A second person died on Saturday after being shot during a screening of “The Forever Purge,” a movie about anarchy and murder, at a California theater in what the authorities called a “random and unprovoked attack.” Anthony Barajas, 19, and Rylee Goodrich, 18, were each shot in the head at a movie theater in Corona, […]
By Eduardo Medina At least 233 staff members at two major San Francisco hospitals, most of them fully vaccinated, tested positive for the coronavirus this month, and most, according to a hospital official, involved the highly contagious Delta variant. Some of the cases were asymptomatic, most involved mild to moderate symptoms and only two required […]
With the Delta variant surging, many companies decide that unvaccinated workers will need to get regular testing. By Sarah Kliff Spurred by rising Covid cases and the Delta variant’s spread, a wave of major employers announced the same rule for unvaccinated workers this week: They will need to submit to regular surveillance testing. The new […]
Micah Green for The New York Times Renters racked up billions of dollars of rent debt during the pandemic. That bill will come due when the eviction moratorium expires on Saturday. Many still waiting for rental assistance are on the verge of losing their homes. Supported by A federal eviction moratorium is scheduled to end […]
PROVO, UTAH (NYTIMES) – As Mindy Greene spent another day in the Covid-19 intensive care unit, listening to the whirring machines that now breathed for her 42-year-old husband, Russ, she opened her phone and tapped out a message. “We did not get the vaccine,” she wrote on Facebook. “I read all kinds of things about the […]
Simone Biles has pulled out of another two Olympics finals, USA Gymnastics has said. The four-time Olympic gold medallist has ruled herself out of the vault and uneven bars finals in Tokyo. On Thursday, she withdrew from the all-round final – citing a desire to protect her mental health. The 24-year-old is still undecided on […]
Simone Biles has pulled out of another two Olympics finals, USA Gymnastics has said. The four-time Olympic gold medallist has ruled herself out of the vault and uneven bars finals in Tokyo. On Thursday, she withdrew from the all-round final – citing a desire to protect her mental health. The 24-year-old is still undecided on […]
At this year’s Olympics, Team Canada is 371 athletes-strong, the country’s largest team to compete since the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. And on their trips back home, the 2020 Tokyo cohort will increase by three. That’s because three middle-distance runners from the International Olympic Committee Refugee Team are coming to Canada. Paulo Amotun Lokoro, […]
Defiant in the face of new federal mask recommendations, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida announced on Friday that he would sign an executive order giving parents the power to decide for themselves whether their children wear masks in school this fall. Mr. DeSantis, a Republican who has made freedom from Covid-19 restrictions a signature part […]
Ruth Pearl, the mother of Daniel Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal who was brutally murdered by Muslim extremists in Pakistan in 2002, thrusting her and her husband, Judea, into the global spotlight, died on July 20 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 85. Judea Pearl confirmed her death but did […]