[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Wednesday. Weather: Dense fog and drizzle early, then gradually clearing clouds. High in the low to mid-70s. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Nov. 1 (All Saints Day). New Yorkers first began to receive census questionnaires in March. Then the pandemic hit. As wealthy […]
They didn’t have an oven. Their apartment resembled Santa’s workshop set up in a dorm room. But two rookie bakers are thriving in Mexico City, where food and entrepreneurism go hand-in-hand. By Natalie Kitroeff MEXICO CITY — A toaster oven may not be the ideal gadget for starting a full-fledged bakery, but this is a […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – As the coronavirus races across the United States, it has reached every corner of a nursing home in Kansas, infecting all 62 residents inside. There are so few hospital beds available in North Dakota that patients sick with the virus are being ferried by ambulance to facilities 100 miles away. And in […]
A woman who was infected with coronavirus twice says the first bout of the disease was easy to deal with – but that the second almost killed her. Leslie Tanyan, 46, said her initial Covid-19 diagnosis in June saw her experience only the mildest symptoms, which she barely even noticed. That brush with the disease […]
Elections supervisors say the hard-earned lessons of the 2000 presidential recount and other messes have taught them well. But the challenges are already apparent. By Patricia Mazzei and Frances Robles MIAMI — Most states have the occasional problems running their elections. Not Florida. Florida has debacles. 2018: Three statewide recounts. 2016: Russian hacking. 2012: Voting […]
The federal government is asking an appeal court to overturn a finding that Canada’s spy agency breached its obligation to be fully forthcoming when seeking investigative warrants, a move that is prompting concerns on the part of rights advocates and a national-security expert. A Federal Court of Canada ruling made public in July said the […]
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – United Nations Security Council members called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to respect a new ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh during a meeting on the disputed region Monday (Oct 19). The council held closed-door discussions on the fighting, which has left hundreds dead since clashes erupted on Sept 27, at the UN headquarters in […]
The person taking the oath of office on Jan. 20 will face an economic mess. That will be true whether that’s Joe Biden or Donald J. Trump, and true whether or not the off-and-on negotiations over a new round of pandemic relief yield anything. Given mass failures of small businesses and continuing astronomical numbers of […]
Lower courts had ruled that both policies — one requiring asylum seekers to stay in Mexico, the other diverting money for a border wall — were unlawful. By Adam Liptak WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review two major Trump administration immigration initiatives: a program that has forced at least 60,000 asylum […]
Alan S. Boyd, the first United States secretary of transportation, who was named by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 to integrate the nation’s sprawling networks of planes, trains, ships and highways into a new superagency, died on Sunday in Seattle. He was 98. He died at Aegis at Ravenna, a retirement home, his son […]