to issue lockdown and stay-at-home orders, mandate masks, and close schools and businesses. Nearly 14 months later, with states moving to reopen amid a drastic drop in new cases, […]

WASHINGTON — When Communist Chinese forces began shelling islands controlled by Taiwan in 1958, the United States rushed to back up its ally with military force — including drawing up plans to carry out nuclear strikes on mainland China, according to an apparently still-classified document that sheds new light on how dangerous that crisis was. […]

Here’s what you need to know: An apartment in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Friday.Credit…Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas held fast through its first day and into Saturday morning in the Middle East, while residents across Gaza began to assess for the first […]

Here’s what you need to know: Digging graves for coronavirus victims at a cemetery in São Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday.Credit…Mario Tama/Getty Images GENEVA — Deaths from Covid-19 and Covid-related causes are likely to be two to three times the number that countries have recorded in their official data, the World Health Organization said on Friday. […]

Here’s what you need to know: A mother embracing her children after an Israeli warplane bombed the tower they live in on Thursday.Credit…Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times JERUSALEM — A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas took effect early Friday morning, hours after both sides agreed to end more than 10 days of […]

LONDON — Twenty-five years before Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, unloaded to Oprah Winfrey about their struggles as members of the British royal family, Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, set the standard for the sensational royal tell-all, in her 1995 interview with a BBC journalist, Martin Bashir. On Thursday, an inquiry concluded that Mr. Bashir […]

Five years ago, a scan of Istu Prayogi’s lungs showed the kind of damage that comes from smoking cigarettes. But in his case, he had never smoked. Instead, he spent hours a day in traffic in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia and one of the world’s most polluted cities. A computer science teacher, Mr. Istu […]